Da Vinci Code Follow Up Fails In Sales

May 18. 2009

Tom Hanks in "Angels And Demons"

The follow up to Sony's sacrilegious the Da Vinci Code suffered a massive $30,000,0000 sales decline at the box office this past weekend. "Angels and Demons" failed to match its predecessor's numbers or press attention.

Taking into account the fact that ticket prices have risen sharply since the first movie, the current sales decline is actually quite higher.

You know what's hilarious, Sony pretending to be thrilled, as they put it, with the film doing poorer numbers than the Da Vinci Code. If you say so. Considering Sony is hemorrhaging money, it demystifies the level of delusion they are operating under at that buckling, decimated company. 

Meanwhile, "Star Trek" continued its strong run at the box office, coming in at number two with solid numbers, almost catching up to "Wolverine" in North American sales, though it was released a week after the piracy hit film.

Tom Hanks thriller fails to crack 'Code'

Sun May 17, 2009 7:34pm EDT - LOS ANGELES, May 17 (Reuters) - "Angels & Demons," the new movie based on Dan Brown's popular novel about conspiracy in the Catholic church, racked up $152 million in global ticket sales over the weekend, but failed to match the start of its predecessor "The Da Vinci Code."

Distributor Columbia Pictures said on Sunday the $150 million sequel earned about $48 million during its first three days of release in the United States and Canada, reaching No. 1 on box office charts and eclipsing last week's champ, "Star Trek," which slipped to No. 2 with $43 million...

Still, the popular "Da Vinci Code" opened to $77 million in 2006 on its way to a domestic haul of $217.5 million...

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