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2007 American fantasy picture show

The Golden Compass
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Chris Weitz
Screenplay by	Chris Weitz
Based on	Northern Lights past Philip Pullman
Produced past	Bill Carraro Deborah Forte
Starring	Nicole Kidman Daniel Craig Sam Elliott Eva Light-green Ian McKellen Dakota Blueish Richards
Cinematography	Henry Braham
Edited by	Anne V. Coates Peter Honess Kevin Tent
Music past	Alexandre Desplat
Product companies	New Line Cinema Ingenious Picture Partners Scholastic Productions
Distributed past	New Line Picture palace (Us) Entertainment Film Distributors (U.k.)
Release dates	November 27, 2007 (2007-11-27) (London) Dec 5, 2007 (2007-12-05) (United kingdom) December 7, 2007 (2007-12-07) (Usa)
Running time	113 minutes[one]
Countries	United states of america United Kingdom
Linguistic communication	English
Budget	$180 one thousand thousand[1]
Box function	$372.2 million[1]

The Gold Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film directed past Chris Weitz, from a screenplay by Weitz, and based on the 1995 novel Northern Lights by Philip Pullman, the showtime installment in Pullman'due south His Dark Materials trilogy. It stars Dakota Blue Richards equally Lyra Belacqua, Nicole Kidman as Marisa Coulter, and Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel, aslope Sam Elliott, Ian McKellen, and Eva Light-green. In the movie, Lyra joins a tribe of seafarers on a trip to the far Due north in search of children kidnapped by the Gobblers, a group supported by the universe'due south rulers, the Magisterium.

Evolution on the film was beginning announced in February 2002, but difficulties over the screenplay and the selection of a director (including Weitz departing and returning) acquired significant delays. Richards was cast every bit Lyra in June 2006, with Kidman and Craig joining soon thereafter. Principal photography began that September and lasted for several months, with filming locations including Shepperton Studios and besides on location throughout England, Switzerland, and Norway. With a production budget of US$180 1000000, information technology is 1 of New Line Picture palace'due south most expensive films,^[2] and prior to release, the pic faced criticism from secularist and religious organisations due to the source material's anti-religious themes, which caused several changes to the moving picture in post-production.^[3]

The Gold Compass premiered in London on November 27, 2007, and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom by Entertainment Picture on December v and in the United States by New Line on December vii. The movie received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for the casting and visual effects, but criticism for its pacing, characterization, and screenplay, drawing unfavorable comparisons to Pullman's novel. The Golden Compass has grossed $372 million worldwide but was a box part disappointment in N America which directly contributed to New Line's 2008 restructuring.^[4] The motion picture won for Best Visual Furnishings at the 80th Academy Awards and for All-time Special Visual Effects at the 61st British Academy Film Awards.

Plot [edit]

In an alternate Globe, a powerful church chosen the Magisterium strictly controls the populace'due south beliefs and teachings. In this world, every person'due south inner spirit partially exists outside the body, manifesting itself as an animal companion called a dæmon. The dæmon communicates with the person and must remain in close physical proximity. Witches, however, have bird-shape dæmons that are able to travel long distances from their bodies.

Lyra Belacqua, whose dæmon is named Pantalaimon or "Pan", is an orphan being raised at Hashemite kingdom of jordan Colleg e in Oxford. Her uncle, Lord Asriel, a noted explorer and scholar, has been absent seeking the elusive Grit, a cosmic particle that the Magisterium forbids to be mentioned. When Asriel returns to Oxford, Lyra saves his life afterwards seeing a visiting Magisterium agent spike his vino with an unidentified poisonous substance. Asriel afterwards gives a presentation to other scholars regarding his discovery that Grit existing in the Northward Pole links infinite worlds. Asriel receives a grant for some other trek and if his theory is proven, it could severely undermine the Magisterium'south command.

Lyra meets the wealthy Mrs. Coulter, a "friend" of the higher. She invites Lyra to stay with her in retrofuturistic London. Earlier Lyra leaves, the Master of the college entrusts her with her uncle's alethiometer, a compass-like artefact that reveals the truth (the titular gold compass). Few individuals tin can decipher its symbols. The Magisterium has seized or destroyed all other alethiometers, and Lyra is warned to keep hers a cloak-and-dagger.

Lyra notices the alethiometer continuously points to a symbol of a lady, a lightning bolt, and an infant, though she is unable to comprehend its meaning. Soon, Mrs. Coulter's congenial manner changes and shows she is aligned to the Magisterium and its mandate. When Lyra casually mentions Dust, Mrs. Coulter sternly warns her to never mention information technology over again.

