![pictures from the passion of christ movie pictures from the passion of christ movie](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oSMA5UU8eI4/maxresdefault.jpg)
The company also produced films in the UK and Australia and distributed cinema films through its British subsidiary and its Australian subsidiary. Ĭrop of Theotokos of Vladimir icon as a Icon Productions logo The logo's artwork features a small crop of the mother's left eye from the Theotokos of Vladimir icon, an Eastern Orthodox icon of Mary, mother of God. Gibson has explained that the company's name was chosen because icon means "image" in Greek, and that the inspiration came from a book on Russian icons in his den. Icon is able to take risks that studios won't broach.
![pictures from the passion of christ movie pictures from the passion of christ movie](https://www.slashfilm.com/img/gallery/the-passion-of-the-christ-revisited/intro-import.jpg)
He's been able to use his celebrity status to set up a really viable company.
#PICTURES FROM THE PASSION OF CHRIST MOVIE FREE#
Mel's dream was to create an alternative to the studio system and make films free of interference. Felicia's Journey director Atom Egoyan praised the company's creative independence and risk-taking: Unlike most other independents, Icon has always financed most of its development and packaging costs internally, mainly by Gibson, allowing it to retain creative control of projects through production. I told him that if he wanted to make this happen, someone had to roll up their sleeves and find the (financing) and he asked me if I wanted to have a crack at it and I agreed. It's pretty hard to get someone to give you money to make Hamlet. Mel wanted to reprise Hamlet and the (Hollywood) agent he had who was helping him with it lasted about five minutes. Icon started when Gibson was having trouble in financing the 1990 film Hamlet.