To date, Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ has taken in almost $65 million at the box-office, in only its first three days of release, shattering all records for an independently-made, foreign-language film. Box office update, projected, as of Sunday morning: $118 million total-to-date, in the first 5 days of release, $33 million on Saturday, and a $76 million weekend.
Entertainment Weekly predicted that ‘Passion’ would bring in $40 million over the weekend, but with $23 million on Friday alone … were forced to revise their original estimates when final results were published Sunday.
Holy &^%$*! Meanwhile, in this update, MovieCityNews columnist Leonard Klady weighs in on the weekend box-offices’ record-breaking results.
In London’s Daily Mirror, Christopher Hitchens adds his voice to the continuing controversy surrounding the film.