Kidnappers called Gobblers have been snatching poor, orphaned, and Gyptian children, including Lyra's friends Roger, an Oxford retainer boy, and Billy Costa, a immature Gyptian. Lyra subsequently discovers that Mrs. Coulter is head of the General Oblation Board and realizes they are the "Gobblers."

When Mrs. Coulter'southward dæmon attempts to steal the alethiometer, Lyra and Pan escape with information technology into the streets. Gobblers pursue her, but she is saved by Ma Costa, Billy'due south mother. Lyra is taken to the Gyptian rex, John Faa, whose send is heading northward to search for the captured children. A wise Gyptian elder named Farder Coram is able to decipher the compass.

After consulting with Magisterium agent Fra Pavel, Mrs. Coulter sends ii mechanical spy-flies after Lyra. One is batted away only the other is caught and sealed in a tin can past Farder Coram, who says the spy-fly has a stinger filled with a sleeping poison. Meanwhile, Lord Asriel has reached Svalbard, the kingdom of the Water ice Bears, but he is captured by Samoyed tribesmen hired past Mrs. Coulter.

The witch queen, Serafina Pekkala, tells Lyra the missing children are in an experimental station called Bolvangar. At a northern port, Lyra is befriended by a Texan aeronaut named Lee Scoresby. He advises her to hire him and his friend Iorek Byrnison, an armoured carry that Lee has come to rescue. Once a prince of the armoured bears, Iorek is now exiled in shame, the local townspeople having tricked him out of his armour. Lyra uses the alethiometer to locate Iorek's armour. After recovering it, Iorek joins the Gyptian trek northward, along with Scoresby.

Lyra, astride Iorek, goes to an abandoned building the alethiometer pointed her toward. There, Lyra finds Billy Costa, who has been surgically separated from his dæmon. The Gobblers are experimenting on the kidnapped children using a process chosen "intercision." Lyra reunites Billy with Ma Costa, merely the group is attacked by Samoyeds, who capture Lyra. Iorek and Lee follow her in Lee's airship. Lyra is taken to the bear king Ragnar Sturlusson. Knowing Iorek will exist outnumbered, Lyra tricks Ragnar into fighting Iorek i-on-one. Ragnar, who usurped Iorek'south throne, initially appears to be winning; Iorek feigns weakness and kills Ragnar, avenging his father and regaining his kingdom.

Iorek carries Lyra to Bolvangar, merely just Lyra crosses a narrow ice bridge before information technology collapses. Upon reaching the station, Lyra reunited with Roger. Lyra overhears Mrs. Coulter telling the station scientists that Asriel escaped and has gear up a laboratory. Magisterium soldiers are going there to arrest him for heresy. Lyra discovers scientists are experimenting to sever a child from their dæmon, through a process called intercision. Caught spying, Lyra and Pan are thrown into the intercision sleeping room only Mrs. Coulter rescues her.

Mrs. Coulter tells Lyra that the Magisterium believe intercision protects children from Dust'southward corrupting influence. She reveals she is Lyra's mother just was forced to give her upwards; Lyra realises that Asriel is her father. When Mrs Coulter wants the alethiometer, Lyra instead gives her the tin containing the spy-wing. The wing stings Mrs Coulter, rendering her unconscious. Lyra destroys the machine, setting off a serial of explosions.

Outside, the fleeing children are attacked by Tatar mercenaries and their wolf dæmons. Iorek, Scoresby, the Gyptians and flying witches, led by Serafina, join the battle. The Tatars are defeated and the children rescued. Lyra, Roger, Iorek, Lee and Serafina fly north to search for Asriel. Confirming Serafina'south prophecy of an upcoming war with Lyra at its center, Lyra is determined to fight the Magisterium, who plot to control all the other worlds in the universe.

