“What’s most worrisome is that Hollywood, the industry that stands to most profit from giving the public what it wants, appears to be even less interested.”
Worrisome, but hardly surprising. Another example of Hollywood left-wing bias and animosity is the history around Mel Gibson’s smash hit “The Passion of the Christ” from a few years back.
Gibson couldn’t get any studio in Hollywood interested in this film. He finally went out on a limb, putting up most of his personal fortune, the necessary $25 million from his own money and produced it himself. The distribution company likewise went out on a limb, spending about the same amount in it’s advertising and distribution.
For their efforts, Gibson and the distributors had a global smash hit on their hands. In just the US market, it took in about $670 million, ending up the second biggest smash of that year. Global ticket sales, DVDs, etc. eventually took it up to around a billion dollars in gross revenue! From a combined $50 million investment!
Here’s the kicker: The production president of Paramount was asked later if he and Paramount would consider making similar Christian or Jewish-themed movies. His answer was a definite NO! “I wouldn’t even know how to make a movie like that” he condescendingly responded!
So, here’s the President of one of the major Hollywood studios indicating not only a lack of interest in making movies on a demonstrably extremely popular and profitable theme…but willfully ignoring Hollywood’s own very profitable history of 1950′s, 1960′s Biblical themed movies.
Imagine a President of one of the Big Three carmakers cheerfully refusing to make pickup trucks, or convertibles, as he despised them himself and saying he wouldn’t even know how to manufacture one! How long would he last before the Board of that company ousted him??? Of course, that wouldn’t happen in Hollywood, as Presidents AND Boards hold the same antagonistic bigoted views against Judaism and Christianity.
