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The first footage of Noah shows the title character, played by Russell Crowe, dreaming that he is engulfed in the world-changing flood to come. Then he sets out to build the ark.
"I saw water, death by water," Crowe's character says in the brief video. "And I saw new life."
This Entertainment Tonight teaser is just a short glimpse of the full trailer that should hit the web any day now.
The Paramount Pictures film will open on March 28, 2014, and will reportedly adhere to the Biblical stor
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Angelina Jolie's 'Maleficent' could be Disney's big hitter for 2014.
It seems Angelina Jolie's icy exterior has transferred pretty well to the screen, with the Hollywood actress starring as the cold-hearted Queen in the first trailer for Disney's Maleficent. Billed as the "untold story" of the iconic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, Maleficent - due out in May 2014 after being brought forward by Disney - also stars Elle Fanning as the young princess Aurora as well as Sharlto Copley, Sam Riley,
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The 23-year-old actress opened up about her opinion on the sexualization of young women in the entertainment industry.
Sex may sell, but Jennifer Lawrence isn't buying it.
The 23-year-old "Hunger Games" star opened up when asked in an interview with BBC's Newsnight about her opinion on the sexualization of young women in Hollywood like Miley Cyrus.
"It is a part of the entertainment industry that sells," she said. "For some disgusting reason, young sex sells even more."
The 20-year-old Cyru
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Deitrick-Haddon-performing-Facebook.jpgDeitrick Haddon, one of the stars of the controversial reality television series Preachers of L.A., used social media to speak out against pastors preaching against the Oxygen network program from the pulpit.
 
Deitrick Haddon has spoken out against pastors preaching against the reality show he stars in, 'Preachers of L.A.' (Facebook)

 

"If your pastor's message is all about #PreachersofLA this sunday I recommend that you find another church," he tweeted Saturday to more than 180,000 followers
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preachers-of-la-premiere.jpg?w=262Pastor Wayne Chaney of Antioch Church of Long Beach is also a star on the Oxygen docu-series "Preachers of L.A." is defending his decision to promote being "saved, sanctified and sexual" on television screens.
The Chaney's don't mind a little PDA. (Photo: The Christian Post via Oxygen)
Chaney and his wife Myesha, have showcased their union on the show where the pastor has controversially promoted their intimacy.
"We want people to know you can be saved, sanctified, and sexual," he said on the
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Kerry Washington, like her Scandal alter ego Olivia Pope, sure knows how to keep a secret. The 36-year-old actress, who married NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha in a super covert ceremony in June, has yet another surprise on the way -- a baby! As the new issue of Us Weekly exclusively reveals, the Scandal star is pregnant with her first child.
"She's about four months along," a pal tells Us of Washington. (Thus far, the mom-to-be has kept any hint of a baby bump concealed under roomy dresses.) 
Th
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Morgan-Freeman-not-interested-in-12-Years-a-Slave.jpgMorgan Freeman doesn't avoid wading into tough conversations about race, but one of the year's most high-profile films on the subject is one the legendary actor plans to skip.
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"I saw a television movie that was made a few years ago about the same character" featured in 12 Years a Slave, Freeman said. "But I don't particularly want to see it."
"I don't want my anger quotient exacerbated, you know?" he said. "Things are bad enough as they are. I don't want to kee
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Screen-shot-2013-10-23-at-9.48.04-AM.pngWith all of the major television networks constantly competing over the daytime TV market, ABC has decided to take a slightly different approach to attract viewers. Instead of developing another daytime talk show with one single host or a panel of hosts, they've decided to upstage their competitors by offering viewers a daytime talk program hosted by a popular husband-and-wife duo. That duo happens to be none other than Rev Run of legendary hip hop trio Run DMC and his lovely wife, Justine Sim
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A trailer for Paramount Pictures upcoming film Noah, based on the biblical tale of the world's most famous boat, has leaked online this afternoon. 
Though it will likely be pulled down quickly by Paramount, who did not immediately respond to my request for a comment, you can catch the shaky version here.
The Darren Aronofsky-directed epic stars Russell Crowe in the titular role, and has had avery public battle play out of late between Aronofsky and Paramount. According to The Hollywood Repor
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Stephen Baldwin stars in a new Christian movie after nearly a decade away from the film industry.
The film, "I'm in Love with a Church Girl," is based on the true story of Galley Molina, a drug trafficker who was touched by the power of God and became a pastor. Molina also wrote and directed the film.
"This ain't your grandma's Christian movie," Baldwin told Fox News. "This is a relevant, in your face, hard core piece of entertainment that was made at a level and a quality of excellence that c
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The C.S. Lewis Company will partner with The Mark Gordon Company to produce "The Silver Chair."
Hollywood will again enter the magical world of Narnia, as the C.S. Lewis Company announced on Tuesday that it has forged a deal with The Mark Gordon Company to develop and produce The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair, a film version of the fourth book in the classic fantasy series. 
Mark Gordon and Douglas Gresham, stepson of series author C.S. Lewis, will serve as producers along with Vin
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"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" slurped up the box office.
The animated Sony sequel featuring the voices of Bill Hader and Anna Faris opened in first place and earned $35 million in its debut weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The original "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" was showered with $30.3 million during its opening weekend in 2009.
"It's remarkable that it did as well as and surpassed the first film," said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony Pictures. "The fi
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New ABC drama "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." garnered strong ratings in its Tuesday debut, grabbing 12.2 million viewers overall and ranking first in its time slot among viewers ages 18 to 49, the group most prized by advertisers, according to Nielsen ratings data.
Ratings for the one-hour show, which aired opposite CBS drama "NCIS" and NBC singing contest "The Voice," were the highest for a drama debut in nearly four years, ABC said.
"NCIS" was the most-watched show overall on Tuesday
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A scene from the History Channel miniseries 'The Bible.' (The History Channel)
Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, producers of the successful The Bible miniseries on the History Channel, have signed a pact with 20th Century Fox to take the Jesus Christ portions of the miniseries into movie theaters next year, with additional scenes not in the telecast.
Titled Son of God, the movie will focus on Christ's story from His birth through the Resurrection. It features Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado as
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Lee Daniels arrives at 'The Butler' Premiere at Regal Cinemas in Los Angeles on August 12, 2013. (Getty Images)
 
