"A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way." -- Flannery O’Connor
"That is why I tell these stories, because people see what I do, but they don't really see. They hear what I say, but they don't really hear, and they don't understand." -- Jesus, Matthew 13:13
***** NARNIA BRINGS IN $67.1 M
As I reported over the weekend at Chris Well: Learning Curve, opening weekend was strong for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. In fact, $67.1 is a great start -- which places it in the Top 25 biggest opening weekends ever (according to Box Office Mojo). By comparison, the opening weekend for Fellowship of the Ring was $47.2 million and Two Towers was $62 million.
Some Addtional Resources:
Interview with producer Michael Flaherty
Books to Help You Go Beyond Narnia
Tag: narnia
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SARAH HART RECEIVES FOUR UNITY AWARDS
Spiritandsong.com recording artist Sarah Hart was honored with four 2005 Unity Awards at a ceremony in November at The O'Shaughnessy Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Hart took home top honors for:
Song of the Year, "So We Will Worship"
Songwriter of the Year, "So We Will Worship"
Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year, Into These Rooms
Producer of the Year, Sarah Hart / Jeff Thomas, Into These Rooms
The Unity Awards give public recognition to members of the United Catholic Music and Video Association (UCMVA) who have demonstrated excellence or significant accomplishments in the field of Catholic Evangelization through music, video and media. Hart, whose album Into These Rooms was released in September, has had a great deal of success in the Catholic and CBA markets and continues to garner fans in the general market.
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NEWSONG ON CBS
The members of Dove Award-winning, Grammy-nominated hitmaker NewSong make their television "acting" debut on Sunday (Dec. 18) when CBS-TV airs the new holiday movie "The Christmas Blessing." The group performs the title song in an important climatic scene in the TV movie.
Based on the book, the movie is a sequel to The Christmas Shoes.
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BACK TO MITFORD
RiverOak (an imprint of Cook Communications) is releasing new paperback editions of the first three titles in Jan Karon's best-selling "Mitford" series. The new editions of At Home in Mitford, A Light in the Window and These High, Green Hills are repackaged and include new reader guides.
Mitford’s final title in the series, Light From Heaven (Viking), has been high on the best-seller lists since it was released in November.
More details available at Publishers Weekly.
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SPECIAL PROMOTION WITH CAMPBELL’S SOUP AND AMERICAN PROFILE MAGAZINE
Several Christian artists were part of a special program found in the Dec. 4 issue of the Sunday supplement American Profile Magazine, read by an estimated 7.5 million readers. Amy Grant, Gaither Vocal Band, Annie Moses Band and the compilation CD In The Spirit were selected by the publication for a joint venture with Campbell's Soup, "Church Social In A Box."
The program suggests items to be used for a successful church social, and the "Church Social In A Box" distributed to any church group requesting it.
"We were thrilled to hear that American Profile magazine chose [our album] Eden as one of their top selections," says Annie Wolaver, lead singer and Juilliard trained violinist of the Annie Moses Band. "The goal of our ministry is to encourage and affirm families, promoting excellence in young people, so American Profile makes such a perfect fit. Life is faith-based and we worship God through our music but we carry that in all aspects of our everyday lives as well."
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Chris Well is the author of the suspense thriller Forgiving Solomon Long (Harvest House), picked by Booklist as one of the Top 10 Christian Novels of 2005.
Read the first chapter online.
Chris is a member of International Thriller Writers, Inc. Find him online at StudioWell.com, or at his new blog, Chris Well: Learning Curve. (Subscribe to the RSS Feed).
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