{"id":37319,"date":"2024-03-18T20:35:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T00:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=37319"},"modified":"2024-04-01T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T15:40:08","slug":"director-simon-callan-jones-is-banking-on-positive-woof-of-mouth-to-rescue-arthur-the-king-trending-in-2024-biopics-about-strong-christian-women-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2024\/03\/director-simon-callan-jones-is-banking-on-positive-woof-of-mouth-to-rescue-arthur-the-king-trending-in-2024-biopics-about-strong-christian-women-of-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Director Simon Cellan Jones is banking on positive woof of mouth to rescue &#8220;Arthur the King&#8221; + Trending in 2024: biopics about strong Christian women of faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Here&#8217;s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media &amp; culture: 03\/18\/24<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Arthur the King (2024) Official Clip \u2018The Cliff\u2019 - Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rPdn4Gaeqos?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s hear it for the dog!<\/strong> Audiences certainly gave <em>Arthur the King<\/em> a hand with a coveted <strong>A CinemaScore<\/strong>. Unfortunately, the $7.5 million the movie pulled in over its opening weekend was below expectations (though good enough for third place). Inspired by a true story, the film stars <strong>Mark Wahlberg <\/strong>as <strong>Mikael Lindnord<\/strong>, an adventure racer who forms an emotional bond with a stray dog he meets during a dangerous endurance competition. The movie is based on Lindnord\u2019s book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Arthur-Crossed-Jungle-Find-Home\/dp\/1771643374\"><strong><em>Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Despite the slow start, director <strong>Simon Cellan Jones <\/strong>believes the powerful story has legs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: What drew you to this story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon Cellan Jones: <\/strong>Well, there&#8217;s a few things. Definitely one of them was the dog. The story about the dog, I thought it would be really hard to pull off but, if we could make it work, it&#8217;s such a cool story. It&#8217;s very human. Well, human interacting with a canine. It&#8217;s sort of a real against-the-odds story. I thought there was something really beautiful about that. <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: Do you have a dog yourself?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCJ: <\/strong>I&#8217;ve got three dogs. They&#8217;re too big, they&#8217;re too annoying, they leave hair about the house and they sort of steal food and all that but I wouldn&#8217;t be without them.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: What is about dogs in movies? People love them. It&#8217;s like magic. Why is that?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCJ: <\/strong>It is. Usually in the movies cats are the bad guys and dogs are the lovely, maybe a little stupid, guys. Listen, so many of us get a genuine benefit to to our life with a dog. It&#8217;s a companion. It&#8217;s someone who, if you&#8217;re a single person or a lonely person, if you have a dog you have a partner. You have someone to help you out against the world. There&#8217;s something amazing about a dog. Of course, we all love the fact that they don&#8217;t judge us. They&#8217;re loyal all the time. They&#8217;re always glad to see us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: Do they, in some ways, represent that best of human beings &#8211; or, at least, what we hope to be?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCJ: <\/strong>Well, yeah. They certainly have a few things to teach us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: The human star of the movie is Mark Wahlberg, who you&#8217;ve also recently worked with on a movie called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Family_Plan\"><em>The Family Plan<\/em><\/a>. What is it like working with him?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCJ: <\/strong>I&#8217;ve worked with Mark twice in a row now. He&#8217;s kind of the easiest actor that I&#8217;ve almost ever worked with. You know, you think &#8220;Oh, my God! He&#8217;s this big movie star. It&#8217;s gonna be all showbiz and entourages.&#8221; He comes to the set. He&#8217;s really nice. He&#8217;s super-prepared. He&#8217;s a fantastic actor, obviously. So, it was really easy &#8211; and really fun &#8211; working with Mark.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: Is he a dog person?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCJ: <\/strong>Yeah. I think he&#8217;s got two dogs. He&#8217;s definitely a dog person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: So, what is it that you hope people take from this story?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCJ: <\/strong>It&#8217;s about people in a race &#8211; and, of course, what they&#8217;re doing is they&#8217;re racing themselves. That&#8217;s an old thing to say but these people do this amazing stuff called adventure racing which is super-tough. It&#8217;s like running two marathons a day for a week. It&#8217;s really tough. You either give up or you push on through &#8211; and that&#8217;s what happens to our characters. Of course, all of us have given up. It&#8217;s very easy to do. I&#8217;ve done it myself &#8211; but, if you can stick to you guns a little bit and just push yourself that extra mile then, you know, you might punch it through.