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Kim Hollis: The book isn't released yet, and I'm pretty sure we can be confident that it will be pretty huge stuff when it is. It will ride a wave of publicity and I do think it will get picked up by Sony. I don't think that either Hanks or Howard will return, though. This will be a situation where the franchise will either continue or reboot, but with someone else at its center.

David Mumpower: I'm going to go against the grain here and say that a film adaptation will be made with Tom Hanks as the star. The Da Vinci Code was his biggest movie in terms of worldwide revenue and Angels & Demons is going to be one of his better performers as well. The former book has sold almost 100 million copies while the latter has sold almost 50 million. The Lost Symbol should be reasonably expected to perform somewhere in that range, and a movie adaptation should fall somewhere between the two movie performances. Who turns down a surefire $500 million worldwide performer? No one I know.

We can't wait to see Hanks as a grumpy old racist guy.

Kim Hollis: Where does Tom Hanks stand as a box office draw? Is he at the end of the line, or is there still more potential for a long-lasting career ala Clint Eastwood?

Josh Spiegel: If Tom Hanks wants it, he could absolutely be doing movies until he's hitting 80 years old. He's done far too much that's successful over the years (Apollo 13, the Toy Story series, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump) that he wouldn't completely fade away. However, he would have to move past doing two franchises (right now, it's just Toy Story and the Da Vinci Code) and work in different genres again. Hanks, though, may not want to work much more, and I wouldn't begrudge him an early retirement. His future stardom is all up to whether or not he wants to keep working.





Reagen Sulewski: I think this result really proves how much mojo Hanks really has. This is something that really could have been a bomb, but people about half as many people as last time were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. You can't ask for a better test than this and Hanks passed.

Shane Jenkins: I feel like Hanks is one of those actors who chooses their projects carefully. With only occasional missteps, he has been something of a mark of quality on films. I think it helps that he doesn't work as much as he could and isn't totally overexposed. He's one of the few stars with real inter-generational appeal, and probably the best example of a Jimmy Stewart-type populist actor working today. As long as the missteps remain only occasional and don't water down his brand name, he's golden.

Brandon Scott: Hanks is on about as solid ground as an actor as one can imagine. There is no way of looking at $150 million worldwide opening weekend and saying he's not a draw - that would be preposterous. The guy has some hardware and is easily among the most affable of actors this side of Will Pinkett-Smith. I think he has expressed a desire to direct more and his career will naturally end up veering in that direction, ala Mel and Clint. Hanks is good to go with whatever he wants to do.

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