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• Showdown: The Passion of The Christ vs. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Box Office Mojo)
  
  
• Many more stats | Including Top R-rated openings, Top 5-day openings, Top opening weekends, and other statistics (Box Office Mojo)
  
  
• Passion film beats Rings record | Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ has broken the US five-day box office record held by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (BBC)
  
  
• 'Passion' grows to $125 million at box office | Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" keeps on defying conventions (Hollywood Reporter)
  
  
• 'Passion' hauls in $117.5M in five days | "The Passion" put up the second-best five-day figures for a movie opening on Wednesday, behind last year's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" at $124.1 million and ahead of "Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace" at $105.6 million (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'Passion' sets record at box office | Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of The Christ" has earned an estimated $117,538,465 since its spectacular $23.5 million opening on Wednesday, setting a record as the most successful debut ever for a film released in February, normally a slack season at movie theaters (The Washington Post)
  
  

Passion :

• Jesus Christ movie star | Mel Gibson's 'The Passion' defies expectations and opens to a flood of tears—and ticket sales. That may not stop it from being the most divisive movie in history (Newsweek)
  
  
• An act of 'Passion' | A local woman with psychological problems purposely drove her car into the water at A.W. Stanley Quarter Park in an attempt to re-enact a scene from the blockbuster film, "The Passion of The Christ," police said (New Britain Herald, Conn.)
  
  
• Spielberg dodges 'Passion' controversy | Says he's "too smart to answer a question like that" (The Hollywood Reporter)
  
  
• 'Passion' spurs a spike in sales of crucifixion memorabilia | Thanks to Gibson, nails are newest fashion icon (The Beacon Journal, Akron, Oh.)
  
  
• `The Passion' shows a feminine side | In all the controversy and debate surrounding Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ," few are discussing how the film handles gender (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Is the power of `Passion' tied to Jesus' race? | What if another man had been chosen to play Jesus, say a man with a darker, more olive complexion—perhaps one with hair like lamb's wool and feet the color of burned brass? (Dawn Turner Trice, Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Peter, Paul, Mary . . . and God | A lost proto-feminist text, "Gospel of Mary of Magdala," offers a more provocative look at early Christianity than even "The Passion" (Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times)
  
  
• The Jesuit scholar who translated 'The Passion' | The task of achieving linguistic authenticity fell to Rev. William Fulco, a Jesuit priest and professor of ancient Mediterranean studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• 666 appears on some 'Passion' tickets | The machine that prints tickets assigned the number 666 as a prefix on all the tickets for the film (Associated Press)
  
  
• Two men, two different 'Passions' | When the Jews shout "crucify him!" over and over to Pontius Pilate, their voices overlapping in a frenzy, the effect is dizzying, as if some well-ordered world were about to be overturned. And I'm not referring to the "Passion" according to Mel Gibson; I'm referring to the "St. Matthew Passion" by Johann Sebastian Bach (Edward Rothstein, The New York Times)
  
  
• Passion without perspective | Director's cut of 'The Passion' leaves some questioning his intent (The Washington Post)
  
  

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