Sun Media columnist (and occassional guest columnist here) Michael Coren writes another good column for the Toronto Sun, this time questioning one of the favorite targets of my pointy stick o’ vitriol, liberal Hollywood.
[…] Which brings me to The Passion of the Christ and its predictable but shameful lack of any major nominations at the Oscars. All thinking people know why this happened. Simply, Hollywood is dominated by an anti-religious and left wing agenda.
With DVD and foreign sales The Passion made more than a billion dollars, and cost less than $50 million to make. An almost unprecedented financial success. You would think an entertainment culture obsessed with sequels and spin-offs has to be working on movies based on, say, any of the four Gospels, one of numerous Biblical stories or a biopic of a saint or religious leader. Instant stories, guaranteed to make money.
But no. In fact, no major studio in North America has a religion movie in production. Such is Hollywood’s hatred for orthodoxy, religion and family values that producers would rather go out of business than cater to genuine public opinion and admit that perhaps they were wrong.
The issue goes beyond religion to basic family values. Of the ten most successful movies of 2004 only one of them had an “R” rating. And that was, yes, The Passion. So the 10 movies that made the vast bulk of Hollywood’s profits last years were family films, entertaining cartoons and a depiction of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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