Hollywood Wants Religion The Huge Box-Office ...

Hollywood Wants Religion The huge box-office successes of The Passion of the Christ and The Chronicles of Narnia have Hollywood mining religious congregations for possible new audiences. The 2006 Tribeca Film Festival sponsored a panel where film industry insiders talked about the apparent new relationship between Hollywood and religion. Kim Lawton of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly said, “It’s about finding those stories that are intrinsic to the human journey, that demonstrate there’s a God and there’s another set of values, and how do we respond and live and get through that? (Religion & Ethics 5/12/06)