Hollywood puts its faith in holy films

Times Online ^ | 04/23/06 | John Harlow

[NormsRevenge]

would any monies made with such ventures be considered false 'profits'?

[Kenny Bunkport]

First into the cinemas will be The Da Vinci Code

Hollywood wants to reap profits from successful religious movies, and then banks on a film that floats a fantasy about Jesus being married and fathering children. What a crock.

[MHGinTN]

When they start doing pro-life films like my 'Evil Interrupted', then I'll believe they've gotten the message. At present it appears they are just trolling at the fringes still governed by their secular humanist, pro-homosexual- pro-'any-religion-will-do' so long as the sheeple buy tickets mindset.

[WillRain]

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[Prokopton]

"Hollywood puts its faith in holy films"


Most of the films mentioned appear to be more unholy than holy.

[paudio]

The problem with Hollywood is that their lump all things with "religion-themes" into movies and hope for another Passion or Narnia. As long as it has Jesus, or an angel, or a missionary, it is enough for them to call a movie 'religious movie'. Nevermind that their movies are actually offending religious people. Their tendency to 're-interpret' everything and make 'old stories new' surely is not helping either.

[paudio]

their -- they

[D1X1E]

would any monies made with such ventures be considered false 'profits'?
^5 Good one

[ZULU]

Not a surprise.

Hollywood has become a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.

We;re better off with these perverts staying clear of religion. And I wonder what kind of "clerics" they are using to screen their productions.

[D1X1E]

As usual Hollywood shows how stupid they think we are. They mistakenly believe more of "the common people" will financially support a movie if its presented as "religious" from a bunch that is mostly anti religion. Not counting of course scientology or islam. Im spending more money on buying up old classic movies on tape and DVD than I have in a theater in years.

[Daaave]

Audrey Tautou (The Da Vinci Code) is one of my favorite French actresses. She was excellent in "Amelie." But you have to like weird french flicks.

I like religious movies like "Ben Hur" and "The Ten Commandments." Movies with biblical battles and romances. I don't go to the movies anyway. I wait and get the DVD, if I want to see something.

[nightdriver]

"For the first time in half a century, studios are test-screening films in front of religious leaders rather than teenagers."

From what we've seen and heard from "religious leaders," lately, this could ensure that there is not going to be any Biblical truth in these films.

Could you imagine the apostate William Sloan Coffin (RIP) actually espousing a truly Christian message?

[BunnySlippers]

Where there's a will there's a way ...

[BunnySlippers]

Hollywood is always re-inventing.

But before you knock it, remember that Holywood has spread, more than anything or anyone else, the essence of America.

And Hollywood films consistently run a profit, not a deficit, in US trade. No one else can say that.

[Rastus]

Other Christian-themed films due out later this year are more likely to suit their tastes. Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje, a London-born actor who plays Eko in the television series Lost, will play a charismatic minister winning over Harlem gangsters in Preaching to the Choir.

This one doesn't sound too good from the description at the IMDb, but Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje does a good job playing a man seeking redemption on Lost. He did a sober reading of the Lord's Prayer a few months back, and there wasn't a hint of Hollywood mockery in it.

[D1X1E]

But before you knock it, remember that Holywood has spread, more than anything or anyone else, the essence of America

They have perhaps in the past, thus my reference to old movies. Nowadays they spread something else entirely.

[SkyPilot]

First into the cinemas will be The Da Vinci Code,

Which is blatant heresy and fiction. What a joke.

[9999lakes]

The Da Vinci Code IS heresy, and not even close to reality.

I'm not going to explain -- don't care that much OR don't like long theological explanations -- but i assure you, as the movie opens, you WILL hear.

[3catsanadog]

And Hollywood films consistently run a profit, not a deficit, in US trade. No one else can say that.

Interesting - by the way, has anyone heard protest and anger over the profits of film and recording industries? Seems to me that these groups of businesses are never included under the term "Bad Corporations."