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Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. AFFIRMation. Rich Peluso has been promoted to Senior Vice President of AFFIRM Films, a label of Sony Pictures Entertainment, where he will continue to oversee the development, production, acquisition and marketing of faith-based and inspirational films. These films span a wide range of genres…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Expanding horizons. Perhaps no name is more synonymous with the rise of grass-roots faith-based filmmaking than Alex Kendrick who, with his brother Stephen, built Sherwood Pictures, the movie-making ministry of Albany, Georgia-based Sherwood Baptist Church. Through four progressively complex and successful films (Flywheel, Facing…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Catholic evangelization hits a high note. In November of 2012, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released its strategic plan for 2013-2016 titled “The New Evangelization/Journey with Christ: Faith-Worship-Witness.” In it, the bishops urged US Catholics to encounter Christ more fully through greater participation…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. More data from Movieguide proving the box office power of positive entertainment. 1. In 2012 six Movieguide Award-winning films cracked the box office top ten. They included The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Madagascar…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 12 reasons 2012 was a very good year for faith-based and family films. 1. Captain America embraced the One True God and rejected false gods in The Avengers. 2. Bruce Wayne finally realized that family mattered in The Dark Knight Rises. 3. Peter Parker…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. A Common Purpose. For the second consecutive year, Variety (in coordination with the P.R. firm Rogers & Cowan) held a day-long gathering of distributors, producers, writers, directors, actors and others who are the faces behind the current boom in uplifting entertainment — which, BTW,…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Variety Family Entertainment & Faith-Based Summit. The big event, in association with Rogers & Cowan, is being held tomorrow (June 21) at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. I’m on the way out the door right now and will report all about it next week. …

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Heart finds its home. When Hallmark Channel’s second original prime-time series When Calls the Heart begins filming this summer, it will mark the first time a TV series has been shot in Telluride, Colorado and will be the first scripted TV series in the…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Cultural turning point. Man of Steel soared at the box office over the weekend — pulling in an astounding (and record-breaking) $125 million in North America. The super feat was at least partially as a result of a deliberate marketing decision to highlight the…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. A super faith-based film.  You don’t have to be a Christian to enjoy Man of Steel, director Zack Snyder’s heartfelt, high-voltage reboot of the most iconic of all superheroes, but it helps. Officially opening tomorrow (Friday), I’m not certainly not the first to preview the…
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