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Expelled Has Solid Showing in Weekend Box Office Report

April 21 . 2008 – 10.45 am

Ben SteinBen Stein’s much-balleyhooed documentary Expelled (our review here) brought in a respectable $3.1 million this weekend, which was 9th - nothing close to Michael Moore’s $23 million opening for Fahrenheit 911, but considerably better than the other doc that bowed this weekend: Where In the World is Osama Bin Laden from Super Size Me’s Morgan Spurlock.

Expelled only opened on 1,052 screens giving it an average of just under $3,000 per, which would make it a solid fifth on the screen-average list. Spurlock’s pic had an average of $1,405.

The top three B.O. earners this weekend were Forbidden Kingdom ($20.8M), Forgetting Sarah Marshall ($17.3M), and Prom Night ($9.1M).

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This Week In Jesus: American Idol worship edition

April 11 . 2008 – 12.10 pm

The biggest story by far for Jesus watchers this week comes to us from American Idol’s “Idol Gives Back” show, which aired Wednesday evening. Aside from the fact that they stole the church’s long-forgotten idea of taking care of orphans and widows (well, I can’t say they stole it, since the church threw that idea away long ago) by raising millions of dollars for needy children, the real story for TWIJers came in the very last performance, in the waning moments of the show. [At this point, I am NOT going to mention that my Tivo didn’t actually catch the performance since the show ran late and it came on after 9 pm at which time my infallible Tivaliscious friend switched to the show I had set to record at 9…I’m not going to mention it because my relationship with my Tivo is pretty important to me and I would never do anything to hurt it…I heart you, Tivo!]What happened in the last few minutes of the telecast was a simple little performance that was almost unexplainable from a conceptual standpoint.

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Ben Stein expels some Expelled rumors (…continued)

March 31 . 2008 – 9.46 am

Read the first half of this blentry looking at some rumors surrounding the upcoming film “Expelled” here. 

2. The movie claims that evolutionary science leads to Nazism. While this rumor is less heinous than the first, there is an important distinction to the proposition that Expelled makes, which is that Darwinism is a necessary COMPONENT of Nazism. While the film does explore the relationship of the two ideas, and it is clearly capitalizing on the inherent emotional reaction to all things Nazi, it never claims that one leads to the other.

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Ben Stein expels some Expelled rumors

March 31 . 2008 – 9.43 am

On April 18, Big Religion might get its answer to Michael Moore from an unlikely source: intellectual (and pop-culture icon) Ben Stein. Stein and Premise Media Corporation are releasing Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, an ambitious and already-controversial documentary that only takes on one of the most rigorously defended scientific theories of all time: evolution. As the producers of the film explained in a press conference Friday, because evolutionary science is the bedrock for many scientific ideas, and because of the potential implications that any disproving of the theory would bring, every self-respecting secular scientist defends Darwin’s theory with a religious fervor most often reserved for…well…religion.

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