Jesus Christ as Poached Egg

TCS Daily ^ | 5/18/2006 | Stephen Bainbridge

[Jane2005]

Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code is one of the most popular best sellers in recent history and the Sony motion picture to be released this Friday (May 19) is expected to be the first major blockbuster of the summer (given how relatively poorly MI3 performed). All this despite -- or, perhaps, because of -- being pervasively condemned by Christian leaders.

[2banana]

I think the movie is going to bomb - not only is it being panned by critics as nonsensical - it is absolutely boring...

[InvisibleChurch]

i agree ... most people already know how it ends

[weegee]

...is expected to be the first major blockbuster of the summer (given how relatively poorly MI3 performed

Following on the heels of another dud, they think "this time FOR SURE!"

[HEY4QDEMS]

i agree ... most people already know how it ends

Yeah, that really hurt the Titanic. /s

[HEY4QDEMS]

I bet it will be well past $100 million by the end of Memorial Day weekend.

[Red Badger]

I've always wanted to leave a theater from a suspense thriller and yell to the waiting patrons "The Mother (or whoever) did it!"........

[dpwiener]

I bet it will be well past $100 million by the end of Memorial Day weekend.

I think you're about $100 million short. I expect it to pass $100 mill in it's first weekend, and $200 million by the end of Memorial Day weekend.

[Blzbba]

I can't wait for the end of this DaVinci/Templar/Grail/etc. crap. I'm so SO damn tired of hearing about it.

[LIConFem]

"Following on the heels of another dud, they think "this time FOR SURE!"

Great. Now I can't get Bullwinkle's voice out of my head.

[HEY4QDEMS]

$200 Million in three weekends will outpace Titanic. If that happens, that will be amazing.

[dpwiener]

$200 Million in three weekends will outpace Titanic. If that happens, that will be amazing.

Not really. Titanic had a titanic total gross because it defied the normal box office pattern and kept generating high ticket sales week after week after week. Other blockbusters follow the normal pattern of a huge opening followed by a predictable tailing off.

For example, Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, Spider-Man, and Star Wars - The Phantom Menace all racked up over $100 million on their first weekends and over $200 million by the Monday after their second weekends. It would not be at all surprising for The Da Vinci Code to pull in similar grosses.

[HEY4QDEMS]

I think it will make the all time top ten for sure.

I'll be there tomorrow night, I bought my tix yesterday.

[weegee]

Be grateful I didn't post the picture of him with the lion tearing off the sleeve of his coat as he reached in the hat...