Bandage [edit]

• Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra Belacqua, who embarks on a voyage to boxing the forces of evil and rescue her all-time friend. New Line Cinema appear 11-year-old Richards' casting in June 2006.^[v] It was her first acting function.^[6]
• Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter, an influential woman who takes an interest in Lyra (and afterwards admits that she is Lyra's female parent). Kidman was writer Philip Pullman's preferred choice for the role 10 years before product of the film,^[vii] and despite initially rejecting the offer to star as she did not want to play a villain, she signed on after receiving a personal letter from Pullman.^[viii]
• Daniel Craig equally Lord Asriel, Lyra's strict and mysterious adventurer uncle. In July 2006, information technology was reported that Paul Bettany was in talks to play the part.^[nine]
• Sam Elliott as Lee Scoresby, a Texan aeronaut who comes to Lyra's aid. Pullman has singled out Elliott'southward operation equally ane the picture show got "just right."^[10]
• Eva Green as Serafina Pekkala, a witch queen.
• Jim Carter as John Faa, the king of the Gyptians.
• Clare Higgins as Ma Costa, fellow member of a Gyptian family that aids Lyra.
• Ben Walker as Roger Parslow, Lyra's best friend, who is kidnapped and taken northward.
• Charlie Rowe equally Billy Costa, son of Ma Costa, and Lyra's friend.
• Steven Loton as Tony Costa, son of Ma Costa and Baton'south older blood brother.
• Christopher Lee as the Magisterium's start high councilor. Lee's casting was besides at New Line's behest, rather than that of Chris Weitz.^[5]
• Tom Courtenay as Farder Coram, Gyptian 2d-in-command and advisor to John Faa.
• Derek Jacobi equally the Magisterial emissary.
• Simon McBurney as Fra Pavel, a Magisterial agent.
• Jack Shepherd as master of Jordan College.
• Magda Szubanski every bit Mrs. Lonsdale.

Voice cast [edit]

• Ian McKellen as Iorek Byrnison, an armoured carry (panserbjørn) who becomes Lyra's friend and comrade. Nonso Anozie and Chris Hemsworth had recorded lines for the part of Iorek Byrnison, but was replaced past McKellen at a late phase as New Line wanted a bigger proper name in the function.^[xi] New Line president of production Toby Emmerich claimed that he "never thought Anozie sounded similar Iorek" and while he initially trusted managing director Weitz's casting decision, he "never stopped thinking that this guy didn't sound right." The recasting was against Weitz's wishes, though he after said "if you're going to have anyone recast in your movie, you're happy it's Ian McKellen."^[5]
• Freddie Highmore as Pantalaimon, Lyra'south dæmon. Pan was originally to be voiced by an older histrion, but they called in Highmore instead, equally it would be more than of an intimate relationship if Pan and Lyra were the aforementioned age, and also would underscore the contrast betwixt Lyra's relationship with him versus her relationships with older male characters such as Lord Asriel, Lee Scoresby and Iorek.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Ian McShane as Ragnar Sturlusson, king of the panserbjørne. Ragnar's proper name in the book was Iofur Raknison, merely the name was changed to forestall confusion between him and Iorek.^[12] However, in the German-language version of the pic, the dialogue retains the name "Iofur Raknison", whilst the subtitles reflect the alter.
• Kathy Bates as Hester, Lee Scoresby's hare (jackrabbit) dæmon.
• Kristin Scott Thomas as Stelmaria, Lord Asriel's dæmon.

Product [edit]

Evolution [edit]

"Peter's operation was so impressive that, well, I realised the distance between me and Peter Jackson… At that moment, I realised the sheer telescopic of the endeavor. And I thought, 'Y'all know what? I can't do this'."

— Director Chris Weitz on his initial divergence from the projection[v]

On Feb eleven, 2002, following the success of New Line'due south The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the studio bought the rights to Philip Pullman's His Nighttime Materials trilogy. In July 2003, Tom Stoppard was deputed to write the screenplay.^[6] Directors Brett Ratner and Sam Mendes expressed interest in the motion picture,^[6] but a twelvemonth later, Chris Weitz was hired to direct afterwards approaching the studio with an unsolicited 40-page treatment.^[13] The studio rejected the script, asking Weitz to offset from scratch. Since Weitz was an admirer of Stoppard's work, he decided not to read the adaptation in case he "subconsciously poached things from him."^[14] After delivering his script, Weitz cited Barry Lyndon and Star Wars every bit stylistic influences on the motion-picture show.^[half-dozen] In 2004, Weitz was invited by The Lord of the Rings managing director Peter Jackson onto the set of King Kong (2005) in order to gather information on directing a big-upkeep motion-picture show, and to receive advice on dealing with New Line Cinema, for whom Jackson had worked on Lord of the Rings. After a subsequent interview in which Weitz said the novel'due south attacks on organised religion would have to be softened, he was criticised past some fans,^[five] and on December 15, 2004, Weitz appear his resignation every bit manager of the trilogy, citing the enormous technical challenges of the ballsy.^[6] He afterward indicated that he had envisioned the possibility of beingness denounced by both the book'southward fans and its detractors, likewise as a studio hoping for another Lord of the Rings.^[5]

