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Worldwide it was #2 at $224 million: http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/first-bo-reports-on-da-vinci-code/

Sony Pictures told me exclusively this morning that Da Vinci Code earned $224 million worldwide, making it the second biggest opening weekend of all time worldwide. (The only movie that did better was Star Wars 3, the last of the prequels, with $254 mil)

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Again I will state that it isn't common for countries to have coinciding opening dates.

In part US releases in the summer are tied to holiday weekends that have no equivalent in the EU or Japan or HK or NZ or AU.

Release date scheduling is also determined so as to not be opening on the same weekend as another suspected blockbuster.

The film brought in less than $100mil opening weekend US as had been boasted.

To claim otherwise is to parenthesis box office facts the way Michael Moore did to proclaim his the biggest documentary ever (non-concert film, non-Imax, etc...).