We are doing it

[PeterPaul]

Hollywood is in for a big one. Looks like the war has started and we are winning already. Let's keep it up.


LOS ANGELES - Mel Gibson (news) is adding 800 theaters to the debut of his controversial Crucifixion drama, "The Passion of the Christ," next Wednesday.


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The $25 million film, which Gibson co-wrote, directed and financed, had been set to open in about 2,000 locations, but distributor Newmarket Films and Gibson's Icon Productions said new theaters have been added to keep up with demand for advance tickets.


"It's really picked up in the last couple of days," Newmarket chief Bob Berney said in the trade newspaper Variety on Thursday. "A lot of what we've been hearing (from theater chains) is that instead of two prints we want four. They anticipate a much bigger opening, and they want to be able to handle it."


By way of comparison, "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" debuted in more than 3,100 theaters and "The Last Samurai" opened in more than 2,900, Variety said.

 

[LongingForLight]

We have 170 people attending together from our fairly small parish on Saturday, followed by a Bible study for those who are interested. I'm not even sure if we could fit 170 people into the church for mass - I think most of them would be standing. Good thing we have three masses . . . but just about everyone must be going!

 

[Christy4Christ]

YaY!! I can't wait!!!! Next week!!!

 

[Bushido216]

/me wonders if it's playing anywhere by him.

 

[Christy4Christ]

* Bushido216 wonders if it's playing anywhere by him.

If you have an AMC theater near you which I am sure you must then it will be playing near you. You can go here to do a search:

AMC Theaters

 

[Spotty]

Does anyone else find it awfully convenient that the media just happened to break a story about Mel Gibson's father denying the Holocaust just a few days before the movie opens. The article I read even made it look like Gibson said he supported his father when he verbatim stated that there were millions killed!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040219/ap_en_mo/passion_gibson_s_father_2

Very upsetting by the media.

-Spotty

 

[Christy4Christ]

Don't worry let me tell you a little story. I post on another forum and they HATE Catholics. During a debate I told them Mel Gibson is Catholic. Can you imagine they didn't even know that?! Anyway, before that everyone was gung ho to see the movie and then suddenly after I told them he is Catholic they hate him, the movie and even Billy Graham for supporting it!

There are some really crazy people in this world.

As far as the holocaust thing, I expected all of this. I wouldn't be suprised if this movie gets banned after a week. We really need to pray because as soon as that movie opens and plays for a couple of days, things are going to start flying out of the wood work about anti-semitism and people will start blaming everything that happens to them at their jobs or whatever on the movie. I fore see this happening. I have good friends who are Jewish and they are not among the certain groups that want to stop the film and they have even said this will happen.

 

[PeterPaul]

Christy, you are right. I think the same thing. And the scary thing is that most of the claims will be ridiculous and yet they will still blame the movie. At that point I say we protest.

 

[Bastoune]

If they pull the "Holocaust" bunk on you about Mel, remind them of Pope Pius XII's stand against the Nazis!!!

http://users.binary.net/polycarp/piusxii.html

Any good Catholic KNOWS what happened!!!!!! Mel certainly does.

 

[pmarquette]

Have you seen : The Omega Code ; Meggido ; Joshua ? all $1.00 rentals
or The Scarlet and the Black ; The Cardinal ; Left Hand of God ...

also quite good ...

 

[PeterPaul]

The Cardinal is a great one. I have it on VHS.

Bastoune, my Canadien friend, they don't believe us because they all read Hitler's Pope, and books of the like, so Jews will believe other Jews before a Gentile. At this point Jews are convinced in NY anyway, that the Pope was in league with Hitler.

 

[Bastoune]

The Cardinal is a great one. I have it on VHS.

Bastoune, my Canadien friend, they don't believe us because they all read Hitler's Pope, and books of the like, so Jews will believe other Jews before a Gentile. At this point Jews are convinced in NY anyway, that the Pope was in league with Hitler.

But regardless, we all know the Vatican kept buried for 1,500 years the Bible in English so that common people (even those in non-anglophone countries) would be kept ignorant of the truth. This is why the first pope Constantine massacred John Tyndale and over 60 million true Christians in AD 325!!!!!

I kid you not, this is something someone told me once. That and, "I don't know HOW the Catholic Church denies grace, but they do!!!"

 

[PeterPaul]

Actually, the Bible was not made accessible to people because of the tremendous amount of splinter religions that had ackward interpretations to the Bible, and how misleading they might become to true believers, not to keep people ignorant. In addition, that ignorance would be odd considering people could not read.

The Catholic Church does not deny grace, but Protestantism believes in eternal grace. Not in the way we do. Protestants believe grace is once and always attained and we believe that the cup of grace God offers is infinite and can always be drunk from, but it is for us to ask for it.