[Mrs. Don-o]

Here's one "Passion dollar" they ain't gonna get.

[Pyro7480]

I'm guessing that they end up not listening to Ms. Nicolosi one bit.

[avg_freeper]

"...Studio officials have consulted with Catholic and other Christian specialists on how they might alter the plot of the novel to avoid offending the devout.."

A trash can might be helpful.

[My2Cents]

...Studio officials have consulted with Catholic and other Christian specialists on how they might alter the plot of the novel to avoid offending the devout..

How about changing it to focus on the private life of Mohammed?

[Darkwolf377]

I'm not even a Christian and I won't pay money to watch Hollywood bash religion for two hours. Watching Hollywood try to fool Christians into thinking this is somehow NOT an error-filled affront to their beliefs is not my idea of fun.

[JeeperFreeper]

I agree. They'll not get a dime outta me for this movie.

[SF Republican]

Looking forward to the movie; I know the difference between art and religon; I consider this to be a book and a movie, nothing more.

[maestro]

?.......Sprinkling....Vatican-Kaballah... Holy Water.... on 'The Da Vinci Code'?

Roseann Barrrrrr and Mad-ona.....et al.....have a 'thread' on this Harry Potter 'magic'...

The Hidden Gospel of Roseann Barrrrrrrr-rabid....and....

/OFF Area-Codes.....?

;-)

Hey,...go see the movie,....'Cinderella Man"...it's better than ALL of the above!

[An Old Marine]

Given Hollywood's batting average over the last few years I'd say that this'll be another stinko and it'll lose a ton.

Makes you wonder how much money they have to lose before they begin to look at what is really wrong?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

What a bunch of liberal DORKS!

They have no evidence of any kind regarding the sex life of Jesus.

[jbstrick]

Its just a freaking book/movie. I have a feeling Christianity is strong enough to sustain this 'attack'.

[DOGEY]

It shouldn't be Holy Water that is sprinkled on it.

[fortunecookie]

Not dime one from me, either. And I will do my best to remind my Catholic friends that they shouldn't see it either.

[EsmeraldaA]

It's only a Mystery novel and not even a very good one...

[Rodney King]

"The phrase I heard used several times was 'Passion dollars'; they want to try to get 'The Passion' dollars if they can,"

They are so clueless. They apparently think that people who saw The Passion just happen to be interested in Religion, so they will make a movie about religion. Idiots.

[TheForceOfOne]

I used the Da Vinci Code with the keyword "Teddy" it came back with a grid in which I found

Fat
Lazy
Stupid
Drunk
Killer
Water
Mary
Crime
Gin
Tonic
Loser

It's amazingly accurate!

[Question_Assumptions]

...Studio officials have consulted with Catholic and other Christian specialists on how they might alter the plot of the novel to avoid offending the devout..

Have Bob Newhart wake up at the end of the movie, and realize that it was all a dream?

[horse_doc]

I'm waiting for historically-based fictional, "The Life and Times of Islam", in which Mohammed marries a bunch of times, kills a lot of people, and does a nine year-old girl. Oh, wait . . .

[Jim Scott]

Apparently, the Hollywood honchos must actually believe that millions of 'devout' Christians will flock to see a fictional story that renders Jesus the Christ, the bibical Son of God, as an ordinary, mortal man and hence, a colossal liar and fraud. The Catholic Church is portrayed as 'covering up' this 'Revelation' that would make Christianity irrelevant and based on a lie, which some no doubt wish were true.

That is clearly the Hollywood view; Christianity is a big hoax and the Catholic Church is a fraud and totally corrupt. Hollywood is hoping that the 'Da Vinci Code' fiction will replace the bibically-based 'The Passion of the Christ' in Christian movie-going but they are going to be mightily surprised when it plays to empty theaters after the first week or two, when the hype is past and all the non-Christians have seen it.

I don't doubt that a Da Vinci Code film may make money (the book was a big best-seller) but nowhere near what Mel Gibson's 'Passion of the Christ' has made. The 'Da Vinci' book slyly mocked the Christian religion with an admittedly fictional but apparently widely accepted story that portrayed biblical scripture as nothing but a fraudulent, man-made justification for establishing a corrupt Church - that was always based on a lie. I have heard the exact same premise used by atheists to 'explain' why they reject God, Christ and the Christian religion.

The 'Da Vinci Code' movie will no doubt appeal to those folks as well as agnostics and gullible, lukewarm 'Christians'. However, it will not appeal to the hundreds of millions who take the bible as God's Word and Jesus Christ as our Savior...and that includes me. So, count me out as ever being any part of an audience for the Da Vinci Code movie.

[edcoil]

... Christian dogma, claiming...

Anyone ever read the NYT say Islamic dogma?

This is just anothter christian bashing rant from the NYT.

[codder too]

I sure would like to see "recent" sales figures that keep this work of fiction on the best sellers list. Looks like it is being kept alive for some reason. No paperback version out there yet...Hummm