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------------ Sunday, May o4, 2008 I'm so sorry to everyone for insane hiatus. If you study music (no, I'm not in college, not in high school...just a little violinist/pianist person in seventh grade), then you know that spring is an insane season. It started on March 1st, and today I had violin junior honors and a piano competition. Agh. The angst. And here I am, pretending to work on Language Arts HW... But that's no excuse, I know. I'm sorry. I'm becoming an wikiholic. Anyways: The Golden Compass DVD has been released on Blu-ray and DVD, you have the choice of purchasing a 1-disc edition or a 2-disc "special" edition. Surfing bridgetothestars to update myself, I also saw that Pullman's son was married in a full Catholic ceremony. Sorry, I can't check the truthfulness of that. Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Celebration!! The Golden Compass Movie won an Oscar award for best Visual Effects. Well deserved, I'll say. Click here for more info, as well as a link to a video. Sunday, February 24, 2008 Dakota Blue Richards, who plays Lyra in the Golden Compass movie, says that she is unsure if there will be a sequel, citing the upcoming release in Japan. Read more? Link here-- Pullman is involved in the production of new comic 'DFC' alongside John Aggs. The Golden Compass did win an award at the Costume Designer's Guild: Link to the Denver Post. After digging around on Bridge To The Stars to catch up, I found that His Dark Materials announced that the Golden Compass movie will be released in China on March 28th. Yay :) And sorry for the long break. I wasn't able to get onto Alethiometer. Thursday, January 23, 2008 Philip Pullman is to speak at Bangor University. He will join others on February 9 for a celebration titled "Upon My Word!". Prof. Tony Brown states, "We are delighted to have Philip Pullman with us again. He will be speaking about the writing of narrative, and who better to do so?" Full article +HERE+ TheRegister has some comments on the interview I posted on Tuesday. I'm not totally sure what they're saying, but you can look at it-- +HERE+ Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Hello, everyone. I can't believe I'm actually wasting time to update this little site today, I have my midterm algebra exams tomorrow (gasp!). Anyways, here's what I dug up: Philip Pullman: new brand of environmentalism. (Full article HERE). Andrew Simms, policy director of the New Economics Foundation, interviews Philip Pullman. It's a three-page, very fascinating and down-to-earth clip. I had a lot of fun reading it. "Climate change, say the pessimists, will destroy our world. But in an exclusive interview, acclaimed author Philip Pullman champions a new brand of environmentalism that offers us all hope. Andrew Simms: Environmentalists must engage people if there is to be a mass shift to lifestyles that do not cost the earth." {READ MORE}. Monday, January 21, 2008 Hello, I'm so sorry I haven't updated. Craziness!! The whole school seems to be pounding down my back. Now for the latest news: the Golden Compass movie has been nominated as a possible winner for the Costume Guild Awards, to the credit of Ruth Meyers, the costume designer for the movie. Winners shall be announced at the Beverly Wilshire, on February 19. Yay! Congratulations, Ruth. The Golden Compass has been nominated by BAFTA (The British Academy of Film and Television Arts) in the area of Best Special Visual Effects (Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, Trevor Woods) for the 2008 Orange British Academy Film Awards. The ceremony will be held on 10 February 2008 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Good job, everyone! You really deserve it. The International Film Music Critics Association has nominated Alexandre Desplat's Golden Compass soundtrack for Best Score of 2007 as well as for Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction Film. Winners are to be announced on Friday, 15 February. Good luck! Again with the movie--bear with me, everyone. ComingSoon.net has finally reported that the Golden Compass has reached 315M. Despite disappointments throughout North American, the film has been doing rather well in Europe. Japan has yet to release the movie. It will come out there on 1 March. The original article can be read {HERE}. While I was flipping through model fansite bridgetothestars.net to catch up, I also discovered a surprisingly harsh critical review on the Golden Compass. The Vatican newspaper, l’Osservatore Romano described Pullman and the film