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Newsweek: Mel Gibson's Film Can't Get a Distributor

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FadeTheButcher [OP]

2003-10-06 02:41 | User Profile

Only the anti-Semites who believe in a LFOR queue conspiracy theory suggest Jews have substantial power and the ability to distort American culture to suit their interests.

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Newsweek reports that it seems no major studio wants to touch Mel Gibson's latest film, "The Passion," a controversial movie about Jesus' death that has inspired more hostile attention than any movie in recent history. "It's not worth the aggravation," says a studio head. "Even if it makes money, it's not going to be 'Titanic.'" Studios are worried about protests, hate mail and boycotts.

"Even if it doesn't deserve it," says another film executive, "it's going to be used as a political football."

Gibson's company, Icon Productions, did not seek out buyers for the film, but waited to see which suitors came knocking. The studios didn't, apparently, reports Senior Writer Sean Smith in the October 13 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, October 6).

Icon did get interest from small, independent companies without public shareholders or other assets, like music companies and theme parks, that could be hurt by boycotts or protests.

Companies "that have nothing to lose," as one executive puts it. The top contender now appears to be Newmarket, which released "Memento." . . .


Happy Hacker

2003-10-06 12:36 | User Profile

Gibson's is having trouble finding a distributor for his watered-down Christian film in a "Christian nation" yet major distributors don't mind the most obscene of filth.

Any society will only tolerate a certain range of standards. When sodomy is tolerated, Christiantiy is not tolerated.


il ragno

2003-10-06 13:51 | User Profile

[QUOTE]Studios are worried about protests, hate mail and boycotts. [/QUOTE]

This is a lie. They are worried about [I]angry inter-office memoes.[/I]

THE PASSION is the first case on record of a film with a built-in audience and guaranteed profit being refused distribution by every major because it probably won't make a billion dollars (the TITANIC comment). No, it'll probably tail off at 850 million or so....

I felt all along this filmn will never play in American theaters. Gibson has other options, and should follow them. But the real question is this: now that Gibson and the Christian world can have [B]no doubts [/B] that Jews despise their Lord, despise them, and control the worldly forces that would allow them to see a religious film made expressly for them by one of their own....will they open their mouths? Will they work up the nerve to investigate & research the actual documented history of Jews and particularly Jewish influence and control in America? Will they tell their friends? Will they speak up in anger and alarm? Will they even GET angry and alarmed? Will they notice that the candidates before them for President next year are all either toadies for Jews, half-Jews, recovered-memory Jews and just [I]plain [/I] Jews?

Or will they be Cal Thomas? Will they be Cardinal (fill in name of American cleric too shellshocked from the fag-priest scandals to put up a fight on this?) Will they be Bill Buckley and Andrew Greeley and Jerry Falwell?

I mean, THE PASSION is an isolated case - a control group - in which a worse-is-better scenario could pay immediate and lasting benefits. It all depends on whether whites can become mentally tough enough to override or outright break their [I]Jesus-was-a-Jew, Hitler-is-the-devil[/I] conditioning.


Texas Dissident

2003-10-06 17:31 | User Profile

[QUOTE=il ragno]This is a lie. They are worried about [I]angry inter-office memoes.[/I]

Exactly, IR. One wonders how much more blatant this could be? A film about pedophile priests? No problem. Homosexual Jesus? A cinematic triumph. It's enough to make you sick. I know some evangelical groups have been touting the film, so it will be interesting to see what kind of dynamic takes shape once this film continues to languish in limbo without any distributor willing to run it. One would like to think it would cause some questioning consternation in the various evangelical camps, but the realist in me doubts anything will come of it. For my part, I intend on making sure every evangelical Christian I know knows what is going on with Gibson's Passion and who is responsible for its blacklisting.


Valley Forge

2003-10-06 22:00 | User Profile

It's the arrogance that makes my blood boil. As has already been observed, if this film were about pedophile priests, the Jew-controlled distributors would be lining up.

Those filthy, lying bastards.

And get this, Miramax -- the studio that allegedly eschews controversy -- is releasing Kill Bill this weekend, complete with a recommendation from Quentin Tarantino that children see it. Kill Bill is said to be the goriest film ever made.

One way or another, this film will be seen by 99% of Christian America.

And there isn't a damn thing the cancerous Jews can do about it.


JAT

2003-10-06 22:04 | User Profile

I though Michael Eisner liked the film and was going to distribute it through Disney.


Valley Forge

2003-10-06 22:05 | User Profile

Get a load of this quote from the article:

Meanwhile, the press surrounding the film -- in particular a New Yorker profile that delineated Gibson's rigid religious beliefs-has done some damage to his reputation.

While he remains one of the most bankable stars in history, his occasionally strident public statements have not played well in an industry predominantly liberal and significantly Jewish.

"People think Mel's crazy now," says one top producer.

Adds a studio head, "People feel like his character in 'Lethal Weapon' isn't that far from who he is.

Yep -- they're ratcheting up the smear job. Mel's finished in Hollywood for good.

Why don't more Christians understand the evil of the Jew? I don't get it. :wallbash:


Valley Forge

2003-10-06 22:06 | User Profile

[QUOTE=JAT]I though Michael Eisner liked the film and was going to distribute it through Disney.[/QUOTE]

Eisner is tribesman. The chance that he will do something that is against the interests of his evil brethren is zero.


JAT

2003-10-06 22:12 | User Profile

[QUOTE=Valley Forge]Eisner is tribesman. The chance that he will do something that is against the interests of his evil brethren is zero.[/QUOTE] If I recall correctly, it was something I read on OD months ago.


Paragon

2003-10-06 22:18 | User Profile

This is where Hutton says, "Son, I told you so." Hopefully Mel himself sees how the jews really are. One cannot know the true nature of the serpent until one experiences its bite.


MadScienceType

2003-10-06 23:41 | User Profile

I though Michael Eisner liked the film and was going to distribute it through Disney.

That article was a joke.

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JAT

2003-10-07 01:05 | User Profile

Well, it seems as though I've therefore encountered the downside of message board skimming. :glare:


FadeTheButcher

2003-10-07 02:14 | User Profile

A new modern system of government is needed to correct problems such as this.