The Passion Saves the Day

March 01, 2004

While I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about the film the Passion of the Christ, I will reserve those comments for later. Meanwhile, lets celebrate the GRAND opening the Passion is boasting right now!

The Passion of the Christ generated a heavenly $83.8M in opening weekend grosses, according to final figures, and has collected a jaw-dropping $125.2M since its midweek debut on Wednesday (including an estimated $3M in previews)…
Among Friday-to-Sunday opening weekend grosses, Passionranked the seventh largest of all-time and third best amongnon-sequels after Spider-Man ($114.8M) and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ($90.3M). Looking at five-day bows, Passion is the second best ever trailing only Oscar champion The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King which pulled in $124.1M last December. Passion scored the biggest three-day opening outside of the key season-launching months of May and November and the second largest bow for an R-rated pic after the $91.8M of The Matrix Reloaded. The film industry was truly shocked that a subtitled movie with no stars could attract such a gigantic audience on its opening weekend.

Why compare this movie to secular movies? Because the movie itself plays in that arena. If this was a broadway play and received much of the same attention, I would compare it to other Broadway productions. This movie is the most significant burst of Christian energy Hollywood has seen since Ben Hur.

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Posted by pablohart on March 01, 2004 10:23 AM