On August nine, 2005, it was announced that British director Anand Tucker would take over from Weitz. Tucker felt the moving-picture show would thematically be about Lyra "looking for a family",^[6] and Pullman agreed: "He has plenty of very proficient ideas, and he isn't daunted past the technical challenges. Simply the best thing from the signal of view of all who care well-nigh the story is his awareness that it isn't about computer graphics; it isn't about fantastic adventures in amazing-looking worlds; it's about Lyra."^[15] Tucker resigned on May 8, 2006, citing creative disagreements with New Line, and Weitz returned to direct.^[6] Weitz said "I'chiliad both the commencement and third manager on the film … but I did a lot of growing in the interim."^[sixteen]

According to producer Deborah Forte, Tucker wanted to make a smaller, less heady pic than New Line wanted. New Line product president Toby Emmerich said of Weitz'due south render: "I call back Chris realised that if he didn't come up back in and pace upward, maybe the movie wasn't going to go made … Nosotros really didn't have a Plan B at that point."^[13] Weitz was attracted back to the project after receiving a letter from Pullman asking him to reconsider. Since his difference, blueprints, product design and visual effects strategies had been put into position, and while Weitz admitted that his fears did not vanish, the project suddenly seemed feasible for the director.^[5]

Filming [edit]

Filming began at Shepperton Studios on September 4, 2006,^[six] with additional sequences shot in Switzerland and Norway.^[13] Filming also took identify at the Erstwhile Royal Naval College at Greenwich,^[17] Chiswick House in London, and in Radcliffe Square, Christ Church, Oxford, Exeter College, Oxford, The Queen's College, Oxford, The Historic Dockyard Chatham^[18] and Hedsor House in Buckinghamshire.

Pattern [edit]

Production designer Dennis Gassner says of his work on the film:

The whole project is near translation—translation from something you would empathize into something that is in a different colloquial. So, information technology'due south a new signature, looking into another world that seems familiar but is still unique. There'south a term I utilize—chosen 'cludging'—it'southward taking one chemical element and combining information technology with another element to make something new. It's a hybrid or amalgamation, and that's what this picture show is near from a design perspective. Information technology'due south about amalgamating ideas and concepts and theoretical and physical environments.^{[xix] [20]}

Rhythm and Hues Studios created the main dæmons and Framestore CFC created all the bears.^[21] British visitor Cinesite created the secondary dæmons.^[22]

Differences from the novel [edit]

Numerous scenes from the novel did non feature in the flick or were markedly changed. On December vii, 2007, New York magazine reviewed typhoon scripts from both Stoppard and Weitz; both were significantly longer than the terminal version, and Weitz'south draft (which, dissimilar Stoppard's, did not feature significant additions to the source textile) was pronounced the all-time of the three. The magazine concluded that instead of a "likely three hours of running time" that included such scenes equally Mrs. Coulter'south London party and Lyra's coming together with a witch representative, the studio had opted for a "failed" length of under 2 hours in lodge to maximize revenue.^[23]

On Oct 9, 2007, Weitz revealed that the final iii capacity from Northern Lights had been moved to the picture'south potential sequel, The Subtle Knife, in gild to provide "the virtually promising conclusion to the starting time pic and the all-time possible offset to the second,"^[24] though he also said less than a month later that there had been "tremendous marketing pressure" to create "an upbeat ending."^[25] (The San Francisco Chronicle found this "truncated" ending sharp.^[26]) Writer Pullman publicly supported these changes, proverb that "every film has to make changes to the story that the original book tells—not to change the issue, but to make it fit the dimensions and the medium of film."^[27] In addition to removing the novel's unsettling ending, the pic reverses the order in which Lyra travels to Bolvangar, the Gobbler's outpost, and then Svalbard, the armoured bears' kingdom.^[28] (Neither deviation from the volume features in Scholastic Publishing's The Aureate Compass: The Story of the Movie novelisation.) In July 2009, Weitz told a Comic Con audition that the movie had been "recut past [New Line], and my experience with information technology ended beingness quite a terrible i";^[3] he also told Time magazine that he had felt that by "beingness faithful to the book I was working at odds with the studio."^[29]

