Interview with Stephen Kendrick at SAICFF

God Honoring Movies had an interview with Stephen Kendrick, co-writer and producer of Fireproof.  It was conducted at the San Antonino Independent Christian Film Festival, and Kendrick has lots of interesting things to say, including a fascinating tidbit about many of the crew members of the Fireproof shoot having their marriages "attacked" during the filming by "the enemy." I'd love to hear some elaboration on that front, sounds interesting!


You can read the interview, or listen to Kendrick talk himself at GodHonoringMovies.com

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An interview with the filmmakers of "The Widow's Might"

 I'm working on our own interview with John Moore, director and star of The Widow's Might, but in the meantime you can enjoy an interview with Mr. Moore and his fellow filmmaker David Heustis conducted on Generations with Vision , a home-school oriented radio program.

The interview is interesting, and Moore talks at length about the Christian principles that helped them shape the story of The Widow's Might .  I'll highlight some interesting points he mentions to whet your appetite:

• He founded his production company with David Heustis when he was 13 and Heustis was 14.
• Their original budget estimate was $250,000, but he mentions that the film ended up coming in well under budget.  
• Their money was primarily raised from local businesses based on the strength of the script.  
• They are exploring different distribution options now.
• The $101,000 prize from SAICFF went back to the investors.  

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Relevant Interview with Ted Dekker & Ralph Winter

Relevant Magazine has an interview with House producer Ralph Winter and co-author Ted Dekker. The interview spends a good bit of time talking about how House is the "Christian R-rated horror film," certainly a unique distinction. However, Winter & Dekker bring up two interesting points. First, Winter talks about how they "backed into the marketing campaign a little late," specifically in regards to the R-rating. This seems like an odd thing to claim, considering that the film was delayed by over a year. I would think that in a 13-month period they could come up with some kind of marketing plan. The other bit that I found laughable was Dekker's assertion, prodded on by the interviewer, the he could see no reason besides a bias against faith that the MPAA would give the movie an R-rating. Seriously Ted? You're going to say that the MPAA gave a horror movie an R-rating because they hate Christians? The same MPAA that people such as Kevin Smith has to fight from giving a movie NC-17s for foul language? The same MPAA that has an entire movie about it that presents it as an overly moral set of conservative out-of-touch-with-the-youth busy-bodies? Relevant Magazine Interview found through Brent Alexander Subscribe to the SuperCandid Podcast, the number 1 podcast for Christian movies Subscribe to the SuperCandid Blog Save This Page

Chad Allen in Save Me

Chad Allen, the openly gay actor who was excellent in dual roles in End of the Spear (our review), has had a new film in the works for some time.  Entitled Save Me, it is about the struggle of a gay man within the Church in the US.  The film is not yet released, but it has been screening at number of film festivals, including Sundance way back in January 2007.  The film's official site has a trailer, and Allen himself recently gave an interesting interview on the film at Christianity Today.  It looks like an interesting, and controversial movie, and Allen's interview raises some hot-button issues itself.   (CT Interview) (Story found by me @ Metro Weekly) Subscribe to the SuperCandid Podcast, the number 1 podcast for Christian movies Subscribe to the SuperCandid Blog Save This Page

Weekly Wrap Up - With New Stuff about "The Appointment" and "Time Changer"

We should have a new episode recorded sometime over the weekend.  This time we're reviewing a film that even Christian movie aficionados may never have heard of, but I'll leave that surprise to Monday.  

In the meantime, you can listen to an interesting interview at Crosstalk America with Rich Christiano, director of the film we reviewed in our last episode, The Appointment.  He also directed Time Changer, which we reviewed a while back.  He talks about his history in the Christian film industry, and shares his thoughts on the current state of the industry.  He also drops a couple of clues about upcoming projects.  If the interview is taken down, let me know and I'll post another place to listen to it.  

THIS WEEK'S POSTS

Tuesday - An interview with Doug Jones, Christian, actor, guy in rubber suits, and co-star of The Wager.  

Wednesday - Looking for help finding Christian movies in Spanish.

Thursday - No Greater Love, a new Christian movie being distributed by the people who brought you Facing the Giants.  

(CrossTalk America)
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More on Expelled

More info on the much talked about Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.

Stein makes more contradictory statments in an interview with the Toronto Star.  He says that he didn't have any opinons on intelligent design before making the film, but he also says that he was "intrigued by the idea of making a movie that would implicitly connect Darwinism with the Holocaust," so he can hardly be called "un-biased."  

I'm kind of tired of hearing about this film, so unless there is some really big news I think this'll be our last Expelled post.  

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L.A. Times profiles Kirk Cameron of Fireproof

Kirk Cameron, the star of the upcoming Fireproof, is the subject of a profile in the L.A. Times.  You can read the profile online, where Cameron talks about his forthcoming book (Still Growing), and about his journey of faith.  

The only real nugget about the movie is that Cameron acted without fee in Fireproof.  Maybe he realized that he needed some quality product to legitimize his Christian acting career after 3 Left Behind movies.   


