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'La La Land' Shatters Records Despite Release in Just Five Theaters
Lionsgate's musical film "La La Land" grossed around $855,000 in just five theaters located at New York and Los Angeles. Despite its limited release, the musical acquired record- breaking figures on its debut in December 9. It averages $171,000 in each of the five cinemas. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's stellar performance and chemistry hooked the people to keep the cinemas packed and line full.
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PewDiePie Deletes His Youtube Channel After Gaining 50 Million Subscribers
PewDiePie managed to pull out a prank to everyone when he announced that he will be deleting his YouTube Channel when it reached 50 million subscribers. He stirred a buzz in YouTube when he posted a video entitled "Deleting my channel" declaring his woes because of YouTube's current clickbait scheme and his plan to delete his channel as his subscribers now reached 50 million.
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Disney’s 'Moana' Remains No.1 at Box Office
Disney's "Moana" now accumulated a total of $145 million in US alone since its premiers in Thanksgiving. The Polynesian-inspired animated film is now on its third week topping the Box Office. With its domestic gross income, Disney yet add another top charting film aside from "Finding Dory," which grossed $468 million, and "Civil War," which grossed $408 million.
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Sisi Holds Three Days Mourning for the 24 Coptic Christians Killed in Suicide Bombing
Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi announced three days of mourning for the 24 Coptic Christians killed in a bombing of a Cairo chapel near St. Mark's Cathedral. Sisi informed details about the suicide bomber in a state funeral after the correction of Health Ministry's records on the killed victims. The previous report of 25 victims was changed to 24 after recognizing the 25th body as that of the suicide bomber.
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160 Christians Died in Nigerian Church Collapse during Bishop Ordination
Ordination of founder and church pastor Akan Weeks as a Bishop ended in tragedy as the Reigners Bible Church International located at Uyo collapsed on a Saturday, burying hundreds of people in the rubble where an estimated of 160 Christians were killed.
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A church in South Korea’s Guri City suffers fire damage, no injuries reported
A church in Guri City, near Seoul, South Korea, experienced a fire on July 3 that caused damage to parts of its main sanctuary building
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Bible scholar suggests ‘Mark of the Beast’ may not be 666 after all
Canadian Bible scholar Wes Huff is encouraging Christians to reexamine a widely held assumption about Revelation 13:18—that the number of the beast is definitively 666. According to Huff, some of the earliest and most respected manuscripts suggest a different number altogether: 616.
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‘Squid Game’ Season 3 raises spiritual questions about trust, despair, and redemption
In a recent column for Christianity Today, Michelle Park explores Squid Game: Season 3 through a biblical lens, arguing that the show’s narrative highlights not only societal decay but also a deeper, often unspoken, yearning for redemption and trust.
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“Sinners”: Gospel distorted by ethnicity and regionalism
In the latest installment of his Bricolage in the Movie series, Dr. Ukjoo Park offers a cultural-theological reading of Sinners, a supernatural drama directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in the racially segregated 1930s Mississippi Delta, the film follows two Black brothers who operate a juke joint while battling vampires—and racism.
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27 girls and 1 counselor missing after flash flood hits Texas Christian Camp
A sudden flash flood swept through a Christian summer camp in Texas early Friday morning, leaving 27 girls and one adult counselor initially unaccounted for, with 12 still missing as of Sunday.
