By B.L. Ochman Even if The DaVinci Code is, as Sony’s TV advertising claims, “The most controversial thriller of our time,” it’s not going to generate sales of action figures at Burger King. But have no fear, parodies and outlandish DaVinci merchandise links are cropping up all over.
My personal fave is the DaVinci Toad t-shirts and hats. Elegant, stylish. No lectures.
Diet Blog reports that
“The Diet Code: Revolutionary Weight-Loss Secrets From Da Vinci and The Golden Ratio.” author, Stephen Lanzalotta, got a six figure advance on the book.
Then there’s The DaVnci Load, a gay porn video version, as reported by Fleshbot.
The New Yorker article about the marketing of tje DaVinci code by Sony says:
“If the movie is not the blockbuster promised by the book’s performance, it will not be the fault of Sony’s marketing campaign.”
But, gee, a little tsotchke would have been nice with our fries.
“If the movie is not the blockbuster promised by the book’s performance, it will not be the fault of Sony’s marketing campaign.”
Talk about Corporate CYA -and from a third party advocate? I for one will NOT see the movie purely because of ALL the hype and publicity!
Interesting-ly enough, most publicity has centered around rebuking the code! Debunking all the claims and proving the implausible ! After all – IT IS FICTION, righto? Well the masses(lemmings) are bound to make it a blockbuster opening regardless, now if they can only find the missing link?
Bob (not da con-Vinci)
not only that, it was a badly written book. but a great story. i don’t care if it’s true or not. and, like you, i’m not planning to spend $10 bucks to see the movie.
it’s going to be a good movie of fiction. everyone is forgetting it is intended to be fiction. Brown is making a killing on everyone making more out of it than it should be. It was a popular book with many doubters…kinda like the bible. Good cut and paste BJ..or is it BL