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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That's in the second book between the chracters Baruch and Balthamos.
I hear this, and I'm confused. I heard that a group called the Conference of American Bishops (or something like that), has praised the movie...what gives? Can anyone explain why there's a difference of opinion?
But she has been in a string of terrible movies.
It has all kinds of subsidiary offices, in charge of liturgy, education, etc. One of these offices is the media office, and it employs a film critic who apparently thinks this film is the bee's knees.
He gave his USCCB bosses his review and they rubberstamped it - I would expect that few bishops even bothered to actually watch it.
The few bishops who have are not happy with it.
The Catholic League is an organization of lay Catholics who are kind of analogous to the Jewish Anti-Defamation League.
They tend to do their homework, unlike the sluggish and bloated USCCB bureaucracy.
PIXAR’S "Ratatouille", starring the aspiring rodent chef, Rémy, is kicking Leonardo DiCaprio’s “Titanic” derriere in France.
“I hear this, and I’m confused. I heard that a group called the Conference of American Bishops (or something like that), has praised the movie...what gives?”
I think its the US Conference of Bishops. Don’t know what it is or why they ‘praised it’. Can’t see why they would praise it unless they had invested in it.
“What would this world be without MONEY.’
Broke - if you’re still doubting look to Communist Russia.
A recent film called ‘Margot At the Wedding’ (from the maker of ‘The Squid and the Whale’) is quite good. It has the breadth of a good short story.
...With success would come the handle-with-extreme-care challenge of adapting the next two books. Their ideas are more complex, the spiritual stuff more incendiary. In the third book, The Amber Spyglass, Pullman's slow-burning critique of religious dogma explodes with a Miltonian war in heaven. God is declared dead, hell is shut down, and two kids share an erotic encounter so magical it purges the cosmos of original sin...
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