‘The King of Kings’ Review: Oscar Isaac Voices Jesus in Visually Generic and Heavy-Handed Christian Animated Film

The King of Kings: Charles Dickens’ ‘secret’ story hits the big screen - Washington Examiner

Renowned storyteller Charles Dickens brought the world characters such as Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, David Copperfield, and Oliver Twist. He wrote a story for his own children that he read to them annually. He didn’t want it published, but it was published posthumously and is now the basis for a major motion picture. The tagline for The King of Kings is “A Story Told by Charles Dickens,” and it features Dickens throughout. His fiction has capti…

'The King of Kings' proves there's 'clearly an audience' for faith-based movies: expert

"The Kings of Kings," a faith-based film that retells the story of Jesus, has set a record for the biggest biblical animated movie opening ever — beating out 1998's "The Prince of Egypt" — even before it officially opened this weekend. By Thursday, the film had taken in more than $14.6 million in domestic pre-sales, showing that there’s "clearly an audience and a market for faith-based entertainment," Fox News contributor and host of the "Arroyo…

‘The King of Kings’ Review: Finally, a Take on the Gospels That Includes an Animated Charles Dickens

Angel Studios' faith-based animated film is already racking up the kind of pre-sales that might make its backers nervously start researching the physics of getting camels through the eye of a needle.

‘King Of Kings’ Pre-Sales Now At $14.6M, Poised To Overtake ‘Prince Of Egypt’ Animated Biblical Pic Opening Record

Angel Studios' family pic The King of Kings has already clocked $14.6M in pre-sales and could wound up outstripping DreamWorks Animation's The Prince of Egypt ($14.5M) as the best opening ever for an animated Biblical movie.

‘The King of Kings’ Review: Oscar Isaac Voices Jesus in Visually Generic and Heavy-Handed Christian Animated Film

The marketing for “The King of Kings” flaunts that it is the first theatrically released biblical animated feature since 1998’s “The Prince of Egypt.” But to even mention DreamWorks’ hand-drawn masterpiece in the same breath as the latest Angel Studio release is nothing short of blasphemous. The makers of “Sound of Freedom” move into family animated productions by distributing director Jang Seong-ho’s loose adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “The Li…

Angel Studios’ ‘The King of Kings’ reaches record presales, topping ‘Sound of Freedom’

CV NEWS FEED // Angel Studios’ The King of Kings, an animated movie about the life of Christ, has brought in more than $7.8 million in… The post Angel Studios’ ‘The King of Kings’ reaches record presales, topping ‘Sound of Freedom’ appeared first on CatholicVote org.