The Da Vinci Code - Jeffrey Overstreet

Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" sequel earns Goldman highest screenplay paycheck ever

Nikke Finke at Deadline: Hollywood reports, Da Vinci Code Meanwhile, the Da Vinci Code pre-quel, Angels and Demons, is coming to the big screen. Finke says: In A&D, Goldsman must make sense of a plot crammed with Vatican intrigue and high-tech drama: it thrusts Langdon together with an

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So, how many DaVinci watchers have you "dialogued" with?

So, we're now a few weeks into The DaVinci Code's theatrical run. Sony lured many Christians into promoting the film, buying tickets, going with their congregations to the movie, and even buying the book. All of this occurred so that Christians could be armed and ready

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Sony Starts Up the Next Dan Brown Movie

Well, like I said, I'm done posting about The Da Vinci Dud. But Peter Chattaway has just caught wind of a whole new pile of poo: Sony is starting the engines on their next Dan Brown movie -- Angels and Demons. It's also worth reading Chattaway&

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Frank Rich on Gullible Christians Getting Duped

A rather arresting commentary from the notorious Frank "I Still Hate The Passion of the Christ" Rich. The sad thing is that this time, he right about a lot of things. Problem is, it's on NYTimes Select, so you may not be able to read it.

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Last post on "Da Vinci Code": a review by Steven D. Greydanus

Okay, to wrap up the week of "Da Vinci Code" reviews, here's Steven D. Greydanus: The Da Vinci Code throws so much mud around that at least some of it is likely to stick in viewers’ minds. Was Constantine really a lifelong pagan who invented the

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How can we be so sure that these new "gospels" aren't true?

Read Jesus Out of Focus, if you want a concise, focused reply to the surge of new theories driving The Da Vinci Code and The Gospel of Judas. Here's an excerpt... But they fail to mention that while most of the recently discovered Gospels will claim to come

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Roger Ebert, Rolling Stone, Peter Chattaway open fire on "Da Vinci"

It's National "How Ridiculous is The Da Vinci Code" Day, it seems. SECOND UPDATE: David Poland thinks that the bad reviews have been too kind! UPDATE: A.N. Wilson and Christopher Tookey in The Telegraph, linked by Amy Welborn: Peter T. Chattaway: The press kit for

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Mark Shea is saving Ireland...

Mark Shea is saving Ireland... from The Da Vinci Code. From Day 4 of his Ireland journal: "That would be offensive." No duh. The only time people fall for this notion that a fictional story which goes out of its way to malign and defame a billion people

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So Dull the Con of Moviegoers.

Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune: ... The movie version is so intent on taking its mystical and religious business seriously, at an overfull 2½ hours, it forgets to be entertaining. And it sets some sort of record for number of endings in a single picture. I counted 666. Wait a

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And now, the AP with more...

From the Associate Press: Updated: 6:56 p.m. ET May 16, 2006 CANNES, France - “The Da Vinci Code” drew... Wait for it... Yes... Surprise! ... lukewarm praise, shrugs of indifference, some jeering laughter and a few derisive jabs Tuesday from arguably the world’s toughest movie crowd: critics at

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"It's just a movie" Except that 60% believe its lies.

Calm down. You Christians are just paranoid. It's fiction. It's just a movie. And yet... today, on ABC News: ... The British survey, released by a group of prominent Catholics, revealed that readers of Dan Brown's blockbuster novel are twice as likely to believe Jesus

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Specials: DaVinci suit. V's prophetic. Wenders tips.

Let me just say that I have never been afraid of clowns. Until the Olympic closing ceremonies. Was that creepy, or what? LAWSUIT GUARANTEES LITTLE DAVINCI FILM WILL GET SOME ATTENTIONIt's not enough that Dan Brown is full of crap. Apparently, he stole that crap!V FOR VENDETTA.

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The Da Vinci Challenge, the NY Times Coverage, and Wellborn's Perspective

[UPDATE: The Da Vinci Challenge site is suddenly out of service. Is it a glitch? Or was it shut down for some reason?] The New York Times has already noticed a new Web site, just launched today, created by Sony Pictures and Grace Hill Media called The Da Vinci Challenge,

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The Da Vinci Challenge, the NY Times coverage, and Wellborn's perspective

[UPDATE: The Da Vinci Challenge site is suddenly out of service. Is it a glitch? Or was it shut down for some reason?] The New York Times has already noticed a new Web site, just launched today, created by Sony Pictures and Grace Hill Media called The Da Vinci Challenge,

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Tom Hanks Accosted by Nuns, says Pakistani News

I must say, it fills me with joy to publish a headline like that! I mean... wow. I love this planet. Here's the story. To make things even better, the story quotes one of the protesters using the following term: “a load of old tosh." Really. If

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Vatican criticizes, debunks "DaVinci Code"

The DaVinci Code, like Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials, isn't the kind of book that criticizes the Catholic Church in an acceptable manner. Many dramas have appropriately criticized the misbehaviors of priests and other church officials. But The DaVinci Code presents fundamental elements of Christian faith

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Tom Hanks will star in The DaVinci Code

Looks like this decent piece of commercial fiction, full of historical innaccuracies and gross misrepresentations of Christ and Christian history, is going to be in the news for a long time to come. Here's the story.

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The DaVinci Load

From Language Log's musings on The Da Vinci Code: A voice spoke, chillingly close. "Do not move." On his hands and knees, the curator froze, turning his head slowly. Only fifteen feet away, outside the sealed gate, the mountainous silhouette of his attacker stared through the

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Another Scholar Calls DaVinci Code's Bluff

Who's next in line? It appears that Eric Vogt, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at Seattle Pacific University, is the latest scholarly mind to find fault with Dan Brown's bogus bestseller.

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Yet Another Gaping Hole in The Da Vinci Code

"But it's fiction!" people keep saying to me, when I criticize The Da Vinci Code or Phillip Pullman's The Golden Compass. "Why are you taking it so seriously?" Because most people are inclined to find fault with Christianity, and are quick to

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Madeleine L'Engle on Aging and 'The DaVinci Code'

Madeleine L'Engle's book Walking on Water: Reflections on Art and Faith is one of the most important books in my life. Every artist should read it... every believer should read it... and anyone who's ever been tempted to believe should read it. My passion