Taking Chances (2009) movie

In actor Justin Long's 2009 movie Taking Chances he plays the wise, young curator of a local history museum in a dying town in Pennsylvania whose town council plans on building a casino operated by a local Indian tribe on the town's Revolutionary War battlefield. Long's courageous stand against the council and the town itself is aided by his one slacker friend and a female love interest, who happens to be a young prostitute, in bed with the mayor and desperately searching for her father.

The Red Pyramid (2010) Novel

Book 1 of Rick Riordan's The Kane Chronicles, whose title is The Red Pyramid (2010), is based on "a transcript of a digital recording. ... The author makes no claims for the authenticity of the recording. ..." Part of this novel for teen and young adult readers is set in the British Museum and features the kind of ancient Egyptian mayhem associated with The Mummy movies starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.

The Da Vinci Code

Original Novel Title: The Da Vinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: New York: Doubleday, 2003
Despite being hammered by critics for its writing, this novel has attained a cult status with electronic and print pro-, anti- and guides to the Da Vinci Code. Lewis Perdue published a similarly titled novel in 1983, then a second one about Mary Magdalene in 2000. Brown's novel, as Perdue points out on his Ideaworx site, bears some similarities in character and plot development to these two novels. Having read Perdue's highly forgettable The Da Vinci Legacy, I can't say I'm convinced Perdue's plagarism case would stand up in court. See also The Novels of Lewis Perdue and Angels and Demons.