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May 14
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Cannes: Prominent U.S. Indie Producers Team on Miracle of Fatima Film

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Italy’s Marco Pontecorvo will direct

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ROME — The miracle of Our Lady of Fatima is set to get a new high-profile cinematic treatment.

In the latest of a growing crop of major faith-based films, several prominent U.S. indie players, including Origin Entertainment, Frida Torresblanco (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) and Rose Ganguzza’s Rose Pictures (“Kill Your Darlings”), have teamed up on “Fatima,” to be directed by Italy’s Marco Pontecorvo and shot at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios. Read More

Jan 24
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’24’ Exec Producer Tackling Mother Teresa Biopic

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800px-The_Hollywood_Reporter_logo.svg“Hotel Rwanda” scribe Keir Pearson has been hired to write the screenplay.

Tony Krantz, the former head of Imagine Entertainment’s television division and executive producer on shows such as 24, has teamed up with Origin Entertainment and the Mother Teresa Center to bring the story of Mother Teresa to the big screen with a biopic titled I Thirst.

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Jan 23
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‘Hotel Rwanda’ Scribe Keir Pearson Tapped To Pen Mother Teresa Biopic

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Deadline-HollywoodPlans are coming together for a biopic of Mother Teresa, with Keir Pearsontapped to write a the screenplay for I Thirst.Tony Krantz‘s Flame Ventures is producing the project with Origin Entertainment and The Mother Teresa Center. Pearson most recently co-wrote another biopic, the Diego Luna-directed Cesar Chavez: An American Hero starring Michael Pena as the California labor leader and civil rights activist. Lionsgate releases it on March 28. “Keir’s presentation and his Oscar-nominated script of Hotel Rwanda and his sensitive script for Chavez  made him the perfect choice,” said Krantz in announcing the project, which he will produce. “I Thirst is the first and only authorized film about the life of Mother Teresa on the big screen. We couldn’t be more excited for this movie about a woman who stood for total commitment, faith, charity and love.”

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Feb 24
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Hollywood’s New Bible Stories

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WSJLured by public-domain source material and epic adventure stories ripe for big-time special effects, studios and filmmakers are rediscovering the Good Book; Russell Crowe as Noah.

When it sets sail in the coming film “Noah,” a massive 148-foot wooden ark will carry not only a slew of zoo animals, but one of Hollywood’s biggest wagers in years.

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Sep 28
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Ben Kingsley Circling ‘Mary Mother Of Christ’ With Julia Ormond, But Didn’t Peter O’Toole Retire?

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imgresWith Mel Gibson having only slightly fallen in the ranks of public perception since his $600 million-grossing “Passion of the Christ,” it’s only natural that when stirrings of a quasi-prequel to the Jim Caviezel-starring film began this year at Cannes – who else — but the director of 3D cave thriller “Sanctum” would be the one to helm it.Alister Grierson signed on early to direct “Mary Mother of Christ,” but only lately have any new casting hints begun to trickle out, and they’re a reliably fitting bunch to boot.

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