"DaVinci" cast breaks world's record
By Associated Press
Posted: May 16, 2006
US actor Tom Hanks stands with French actress Audrey Tautou following the naming of a Eurostar train 'The Da Vinci Code' at Waterloo Station in London, Tuesday May 16, 2006.
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CANNES, France — Tom Hanks and other stars of “The Da Vinci Code” arrived at the Cannes Film Festival on board a train that broke the world record for the longest nonstop international rail trip.
The high-speed Eurostar train, named “The Da Vinci Code” for the trip, was part of a promotional blitz leading up to the movie's world premiere Wednesday in Cannes. The London-Cannes train went 883 miles in 7 hours, 25 minutes, passing through the tunnel under the English Channel on Tuesday.
Eurostar said an official from Guinness World Records was on board and certified the record.
Before starting the trip, Hanks posed for pictures at Waterloo station in London with co-stars Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Paul Bettany, Jean Reno and Alfred Molina, director Ron Howard and author Dan Brown.
In Cannes, the stars were whisked into a black Mercedes driven by men in black suits and sunglasses, and a crowd cheered their names.
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