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Perhaps, but the film's success may elude duplication. It features a sprightly enough plot: codes hidden in the Bible lead the audience to an understanding that the Apocalypse, complete with York as the Antichrist, is unfolding around Van Dien. Given its budget, the quality of its writing, acting and production is remarkably high--about miniseries level. Crouch believes a narrative pivoting on predictions from the books of Daniel and Revelation is especially charming to literal-minded Christians. "The biblically based story points are what they get off on," he says...
That may be so, but what got them into the theaters was something different. The film's primary backer is Crouch's father Paul, CEO and star (with his bounteously bouffanted wife Jan) of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. TBN is actually not a "little Christian channel" but a giant in the sometimes overlooked field of televangelism. Showcasing preachers both black and white, it claims to reach 84 million homes and takes in some $80 million a year in contributions, primarily from 1.5 million "partners" who give annually...
...this group that Omega Code galvanized. Starting a year before the film's release, TBN viewers were treated to occasional segments on its production; the segments aired nightly beginning in September. The message, says Susan Chaudoir of Omega's distributor, Providence Entertainment, was "You are helping us make this." In early August, the network ran an on-camera plea for volunteers to help promote the movie; the 2,000 respondents spread out into their neighborhoods and congregations with flyers and 100,000 posters. When theater owners agreed to put tickets on sale a month early, TBN aired videos of supporters...
Here's how art imitates life. It's the spring of last year, and Mike Wallace--immemorial TV journalist, much honored anchor of 60 Minutes--is on the phone to film director Michael Mann. Mann is making a movie about one of the less exalted episodes in Wallace's career, the time four years ago when 60 Minutes suppressed its story on Jeffrey Wigand, a tobacco-industry whistle blower. Mann's film moves on two tracks. One is the anguished dealings between Wigand and Lowell Bergman, a 60 Minutes producer who is leash holder and hand holder for the tormented...
...factual corrections and other changes in scenes that make him look vainglorious or blind to journalistic ethics. "His language is very acute," recalls Mann. "Stunningly funny and smart and ironic. He gave this long speech. I told him I'd have to use it in the film!" Which Mann did. It became an onscreen outburst that Wallace delivers sarcastically to Bergman, his once devoted younger colleague: "Oh, how fortunate I am to have Lowell Bergman's moral tutelage to point me down the shining path, to show...