[Cronos]

Boy, is he ever pissed that the Golden Compass movie bombed so badly in America that it killed the franchise and bankrupted the studio

It bombed badly in the rest of the world except the UK and Japan. They make it out that they did good business outside the US, but actually they didn't manage to recoup their costs except for those two countries (and Japan can be forgiven as they probably went to see it for the special effects and the cuddly polar bears (there were polar bears in that movie I'm sure))

[LadyDoc]

it wasn’t a hit in the Philippines, but the anti Catholic stuff went over their head so the bishops didn’t write against it.

A lot of the anti catholicism of Pullman is very European, based on medieval cliches....and a lot of Catholics aren’t European.

[PapaBear3625]

It bombed badly in the rest of the world except the UK and Japan.

The studio took a bath.

The production cost was $180M. They made $70M domestic plus $302M foreign, total $372.

The movie theaters get half the gross in the first two weeks, and it goes up from there, so between the movie theaters' cut and distribution costs, they lost money.