Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/new-film-latest-chapter-in-da-vinci-code-phenomenon Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript This weekend's opening of The Da Vinci Code in thousands of theaters across the country is the latest in a cultural phenomenon that has swept through churches and bookstores. Jeffrey Brown reports on the book and its impact. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JEFFREY BROWN: We are at least in the middle of a culture war, the "Da Vinci Code" phenomenon, now coming to a theater near you.TOM HANKS, Actor, "The Da Vinci Code": He did this himself, in his own blood? JEFFREY BROWN: It begins with a murder — nothing unusual there — but this thriller, featuring a wise Harvard professor and a beautiful French police cryptologist, races into some very weighty history, or alternative history, about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, the Christian church, and the legend of the Holy Grail. ANNOUNCER: "The Da Vinci Code."