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31Mar2009

Check Out Two More 'Angels & Demons' Clips

DateTuesday, March 31, 2009 at 6:03AM
Proposed Vatican boycott or no, it's going to be hard to stop Angels & Demons this summer. In 2006, The Da Vinci Code was the number five movie in the U.S. in terms of box office. Adding up all the receipts from around the world, it was second behind Pirates of the Caribbean. Can Tom Hanks and Ron Howard do it again? Yeah, probably.

If we're being realistic, it's not likely that Wolverine will do as well overseas; only the third X-Men movie is even among the top 100 earners internationally. Terminator Salvation and Star Trek probably won't make half a billion in the foreign territories, either, so it's really between Angels & Demons, Transformers, and Harry Potter in that race.

Potter will win, obviously; the average haul for one of those movies is over $900 million. Transformers and Angels & Demons will be a good battle, though.

Now, you could argue that box office doesn't mean anything, but for these enormous summer movies, box office is the only measuring stick they really care about. Would it be nice to make great movies? Sure. But it's better to make really entertaining movies that millions of more people go to see because they don't have to think as hard.

Robert Langdon does all the thinking for you in these Dan Brown movies, and here are two new clips of him doing just that:

Angels & Demons royally pisses off the Catholic Church beginning on May 15th.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment1 Comment |

Reader Comments (1)

i hope this film pisses off the Vaticant...they really need to get updated on what people really think and know about them. all of the values and principals that they work off of are extremely out of date and almost if not truly offending to people like me. an American. if they want a good solid fallowing then they should at least think and act more modern. and not so ignorantly. their values should be based off what their fallowing thinks.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterthe demon

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