Why Hollywood is embracing God again

Noah, the story of the ark, is the first of a ‘raft’ of religious movies due on our screens as Hollywood eyes the 50m US weekly churchgoers, says Declan Burke.

NOAH sails into a cinema near you this April, with Russell Crowe as the main character, helming the ark, but the story of the patriarch and the flood is just the first of a wave of Biblical epics heading for your local multiplex in the next year or so.

Christian Bale will star as Moses in Ridley Scott’s Exodus. Ben Kingsley, Julia Ormond and Odeya Rush will star in Mary, Mother of Christ, while Roma Downey and Diogo Morgado star in Son of God.