"Da Vinci Code" takes in $750 million

BoxOfficeMojo.com ^ | August 16, 2006 | Brandon Gray

[dpwiener]

    

 

  

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Rank	Title	Studio	Worldwide	Domestic / %		Overseas / %		Year
21		The Da Vinci Code		Sony		$750.0		$217.3		29.0%		$532.7		71.0%		2006
22		The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe		BV		$744.8		$291.7		39.2%		$453.1		60.8%		2005

[Revolting cat!]

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." -- Oscar Wilde

[reaganandme]

The secular left can have their movies. All I want is to see my point of view represented at the box office.

[GregH]

DVC did well overseas but only a moderate success in the US considering the budget involved and the Passion easily thrashes it in the US box office revenue.

The Chronicles were poorly casted and did not really match the expectations, it did well because of the hype and maybe it was a childrens movie, it was not as well made as the LOTR movie.

[Borges]

It wasn't so much a movie for the Secular as it was for the 'bad taste in movies' crowd. TDC was terrible!

[SF Republican]

Chronicles
The beginning of the battle scene when the animals are charging (it was worth the price of admission when the cats at the front of the charge collide) was good.

[weegee]

What about Hollywood's "shocking expose" about how the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were "true"?

We know them to be a poorly constructed forgery, aped from a similar political smear, but that shouldn't stop Hollywood from adapting them into a "riviting" conspiracy story.

[SF Republican]

All I want is to see my point of view represented at the box office - I like to see others point of view personally - how can you disagree with something if you do not know what it is?

[Borges]

No one claims that the TDC was based on anything but a work of fiction.

[dpwiener]

Excuse me for a moment while I go microwave some popcorn...

Okay, I'm back with the popcorn. Incidentally, here's my Consumer Tip of the Day: The "Microwave Popcorn with Movie Theater Butter" from Ralph's Supermarket isn't too bad taste-wise, and it's very cheap. In the 24-pack box it works out to slightly under 25 cents per pack.

[BuddhaBrown]

Where's my cut?

-Buddha (Dan) Brown

[Wally_Kalbacken]

You'll get your cut as soon as we cover the marketing and administrative overhead...

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

do you believe a movie made about Jesus having sex with Mary Magdeline is in good taste ?

[Dick Vomer]

angels and demons...

I was disappointed. It was like a rough draft of the DaVinci code..

same type of fixation with women, brown hair and dorky dude. Like a Harvard version of a Tom Clancy protagonist.

I liked DaVinci code book, movie was so-so.

my 2 centavos worth

[theFIRMbss]

>I saw both movies and enjoyed them

I would have gone to
"The Da Vinci Code" if it
had talking beavers . . .

[SF Republican]

No - I do not.

[clueless123]

WWWRRROOONNNGGG!!! WWWRRROOONNNGGG!!! WWWRRROOONNNGGG!!!

The author of the book would disagree with you on that point.

[airborne]

Haven't read it or seen it.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

good.

nice to see a sane person from the bay area.

[Borges]

It's a novel.

[SF Republican]

there are a lot of sane people here in the bay area of San Francisco, it is just the insane ones are loud. There are 4 churchs within two blocks of our home. 2 Baptist, 1 Catholic, and 1 Presbyterian.