Majid Majidi, the first Iranian helmer nominated for the foreign-language film Oscar (for 1997’s “The Children of Heaven”), delivers his country’s most expensive film to date with the lumbering, ...

Since the 1979 Iranian revolution, the local film industry has not been known for trying to make blockbusters. But there is one exception, “Muhammad: The Messenger of God,” an epic directed by Majid ...

Abousofyan tells Aboutaleb, Muhammad's uncle, that in the upcoming morning he wants to kill the holy prophet of Islam and Muslims, who are in boycott. Aboutaleb remembers the past years when Abraha ...

A.R. Rahman, the Oscar-winning composer of Slumdog Millionaire, has responded to threats of a fatwa against him after contributing the score to a new film called Muhammad: The Messenger of God. “I ...

The most expensive movie ever made in Iran, which depicts the Prophet Muhammad’s childhood, opened nationwide on August 27. Directed by Majid Majidi, the 171-minute film Muhammad cost some $40 million ...

Bloggers are aghast at news that a $150 million movie about the life of Islam founder Muhammad is in the works. Islam prohibits visual depictions of the prophet, and the film's producer is Hollywood ...

Prominent Sunni Muslim scholars are demanding that Tehran ban a film on the life of the Prophet Muhammad that was released on August 27, though it is expected to break box-office records in Shi'ite ...

An epic about the birth of Islam is the biggest-budgeted Iranian film to date. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic Best of the Fall Fests: THR’s Critics Picks ‘Two Pianos’ Review: François ...

Majid Majidi's dull historical epic follows the early life of the man who became a prophet. “Muhammad: The Messenger of God” opened the Montreal World Film Festival on Aug. 27, a venue where Majidi ...