Tasha Robinson of The A.V. Society argued that through the use of a spoken introduction and other exposition-filled dialogue, the motion-picture show fails past "baldly revealing up front everything that the novel is trying to get you to wonder about and to explore slowly."^[28] Youyoung Lee wrote in a December 2007 Amusement Weekly that the film "leaves out the gore", such as the book's ritualistic centre-eating that concludes the acquit fight, "to create family-friendlier fare."^[30] Lee also said that the motion picture "downplays the Magisterium's religious nature", simply Robinson argued that the delineation of the church building in the picture is as "a hierarchical organisation of formally robed, iconography-heavy priests who dictate and define morality for their followers, are based out of cathedrals, and decry teachings counter to theirs as 'heresy.' ... doing ugly things to children under comprehend of secrecy." Robinson then asks, "Who are most people going to call up of as well the Catholic Church?"^[28]

Although the character of Mrs. Coulter has black hair in the novel, Pullman responded to the blonde Kidman'southward portrayal by saying, "I was clearly wrong. You sometimes are incorrect almost your characters. She's blonde. She has to be."^[31]

Controversies [edit]

Several fundamental themes of the novels, such as the rejection of religion and the abuse of power in a fictionalised version of the Church, were diluted in the adaptation. Managing director Weitz said that "in the books the Magisterium is a version of the Catholic Church gone wildly astray from its roots", but that the organisation portrayed in his film would not directly match that of Pullman'southward books. Instead, the Magisterium represents all dogmatic organisations.^[32]

Attempting to reassure fans of the novels, Weitz said that religion would instead appear in euphemistic terms, yet the conclusion was criticised by some fans,^[33] anti-censorship groups, and the National Secular Society (of which Pullman is an honorary acquaintance), which said "they are taking the heart out of information technology, losing the point of it, castrating it ..."^[34] and "this is part of a long-term trouble over freedom of speech." The Atlantic wrote: "With $180 million at stake, the studio opted to kidnap the book'due south body and leave behind its soul."^[35] The changes from the novel have been present since Tom Stoppard'southward rejected version of the script,^[13] and Pullman expected the film to be "true-blue",^[32] although he also said: "They exercise know where to put the theology and that'south off the film."^[35] A Christianity Today review of the pic noted that "'Magisterium' does refer, in the existent world, to the teaching authority of the Roman Cosmic Church, and the motion picture [is] peppered with religiously significant words like 'oblation' and 'heresy'", adding that when one character smashes through the wall of a Magisterium building, the damaged outside is "busy with [Christian] Byzantine icons."^[36]

On October vii, 2007, the Cosmic League called for a boycott of the pic.^[37] League president William A. Donohue said he would not commonly object to the flick, just that while the religious elements are diluted from the source material, the film will encourage children to read the novels, which he says denigrate Christianity and promote atheism for children.^[38] He cited Pullman telling The Washington Post in 2001 that he is trying to undermine the ground of Christian belief.^[39] The league hoped that "the film [would neglect] to meet box-office expectations and that [Pullman'due south] books concenter few buyers",^[40] declaring the boycott campaign a success later a N American opening weekend which was lower than predictable.^[41]

Albert Mohler, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, agreed that the broad entreatment of the film was a dangerous lure to the novels, which he criticised for carrying a clear calendar to expose what Pullman believes is the "tyranny of the Christian faith" and for providing "a liberating mythology for a new secular historic period."^[42] Denny Wayman of the Costless Methodist Church made the exclamation that The Golden Compass is a "pic trying to preach an atheistic message."^[43] Other evangelical groups, such as the Christian Movie and Television Commission, adopted a "wait-and-run into" approach to the film before deciding upon whatever action,^[44] as did the Roman Catholic Church building in England and Wales.^[45] Some religious scholars take challenged the view that the story carries atheistic themes,^{[46] [47]} while in Nov 2007, a review of the motion picture by the director and staff reviewer of the Office for Film and Broadcasting of the United states Briefing of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) appeared on the website of the Cosmic News Service and in Catholic newspapers across the country. The review suggested that instead of a boycott, it may be appropriate for Catholic parents to "talk through any thorny philosophical issues" with their children.^[48] However, on December x, 2007 the review was removed from the website at the USCCB'south request.^[49] On December 19, 2007, the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, published an editorial in which it denounced the film equally godless.^[l]

