Posted on 12/17/2007 7:35:58 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative
And in only its second weekend in release, the bottom fell out of costly domestic flop The Golden Compass from New Line, which forked over $200+ million to make it. I know, I know, the pic is doing OK overseas after earning $50.9 mil from 27 territories December 7th-9th. But the fantasy epic is so lost domestically it earned only an anemic $2.6 million Friday and $3.7 million Saturday from 3,528 nearly empty runs for 3rd place and a new cume of just $40.5 mil. I hear studio topper Bob Shaye once again is blaming everyone but himself -- including the movie's director Chris Weitz, and also New Line's own prez of production Toby Emmerich.
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I’m betting the likelihood that the original subject matter and author played into it is being completely ignored. I really wanted to see the movie, until I read some interviews with the book author. He has every right to write and believe what he does, and I have every right to make sure he doesn’t get any of my money for it.
I wonder if he blames God.
Note to Movie execs:
Don’t make movies telling people they are evil for believing in God.....
The problem is that The Compass is “the right answer”. Corporate drones will recognize that term. For instance, when I worked for a major retailer we opened a store in S Central LA after the riots. It performed horribly. When we looked at stores to keep open, we were told that the SC LA store was “the right answer”. No matter how badly it performed, it was to stay open.
The Compass will be successful, even if it isn’t. They have invested more than money into it.
You mean people in the US don’t want to waste their time on the first third of a God snuffing trilogy?
What I don’t get is that there are SO MANY GREAT FANTASY TRILOGIES and EPICS out there, why does an anti catholic piece of crap like this get the green light.. and the “Dragonlance Chronicles” is finally getting made as a movie, but only as a cheaply animated direct to video?
If there was a trilogy that deserved a high $$ CGI live action movie, this set would have been a great follow up to LOTR...
Sigh... Hollywood will never learn... besides... FIZBAN is way more fun than Frodo, and far more wise than Dubledore
And Galdalf... bah....
What was that spell again??? Ah, yes... FIREBALL!
Don’t let them fool you it’s not doing all that well overseas, either. Spain is the place it did best coming close to Harry Potter type grosses. In England it topped Narnia grosses only slightly and it earned less than Narnia everywhere else.
There is a reason JK Rowling waited until AFTER the final potter book was out and she had no further responsibility for making any more movies in order to torpedo the series by “outing” dumbledore.
Compass was made as a me too narnia by studio suits who think stories are irrelevent, who think back story does not sell as much as special effects. The story is everything.
Let the tasteless, Godless commies overseas fund it.
We here in America support neither the bashing of faith, nor poorly made epics.
How about blame crappy writing to this Narnia wannabe POS.
Daniel Craig is a weirdo homo who sucked as Bond.
(no pun intended)
Pullman objects to the dogmatism and authoritarianism of organized religion, and that these views play a prominent role in his trilogy of books called His Dark Materials, of which The Golden Compass is the first volume.
This said It also says that the movie is going well in other countries..Other countries do not care what their children see or read some think the same way as Pullman..
What the heck was that????
My daughter and a boy from church are planning to see that, once he gets out of school for Christmas break.
Why would I, or any other parent, spend our money on aa author, director, producer, etc. who are specifically targeting my kids and grandkids to destroy the faith and values that we are try and instill in them?
Answer: We will not.
Apparently tens of millions of others agree. Glad to see it too.
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