The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has become instant shorthand for those who consider it the last word in dumbed-down, crassly written fiction. But there is no denying the appeal of the globe-spanning, puzzle-based narrative, with strands reaching from ancient history to the modern world. Before The Code, Katherine Neville offered some ingenious sleight-of-hand in this style. Now she has followed up her...
Extra Technology News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
A laid off New Jersey IT worker, inspired by the sequel to Tom Hanks' movie "The Da Vinci Code" creates a new product personalization technology that turns two words into one. The Angels and Demons book by Dan Brown incorporated several ambigrams into its plotline, and the popularity of the book brought a lot of exposure to an art form that most people had never heard of The movie will increase awareness...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Randi Weingarten took the stage at the National Press Club on Monday to give her first major speech since becoming president of the American Federation...
Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
The studio debuted this first trailer for Angels & Demons it in front of Quantum Of Solace over the weekend. Interesting how the production ensured, since this is Dan Brown's prequel to The Da Vinci Code, Tom Hanks looks younger. Opens May 31st.
FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Random House US has launched a generic promotional campaign, Books = Gifts, that is set to kick off in the New York Times on 23rd November. Dan Brown, Christopher Paolini, Maya Angelou and Dean Koontz will be among the Random House US authors telling Americans why books make good Christmas presents as part of [...]
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Director Ron Howard discusses on his forthcoming Dan Brown's novel adaptation, 'Angels and Demons', and states that it will be treated as 'Da Vinci Code' sequel.
Uncertain Principles (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
If, like me, you have long thought that the world needs more thrillers based on quantum physics, the students and post-docs of the Ultrafast Group at Oxford have got a short film for you: The DiVincenzo Code , in six parts on YouTube. It doesn't make any less sense than a Dan Brown novel, and the production is impressively good. Ian Walmsley's turn as the evil Dr. Eve is not to be missed, particularly...
FORTIFY YOUR OASIS (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Damp Squid (The English language laid bare) is going to make for interesting reading. Its author, Jeremy Butterfield has used the Oxford Corpus database to compile this latest look at the use and abuse of the language of Shakespeare, Yeats and Dan Brown. I read his "Top ten most irritating phrases in the English language today" with some trepidation and ran them against my 500-odd posts here at the...
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Today we have the seven new photos from upcoming highly anticipated “Angels and Demons,” which is based on a bestselling novel by Dan Brown. When Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) discovers evidence of the...
Mike Philbin's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
I'd tried to keep myself firmly out of all the Dan Brown / DaVinci Code hype - I hadn't read the novel and I had most certainly not seen the film. I mean, how trash does this shit have to be before Mr Mass Market realises he's once again been fucked in the arse for a few dollars? Point in case: Angels and Demons (the first Robert Langdon book). I never intended to read it. I was away on holiday in...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
The movie isn't out until May 2009, but the " Angels and Demons ," the prequel to Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard, is highly anticipated and has already released a teaser trailer, seen below. The film also stars Ewan McGregor as a priest. WATCH: u
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
When the first teaser for the Dan Brown adapted, Tom Hanks starring ANGELS & DEMONS was released last week, most of us just saw a good tease for cool looking flick. Some of you took a closer look, however, and noticed a website embedded in the Illuminati ambigram shown at the teaser's onset. The site, http://www.altarsofscience.com/ shows what appears to be some security camera-like footage of a bomb-like...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
(Written 11/3/2004 in Amsterdam) Yesterday afternoon in Amsterdam, a few hours before I arrived by bus, a controversial journalist/filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, great-great-grand-nephew of our...
Blogging Place (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
Angels and Demons Movie Trailer - New film of Tom Hanks.Angels and Demons will be released on May 15, 2009. Angels and Demons is the story of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican. The Dan Brown novel was adapted into a screenplay by writer Akiva Goldsman, who lost momentum because of the Hollywood writers strike.
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
Two days ago, Sony released the teaser trailer for “Angels & Demons,” the followup to Dan Brown’s highly successful book/movie The Da Vinci Code. Hidden in the trailer is an...