Pullman said of Donohue's call for a cold-shoulder, "Why don't nosotros trust readers? Why don't we trust filmgoers? Oh, it causes me to shake my head with sorrow that such nitwits could be loose in the world."^[45] In a discussion with Donohue on CBS's Early Show, Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists, said that rather than promote disbelief, the movie would encourage children to question authority, saying that would not be a bad thing for children to acquire.^[51] Managing director Weitz says that he believes His Nighttime Materials is "not an atheistic piece of work, merely a highly spiritual and reverent slice of writing",^[33] and Nicole Kidman defended her decision to star in the film, saying that "I wouldn't exist able to do this moving-picture show if I thought it were at all anti-Catholic."^[16] Some commentators indicated that they believed both sides' criticism would bear witness ultimately impotent and that the negative publicity would prove a boon for the motion-picture show's box-office.^{[45] [52] [53]} Sales were in fact poor; one calendar week subsequently the moving-picture show's release, Roger Ebert said of the Catholic campaign, "whatever bad buzz on a family unit picture show can be mortal, and that seems to have been the case this time."^[54] The planned film trilogy has not been connected, prompting actor Sam Elliott to blame censorship and the Catholic Church.^[55]

Release [edit]

Theatrical [edit]

The moving-picture show premiered in London on November 27, 2007, and was released on December 5, 2007, in British cinemas past Entertainment Flick Distributors and released on December 7, 2007, in American cinemas by New Line Movie theater.

Home media [edit]

The picture show was released on DVD and Blu-ray formats in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland on April 28, 2008, and the United states on April 29, 2008. The extra material on the unmarried-disc DVD consists of previews of upcoming New Line Cinema films. The ii-disc edition includes a commentary from writer/managing director Chris Weitz, eleven "making-of" featurettes, a photo gallery, and theatrical and teaser trailers. The Blu-ray Disc features the same extras from the two-disc DVD edition.^[56]

Before long before the motion-picture show'south release, Weitz suggested that an extended cutting of the motion picture could be released on DVD, saying "I'd really dear to do a fuller cutting of the film"; he farther speculated that such a version "could probably end up at 2-and-a-half hours."^[57] This proposed cut would presumably non include the original catastrophe: MTV reported in December 2007 that Weitz hoped to include that textile at the beginning of a possible The Subtle Knife adaptation, and that a Compass Manager's Cut might feature "a moment" of it as a "teaser."^[58] Cast members Craig and Dark-green have echoed this hope for such a DVD cut;^{[58] [ expressionless link ]} so far, however, no extended version has been released, as of 2014.^[59]

On June 9, 2020. Weitz revealed on Twitter that information technology would take $17 one thousand thousand for him to complete VFX for his directors cutting making him call back there is no fiscal incentive for them to finish it and release it .^[lx]

Reception [edit]

Box-office [edit]

The North American opening weekend return was "a piddling disappointing" for New Line Movie theater,^[61] earning United states$25.eight million with total domestic box-office of $70 million compared to an estimated $180 million production upkeep.^[one] Despite this, the film's fortunes rebounded as its operation exterior the Usa was described as "stellar" by Variety,^[62] and as "astonishing" by New Line.^[63] In the U.k., the picture show grossed $53,198,635 and became the 2nd-highest-grossing not-sequel of 2007 in that location (behind The Simpsons Movie). In Japan, the flick was officially released in March 2008 on 700 screens, ultimately grossing $33,501,399; merely previews of the pic betwixt February 23–24, 2008, earned $ii.5 million. By July 6, 2008, it had earned $302,127,136 internationally, totaling $372,234,864 worldwide.^[1] Overseas rights to the motion picture were sold to fund the $180 million production upkeep for the moving-picture show, so most of these profits did not go to New Line.^[64] This has been cited as a possible "last straw" in Time Warner's decision to merge New Line Movie theatre into Warner Bros. Pictures.^[4]

Critical response [edit]

Reviews of The Gilded Compass were mixed.^[65] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the motion-picture show has an blessing rating of 42%, based on 198 reviews, with an average score of 5.60/x. The critical consensus reads: "Without the bite or the controversy of the source material, The Golden Compass is reduced to impressive visuals overcompensating for lax storytelling."^[66] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted boilerplate rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 51, based on 33 reviews, indicating "mixed or boilerplate reviews".^[67]

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times said that the picture show "crams so many events, characters, ... twists and turns, sumptuously appointed rooms and ethereally strange vistas ... that [information technology] risks losing yous in the whirl" and that while The Gilt Compass is "an honorable piece of work," it is "hampered by its fealty to the book and its madly rushed step."^[68] James Berardinelli of ReelReviews gave the film two.five stars out of four, calling it "adequate, merely not inspired" and criticising the first 60 minutes for its rushed footstep and sketchily-developed characters.^[69] James Christopher of The Times of London was disappointed, praising the "marvellous" special furnishings and casting, but maxim that the "books weave a magic the motion picture simply cannot match" and citing a "lack of genuine drama."^[70]

