Mel's latest may be too violent for box office success

The advance word on Mel Gibson's controversial new film, The Passion, is that it is doomed to box office oblivion because of its violent and graphic nature.

Gibson, who has held several small private screenings, is “insisting that the movie holds true to what happened the last 12 hours of Christ’s life,” a friend of his told the New York Post, “including the horrific depiction of the crucifixion. It is worse than the graphic scenes in Braveheart.”