Da Vinci Code to open Cannes
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Just two days before it hits international
screens, Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film
Festival. The film - which will be screening out of competition - is set to open the Festival on May 17, thus giving the
film a final media push (because, you know, it will desperately need more publicity) as it kicks off what is expected to
be a massive box office bonanza. For the huddled French masses who can't get tickets to Cannes' opening night, the movie
will open in cinemas nation-wide on the same day, thus giving the French a leg up on the rest of us. Damn them!An interesting tidbit regarding Howard's Cannes history: his first visiting to the festival was in 1988 when he appeared with, of all things, Willow. (Don't get me wrong here - Willow rocks. But at Cannes? It's hard for me to imagine "Willow! Use the stick!" reverberated over the heads of critics and Hollywood royalty.)
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3-16-2006 @ 10:55PM
Linda Loomis said...
I would like to attend the Cannes Film Festival to see the opening of Ron Howard's movie, "The DaVinci Code." My reasons are several and important. First, I am a descent of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, whose effigy is used as a plot device in Dan Brown's book, on which the film is based. May 17 is my birthday and I shall be 55. Tom Hanks and I attended the same college--Cal State Sacramento. The family history of Loomis is located at the Loomis Chaffee School website. My antecedents also include the Rev. John Wilson, first pastor of the First Church of Boston, and the Rev. Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford, Conn. I live with a very rare genetic disorder. For all these reasons, I would like very much to be able to attend the film's premiere, two days before it opens worldwide to the public.
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