Time rated it a "A-" and chosen it a "good, if familiar fantasy," saying "The find is Dakota Blueish Richards ... who'south both grounded and magical."^[71] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated information technology iv stars out of five, praising Nicole Kidman's casting and saying it had "no other challengers as [2007's] big Christmas movie."^[72] Leonard Maltin gave the motion-picture show 3 out of 4 stars, and said that "Richards is persuasive" and that it "does a good job of introducing us to an unfamiliar world." Critic Roger Ebert awarded the flick iv out of four stars and chosen it "a darker, deeper fantasy epic than the "Rings" trilogy (The Lord of the Rings), The Chronicles of Narnia or the Potter films," saying that it "creates villains that are more complex and poses more intriguing questions. As a visual experience, it is superb. As an escapist fantasy, it is challenging ... I think [it] is a wonderfully good-looking motion-picture show, with exciting passages and a captivating heroine."^[73]

Pullman himself was described past a London Times interviewer as sounding "ambivalent" and "guarded" nigh the film, saying in March 2008: "A lot of things about it were practiced… Nothing's perfect. Nothing can bring out all that's in the book. There are always compromises." He hoped, nevertheless, that the rest of the trilogy would be adapted with the same bandage and crew.^[74] In July 2009, later on this possibility had been exhausted, Weitz told Time magazine that he thought the motion picture'south special effects ended upwardly beingness its "nigh successful element."^[29]

Debbie Day of Premiere magazine said "The Golden Compass ultimately fails as a film in its broad strokes and inadequate scene development."^[75]

Accolades [edit]

The Aureate Compass won the 2008 Oscar for All-time Visual Furnishings and the BAFTA Film Honor for Special Visual Effects^[76] notably chirapsia what many considered to exist the forepart-runner, Michael Bay's Transformers, which had swept the VES awards prior.^[77] It was also nominated for 2 Critics' Choice Awards in 2007 ("Best Family Film," and "All-time Young Extra" for Dakota Blueish Richards^[78]), 5 Satellite Awards and the Hugo Honor for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Grade. The Aureate Compass was nominated for the National Movie Award for Best Family Film, merely lost to Disney/Pixar'south WALL-E.

Honor	Category	Nominee	Issue
University Awards	Best Art Direction	Dennis Gassner (art director) Anna Pinnock (set decorator)	Nominated
	Best Visual Effects	Michael Fifty. Fink Pecker Westenhofer Ben Morris Trevor Forest	Won
BAFTA Awards	Best Special Visual Effects	Michael Fifty. Fink Bill Westenhofer Ben Morris Trevor Woods	Won
Saturn Awards	Best Fantasy Pic		Nominated
	Best Functioning by a Younger Role player	Dakota Blue Richards	Nominated
	Best Costume	Ruth Myers	Nominated
	Best Special Effects		Nominated
Excellence in Production Design Awards	Fantasy Pic	Dennis Gassner (production designer) Richard L. Johnson (supervising art director) Chris Lowe (fine art managing director) Andy Nicholson (fine art managing director) Tino Schaedler (art director - digital sets) James Foster (standby art director) Gavin Fitch (banana art director) Helen Xenopoulos (assistant art director)	Won
Critics' Option Movie Awards	Best Young Actress	Dakota Blueish Richards	Nominated
	All-time Family Film		Nominated
Golden Trailer Awards	Best Animation/Family TV Spot		Nominated
	All-time Animation/Family Affiche		Nominated
Hugo Awards	All-time Dramatic Presentation - Long Course	Chris Weitz (written by/manager) Philip Pullman (based on the novel by)	Nominated
IFMCA Awards	Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction Film	Alexandre Desplat	Won
	Flick Score of the Yr		Nominated
ALFS Awards	British Quantum - Acting	Dakota Blue Richards	Nominated
Golden Reel Awards	Best Sound Editing - Music in a Characteristic Flick	Gerard McCann (supervising music editor) Peter Clarke (music editor) Robert Houston (additional music editor) Andrew Dudman (additional music editor) Sam Okell (additional music editor) Stuart Morton (additional music editor)	Nominated
National Movie Awards	Best Family Film		Nominated
	All-time Performance - Female	Nicole Kidman	Nominated
		Dakota Blueish Richards	Nominated
Satellite Awards	All-time Motion Moving-picture show, Animated or Mixed Media		Nominated
	Best Cinematography	Henry Braham	Nominated
	All-time Original Song	Kate Bush (for the song "Lyra")	Nominated
	Best Sound	Mike Prestwood Smith Mark Taylor Glenn Freemantle	Nominated
	Best Visual Effects		Nominated
Visual Effects Social club Awards	Outstanding Visual Furnishings in an Effects Driven Motion Film	Michael L. Fink Susan MacLeod Neb Westenhofer Ben Morris	Nominated
World Soundtrack Awards	Soundtrack Composer of the Year	Alexandre Desplat	Nominated
Taurus Awards	Best High Piece of work	Paul Herbert Nicholas Daines	Nominated
Young Artist Awards	Best Family Feature Film (Fantasy or Musical)		Nominated
	Best Performance in a Feature Flick - Leading Young Actress	Dakota Blue Richards	Nominated

