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...Gibson's hand is on the movie too. It was the success of Gibson's 2004 Crucifixion film, The Passion of the Christ--which no studio wanted to touch and which earned $1 billion in worldwide box-office and DVD sales when the director funded it himself--that made believers out of Hollywood executives and ushered in a flurry of faith-based filmmaking. "I could kiss Mel on both cheeks for showing Hollywood the size of this market," says Matt Crouch, son of televangelists Paul and Jean Crouch and producer of One Night with the King, the story of Esther...
...Passion made what was theoretically an audience very real," says Jonathan Bock, whose Grace Hill Media has helped market films like The Chronicles of Narnia and Walk the Line to religious audiences. What became clear was that the 43% of Americans who attend church on any given weekend like films as much as the other 57% but are seeking a certain kind. "Not everything needs to be a bathrobe-and-sandals kind of movie, but there have to be some family-friendly parameters," Bock says. "Something in the film should challenge or elevate the human spirit, some kind of through...
...market the film, New Line is borrowing a page from The Passion and other faith-friendly indies and setting up "shepherds' screenings" for pastors and providing Bible-study guides, sample sermons and group-rate screenings. And then there is, of course, the unprecedented Vatican premiere. Whatever the papal equivalent of two thumbs up is (two raised miters?), Nativity clearly has it. There has been one wrinkle along the way. Keisha Castle-Hughes, the star of Whale Rider, now 16, who plays Mary, is pregnant and home in New Zealand rather than out promoting the film...
...influence on Beck, Blur, Radiohead and countless other musicians of the '90s is incalculable. Lead singer and former Whitney Museum of Art security guard Stephen Malkmus expressed alienation with the same lo-fi guitar grit of Kurt Cobain, but his lyrics and vocals were models of cryptic passion. Somehow his word salads communicated both the ennui of a suburban smart-ass and an awareness that ennui isn't tragic...
...nominate former Vice President Al Gore. His environmentalism and philanthropy make him deserving of the Person of the Year title. Al's documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, made global warming difficult to ignore. His passion is to make the world a better place for the generations to come...