What, is HE Hollywood now? What arrogance!
No, he's a guy who gets points on the box office. His incentive is to get people to watch it.
Despite the enthusiastic support of Hugh Hewitt, Even folks who disliked "Passion" for religious or political reasons generally acknowledged its artistry and skill. I haven't seen that kind of benefit given to "nativity." The ugly fact is, even if you respect the filmmakers for tackling the subject and you admire their philosophy, the movie itself can still suck bilge water through a bendy straw.
When I see scary statements like Bowen's, my cynical impulse is to assume that he's trying to pressure Christians into seeing his movie, whether they want to or not, and praising it, whether they like it or not, because he knows it cannot stand on its merits. And frankly any filmmaker who's trying that hard to win over a sympathetic audience probably knows that his film is circling the drain.