Epoch Times, the conspiratorial pro-Trump outlet, enters a new market: faith-based movies
Source: NBC News
July 6, 2024, 7:00 AM EDT
In recent years, The Epoch Times has amassed a large audience as a publisher of right-wing news articles and peddler of baseless election conspiracies. This summer, the conservative media company is hoping to conquer new territory: Hollywood.
Epoch Studios, a branch of the wider Epoch Times Association, plans to release “The Firing Squad,” a drama starring Kevin Sorbo and Cuba Gooding Jr. as drug smugglers who find God behind bars.
“The Firing Squad” marks Epoch’s entry into the growing market of faith-based cinema, a genre that includes recent box-office successes such as “Sound of Freedom,” “Unsung Hero” and “Jesus Revolution.” The film’s Aug. 2 theatrical debut comes as other right-wing media companies are pushing into entertainment, releasing content that counters what conservatives view as Hollywood’s progressive and secular agenda.
The creation of Epoch Studios has caught the attention of those who have closely watched the New York-based media company’s ascent from a fringe print newspaper startup formed in 2000 by followers of Falun Gong, a religious group persecuted in China, into a prominent conservative outlet with content amplifying Donald Trump’s conspiracies and right-wing messaging.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epoch-studios-faith-movie-firing-squad-rcna158822
After "softening up the target" with the pile of nonsense that we have gone through the past week, the next phase - christo-fascist indoctrination - is underway.
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Falun Gong is only funding it but the article ALSO includes this at the link -
Tim Chey, who wrote and directed “The Firing Squad,” told NBC News he is grateful that Epoch Studios came aboard his passion project as a co-producer and distributor.
“I’m a huge fan of Epoch Times. I absolutely love these guys,” Chey said in a recent interview.
Chey’s film follows three Christians — played by actors Sorbo (TV’s “Hercules”), Gooding Jr. and James Barrington — who are set to be executed by firing squad in Indonesia. (Right-wing audiences may seek out the film in part because of Sorbo, a pro-Trump conservative activist who previously appeared in the Christian film “God’s Not Dead” and produces faith-based movies through his own production company.)
“The Firing Squad” is inspired by actual events in the country in 2015, when eight people convicted of drug smuggling were put to death. One of them, an Australian national, became a Christian pastor while on death row and led the singing of Christian songs while the smugglers were being executed. (The Southeast Asian nation is known for its strict drug laws.)
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Are you kidding? From center, make a right and walk for a few days and you might find those epoch people. We have, well HAD, some republican friends who went full epoch, MAGA, RWNJ... It's just unbelievable that there are folks that far out of touch with reality. 
