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NEWS ABOUT: Da Vinci Code

Da Vinci Code stories: 13 news summaries

 Fresco Clue 
 Launches Hunt 
 for Lost Da Vinci 

Artist's greatest work may be hidden behind palace fresco

Oct 20, 09 4:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Like a mystery straight from the Da Vinci Code, an Italian palace fresco harbors a clue pointing to the existence of a hidden masterpiece, claims an art expert. Now Italian professor Maurizio Seracini has been granted permission to seek the painting considered Leonardo da Vinci's greatest work. Seracini believes the... More »

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art • Italy • Da Vinci Code • Palazzo Vecchio • Florence • Leonardo da Vinci • masterpiece

Lost Symbol
Sets Record for Random House

Brown's DaVinci Code sequel has stunning first-week sales of 2M+

Sep 22, 09 1:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code sequel sold more than 2 million English-language copies in its first week, a Doubleday spokesman tells Publisher’s Weekly, making it the best debut Doubleday—or, for that matter, parent company Random House—has ever had. “The book is exceeding our... More »

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Da Vinci Code • Random House • Dan Brown • publishing industry

Lost Symbol Sets Record in First Day

Da Vinci Code follow-up sells 1M copies in 24 hours

Sep 16, 09 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - To the surprise of exactly no one, Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code follow-up, The Lost Symbol, is a smash hit, selling, between its hardcover and e-book editions, 1 million copies in its first day on the shelves, the New York Times reports. Amazon and Barnes &... More »

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Da Vinci Code • Amazon • book sale • Doubleday • Barnes & Noble • Dan Brown • publishing industry • The Lost Symbol

BOOK REVIEW

Dan Brown Goes to Washington

The master pulls off a DC Da Vinci Code: secrets, conspiracy, plus giant squid

Sep 14, 09 6:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nobody can pull off Dan Brown's well-worn Da Vinci Code formula for treasure-hunt thrills anymore—except Dan Brown, Janet Maslin writes in the New York Times. Brown's new book The Lost Symbol, hitting bookstores tomorrow, "clicks even if at first it looks dangerously like a clone," packing in... More »

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book reviews • Da Vinci Code • Dan Brown • The Lost Symbol

Dan Brown's Next Could Spark 'E-Book Revolution'

Big-selling author could lift e-reader sales

Aug 17, 09 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dan Brown’s next book has a 6.5 million-copy print run—one of the biggest ever—but the Lost Symbol could mark a new chapter in the digital world, the Daily Telegraph reports. The Da Vinci Code author’s publisher says an e-book version of the novel will be... More »

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Da Vinci Code • Dan Brown • ebooks • e-readers • The Lost Symbol

BOX OFFICE ROUNDUP

 Angels & Demons 
 Blessed With $48M Win 


May 17, 09 3:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Angels & Demons ascended to the box office heavens this weekend with a $48 million debut, Entertainment Weekly reports. That’s well behind The Da Vince Code’s $77.1 million opening in 2006, due in part to Star Trek’s strong second-weekend haul of $43 million. Wolverine came in... More »

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entertainment • film • box office • Star Trek • Wolverine • Da Vinci Code • Entertainment Weekly • Angels & Demons • Ghosts of Girlfriends Past • Jay-ZTV

MOVIE REVIEW

 Angels & Demons Has Wings  

Da Vinci Code follow-up barrels its way through Dan Brown's brand of hokum

May 15, 09 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons is a fast-paced improvement on its sluggish predecessor, say critics, although filmgoers without a high tolerance for hooey are advised to steer clear.
  • Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: The "ticking-bomb thriller tightly wrapped in a papal plot and cinched with the
... More »

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entertainment • movie review • Tom Hanks • Da Vinci Code • Dan Brown • Ron Howard • Angels & Demons • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

Catholics 'Will
Enjoy' Da Vinci
Prequel: Howard

Director defends Angels & Demons from 'smear campaign'

Apr 21, 09 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ron Howard wants to make something clear: He is not anti-Catholic, and neither is his upcoming film, Angels & Demons. The beleaguered prequel to the similarly controversial Da Vinci Code is under fire from the Catholic League, and Howard responds to the latest “silly and mean-spirited work of propaganda”... More »

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entertainment • film • Catholic Church • Vatican • Catholicism • Catholic • Da Vinci Code • Dan Brown • Ron Howard • Angels & Demons

(Newser) - The follow-up to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code should finally see the light of day later this year, the New York Observer reports. Publisher Doubleday says The Lost Symbol will hit shelves Sept.15, 4 years after originally hoped. The first print run will be 5 million copies, the... More »

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literature • book • Da Vinci Code • Doubleday • Dan Brown • publishing industry • Sonny Mehta • The Lost Symbol

(Newser) - With this summer’s movie crop about to bear fruit, New York tells us what lessons we’ll be able to glean. Highlights:
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a star: So charming in the romantic comedy 500 Days of Summer, audiences will “completely forgive his role in GI Joe:
... More »

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Johnny Depp • Disney • Transformers • Judd Apatow • Da Vinci Code • summer movies • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Angels & Demons • 500 Days of Summer • G-Force • Funny People

 Italian Churches Ban
 Da Vinci Code Prequel 

Howard, Hanks shut out of would-be shooting locations

Jun 16, 08 5:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - The diocese of Rome is branching out into film criticism and banning a DaVinci Code prequel from shooting in two of the city's churches because the first movie was “harmful to religious feeling,” the ANSA news agency reports. Like the original, Angels & Demons is directed by Ron... More »

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film • church • Catholicism • Da Vinci Code • production • Dan Brown • Ron Howard

 Top Book-to-Movie Misfires 

Read it and weep, perhaps literally

May 4, 08 11:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - With warm weather comes the usual wave of summer blockbusters, but sometimes the best story is buried in a book. Entertainment Weekly lists 23 disappointing adaptations, including:
  1. The Da Vinci Code: An utter lack of chemistry between Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou and an uber-creepy Silas (Paul Bettany) made
... More »

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Hollywood • list • book • Da Vinci Code • The Golden Compass • movies • movie remakes • Memoirs of a Geisha • Troy

Hey Brother, Can You Spare
a Screenplay?

Hollywood desperate
to finish scripts before Halloween writer strike

Oct 24, 07 1:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Last week, Paramount issued an urgent call for someone, anyone, to doctor its Wolverine script—fast. Across Hollywood, studios and writers alike are desperately rushing to finish scripts before the Writers' Guild’s Halloween strike deadline, the LA Times reports. “Everybody is living in the impending doom,” said... More »

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Hollywood • strike • Paramount • X Men • Wolverine • Da Vinci Code • Writers Guild of America • Hollywood writers' strike

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