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When The Chosen Meets Christmas Music at the Movies
“Christmas with The Chosen: The Messengers” brings the hit streaming TV series, top music acts to 1,700 U.S. theaters through December 10
Do you want to go to the movies to see “Christmas with The Chosen?”
The record-breaking first multi-season, crowd-funded TV series about Jesus moves to movie theaters December 1-10 (unless Fathom Events extends it beyond its 10-night run). So we gratefully accepted the opening night gift.
“I do believe we have this as a constant agenda item: it’s not us, it’s Him,” Derral Eves, the show’s executive producer, told Faithwire.
The film is essentially the story of Jesus’s birth told in real-time and through a fast-forward to 48 AD with an aging Mary telling the “rest of her story” to Luke via Mary Magdalen, in a new “Chosen” episode.
The episode (which will air for TV viewers after the film’s theatrical run) is also a modern “Christmas special” of big music stars singing up-tempo modern renditions of traditional Christmas songs on the ancient world set the creators built in Utah.
The film also includes monologues from the cast to bring the total run-time to 124 minutes. In addition, the movie set a Fathom…