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Michael O. Sajbel Interview at Christian Cinema

Christian Cinema has an interview with the enigmatic but prolific filmmaker Michael O. Sajbel.  While I still say that Sajbel really, really needs to do a director's commentary on his films(is he trying to emulate Spielberg?), mainly because his films have lots of elements that I would love to hear his thought process for doing.  Even more than Spielberg, Sajbel is almost completely absent from the extra features on his films, appearing only in the background of some of the documentary features.

Somewhat disappointingly, Sajbel does not talk much about what we consider his best work, his early pictures with Billy Graham's World Wide Pictures.  He mentions them in passing, but I would have loved to hear more about his early career.  He does trot out the same complaint that producer Rick Eldridge had about the Fox Faith association hurting the film and stereotyping it as a Christian film. 

Nevertheless, Sajbel does drop some good bits in the interview.  He mentions that his next film may(or may not) be an adaptation of Eli, a novel by Bill Myers that postulates a classic Christian sci-fi "What if" scenario:  What if Jesus was born in contemporary America instead of ancient Rome?  Sounds like it could be interesting, but I still think that Mark Millar did this one topic to death(so to speak) with his excellent  Chosen.

Sajbel does have a gift for self promotion that you have to give him credit for; consider this quote:  

"If you can find it see August 32nd on Earth and if you had only two films to see before you died see The Ultimate Gift and Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc.”

(Christian Cinema dot com)

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Karen Kingsbury's Gideon's Gift & Like Dandelion Dust

There is a new interview with Karen Kingsbury up, and while she doesn't talk much about the forthcoming movies based on her books, she does talk about her new novel.

There are two Kingsbury movies coming out soon, Like Dandelion Dust with Mira Sorvino and Gideon's Gift with Christian Slater.

Kingsbury sound like an interesting person, based on the interview, and I hope that translates into interesting movies, assuming that her books are also interesting.

She defiantly seems more interesting than author Nikki Arana, who's Windos of Sonoma is also being made into a movie. I think I mentioned Arana on the podcast a while back, she's the author who said she simply looks at books and magazines that are published and tries to write like that since it's what is selling.

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Christian Cinema interview with Fireproof filmmakers

Christian Cinema has an interview with Kirk Cameron and Alex Kendrick, the two stars and one of the filmmakers behind the follow-up to the hit film Facing the Giants, Fireproof.

The interview is interesting, but it still leaves me with a nagging concern. The women characters in the previous Sherwood Pictures movies have always been the film's weak links, with poor acting and poor character development. This new film is the first one to feature a "name" actor like Kirk Cameron as the star, but the female lead is another unknown actress from the church. I hope that she is good, and that her character is well written, since that is my main concern for this film.

One interseting thing about the interview is that Cameron mentions training with his sister's(Candice Cameron Brue) husband to bulk up for the film. Apparently Mr. Brue is a former Russian Hockey player, which gives me all sorts of strange imagery when paired with the girl from Full House.

How odd is it that the only thing that could get me excited about a Kirk Cameron movie is the fact that it is an Alex Kendrick movie? Cameron, in his entire previous career, has convinced me that he has poor taste in movies. Will this one change my mind? It can't be any worse than his previous 3 acting roles, Left Behind: World at War, Growing Pains: The Returns of the Severs, and Left Behind 2: Tribulation Force. Fireproof needs to add a colon to the title to fit the trend.

(Original stories from Christian Cinema and Baptist Press)


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Jerry B. Jenkin's Riven

TitleTrakk.com Book News: Jerry Jenkins' next novel Riven story details. In an interview with him and his son, Dallas Jenkins, Jenkins the elder drops some details about his next book. Entitled Riven, it will be the story of a man who wants his execution to be a recreation of the crucifixion of Christ. Not sure how the mechanics of this will work out, given that the US has pretty strict laws about what can and can't be done in executions, but it sounds interesting, an unusual story at least. Given that most of Jenkin's popular books have been, or are being, made into movies, this one sounds like a likely candidate. Maybe Mel Gibson can direct? The interview also talks a bit about Midnight Clear, the film we reported on a few days ago. Save This Page

Jerry B. Jenkin's Midnight Clear

411mania.com has an interview with Dallas Jenkins, the director of the 2006 film Midnight Clear, which has recently come out on DVD. The film is based upon a short story by Dallas Jenkins' father, Jerry B. Jenkins, better known for his work as the co-author of many books, including the Left Behind series. This sounds like a good one for us to review, since the interviewer gives what might be the highest praise that a Christian filmmaker can get:

"If I watched your film and had no idea you were a Christian, I would never guess or assume it was a Christian movie. I think that's a sign that you've done your job."

Now, I say that is high praise, but it also could be criticism. I would say that had I not known that Michael Landon Jr. was a Christian, I would have guessed that The Last Sin Eater was made by someone who learned about Christianity by reading the back of a Bible-box.

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