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'Da Vinci Code' opens with estimated $29 million
CNN ^ | 5/20/06 | AP

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: big4bigotry; bigbofo4bigots; boxoffice; christianbashing; christianhaters; christianinsecurity; crap; davincicode; godgaveusfreewill; itsfiction; itsfictionyouidiots; junktheology; rejecttheocracy
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To: mtbopfuyn
What, you can't get over the fact it's FICTION?

Fiction doesn't matter? Don't tell that to the Rand/Heinlein devotees here. Fiction matters very much to a culture.

21 posted on 05/21/2006 5:54:05 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: corkoman

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.


22 posted on 05/21/2006 5:56:19 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right
Oh puh_leez, whereas the story is fiction, the underlying conspiracy theories and the slander of Christ and the Catholic Church is being put out as factual. Brown is very clear he believes the conspiracy theories.

So? Do you?

23 posted on 05/21/2006 6:00:49 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Aquinasfan
Also, the movie is setting box office records in Italy. Depressing, but not too surprising.

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.

24 posted on 05/21/2006 6:04:19 AM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: Aquinasfan

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.


25 posted on 05/21/2006 6:06:16 AM PDT by FastCoyote
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To: Always Right; corkoman
I also heard that films net about 50% of gross, also not sure how accurate that is.

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.

26 posted on 05/21/2006 6:11:30 AM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: Aquinasfan
There was a real conspiracy outlined in the book but no one mentions it. Silas finds an icon under the church floor and it say Job. The secret codeword for the rose codex is APPLE!

If I were Gates and/or IBM I'd be pi$$ed!

27 posted on 05/21/2006 6:15:25 AM PDT by Young Werther
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To: sgtbono2002
Is is amazing to see people wasting their time and money going to see a film that tries to destroy their faith.

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.....

28 posted on 05/21/2006 6:16:56 AM PDT by Thermalseeker
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To: Non-Sequitur
So? Do you?

I know the difference between gnostic texts and actual gospels. Most people don't.

29 posted on 05/21/2006 6:19:29 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Aquinasfan
I doubt this movie will have legs because people are just watching the film for its curiousity factor and the fact they're mostly people who have read the original novel.

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.

30 posted on 05/21/2006 6:33:23 AM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: Thermalseeker
Fear, greed, guilt, envy and ignorance. Great motivators.....

Absolutely none of the above. It is a desire to fight against misinformation that is presented as fact to millions and millions of people.

31 posted on 05/21/2006 6:33:42 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Aquinasfan

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.


32 posted on 05/21/2006 6:37:01 AM PDT by Irish Queen
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To: corkoman
it has already walked a great deal down the road to commercial success.

Definately, a movie like this doesn't have a huge budget either. It will make the studio happy.

33 posted on 05/21/2006 6:37:48 AM PDT by Paradox (Removing all Doubt since 1998!)
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To: Always Right
Absolutely none of the above. It is a desire to fight against misinformation that is presented as fact to millions and millions of people.

Thank you for proving my point. I think you will find the bood The Da Vinci Code in the Fiction section......

34 posted on 05/21/2006 6:39:28 AM PDT by Thermalseeker
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To: Aquinasfan

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.


35 posted on 05/21/2006 6:40:51 AM PDT by Irish Queen
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To: Thermalseeker
Thank you for proving my point. I think you will find the bood The Da Vinci Code in the Fiction section......

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.

36 posted on 05/21/2006 6:43:47 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Aquinasfan

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?


37 posted on 05/21/2006 6:50:57 AM PDT by mom4kittys
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To: Always Right

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.


38 posted on 05/21/2006 6:53:33 AM PDT by Burkean
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To: billorites

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.


39 posted on 05/21/2006 6:53:45 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s...you weren't really there.)
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To: sgtbono2002

"Wouldnt it be great to see lightning hit about ten theaters and destroy them during the showing of this film? "




Oh, yeah, that'd be just great....are you nuts? There are people in those theaters you just wished to burn down. Fortunately, no such thing will happen. I'm sure you'll be disappointed.


40 posted on 05/21/2006 6:56:44 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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