Do you notice that the top grossing ones are “ancient films” made decades ago. Back then they did fairly good (not perfect, but quite good). Nowadays any so-called “biblical” movie is actually “anti-biblical” and infused thoroughly with leftist, liberal, ‘green’ and enviro-whacko IDEOLOGY ... just like the recent “Noah” movie is.
Here’s a list of Freeper articles on the Noah movie ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/noahthemovie/index
and tanks BIG
Uh, I’m skeptical of this “most successful” list.
Number 5, the “Prince of Egypt,” was a financial disaster for DreamWorks. It didn’t even make its production budget back, let alone go into profit.
And “The Ten Commandmants” bests “The Passion of the Christ?” for the Number 1 slot? Make me laugh. “Commandmants” was a money-maker in its day — it made 65 million domestically, about a 100 million globally. And it still plays on TV yearly. But “Passion” grossed 600 million dollars around the world.
I don’t buy this business of “adjusting for inflation” when talking about film grosses. Why would you do that? There are a lot more people around buying movie tickets today, too. Should you adjust those numbers because there are 300 million people in the US now, just to make it “fair” for the filmmakers who were working in the fifties with a population of only 175 milllion?
“Passion” is the most successful Bible-based movie ever.
I watched a low budget movie a few weeks ago which was the story of Esther. I remember thinking the story was so good that it needed a big budget treatment.
Probably never happen tho and if they do they will probably mess it up.