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'Angels & Demons': $17M Friday But $50M Weekend May Need Divine Intervention

'Angels & Demons': $17M Friday But $50M Weekend May Need Divine Intervention

Sources tell me that Friday's opening North American grosses for Imagine/Sony's Angels & Demons were at least $17 million Friday from 3,527 theaters. So the studio believes the weekend total can't be lower than $47M-$49M and still has a shot at the $50M Sony wanted. But rival studios predicting a $55M-$60M domestic weekend called the result "very disappointing".

 

Box Office Guru Preview: Hanks Returns to Save Vatican

Only one new film ventures into wide release as Tom Hanks steps back into the role of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon for the conspiracy thriller Angels & Demons. A sequel to the 2006 smash The Da Vinci Code, Angels reunites Hanks with director Ron Howard for the fourth time. Both films were based on the best-selling novels of Dan Brown. In the new installment, Langdon is called to the Vatican to help stop a secret society from killing the top Cardinals of the Catholic Church following the death of the Pope. Code was a global smash opening three years ago...

 

'Angels & Demons' may face Vatican boycott

The Vatican could be gearing up for an official call for a boycott of "Angels & Demons," Ron Howard's big-budget follow-up to "The Da Vinci Code."

 

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