Evidently the film is a stinker. Good.
Yep, but all the negative attention will help its numbers at the box office.
At the end I wondered what all the hype was about.
Much like the conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 there are always conspiracy theories surrounding religion.
You are right in saying that the media is hoping to spin the controversy into ticket sales. They wouldn't be conducting a series of interviews with the filmmakers and cast if they weren't pimping the film.
Did Billy Zane or Gary Busey make any tv appearances to discuss their roles in the antiAmerican/antiIsrael Turkish film about the Iraq war? Gary Busey played an evil Jewish prison doctor who was stealing the organs out of jailed Iraqis for sale to wealthy Israelis and Americans.
But I guess that work of fiction doesn't have any impact on the muslim world either.