The $150 million sequel, Angels and Demons, made less, grossing $486 million, but was still a commercial success by any yardstick. The Da Vinci Code remains one of the top ten hits of all time for Sony’s Columbia Pictures, raking in $758.2 million worldwide against a budget of $125 million. Inferno, directed by Oscar-winning Ron Howard like its predecessors, is slated to top the North American box office this weekend, with takings expected to be somewhere around $25 million. “It’s probably both in this case given the well-known friendship between the two,” he told AFP.Īnother factor in Hanks’ commitment to the franchise might be the fact that, regardless of what the critics think, these films are lapped up by the public. Shawn Robbins, a senior analyst at, points out that actors often choose to appear in films they know won’t be critical hits because of affection for the character or loyalty for the director.
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It’s not that he hasn’t appeared in turkeys before - The Bonfire of the Vanities, Larry Crowne and The ‘Burbs were all derided - it’s just that when a Tom Hanks movie gets a hard time from the critics you don’t usually see him in a sequel, let alone two more films.
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With lifetime domestic takings of $4.4 billion for his films, only Harrison Ford, Samuel L Jackson and Morgan Freeman have proved bigger box office draws than the double Oscar-winning 60-year-old.Īnd yet a small corner of his resume, perhaps lurking darkly in tiny print on the last page, serves as a reminder that no Hollywood star can be perfect - the critically despised The Da Vinci Code trilogy.Ī full decade since he first portrayed novelist Dan Brown’s renowned Harvard symbology professor Robert Langdon, Hanks made a comeback on the big screen in Inferno.Ĭritics have voiced surprise at his continued commitment to the franchise, given that The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons were critically hated and boast 25% and 37% ratings respectively on Rotten Tomatoes.
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