Posted on 05/21/2006 5:18:45 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- "The Da Vinci Code" banked an estimated $29 million at the box office on its first day in theaters, an industry official said Saturday, positioning the film to turn in the strongest opening weekend for any movie this year.
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Fiction doesn't matter? Don't tell that to the Rand/Heinlein devotees here. Fiction matters very much to a culture.
I heard the budget was around $200, but that might not have been accurate. I also heard that films net about 50% of gross, also not sure how accurate that is. But if they kept the cost to $125 million they will be in good shape, but I am sure they also dropped many millions in marketing.
So? Do you?
A friend from work just returned from a month near Lucca. She said she read Italy now has the lowest percentage of practicing Christians of any country in Europe. That's quite an accomplishment.
Saw it last night. The movie stinks, it's closwe to a Pink Panther movie than to The Passion. It won't go far, just a flash in the night.
Tough way to make a living! You must mean that the film company gets about 50% of the ticket price. I think that's about right. Ticket sales basically have to double production and advertising costs before they hit the break even point.
If I were Gates and/or IBM I'd be pi$$ed!
This book and film do nothing of the sort.
What is amazing to me is that people do not realize this is simply the Pauline view of Christianity vs. Gnostic view of Christianity.
What further amazes me is how many people are so utterly insecure in their own faith as to let a book and a movie rattle them so.
Fear, greed, guilt, envy and ignorance. Great motivators.....
I know the difference between gnostic texts and actual gospels. Most people don't.
Once X-Men: The Last Stand, Cars, Superman Returns, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest arrives later this Summer, The Di Vinci Code will be forgotten.
Absolutely none of the above. It is a desire to fight against misinformation that is presented as fact to millions and millions of people.
The funniest review referred to this film of a "Mormon Missionary Movie" with its well-done cinematography and overearnest presentation. Perhaps Ron Howard took too seriously Dan Brown's fictional book, and became a Dan Brownite member in the Church of Dan Brown.
Definately, a movie like this doesn't have a huge budget either. It will make the studio happy.
Thank you for proving my point. I think you will find the bood The Da Vinci Code in the Fiction section......
The funniest review I read referred to this film as "Mormon Missionary Movie" with its well-done cinematography and overearnest presentation. Perhaps Ron Howard took too seriously Dan Brown's fictional book, and became a Dan Brownite member in the Church of Dan Brown.
Thank you for not understanding propaganda. This movie is advertized using such slogans as 'everything your father taught you about Christianity is wrong'. Brown also maintains his whacky theories are historically accurate and supported by thorough research. Just because the main story is 'fiction', it slanders real people and religion in the process. If you think a fictional movie can not be used as a powerful propagation tool, you are sorely mistaken.
I really feel stupid, but for some reson I have ignored and tuned out everything about this book and movie.
What exactly is it about? Are there codes to decipher or are there ganes to coincide with the movie opening?
I read somewhere that a judge's verdict was to be decoded a la da vinci code? what did that mean? I'm really confused. Or is this just offshoot stuff from the hype?
Can someone explain this to me in the simplest of terms?
I saw the movie last night and didn't percieve it as a slander on Christ at all. It does definitely paint the Catholic Church in a bad light, however.
Is what the movie conjectures about Christ all that destabilizing to people's views about Christ? As I sat through the movie last night I was thinking to myself "So what?" It doens't change my faith in Christ.
The book was interesting at the beginning and for a while, but the whole thing bogged down and became so mired in absurdity that by the time I finished it I wished I had spent the time reading something else.
Why would I want to pay to see a movie made by people that don't know how to film and edit film based on a book that had nothing to offer in the first place?
I'm not even religious and I found it to be, umm, what am I searching for......bad entertainment, at best? So you can bet it won't improve via hollywood retelling it on the screen.
Truly, the only thing that bothers me about this kind of drivel is that [apparently] the majority of movie goers in this country are incapable of destinguishing between fact and fiction, i.e. they believe to be fact whatever they see on the screen.
"Wouldnt it be great to see lightning hit about ten theaters and destroy them during the showing of this film? "
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