Scene from "The Da Vinci Code."

It stars box-office superstar Tom Hanks.

It's based on the best-selling novel by Dan Brown that has already raked in tens of millions of dollars.

The world premiere is being eagerly anticipated at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in May.

And, since it is based on the best-selling thriller, it is being characterized as potentially one of the most blasphemous movies ever made.

It's "The Da Vinci Code," opening in U.S. theaters May 19.

Before the final cut is finished and the scoring is done, boycotts are already being organized against what is assumed to be a movie deeply offensive to Christians, sacrilegious, incredulous and historically inaccurate.

What's all the hubbub about?

Much of the controversy surrounding the book and the film is the proposition that Jesus was actually married to Mary Magdalene. The story line claims she had a child with Jesus – an heir that became France's royal bloodline. It further suggests Catholic secret societies hid these and many other secrets about Jesus. It supposes Leonardo Da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton were in on the secret. Da Vinci, the book says, tried to covertly alert the world through his painting of "The Last Supper."

Meanwhile, in London, a lawyer defending the novel upon which the movie is based against charges of plagiarism and copyright violation argued this week that the ideas that were supposedly "stolen" and used in the best-selling book "The Da Vinci Code" were only general ideas and not protected by copyright.

Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of the 1982 nonfiction book “The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail,” are suing their own publisher, Random House, which also published of Dan Brown’s 2003 novel, claiming that parts of their work were the base of the runaway hit, which has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.

The publishers’ lawyer, John Baldwin, says the claim put forth by Baigent and Leigh "relates to and seeks to monopolize ideas at such a high level of generality that they are not protected by copyright."

Also, the Russian Orthodox Church this week condemned the upcoming movie because it says the novel on which the movie was based is blasphemous.

Mikhail Dudko, a spokesman for the Moscow Patriarchate, said that it would be a mistake to regard the international best-seller and its movie version merely as works of art, RIA Novosti reported.

"We, people of faith, are used to paying a lot of attention to words and images, and we know just how powerful they can be," Dudko said. "The sheer assumption that Christ could have had children out of wedlock is insulting to believers."

And, back in England, Invicta Capital, the film financier that raised money from investors to finance the screen version of "The Da Vinci Code," says backers will qualify for UK tax breaks.

"There's no way that this film won't qualify, even if there would be an issue with the release of the film," said Mohammed Yusuf, chairman and chief executive of Invicta. "It's shot in Britain, it will be complete by April 5 and it is intended for theatrical release."

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