'Golden Compass' Looks Leaden This Wkd (Anti-God movie bombs overseas, expected to flop in US)

Deadline Hollywood ^ | 12/07/07 | Nikki Finke

[Retired Greyhound]

With very few exceptions, I hope every movie bombs.

It’s just funny.

[Dan Middleton]

All other issues aside, this movie has the most unbelievably uninspired advertising campaign. The TV commercials are so generic it’s ridiculous.

[gridlock]

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.

[murdoog]

Pullman's supposedly anti-Christian notions.

Supposedly? I thought he was on record as wanting to undermine Christian belief.

[MaestroLC]

This movie on course to bomb. Fine by me.

Now let's make 'Narnia: Prince Caspian' out in May a hit...

[tx_eggman]

That would be a wake up call to Hollywood

Nope, not gonna happen.

[Veritas_est]

I just don't go to movies any more.

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.

[karnage]

“You cannot wake someone pretending to be asleep.”

- Apache proverb

[MaestroLC]

Supposedly? I thought he was on record as wanting to undermine Christian belief.

He is an avowed religion-hater. There is no supposedly about it.

[G8 Diplomat]

My box office gurus are telling me that New Line Cinema's holiday tentpole The Golden Compass is going to be a huge bomb.

Good. I saw the previews for that movie and it looked like one of the stupidest films ever made. And that was before I learned that it was anti-Christian. I hope it bombs out of theaters quickly. Don't waste your money and your time to see a piece of crap like that.

[inkling]

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.

[MarkL]

Worse, it cements Nicole Kidman's status as box office poison.

I hereby offer my services to comfort Nicole Kidman...

Mark

[Tears of a Clown]

I saw the preview for that movie in november and it looked embarassingly dumb.

[FrdmLvr]

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.

[Bruinator]

He is on record as saying that he wants to “kill God” with this trilogy.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

This is United Artists, too?

Beautiful. First “Lions for Lambs”, now this. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer studio.

[CharlesWayneCT]

My daughter noticed that they had two commercials, with exactly the same video, but with two different voiceovers, and thought that was very odd.

[gridlock]

I hereby offer my services to comfort Nicole Kidman...

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.

[gridlock]

This is United Artists, too?

Oops. Sorry. This is New Line. There was another thread about United Artist cancelling their Mai Lai film, Pinkville.