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Mel Gibson couldn't get any studios to finance 'Passion of the Christ'.
Instead of scrapping the film, he chose to fund it himself, a move that analysts labeled "idiot".
He spent $45 million on the project and earned over $475 million because he didn't have to split the profits.
In 2002, he explained why he couldn't get support from Hollywood studios: "This is a movie about something nobody wants to touch, shot in two dead languages." Gibson and his company Icon Productions provided the film's sole support, spending around $30 million in production costs and around $15 million in marketing.
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