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[igotthisguitar]

Film Trailer: ��The Da Vinci Code��
Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou star in the film adaptation of Dan Brown��s best-selling novel.
Cinema Release Date: Friday, 19 May 2006

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10509402/site/newsweek/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10509652/site/newsweek/



Dan Brown��s ridiculously successful novel has remained on best seller lists for over a year now due to its combination of a traditional international murder mystery and 2000 years of esoterica culled from Western History. It has sold 25 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 44 languages, spawning dozens of copycats, knock-offs, spoofs, debunkings, rebunkings, games, telly programmes and now, naturally, a movie.

I look forward to the tie-in novelisation ...

http://www.futuremovies.co.uk/review.asp?ID=406

[igotthisguitar]

A Glimpse Inside a Catholic 'Force': Opus Dei
by Terry Gross

Opus Dei describes the group's reach in eight different countries: Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, Peru, Spain, Kenya, Uganda, and Finland.



Fresh Air from WHYY, November 28, 2005 �� Opus Dei is an international lay Catholic group whose core ideal is the sanctification of work. But critics and some former members have accused the group of having cult-like practices and promoting a right-wing agenda.

Opus Dei was founded in Spain in 1928; today, it has 84,000 members in 80 countries.

For many, the group first gained wide attention when it was portrayed in Dan Brown's best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code. The thriller depicted the group as a repository for arcane knowledge and fervent -- even dangerous -- belief.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5029154

[igotthisguitar]

'Da Vinci Code' to Open at Cannes
Mon Jan 23, 6:39 PM ET

PARIS - Case cracked: "The Da Vinci Code" will be the opening-night movie at the Cannes Film Festival in May, organizers said. Based on Dan Brown's esoteric thriller about code-breaking and conspiracy, the film will debut at the Riviera festival and in French theaters on May 17, the festival said Saturday.

The rest of the world will have to wait two days, until May 19.

The adaptation by Oscar-winning director Ron Howard ("A Beautiful Mind") has an international cast led by Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou.



Like the novel, the movie is set largely in France: The story line opens with the murder of the curator of the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Early this month, the Louvre said the movie's producers were trying to decide between the museum and the Cannes festival as a site for the European premiere. The movie will not be in the running for prizes at Cannes.

Hong Kong's Wong Kar-wai, director of "In the Mood for Love," presides over this year's jury at the festival, which runs May 17-28. Organizers at the glitzy festival try to strike a balance between crowd-pleasers and critically acclaimed films, and between Hollywood blockbusters and art house flicks.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060123/ap_en_mo/film_da_vinci_code;_ylt=AoOjvbvD6nsoqGRnNI8d2zMEtbAF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[chiaa]

Thank god for the movie. The US is finally getting a paperback version of the book! That's right. For the past 2 1/2 years if you are in the US you were stuck getting the hardcover.

[whitebeagle]

And if its anything like the book....................it will be dire. Honestly, i struggle to comprehend the success of such a badly written piece of pulpy trash as this. I think ive got permenant damage from rolling my eyes so many times while reading the clunky cliche-ridden mess that was the da vinci code.

[canuckistan]

A friend of mine's sister (a medical doctor) has been lost to that Opus Dei cult for years now. Most of her earnings go to Opus Dei as well.
She won't visit or communicate with her family because in her eyes they're all dirty heathens (depsite being Catholics).

Sad really.

That guy Robert something-or-other who was convicted of treason for spying in the US was a member. Makes you wonder hey.

[mindmetoo]

[Corporal]

[JeJuJitsu]

[kermo]

[weatherman]

[zappadelta]

Hey Weatherman, congratulations on your new avatar.

[Hyalucent]

That was pretty cool considering that I still can't shut down the Vader noises coming out of my computer after viewing that SithSense website.

It's like the Catholic church is Empire.

[Hollywoodaction]

[Swiss James]

yeah when I was reading it my thinking flipped between
"Oh man, this is so badly written" and
"Just one more chapter, then bed- definitely"