Water. Box office Opening weekend The film opened with an estimated $31 million in box office sales on its opening day, averaging $7,764 per screen. During its opening weekend, moviegoers spent an estimated $77 million in the United States and Canada, and $224 million worldwide. The Da Vinci Code is the best domestic opening for both Tom Hanks and Ron Howard. It also enjoyed the third biggest opening weekend for that year (after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and X-Men: The Last Stand, and the second biggest worldwide opening weekend ever, just behind Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005).) This event has led some critics, particularly in the United Kingdom, to moot the idea of the "critic-proof film". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade "B+" on an A+ to F scale. Ranking and gross Number 1 film at the North American box office during its first week grossing more than $111 million. Fifth-highest gross of 2006 in the United States and Canada, and grossed $758 million worldwide in 2006—the second-highest of 2006. Its worldwide total made it the 51st-highest-grossing film, and the highest-grossing film in the franchise. On June 20, 2006, it became only the second film of the year to pass the $200 million mark in North America. Censorship The film was banned in a number of countries, including Syria, Belarus, and Lebanon. In Jordan, authorities banned the film claiming it "tarnishes the memory of Christian and Islamic figures and contradicts the truth as written in the Bible and the Quran about Jesus". In Iran, it was banned due to protests by Muslims and Christian minorities. China Although The Da Vinci Code was passed by Chinese censors, it was abruptly removed by authorities from public view in mainland China, after "a remarkable run in China, grossing over $13 million", because of protests by Chinese Catholic groups. Egypt Both the book and the film were banned in Egypt due to pressure from Coptic Christians. Some Muslims compared the film to the Danish cartoons that had caused controversy earlier that year. Hafez Abu Saeda, of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, said, "This violates freedom of thought and belief..... This is fiction. It's art, and it should be regarded as art." Faroe Islands The biggest cinema in the Faroe Islands, Havnar Bio, decided to boycott the film, effectively blocking it from