How long will it be before some "professor of religious studies", somewhere, shows this film to one of his classes?
It will probably be a staple on cable in short order.
It had a good opening weekend, though.
AMEN! I've been preaching this to all of my priest friends (and yes, I have quite a few) for years! We've had 2,000 years of Church history plus thousands of years of Jewish history before... do you think we can find 52 homilies per year in this?! Enough with the Calvin and Hobbes cartoons!
http://garyburger.blogspot.com/
Good information from a Biblical Perspective on
Da Vinci Code
Why the lie right out of the gate?
`Da Vinci Code' Takes in $77 Mln, Exceeding Estimates (Update2)May 22 (Bloomberg) -- ``The Da Vinci Code'' generated $77.1 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada in its first weekend, overcoming negative reviews to beat analysts' estimates.
Worldwide, the film took in $238.1 million, the second-best after last year's ``Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith,'' Sony spokesman Steve Elzer said.
``It's playing almost everywhere,'' Box Office Mojo.com President Brandon Gray said. ``It's not in the Middle East and India, but those aren't large markets, at least not for U.S. movies. It's everywhere that it's important to be.''
``The Da Vinci Code'' is the sixth Sony film this year to open at No. 1. The film, which cost $125 million to make, was helped by fans who bought more than 60 million copies of the Dan Brown novel it was adapted from, about a deadly conspiracy to hide the true origins of Christianity.
``Obviously this is a film with a built in audience,'' said Gitesh Pandya, editor of Boxofficeguru.com. The reviews ``didn't have a big impact.''
The animated feature ``Over The Hedge,'' opened at No. 2 in the U.S. and Canada with $37.2 million, said box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations Co. ``Da Vinci'' exceeded the $59.8 million average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News.
``I think Sony is popping a lot of champagne right now,'' Pandya said. ``It proves that the built-in interest in the book superseded the opinions of the critics. There were millions of people who decided they were going to see this movie as soon as they heard it was being made.''
Allaying Concerns
``The Da Vinci Code's'' debut was bolstered by record international sales of $154.7 million starting on May 17 in some countries, Elzer said. The previous record was $145.5 million in sales for ``Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith,'' according to Box Office Mojo.com.
The film opened on a Friday in the U.S. and Canada, what Hollywood considers the ``domestic'' market. That prevents an exact comparison with other films that opened on a Wednesday or Thursday. When films with five-day domestic totals are considered, the 2003 release ``The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King'' is No. 2 worldwide, with a $250.1 million opening, Box Office Mojo's Gray said.
Free publicity from college professors showing the movie in class: A few thousand or so.
Free publicity from hand-wringing critics: Priceless.
The theater that accepts the coupon uses it as a bank check for the admission value of up to $10.50. Using one of these coupons lets you buy a DVD (I got special edition of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" - appropriate, don't you think?) that I wanted for my DVD collection for a price I would have paid anyway... and SONY paid for me to see "The daVinci Code".
I decided to watch the movie to see what the hell all the fuss is about... it's just a movie. I walked away thinking it was along the line of National Treasure.. all lots of kook theories with a few RL places, and history footnotes conveniently tied together to give it credibility. my faith is unshaken.
I am foreever Christian.