The Golden Compass

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Posted 11.21.2011

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We feel like there's been a YA fiction renaissance, lately, with so many kick-ass titles being released and totally dominating the book charts for tee...

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Philip Pullman Receives Death Threats Over New Book About Jesus

Telegraph UK | Andrew Hough | Posted 05.25.2011

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The atheist writer, 63, claims he had received dozens of angry letters from critics accusing him of blasphemy in his new book "The Good Man Jesus and ...

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Sam Elliott, Philip Pullman Says Religious Right Blocked Movie Adaptation In America

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 ...

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Whither Watchmen? Is This Big, Dark, Geeky, Lefty Movie The Next Comic Book Blockbuster?

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Watchmen lays out and alternate America in a stunning opening sequence that presents the 20th century as a relentless slog of war and murder. If hope is on the menu, it's in short supply.

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Actor Daniel Craig Talking About James Bond, Quantum of Solace and Saving the World

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

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Agent 007 may not be available to save us in all his athletic and dashing glory, but in Quantum of Solace James Bond exhaustingly gives it a damn good try.

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Pregnant Nicole Kidman Dresses Sheer Promoting 'Compass' In Japan

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nicole Kidman was glowing in a partially sheer dress in Tokyo while promoting a film: The five-months pregnant Kidman, a mother of two, was in Japan ...

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New Line Faces Shutdown

Wall Street Journal | MERISSA MARR, PETER SANDERS | Posted 05.25.2011

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New Line Cinema, the studio behind the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, has spent the best part of a decade fiercely protecting its turf within Time Warne...

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Colin Farrell Cites "The Golden Compass" For Wrecking New Line

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Colin Farrell is out right now doing press for "In Bruges," a darkly comic tale of two hit men exiled to the Belgian city of canals after a job gone w...

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The Vatican Labels Kidman Flop "The Golden Compass" As "Anti-Christmas"

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has criticised the children's film "The Golden Compass" starring Nicole Kidman, calling it "anti-Christmas....

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Nicole Kidman's "Golden Compass" Flops Early On

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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"The Golden Compass" proved a mild fantasy at the box office, pulling in $26.1 million, a modest opening weekend compared to such recent December heav...

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Golden Compass Author On Religious Uproar

moreintelligentlife.com | Robert Butler | Posted 11.17.2011

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Is he expecting controversy? He pauses: "I am beset, not beset, that's too strong, I am attended by crazy people." The day before our interview he had...

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Nicole Kidman: My Kids Don't Call Me Mom

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Golden Compass" star Nicole Kidman appeared on Great Britain's GMTV to promote the film, in which she plans the evil Marisa Coulter. After saying she...

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Nicole Kidman In "The Golden Compass": Darth Vader In A Blond Wig

Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

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If Darth Vader wore a blond wig, a slinky dress and a dab of Chanel behind each ear, he could hardly be as evil as Nicole Kidman, playing the gorgeous...

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"The Golden Compass" Faces Religious Uproar

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 05.25.2011

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The plot sounds familiar: movie takes on religion, angers some faction of believers. But the furor surrounding "The Golden Compass," a $180-million ...

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Nicole Kidman Dishes On Life As Mrs. Cruise Vs. Mrs. Keith Urban

USA Today | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nicole Kidman sat for an interview for today's USA Today and she opened up about her life as Mrs. Tom Cruise, and the irrelevancy she felt: Tom and I...

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