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Hollywood reaches out to Christians

Hollywood Finds Religion
New Movies Reach Out to Christian Audiences

HOLLYWOOD, California, NOV. 5, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Hollywood has found a new audience: Christians. Dec. 9 will see the premiere of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," based on the C.S. Lewis book of the same title.

The market for religious-oriented media always existed. But the success of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" made a lot of people in Hollywood sit up and take note of the commercial opportunities they had been disdaining.

Plans to make a film, or a series of films, based on the Narnia series had languished in Hollywood for over a decade, the Toronto-based Globe and Mail newspaper reported Sept. 8. Disney gave the green light to the project one week after "The Passion" opened in February 2004.

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