This film is in the news. However, it's more about Disney. Disney refused an ad for this film, until the filmmaker removed the word "God" from the film's ad. Get that? Disney demanded an ad for an EXPLICITLY religious film not mention God. Still think Disney is a Christian company?
Ken Clifton
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Interesting... I remember when Anastasia was released, Disney blackballed it from everything they owned, the networks, McDonald's, etc, just because they didn't make it.
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Wait, wait, let me get this straight. Who the hell every said Disney was a Christian company? Of course they aren't a 'Christian' company. They sell a product. It's a story they believe will make money, period. Overly religious films can be a tough sell. If you can get the church crowd, it can do well, like Passion of the Christ. But if you don't excite the church crowd, you alienate everyone else who doesn't want to see a film that amounts to a sunday morning sermon, like the complete failure of Nativity. Clearly they are not wanting to fall into that trap and they want to keep their market open. Personally I think the story is too tied into a specific religion to convince people that anyone of any faith could enjoy this movie, so being careful on the ad was kind of pointless. As far as Anya Angie's comments, are you serious? Why on earth would you expect Disney to advertise for a rival company? That's idiotic. It's not 'blackballing' it's just common frickin sense. Of course if they own McDonalds (I don't think that they do, I am almost sure that they don't, but I am not certain) they wouldn't have Anastasia products there. And of course they wouldn't air ads on their network because, duh, they didn't make it. They make anumated movies, and Anastasia was an animated movie from another company. Why would they be stupid enough or why should they be expected to create buzz for a rival company? Bringing this up as a problem is just odd. If you owned a company would you push a rival company's product? If you say yes, then that's why you don't own a company.
shareIf you read the full story, Disney Radio were fine with taking the ad (quite normal in the industry, jdlund), but only if the phrase "chosen by God" was removed. Ouch!
How do you call Moses' story as tied to one religion? He's a prophet to Jews, Muslims, Christians. That's quite the spread.
My intention was to point out that Disney didn't make The Ten Commandments, so I wouldn't be surprised if they would not advertize it since they did the same thing with Anastasia 10 years ago. I never meant to imply that they should advertize either film based on the fact that they didn't make it. What right-minded business goes around saying, Hey, go to the store across the street instead of buying my stuff?
"Show what you are capable of!" - Olympic Champion Evgeni Plushenko
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I don't understand what the big contravasy was about. If radio Disney was as anti-christian as Christians want to be, they would have not have aired a commercial about a Biblical movie in the first place.
Like one blogger aptly said
"Is God truly diminished by His name being omitted from the advertising of a movie about, well, Him? Is he that easily offended? I doubt it, but apparently there are plenty of people willing to take offense in His name and defend His honor."
And perhaps Christians forgot to read the following before they started to hyped up
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,302746,00.html
"Mention of God isn't prohibited in the company's standards and procedures, according to Radio Disney.
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Radio Disney has said in other media reports that it made the request because its policies require mention of the studio in its commercials and it decided to replace the "chosen by God" phrase with "from Promenade Pictures" because the original script made it sound as though the actors were chosen by God, not Moses, as was the intended meaning."
The producers just wanted to create controversy as a marketing tactics. It works extremely well in many of the Hollywood moves