Dan Brown's former publisher has a new job. Stephen Rubin, who resigned last month from Random House Inc., said Tuesday that he will be the new president and publisher of Henry Holt and Company, where authors include Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel and National Book Award finalist Greg Grandin. Rubin was the longtime head of the Broadway Doubleday division of Random House and published John Grisham, Pat Conroy and Brown, whose "The Da Vinci Code" is among the best-selling novels in... Read Full Story
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Author Dan Brown may have outraged the Vatican in "The Da Vinci Code," but his new book, "The Lost Symbol," is being welcomed by his latest subjects, the Freemasons. Brown's novel, released on Tuesday, again features the fictional, mystery-solving Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, with the story taking place over a 12-hour period in Washington. But while the fictional story lines about conspiracy and the Catholic Church in "The Da Vinci Code" caused an uproar among... Read Full Story
Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code comes the explosive thriller that started it all. An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable... Read Full Story
Also Known As:Angels and Demons
Production Status: Released
Genres: Thriller, Adaptation, Politics/Religion and Sequel
Running Time: 2 hrs. 18 min.
Release Date: May 15th, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of violence, disturbing images and thematic material.
Distributors:Sony Pictures Releasing
Production Co.:Imagine Entertainment, John Calley Productions
Studios:Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
U.S. Box Office: $133,375,846
Filming Locations:Europe
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Angels and Demons re-teams director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks for the sequel to their international blockbuster adaptation of Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code. Although the book Angels and Demons was written before the novel The Da Vinci Code, the movie transpires after the events of the earlier movie. Hanks stars as professor Robert Langdon, the most respected symbologist in the United States, who uses his knowledge in order to decode a symbol on the skin of a murder victim. The... Read Full Story
If you think Peter Mendelsund went through a lot to get to the final version of the cover for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , just imagine what Michael J. Windsor’s work life was like past year. Windsor was the designer of one of the most iconic and ubiquitous book covers of the decade, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code , which not only seemed to be held in front of the face of every third person on my bus in the mid-’00s, but which set off a small industry of speculation with its clues... Read Full Story
Now Available to Own Photo Slideshow As Robin said in the gleefully campy original '66 Batman , “some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.” However, what Boy Wonder failed to realize was that the best solution to the bomb problem was to simply let it explode... or attach it to yet another bomb. And sure enough, by adding a bomb to the plot of Angels & Demons , Ron Howard's contractually obligated sequel to the dead-on-arrival cinematic bomb that was The Da Vinci Code explodes into a plot... Read Full Story
If you think Peter Mendelsund went through a lot to get to the final version of the cover for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , just imagine what Michael J. Windsor's work life was like past year. Windsor was the designer of one of the most iconic and ubiquitous book covers of the decade, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code , which not only seemed to be held in front of the face of every third person on my bus in the mid-'00s, but which set off a small industry of speculation with its clues about... Read Full Story
If you think Peter Mendelsund went through a lot to get to the final version of the cover for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , just imagine what Michael J. Windsor's work life was like past year. Windsor was the designer of one of the most iconic and ubiquitous book covers of the decade, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code , which not only seemed to be held in front of the face of every third person on my bus in the mid-'00s, but which set off a small industry of speculation with its clues about... Read Full Story
The team behind the global phenomenon " The Da Vinci Code " returns for the highly anticipated "Angels & Demons," based upon the bestselling novel by Dan Brown. Tom Hanks reprises his role as Harvard religious expert Robert Langdon, who once again finds that forces with ancient roots are willing to stop at nothing, even murder, to advance their goals. Ron Howard again directs the film, which is produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, and John Calley.
When Langdon discovers evidence of the... Read Full Story