<br \/>\n<strong>_____<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This being Women&#8217;s History Month, it&#8217;s interesting to note how many\u00a0 women of faith are currently (or soon to be) in the movie spotlight. <\/strong>In theaters,\u00a0 <strong>Angel Studios&#8217; Mother Cabrini<\/strong> biopic <strong><em>Cabrini<\/em><\/strong> (which scored an impressive A+ <strong>CinemaScore<\/strong>) continues to perform at the box office, finishing at #5\u00a0 in its second week in theaters (with a box office take $2.8 million). That&#8217;s on top of a first week haul of over seven-million dollars (good for 4th place) last week. You can read my review of the film (as well my conversation with co-star <strong>David Morse<\/strong>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2024\/02\/review-a-timely-cabrini-biopic-co-star-david-morse-reflects-on-archbishop-corrigan-and-his-other-notable-roles-andrea-virginia-bocelli-unveil-music-video-from-film.html\">here<\/a>. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\/ls\/click?upn=u001.gqh-2BaxUzlo7XKIuSly0rC5LhuJqZ3DP8i-2BVY5f3213jUzItXLN-2BFs-2FRfKmXKvJ7VvqxI_3PXO4xaTWAp2hMn0G3SWnb-2Flz5GKyis4nQNCTOAXk1laV68kO7KuyPmcerV-2FPWf50HlGC7XjdVzaIyCmDndG-2BRhgmSD3QoWl2jlnlSiqbLrutZnncxINECh-2BV9yHGC4BayMVSO-2Fq6fRXb1xJ9tUj4cn3Y805iPGSDiGdeQVr-2BKWO-2B098U0xXhAtAIKKC3si-2FQpN2OPJoBRG0AOsSVg730LFtcC2fL2zjsvJIhJaBXFYhITrHgOvPuRnFvmlnlWAtBqs-2F6QuyCfUwEUxQfIfLvEH79qZnrsb6hfONCI1i4ka37Spr1IM9TA5qHyUDAMob-2Bj5cyuWO-2Fi6BcHf-2FYADBIbT2Ur511x27ZacgTHXiPEM-3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>Mother Teresa &amp; Me<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>,<\/em> a movie about another real-life Catholic heroine, is <strong>now streaming<\/strong> and available for all audiences on <strong>Apple TV<\/strong>, <strong>Google, Amazon<\/strong>, <strong>Roku<\/strong>, <strong>Peacock<\/strong>, and others. You can read my review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2023\/10\/mother-teresa-me-explores-issues-of-life-and-doubt-the-blind-sees-opening-weekend-box-office-success.html\">here<\/a> and my interview with star <strong>Jacqueline Fritschi-Cornaz<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2023\/10\/actress-jacqueline-fritschi-cornaz-talks-about-playing-mother-teresa-for-the-film-mother-teresa-me.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon is <em><strong>Wildcat<\/strong><\/em>, a film about the relationship between noted Catholic writer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flannery_O%27Connor\">Flannery O&#8217;Connor<\/a> (Maya Hawke)<\/strong> and her mother<strong> Regina (Laura Linney)<\/strong>. The movie takes place in 1950 when, at 24-years-old, Flannery was diagnosed with lupus. Struggling with the same disease that took her father\u2019s life when she was a child and desperate to make her mark as a great writer, the health crisis propels the young Christian into a deep exploration of belief. The movie, directed by <strong>Ethan Hawke<\/strong> who co-wrote the script with <strong>Shelby Gaines<\/strong>, opens <strong>in theaters on May 3rd<\/strong>. Check out the trailer below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Wildcat Trailer #1 (2024)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R2WxoPxP_lQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ecp.yusercontent.com\/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pressbox.aenetworks.com%2Ftemplate_images%2F1709579037271_de0175200661828b5427%2F640F5B8C602F44DAB1D47F50999A3264.jpg&amp;t=1709762153&amp;ymreqid=ae7ac87d-528e-3d6c-1cf8-56029d013800&amp;sig=I0jEJb4nGhyXcbavstkceg--~D\" alt=\"image\/jpeg@@640F5B8C-602F-44DA-B1D4-7F50999A3264.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Down the road a bit further, music legend <strong>Gloria Gaynor<\/strong> is set to have her inspiring journey of faith and survival brought to life in a new <strong>Lifetime<\/strong> biopic under the <strong><em>Robin Roberts Presents<\/em><\/strong> banner. <strong>Set to air in 2025<\/strong>, the scripted drama comes on the heels of a documentary about Gaynor&#8217;s life (<em><strong>Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive<\/strong><\/em>) that debuted in theaters this past February. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2024\/02\/music-legend-gloria-gaynor-on-surviving-and-thriving-karen-allen-on-her-new-tv-role-and-how-her-indiana-jones-arc-ended.html\">When I spoke with Gloria about that film<\/a>, we had this exchange.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: Your story is so dramatic on so many levels that it strikes me that there could a scripted feature about your life. Have you ever thought about \u2013 and who would play you?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GG: <\/strong>I don\u2019t know. I was kind of toying with the idea at one time and I thought that I would like <strong>Kerry Washington<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>End Note: Kerry, are you listening?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>John W. Kennedy is a writer, producer and media development consultant specializing in television and movie projects that uphold positive timeless values, including trust in God. <\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><em><span class=\"st\">Encourage one another and build each other up &#8211; <\/span><\/em><span class=\"st\">1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media &amp; culture: 03\/18\/24 Let&#8217;s hear it for the dog! Audiences certainly gave Arthur the King a hand with a coveted A CinemaScore. 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