Music [edit]

The Golden Compass
Soundtrack album by Alexandre Desplat
Released	January 22, 2008
Recorded	2007
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	73:49
Label	WaterTower Music
Producer	Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Desplat soundtracks chronology
Mr. Magorium'southward Wonder Emporium (2007) The Golden Compass (2008) Afterward (2008)
Singles from The Golden Compass
"Lyra" Released: 2007

French composer Alexandre Desplat equanimous the film's music. British vocalizer Kate Bush wrote and performed the song "Lyra" which is played over the cease credits.^[79] The film's soundtrack anthology was released on Jan 22, 2008, by WaterTower Music.

Video game [edit]

The video game for this movie was released in November 2007 in Europe and December 2007 in North America and Australia for the PC, Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation three, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS and the Xbox 360. It was developed past Shiny Amusement and published past Sega.^[80]

Players take command of the characters Lyra Belacqua and Iorek Byrnison in Lyra's attempt to save her friend Roger from the Full general Oblation Board. As this game does not fully take into account the changes made by the final version of the film, a modest amount of footage from the film'south deleted catastrophe tin be viewed near the terminate of the game, and the order in which Lyra travels to Bolvangar and Svalbard follows the book and not the film.

Future [edit]

Cancelled sequels [edit]

At the fourth dimension of The Gold Compass 'due south theatrical release, Chris Weitz pledged to "protect [the] integrity" of the prospective sequels by beingness "much less compromising" in the book-to-film accommodation process.^[25] New Line Movie theater commissioned Hossein Amini to write a screenplay based on the 2nd book in the trilogy, The Subtle Knife, potentially for release in May 2010, with the third book of the trilogy, The Amber Spyglass, to follow. Notwithstanding, New Line president Toby Emmerich stressed that product of the 2d and third films was dependent on the financial success of The Aureate Compass.^[81] When The Gold Compass did not meet expectations at the U.s. box-part, the likelihood of a sequel was downplayed by New Line. Co-ordinate to studio co-head Michael Lynne, "The jury is however very much out on the film, and while it'southward performed very strongly overseas, we'll look at information technology early 2008 and see where we're going with a sequel."^[82]

In February 2008, Weitz told The Daily Yomiuri, a Japanese newspaper, that he withal hoped for the sequels' product: "at first it looked like we were down for the count because in the U.S. [the flick] underperformed, simply then internationally it performed [meliorate] than expectations. So, a lot depends on Japan, frankly… I call up if information technology does well enough here we'll exist in expert shape for that."^[83] Although producer Deborah Forte had, in March 2008, expressed optimism that the sequels would be made,^[84] by October 2008, the two planned sequels were officially placed on agree, according to New Line Cinema, because of financial concerns during the global recession.^{[85] [86]} Sam Elliott, notwithstanding, stated, "The Catholic Church ... lambasted them, and I recall it scared New Line off."^[87]

Television receiver reboot [edit]

In 2019, 12 years later on the film'southward disappointment that caused the ii sequels to be scrapped, a television adaptation of His Night Materials was made. It is produced past Bad Wolf and New Line Production and was shown on both BBC One and HBO. It received a much better reception than the pic accommodation.

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External links [edit]

• The Golden Compass at IMDb
• The Golden Compass at AllMovie
• The Golden Compass at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Golden Compass at Metacritic
• The Golden Compass at Box Office Mojo
• Book Vs. Film: The Gilded Compass by The A.V. Club
• The Gilt Compass Product Notes

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