It is, I didn't say it wasn't.



That would be record breaking, and would put it are par with HP before SS was released. I have not read anything about US numbers though, and that seems a bit low to me. Only 3 times more then GB?

Have you guys been keeping up with what is going on in pop culture now? This is basically teh hottest topic in the world. Also, if you take a film like National Treasure, a film that had hints of illuminati stuff in it, then you'll see a film that made 170 mill, and that was just a hint of masonry. This is an in your face, illuminati, and conspiracy central-themed film. It will open massively and it has a real shot at 300 mill. I think my projection might even be a bit low right now.

Your comparing a movie that had mass family appeal to Code? Did you see the trailer, it's a dark film, it'll attract mostly adults.

Which demographic will be scared away because it's dark?

Kids, who wouldnt even care about the film in the first place. National Treasure just isnt a good comparison, ones a family film the other is mainly adult.

NT had kids, but most of its audience was adults. It was a streamlined rip-off of TDVC, but it never had a fanbase. It shows how much interest there is in this sort of conspiracy action-thriller.

It appealed to all age groups, like Pirates of the Caribbean. The Da Vinci Code lacks kid appeal, and with Poseidon, M:I-3 and X3: The Last Stand, I don't think it'll capture the teen audience much outside of teens who've read the book.

Also lets not forget, not EVERYONE liked the book. It was failry mixed in reaction. Doesnt mean because it sold 40m WW it's gonna get everyone on board for this movie.

Yes, nearly everyone loved this book. It was entirely fueled by WOM. I've never heard anything negative outside of internet forums like this. Literary critics and the like tend never to like popular thrillers. However, that does not mean reaction was mixed.

At Amazon if you compare it to harry potter with 5 star reviews, Code only has 3 1/2

Alot of the hype was from the media. Obviously alot of people enjoyed the book, but theres also a fair amount that didnt think it was that great.

That's about the most uninformed thing I've heard in quite a while. The media helped sell 40 million copies? The media made it teh WW phenom that it was? Sorry friend, that was all wOM and the quality of the book and the mass appeal that it has. I don't know where you're making up your stories up from, but the book you're talking about might exist in some bizarro world, but not the one we inhabit.

I don't trust Amazon's ratings because someone needs to write a review for it to count. You can see this effect at Yahoo movies; if only written reviews were counted the grades would be different for many movies. Often people who write a review grade it a certain way (very negative more often then not). Only some 10% wish to write a review, so that can skew it quite a bit. A 3% minority can become 20% of the written reviews.



Sure there was hype, but you can't say a book has been near the top of the best seller lists for 3 years only or even mostly because of that. The hype was a result of the incredible sales, not the other way around. Plus, many books can be hyped, but fall off of best seller lists much sooner then that.

I didnt say it was all media hype, I said enough of it was from there. Plus for alot of teens and college students Da Vinci was required reading for their english class, they needed to get the book for that purpose alone.

It wasnt ALL wom, but again like I said alot of people do enjoy the piss out the book, but it has to do with alot of factors.

I vote Kill's opinion be ignored on the basis that he is a Sony fanboy...

He doesn't know anything outside of them...

Sony in general sucks ( especially their movies ) PS2 on the other hand

Sony fans, Nintendo fans...

At the end of the day, is there really a difference? Both kinds suck.

We saw the new trailer infront of the Inside Man, and it was INCREDIBLY well received. All the rest didn't get much of a reaction, but this got a very strong one. I think even the people who haven't touched the book are just so intrigued by the film, it has this pull to it...

Yes, people are underestimating the power of Tom Hanks, the Mona Lisa, and the general feel that the movie will be QUALITY. Specifically Hanks though. The guy is still the biggest draw in America arguably. The Terminal and The Ladykillers were very niche films, he couldn't do much to make them smashes or anything. And 70 mil for Terminal is still quite excellent all things considered, it beat the crap out of Munich. Anyways, back to DVC, both my friends and parents have been giving huge reactions to the ads and trailers when they air. I'm believing in the film more and more every day.

Well, the concept is a commercial gold mine. That obviously has been part of the book's popularity. So, people who have never read it are likely to be fundamentally interested in what is really a genre created by the book.

No MS fans suck. That DEAD OR ALIVE looks more retarded than SNAKES ON A PLANE.

So based on this, and the fact that DVC is at least three times as popular as IM, and it opens on Victoria/Memorial Day weekend, cound on it doing 80-90 mill OW.

This movie is generating fantastic interest among casual moviegoers based on some of my colleagues' interest in the movie.

Tickets on sale in Australia. It made news in the newspaper, radio and TV.

This is going to be huge. Not even tickets for MI3 are on sale.

Current predictions:

Opening weekend - $62 million

Total gross - $204 million

bleh, to low.