{"id":140,"date":"2004-03-16T21:38:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T21:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2004-03-16T21:38:17","modified_gmt":"2004-03-16T21:38:17","slug":"the-passion-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"The Passion Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Passion of The Christ&#8221; made another $32 million this weekend making a total gross of $264 million which will put it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficereport.com\/atbon\/100m.shtml\">23rd on the all time list<\/a>. The movie needs only to make another $21 million to become the biggest selling R rated movie ever and break into the top 20 all time. I heard commentary on the radio today expecting the movie to finish at number two or three on the all time list ahead of E.T. or Star Wars. <\/p>\n<p>Looking at the list of top movies of all time you can see another example of Hollywood being out of touch. As of today, not a single one of the top 20 movies of all time are rated R. Yet in the 1990&#8217;s, 55% of all movies released were rated R. Here&#8217;s an eye opener. In 2003 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodvideo.com\/movies\/2003_movie_releases.aspx\">258 movies were released on video<\/a>. 122 of them (47%) were rated R. PG-13 came in second with 88 movies released (34%).   <\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe some movie studios are getting smarter. Disney and Walden Media are going to release C.S. Lewis children&#8217;s classic story <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walden.com\/aboutwaldenmedia\/news_articles\/walden_03_01_04.html\">&#8220;The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe&#8221;<\/a><\/em> in December of 2005. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Passion of The Christ&#8221; made another $32 million this weekend making a total gross of $264 million which will put it at 23rd on the all time list. The movie needs only to make another $21 million to become the biggest selling R rated movie ever and break into the top 20 all time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=140\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Passion Continues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}