Daaaaaamn, yo. Da Vinci Code is tracking at $81 million? This will be big indeed.

Wow, this crowd reports thread is already 3 pages long and it hasn't even opened yet! It'll probaby be at 9-10 pages by the end of the weekend.

Openers:
The Da Vinci Code - 4 screens (16 showings)
Over the Hedge - 4 screens (21 showings)
See No Evil - 1 screen (6 showings)
Water - 1 screen (4 showings)

Holdovers:
Akeelah and the Bee/Silent Hill - 1 screen (2 showings/2 showings)
Ice Age: The Meltdown - 1 screen (3 showings)
Keeping Up with the Steins - 1 screen (6 showings)
The Lost City - 1 screen (4 showings)
Mission: Impossible III - 3 screens (11 showings)
Poseidon - 3 screens (14 showings)
RV - 1 screen (5 showings)

This is not the article, I meant, but that is from Dan Brown's website:

"HAS ANYONE IN ORGANIZED RELIGION COME OUT IN SUPPORT OF YOUR NOVEL?

Yes, many people in organized religion have come out in support of this novel, and, of course, many have come out in opposition as well. The opposition generally comes from the strictest Christian thinkers who feel the idea of a "married Jesus" serves to undermine His divinity. While I don't agree with this interpretation, this is immaterial because the dialogue itself is a deeply empowering and positive force for everyone involved. Suddenly, enormous numbers of people are passionately debating important philosophical topics, and regardless of the personal conclusions that each of us draws, the debate can only help to strengthen our understanding of our own faith. Much of the positive response I get from within organized religion comes from nuns (who write to thank me for pointing out that they have sacrificed their entire lives to the Church and are still considered "unfit" to serve behind the altar). I have also heard from hundreds of enthusiastic priests. While many of them disagree with some of the ideas in the novel, they are thrilled that their parishioners are eager to discuss religion. Father John Sewell of St. John's Episcopal Church in Memphis stated it particularly eloquently in the press recently, saying: "This [novel] is not a threat. This is an opportunity. We are called to creatively engage the culture and this is what I want to do. I think Dan Brown has done me a favor. He's letting me talk about things that matter."

Actually, it nowhere near that territory. But I can compare this to Passion. Passion's 7:00 show was half full with two days to go. Let's see how much it does tomorrow to see the comparison.

Theaters near me are exrtreamly slow to announce times,however I know that DVC is playing on 2 screens in a 6 screen thetaer.

Apparently the soldout at AMC Mercado is due to Google buying massive group tickets for all of their employees, something I know they are accustom doing for the big movies.

Da Vinci will have an opening day of $30+ million.

Count on that.

Advance Ticket sale updates for my place

Davinci
fri - 653
sat - 204
sun - 190

hedge
fri - 15
sat - 45
sun - 22

evil
uhhh nothing

x3
midnight - 85
fri - 5

Here's a pre-sales report from my theatre here (the movie opens on Thursday here):

3 pm (211-seater) - 2% full (4 tickets sold)
4:45 pm (478-seater) - 4% full (19 tickets sold)
6:30 pm (211-seater) - 5% full (11 tickets sold)
7:45 pm (408-seater) - 48% full (194 tickets sold) !!!
8:15 pm (478-seater) - 66% full (317 tickets sold) !!!
10 pm (211-seater) - 17% full (35 tickets sold)
11 pm (408-seater) - 12% full (49 tickets sold)


That makes 629 tickets sold for the opening day already. That is far better than Ice Age 2 or King Kong at that point, but behind Harry Potter 4 (which had about 1,000). The popularity of the book here is similar to the US, so you can still get the idea...

I'll check the other days.

Friday - 313 tickets sold
Saturday - 227 tickets sold
Sunday - 188 tickets sold

Overall:

1,357 tickets sold for the weekend. Happens only to REALLY big blockbusters here.

Harry Potter 4 had around 2,300 at this point.

King Kong had less than 200.
Ice Age 2 had around 900

Same thing at my place Lecter... only HP4 had more advance sales at this point than Davinci... this is blowing Kong, Narnia, and for us Madea and ATL out of the water

Actually I just looked at the numbers...its only behind HP4 by about 275 advance sales (not counting midnight HP4 showing which we had over 1800 people for )

Dr. L: Do you think DVC can outperform Ice Age 2 in Germany given these numbers? Didn't Ice Age 2 get $17M in the first week?

We count it in admissions here and Ice Age 2 opened with 2,300,000+ first weekend, 4th best opening ever. That was around $17 million, yeah.

This won't sell as many tickets simply because Ice Age 2 opened just in time for Easter vacation here and got great great matinees...but in gross, it might match it because tickets for kids cost less here, especially considering Da Vinci is also overlength (extra expensive tickets!). I see it making around $18 million (and about 1,800,000 admissions) which is both close to ROTS.

Well, Harry Potter will really blow it out of water with matinees, I am sure, but Da Vinci has better night shows pre-sales here.

This wil be BIG. I don't rule out a $35 million opening day at all...

Cool. This movie looks to be a monster in Europe.

easily a monster

At My Theater.

DaVinci Code - 5 screens, plus one interlock at night (20 showtimes).
Over the Hege - 4 screens, plus one interlock screen in the day (23 showtimes).
See No Evil - 2 screens (12 showtimes).

Among other summer films

Poseidon is on 3 screens now.
MI3 is dropped to 4 screens.
Goal is still on one screen.
Just My Luck dropped to one screen.
American Haunting is still here on one screen.
and no more Hoot.

Aww Come on.. It was a little funny, right??? You know?? Wouldn't it of been something if they opened this movie on 06/06/06 next to The OMEN Remake???

It was, but I want to make my own joke along with yours. It was little funny right.

Oh, and I am working till 6 on Friday, and I have a night shift on Saturday and Sunday. It will be interesting not how many Da
Vinci Codes sell out, but how fast they sell out.

As least one sell-out at 12:30 at the AMC on 34th Street.

Two sellouts for Friday night in Lexington, KY, with more expected today.