Spreading Santorum: Slick Rick wants to become a movie mogul

[marmar]

(Independent UK) Rick Santorum, the evangelical candidate who ran Mitt Romney a close second for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has announced that he is the new CEO of EchoLight studios, a Texan film production firm dedicated to making and distributing movies with a Christian message.

The former Pennsylvania senator, who opposes gay marriage and abortion, argued in a 2011 speech that conservatives ought to become more involved in popular culture, and produce better quality Christian-themed content. "The problem in the past is that you have these people who create these Christian films - great message, terrible acting, horrible editing," he said. "They are not entertaining, they're preachy."

Santorum has been fundraising for EchoLight for around six months, and says the firm is now close to securing $20m in financing for future film projects. He officially announced his new role as CEO on Monday, inviting filmmakers to pitch ideas for movies in the $2m budget range. "We're looking for talented people who want to make quality films, even though we won't be spending tens of millions of dollars on each of them," Santorum told The Hollywood Reporter. "We want good writers, actors, and producers who want to make honest, uplifting content."

Founded in 2011, EchoLight has already released eight straight-to-video features, and intends to produce up to four films per year. The Dallas-based firm's early investors are reportedly wealthy Texans without much movie industry experience, but Santorum said he was confident nonetheless that "Dallas can become the Hollywood of the faith-and-family movie market." ......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/former-republican-presidential-candidate-rick-santorum-to-head-firm-making-films-with-christian-message-8673508.html

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1. Hypocrisy Pictures Presents: "We Want Barabbas!" A Santorum Production

[MrMickeysMom]

2. He wanted to donate his "presidential papers" to Penn State University ...

And, they refused! Who else but this industry would be interested?

[snooper2]

3. I dare anybody here

To watch this in it's entirety

[Enrique]

4. sounds like a good scam

beats working, that's for sure.

[nykym]

5. Can't wait till we find out

they have been making pron to supplement their bottom line.