If Macedo were to have used his pulpits to promote his own business interests then that would seem to be something of a conflict of interests.
#A NOVELA OS DEZ MANDAMENTOS TV#
At the time Brazil's largest TV news website Notícias da TV reported UCKG services heavily promoting the film and encouraging people to give money to buy tickets for others. Macedo has been charged with various crimes, but, importantly, has never been found guilty. A significant majority of RecordTV is owned by billionaire Edir Macedo, the bishop/leader of Brasil's biggest church network Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. There's an extra layer of intrigue here as well. Then came reports of sold-out shows, but half-empty theatres, 2 presumably due to over-enthusiastic church leaders buying up tickets to give them away - a strategy used widely with The Passion of the Christ (2004)?
#A NOVELA OS DEZ MANDAMENTOS SERIES#
According to UOL the series had an audience of 144 million. At some point, the producers Rede Record decided to create a film version of the series that could play in cinemas.
The Moses series - Os Dez Manadmentos ran from 2015 delivering an incredible 243 episodes by the time in ended in 2016 1 and was even covered in The Guardian. More generally I've given a number of talks / led through groups on Jesus in Film and was a consultant for the Channel 4 documentary The Passion : Films, Faith and Fury.Ī few weeks ago I mentioned a series of biblical telenovelas from Brazil which typically ran for dozens of episodes for each biblical story. I have also written for various other publications including rejesus. I've also contributing to various edited works including " T&T Clark Handbook to Jesus and Film" (2021), " The Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium", " The T&T Clark Companion to the Bible and Film" (2018) and "The Bible in Motion" (2016). I've studying the Bible on Film for twenty years, with my first book "100 Bible Films" (BFI) due out in May 2022.