{"id":5584,"date":"2014-11-03T05:52:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T10:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2014-11-03T05:53:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T10:53:48","slug":"hollywood-a-listers-to-star-in-faith-themed-same-kind-of-difference-as-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2014\/11\/hollywood-a-listers-to-star-in-faith-themed-same-kind-of-difference-as-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood A-listers to star in faith-themed &#8220;Same Kind of Difference as Me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1415008337457_7781\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1415008337457_7785\"><strong>All-star cast for <em>Same Kind of Different as Me<\/em>.<\/strong> Principal photography has begun in Jackson, Mississippi on the Paramount Pictures film starring Greg Kinnear,\u00a0 Djimon Hounsou,\u00a0 Renee Zellweger and Jon Voight.\u00a0 The inspirational<em> <span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1415008337457_7810\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1415008337457_7813\">Same Kind of Different as Me<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/em>is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samekindofdifferentasme.com\/default.aspx\">the best-selling nonfiction book<\/a> by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent, co-author of the bestselling book <i>Heaven Is for Real <\/i>(the film version of which also starred Kinnear)<i>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1415008337457_7810\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1415008337457_7813\">Like the book, the movie will tell the story of an international art dealer Ron Hall (Kinnear) who must befriend a dangerous homeless man (Hounsou) in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife (Zellweger), a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the most remarkable journey of their lives.\u00a0Voight plays Hall&#8217;s father, with whom he reconciles thanks to the revelations of his new life.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<iframe title=\"same kind of different as me\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/poq4kq1FCdQ?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>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1415008337457_7789\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1415008337457_7792\">Michael Carney will make his directorial debut from a screenplay he co-wrote with Alexander Foard and Ron Hall. Mary Parent and Cale Boyter will produce through Disruption Entertainment, alongside Darren Moorman, Stephen Johnson and Ron Hall. The executive producers are Chris Bancroft, Hans Graffunder, Michael Carney and Alexander Foard.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1415008337457_7800\"><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em><strong>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. All-star cast for Same Kind of Different as Me. Principal photography has begun in Jackson, Mississippi on the Paramount Pictures film starring Greg Kinnear,\u00a0 Djimon Hounsou,\u00a0 Renee Zellweger and Jon Voight.\u00a0 The inspirational Same Kind of Different as Me\u00a0 is based on the best-selling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9,1085,1591,7533,24],"tags":[7534,35,7539,7544,7542,7541,7535,4125,7545,5848,7540,7538,1046,7536,7537,7543],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-christianity","category-forgiveness","category-good-works","category-homlessness","category-movies","tag-same-kind-of-difference-as-me","tag-1-thessalonians-511","tag-alexander-foard","tag-chris-bancroft","tag-darren-moorman","tag-disruption-entertainment","tag-djimon-hounsou","tag-greg-kinnear","tag-hans-graffunder","tag-lynn-vincent","tag-mary-parent-and-cale-boyter","tag-michael-carney","tag-paramount-pictures","tag-renee-zellweger","tag-ron-hall-and-denver-moore","tag-stephen-johnson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hollywood A-listers to star in faith-themed &quot;Same Kind of Difference as Me&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2014\/11\/hollywood-a-listers-to-star-in-faith-themed-same-kind-of-difference-as-me.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hollywood A-listers to star in faith-themed &quot;Same Kind of Difference as Me&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 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