Entertainment - Media News Watch originally published at Entertainment - Media News Watch
The Pope’s Exorcist is now available on digital, and will be receiving a DVD and Blu-ray release in mid-June
The supernatural thriller The Pope’s Exorcist has been available to watch through Vudu, Fandango’s premium on-demand video service, since the start of this month. The film has now been given a wider digital release (you can check it out on Amazon at THIS LINK), and is set to reach DVD and Blu-ray on June 13th.
A few years ago, The Exorcist director William Friedkin made a documentary about Father Gabriele Amorth (and you can read our review of The Devil and Father Amorth at THIS LINK), who passed away in 2016 at the age of 91. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s report, Screen Gems purchased the rights to tell Michael Patrick Kaczmarek’s story and faith-based media firm Loyola Productions. Russell Crowe plays Father Gabriele Amorth in The Pope’s Exorcist. Amorth was a priest and exorcist who served as the chief exorcist for the Vatican. He performed more than 100,000 demon exorcisms during his lifetime. Amorth wrote two memoirs and detailed his experiences battling Satan and demons that had clutched people in their evil.The film reaches digital, DVD, and Blu-ray with the following bonus features: Introducing Father Amorth
and What Possessed You?Overlord‘s Julius Avery directed
The Pope’s Exorcist from a screenplay by Evan Spiliotopoulos, with revisions by Chuck MacLean. The script was based on original drafts by Chester Hastings & R. Dean McCreary, which received revisions from Michael Petroni.Crowe is joined in the cast by Alex Essoe, Daniel Zovatto, Laurel Marsden, Cornell S. John, and newcomer Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, with Franco Nero, star of the original Django
, as the Pope. Ralph Ineson provided the voice for a demon.Scott Strauss, Michael Bitar and Giselle John oversaw the Screen Gems project. The film was produced by Michael Patrick Kaczmarek through his company Jesus & Mary, Loyola president Eddie Siebert, Doug Belgrad of 2.0 Entertainment, and Jeff Katz of Worldwide Katz.A sequel to The Pope’s Exorcist
is now in development.Will you be buying The Pope’s Exorcist
on digital, DVD, or Blu-ray? Please let us know if you’ve seen the movie and what you thought about it by leaving a message below.
Entertainment - Media News Watch originally published at Entertainment - Media News Watch
