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The Passion of the Christ continues to count among the most significant because its success indicated that a contemporary audience is willing to watch Bible films. Since then, 28 films about Jesus have been released in English or with English subtitles for theater or television. “Holy” films based on the Bible have been with us almost since the beginning of cinema. The first movie about Jesus seems to have been the French film The Passion Play ( La vie et la passion de Jésus Christ) in 1903.

The parents looked at me and said, “But it’s about Jesus. I remember approaching a family waiting to see The Passion of the Christ and explaining that because the film was very violent, they might want to reconsider taking their young children. It is difficult to measure the lasting influence of The Passion of the Christ or any Bible-based film on viewers except anecdotally-or financially, if you are in the film business. All of a sudden, a major film about Jesus mattered. The film surprised Hollywood and attracted the attention of the industry.

In a few hours on the first day of its DVD release, more than 2.4 million copies were sold. The film, starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus, Maia Morgenstern as Mary, and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene, played in American theaters for almost 23 weeks. By the end of April, Mel Gibson’s graphic account of the passion and death of Jesus was playing in 68 countries, eventually grossing nearly $612 million. On Ash Wednesday, February 25, 2004, The Passion of the Christ was released in theaters in the United States and Australia. Ten years after the release of The Passion of the Christ, a renewed interest in biblical films has landed Jesus back in Hollywood.

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