Success of Christian films lends clout to religious media
Bill Muller
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 9, 2005 12:00 AM

Promoting the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line in Hollywood, the stars were asked some questions that fell outside the norm.

One writer spied a gold cross hanging around the neck of Reese Witherspoon (who plays June Carter) and inquired about her religious faith. Another compared a scene in which Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) drives a tractor into a lake with a baptism.

The questions were posed by Christian entertainment writers enjoying growing clout in Hollywood as studios market movies to churchgoers. The rest