The Golden Compass Movie

"There are no werewolves or vampires, just a Mexican gardener in Los Angeles." Variety reports tonight that director Chris Weitz will be following up The Twilight Saga: New Moon with a new drama called The Gardener. Before jumping into the world of vampires, Weitz directed The Golden Compass and About a Boy previously. He's had a rough career so far (dealing with these last two films), but hopefully this project will allow him to settle down...  

Sam Elliott, the American actor, has depressed Philip Pullman, the atheist author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, with his claim that a group of Roman Catholics managed to browbeat Hollywood producers into abandoning plans to film any more of his books. "It's disgusting, but only the sort of behaviour I expect of these people," the best-selling author says of the campaign Catholics in America waged against The Golden Compass, the film...  

London, England, Dec 16, 2009 / 02:18 am (CNA).- Actor Sam Elliot has blamed the Catholic Church for stopping sequels from being made to the Golden Compass movie based on the first book of Philip Pullman’s atheistic trilogy His Dark Materials. The film, starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and Eva Green, grossed more than $380 million worldwide after its Christmas 2007 release, but took in only $85 million in the U.S. According to the Internet...  

American actor Sam Elliott has accused the Roman Catholic Church of scaring Hollywood producers into shelving the two planned sequels to hit movieThe Golden Compass. The film, which starred Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, was the first of author Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy to be adapted for the big screen. Two further films ...  

The author, a star, and others are all asking the same question: when the movie adaptation of the book, "The Golden Compass" looks like it's going to be a hit, why are no sequels being made? It was the first of a trilogy written by self-proclaimed atheist Philip Pullman, a successful fantasy starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. The Guardian says: After the success of Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and The Lion, the Witch and the...  

ATHEIST author Philip Pullman yesterday spoke of his “disgust” at the triumphalism of America’s religious right following its successful campaign to sideline attempts to dramatise the last two books in the writer’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Actor Sam Elliott, who starred in the film version of the first novel The Golden Compass, that grossed £230m, says a campaign by conservative Catholics has halted plans to complete the trilogy.  

  I've been seeing a number of people compiling their lists of the best books of the decade, and in all of these lists that I have seen, there has been one, striking, glaring omission. The Golden Compass Trilogy.  And, while many may argue that The Golden Compass Trilogy is a children's book, or is fantasy and not fiction, or whatever other excuse that people may use to intentionally omit this wonderful set of books from their list, I am here...  

Now rolling in New Moon millions, Chris Weitz is being more open about his troubles with New Line and The Golden Compass, a film that sank one studio and sent him into a tailspin. Rumors abounded as to what went wrong on that film, and as recently as last week, New York's Page Six was claiming that residual stress was causing him to leave the industry. Weitz denied any such thing to Variety, and announced he was leaving the world of the...  

A RELIGIOUS leader was “positively gloating” last night after it was revealed there would be no film sequel to Oxford author Philip Pullman’s novel, The Golden Compass.  

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guardian.co.ukTwilight fever: it gets its teeth into youTimes Online“With The Golden Compass most people in the industry understood what happened. It wasn't my decision to leave out so much that was so important in the novel ...Review: 'New Moon' better than 'Twilight' in part because it's in on the jokeOregonLive.comMovie review: 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon'Los Angeles TimesThe Twilight Saga: New MoonEntertainment WeeklyUSA Today -Salt Lake...  

Coventry TelegraphTwilight's New Moon 'won't repeat mistakes of The Golden Compass'Coventry TelegraphNEXT month sees the release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon and director Chris Weitz has been reflecting on his ...and more »  

'New Moon' Wolf Pack: How The Characters Came To LifeMTV.comWe were involved in "The Golden Compass," then everything came our way right at the very end [of the "New Moon" production] in a 911 call [from a producer]. ...  

411mania.comThe Hush-Hush News Report 11.24.09: The Audience Effect411mania.comWeitz said Summit and author Stephenie Meyer trusted him to honor "New Moon," something that didn't happen on "The Golden Compass. ...  

Jazz VideosAll About JazzIt was directed and post-produced by Ephraim Mwakandu, a digital visual effects artist whose credits include "The Golden Compass (2007), The Dark Knight ...