As The Hollywood Reporter noted in an article on February 12, “Son of God: Church Leaders Buying Out Theaters for Screenings,” thousands of people across the country will be seeing producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett’s new film that tells the life of Christ when it opens on February 28. Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles and Cardinal Wuerl of Washington, DC have endorsed the film. Here’s my review on “The INNdustry with Sister Rose” on the Jesuit run INNetwork where I ask Roma and Mark how making this film (and The Bible miniseries) change their lives and especially their marriage – and how the film has changed Diogo Morgado who plays Jesus. Cardinal Donald Wuerl calls "Son of God," opening in theaters Feb. 28, "engaging and compelling." Bishop David Zubik, after Download | Watching an advance DVD five or six times, pronounces it very, very powerful. "I have to say, of all the films I've seen about Jesus, this is the most moving. The manner in which they portray some of the significant scenes takes on a love and a tenderness and a merciful side of Jesus that maybe isn't always as beautifully portrayed," Bishop Zubik told the Post-Gazette. "Son of God" is a 138-minute movie drawn from the History Channel's "The Bible." The 10-hour miniseries premiered in February 2013 and covered the Old and New Testaments. The film opens with a quick Old Testament montage but concentrates on the New Testament and incorporates footage not seen on television. It's being billed as the "first major studio feature film on the complete life of Jesus Christ since 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' 50 years ago." Produced by actress Roma Downey and husband Mark Burnett, "Son of God" stars Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado in the title role and tracks Jesus from his birth through his teachings, crucifixion and resurrection. It opens in select theaters with 10 p.m. Thursday showings and everywhere a week from today. Variety recently reported that church leaders have bought out multiplexes in at least 10 cities for early screenings. Rick Warren, author of "The Purpose Driven Life" and senior pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., booked eight theaters throughout Orange County, the trade publication said. "We're excited Jesus is back on the big screen, and we're going to fill the theaters. ...

Watch Son of God online Free. Whether you can buy out a whole theater, or just one screen, now is the time to show up." Online Full Movie [2014] NetFlix promotional materials have a phone number for group sales and ways to become a "movie mobilizer" by encouraging similar sellouts, sending emails to contacts, using Facebook tools and posting comments to movie sites. Included are endorsements from Cardinal Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, D.C., and Mr. Warren, along with Bishop T.D. Jakes of the megachurch Potter's House in Dallas, TV minister Joel Osteen and the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez from the Hispanic Evangelical Association. Among them:

Watch Son of God Online Free Viooz.The reaction on the faces of Joseph and Mary as the Magi bow before the Christ child and they realize God's promises are coming to pass; Jesus' call to Peter, the first miraculous catch of fish and the melting of the disciple's resistance; and a scene where Jesus prays over Lazarus and kisses him on the top of the head and the dead man opens his eyes and comes back to life. "The Stations of the Cross, that portion of the film is very graphic in terms of the violence," the bishop said, "but in the midst of it all, it's the tenderness of Jesus either to his mother or to the man who plays Simon of Cyrene or the way in which Jesus reaches out to the thieves that are [hanging] on either side of him or the way that he looks down on the soldiers that are executing him, it's just a very beautiful, beautiful portrayal of the best of Jesus as a human being as well as Jesus as the son of God." Bishop Zubik, a movie fan whose endorsement was conveyed in a letter to parishes in the Diocese of Pittsburgh and a Feb. 14 story in the Pittsburgh Catholic newspaper, said the script is "very on target" when it comes to its source material. "What it supplied was the element of emotion that sometimes people don't picture when they're reading about those various scenes. Obviously, the film is titled the 'Son of God' but it also emphasized, in a very beautiful way, the humanity of Christ and the manner in which he fulfilled his role as the son of God." The movie will open five days before Lent and during a slow week when the other big release is the PG-13 action thriller "Non-Stop" starring Liam Neeson.