"Lee Daniels' The Butler," a civil rights drama starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, surpassed expectations and easily won the weekend box office battle, debuting with $25 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales through Sunday.
Jennifer Aniston comedy "We're the Millers" finished in the No. 2 slot, earning $17.8 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimate
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Jordin Sparks attends 2013 BET Awards at Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles. (Getty Images)
"American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks has just landed another movie role. This time she will be starring in the updated version of "Left Behind" alongside award winning actor Nicholas Cage and Chad Michael Murray. Sparks announced the exciting news herself via Twitter on Aug. 9 and she sounds quite thrilled to be a part of it.
The movie is based on the Christian book series by Jerry Jenkins and Tim La
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In a first for the Disney Channel, next season an episode of Good Luck Charlie will feature a family with two moms.
Producers are currently casting the couple, with production set for next week. The episode will air in early 2014 as part of Good Luck Charlie's final season. Because Good Luck Charlie is coming to a close, the characters are only expected to appear in this one episode.
In the storyline, parents Amy and Bob Duncan (Leigh-Allyn Baker and Eric Allan Kramer) set up a playdate for
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by Amy Butler
A rapper's outside-the-box marketing campaign holds lessons for a declining church.
The church could learn a lot from Kanye West. This might seem a novel idea both to churchy folks and to Kanye, but humor me.
There is much worry these days about the future of the church in America. Theories abound about how to approach the problem of a declining institution. Leadership experts like Ron Heifetz say one major key to effective leadership for the future is learning to identify and d
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Police and city leaders in Florida say are preparing for the possibility of mass protests or even civil unrest if a neighborhood watch volunteer is acquitted in the killing of an unarmed black teen -- a case that has already provoked protests after police initially refused to arrest the defendant.



Trayvon Martin, 17, was visiting his father and father's fiancee when George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, fatally shot him during a physical confrontation in a gated community in Febru
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Producers of the latest reboot of the "Superman" franchise famously marketed the movie to Christian audiences. Makers of the new "Lone Ranger" movie, not so much.

There's a reason for that. If "Man of Steel" panders to Christians, in "The Lone Ranger," Christians are portrayed as unattractive, ineffectual, hateful or flat-out hypocritically evil.

Like so much in this mess of a movie, it's an ingredient that doesn't make a ton of sense.

(Spoiler alert: I'm not going to give away much, but

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