“The Passion of Christ” offers two suites, whose exit dates have not been chosen at random

MOVIE THEATER – ” An acid trip ». Similarly, It is by these words that Mel Gibson summed up the scenarios of his successful controversial film The passion. Moreover, of Christspecifying that he never ” Nothing read as ». Nevertheless, Two new biblical feature films are being produced, and their cinema outing dates are not by chance.

According to an article in the magazine Variety Tuesday August 5. Meanwhile, the first part of The resurrection of Christ must go out in theaters on March 26, 2027, Friday Friday day, religious commemoration among Christians preceding Easter Sunday. In addition, The second “the passion christ” offers two will arrive at the cinema six weeks later, on May 6, 2027, ascension day.

As their title presupposes it. Therefore, these two new films will focus on the three -day period between the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus, when Christ went down to Abraham to preach and resuscitate the saints of the Old Testament.

Jim Caviezele resumes his role – "the passion christ" offers two

They must again stage the actor Jim Caviezele. chosen about twenty years ago for the title role in The passion of Christ partly because of its initials. The feature film of the pro-Trump filmmaker Mel Gibson. also back to the controllers, was until 2024 (and the exit from Deadpool & Wolverine) The most lucrative film in history. He had exceeded $ 600 million in revenue, twenty times his budget.

In addition to its commercial success. the film had also won several Oscar nominations “the passion christ” offers two (in the categories of the best makeup, the best photography and the best original music), and almost as many negative criticisms. Hyperrealistic, he was, among other things, accused of showing extreme violence in the service of a Manichean message.

The arrival of these new components is not a surprise, it had already been mentioned in 2018. It is also part of a particular framework: that of Hollywood multiplication of conservative films on Christian faith. in a country where Christianity is very present, like the recent Marie On Netflix with Anthony Hopkins.

The boom of biblical films in Hollywood

What if the sky existed ?. The voice of forgiveness, aplanned… In recent years, these films devoted to biblical themes, certainly little distributed in France, have stormed the American box office, says this article of the article Monde. Products in general for less than ten million “the passion christ” offers two dollars. they report big and please ” An audience long neglected, in which the film industry is more and more interested “Analysis the evening daily life.

Until the late 1990s, only a few religious themed films were shot each year, noted AFP. Then their number flew. In 2006, there were four to five new outings of this type each month.

If the box office figures for these kinds of films do not sound as gigantic as the blockbusters of our time. as Barbie or Oppenheimerthey still raised almost $ 2 billion since the end of the 20th century, according to the Mojo box office site. And this, not to mention big budget projects that are not said “Evangelical”, as Ben-how or You won’t kill.