The Columbia Pictures movie opened in 3,735 theaters in the United States and grossed a respectable average of $7,764 per screen.

And according to showbizdata.com, the movie has grossed $85.9 million in the US today since its May 19th opening.

In the movie there are two characters, Robert Langdon and Leigh Teabing, who make some incredible claims. In the introduction to the article, The Da Vinci Code Movie: Checking the Facts, author Mark Hansard writes,

The movie makes a number of claims about Jesus and Christianity that do not stand up to historical scrutiny. The film is briefly analyzed here in Q&A format. Questions are answered about Jesus and Mary Magdalene, the relationship between paganism and Christianity, the history of the Crusades and witch hunts, as well as Constantine and the divinity of Jesus.

It’s a very useful and quick resource on some of the historical differences from the movie and what really happened. It’s certainly worth a read.

Later in the article, Mark Hansard writes:

“The only thing that matters is what you believe”
This line from the movie may sound believable on the surface, but is really not a rational position. The implication here is that religious belief is a matter of taste or opinion, having nothing to do with facts, which is a popular notion today. But believing something cannot and will not make it true, no matter how strongly it is believed. A person may believe he can fly, but if he jumps off a building, gravity will work on him just as it will on anyone else.

You read Hansard’s article and the evidence for Jesus’ deity, but do you believe it? So what makes truth truth to you? Is truth absolute and what is the truth about Jesus to you? Who do you think Jesus is?