Posted on 12/07/2007 10:40:07 AM PST by jimbo123
My box office gurus are telling me that New Line Cinema's holiday tentpole The Golden Compass is going to be a huge bomb. They predict an opening domestic weekend starting today only in the high $20s million from 3,528 theaters. That's disastrous because, with a pricetag of $200+ million without P&A costs, the fantasy epic should be making a minimum $50 million debut. Not to mention that the studio has spent big bucks marketing the heck out of the PG-13 pic based on UK author Philip Pullman's young adult book trilogy His Dark Materials.
Problem is, Golden Compass has sparked the ire of the Catholic League, which is calling for a boycott of the film by parents with children due to Pullman's supposedly anti-Christian notions. It's the kind of action rarely taken by the Catholic League against a movie, not even last year's The Da Vinci Code. Worse, it cements Nicole Kidman's status as box office poison.
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With very few exceptions, I hope every movie bombs.
It’s just funny.
All other issues aside, this movie has the most unbelievably uninspired advertising campaign. The TV commercials are so generic it’s ridiculous.
This was posted once, but it looks like that thread was pulled.
I do hope this follow’s sources are right, and this movie tanks. That would be a wake up call to Hollywood. At a minimum, it would ensure that UA does not have backing for a sequel.
Supposedly? I thought he was on record as wanting to undermine Christian belief.
Now let's make 'Narnia: Prince Caspian' out in May a hit...
Nope, not gonna happen.
For one thing I refuse to support an industry that seems determined, over all, to destroy our Great Republic.
BTW the same goes for the TV. Did you ever hear of TV PROGRAMMING? I for one don't want their programming in my house.
“You cannot wake someone pretending to be asleep.”
- Apache proverb
He is an avowed religion-hater. There is no supposedly about it.
Killing off a sequel is a big thing to me since the follow-up books are supposed to be dramatically more anti-God than this one. Goodbye, Hollywood bigots.
I hereby offer my services to comfort Nicole Kidman...
Mark
I saw the preview for that movie in november and it looked embarassingly dumb.
Bella, on the other hand, has been in theaters for weeks and has done pheonominally well, considering it had low distribution, snide reviews, and little advertising. People managed to find it anyway. I went with my teen aged daughter and she loved it—we both did.
He is on record as saying that he wants to “kill God” with this trilogy.
This is United Artists, too?
Beautiful. First “Lions for Lambs”, now this. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer studio.
My daughter noticed that they had two commercials, with exactly the same video, but with two different voiceovers, and thought that was very odd.
That which uses Nichole Kidman's name is no longer Nichole Kidman. It is mostly plastic, by the look of it. It is a shame. She was smokin' hot, once.
Oops. Sorry. This is New Line. There was another thread about United Artist cancelling their Mai Lai film, Pinkville.
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