adaptation of TGC as "hopeless", saying that "In Pullman's world, hope simply does not exist, because there is no salvation but only personal, individualistic capacity to control the situation and dominate events". The lengthy editorial added that the movie was "the most anti-Christmas film possible" and said that it was "consoling" that its first weekend ticket sales were a disappointing $26 million". I, as a devoted Golden Compass fan, was understandably infuriated. The full Reuters article can be read {HERE} (Oh, and sorry--I can't remove the blue bar on the bottom. It's automatically there). Saturday, December 8, 2007 Yahoo! [www.yahoo.com] has posted TGC movie on its front page. View the screenshot. Yahoo! has also posted a variety of other news/pages, including one titled "Christian Groups Slam Kidman's New Movie" [view], and a basic summary/info article [link]. The Golden Compass has also got a User Reviews page, which can be viewed by clicking here. Less Golden Compass oriented is a page of Nicole Kidman (Marisa Coulter) pics. [[link]. While looking through BridgeToTheStars' YT vids, I also discovered they had a nice video of the World Premiere. [link]. Thursday, December 6, 2007 LA Times has published an thoughtful and overall positive-viewed article. Read the full story, click here If I get anymore, I'll get it to you immediately! Tuesday, December 4, 2007 Hey, there! I saw the movie on the first! It was beautiful, I tell you. I won't spoil anything, but I swear: you must see it! But if you REALLY want to see a bit, Yahoo! movies has posted an exclusive clip of the first five minutes. View it here . Enjoy, and watch as much as you want! As you can see, a bazillion more clips have been released. Go ahead and watch a few, but if you want to properly enjoy the movie, I suggest you don't watch too many. I do recommend, though, "Assistant", and "Warning You". Comingsoon.net has posted a beautiful page called "Navigating The Golden Compass". Read it! - Dakota Blue Richards will be appearing on NBC’s Today Show this Tuesday (December 4) at 7am EST. Sam Elliot is to appear on The View, Dec. 6. Check your local listings!! More PREMIERE pictures have been posted. See 'em all , click here!! An article about Christianity Today called "The Chronicles of Atheism" has been released. It's a great read, not just any old anti-HDM work. Read the full article. I have also just received news that The Church of Scotland is rejecting the widely known boycott of The Golden Compass movie by the Catholic League. Read the article. If you live in the UK, GAP is giving a chance to win a little part in The Subtle Knife. I take this to mean that The Subtle Knife will be coming out!! Party! Bridge to the stars has a nice informational article. Read it here. Saturday, December 1, 2007 BAM! It's the first of beloved month of DECEMBER, and seven days away from film day! The Chicago Sun-Times has published an article named "A 'Golden' Opportunity for Kidman" by Cindy Pearlman. You can click here & find the scanned pages on the official movie blog site. Friday, November 30, 2007 The International Press Academy has honored The Golden Compass with nominations for the 12th annual Satellite Awards. You can learn more about the nomination by heading over to the Golden Compass blog. On the blog site, there is also a fascinating new Steampunk Featurette. Launch the video/page here. For you NEWSWEEK readers, this week's edition contains an informational article. Read up! Thursday, November 29, 2007 As expected of these "ALMOST FILM DAY!" days, there are lots and lots of updates. First is movie previews. Icy isn't totally sure what this is, but check by clicking on this link. BBC Breakfast has hosted inteviews with the people behind the main characters in The Compass movie. Icy had a little trouble with watching them, but after a few tries the vids eventually work out. Watch them here. Hollywood reporter calls the film a "Golden celebration of childhood fantasy." Read the full article by clicking here. IESB has also done a little review on our beloved film. The reviewer compares The Golden Compass to modern fantasy movie adaptions such as Harry Potter. You can read the whole article by clickin' here! Todd McCarthy at Variety gives the Golden Compass a very positive review, but not as appreciative as some others I've read. You can read it here. Emanuel Levy gives the Golden Compass a B. It is "likable" and "moderately engaging" but not tremendously dazzling. Read his review. Ain't It Cool has also reviewed this movie (Yes, I know, you're probably sick and tired by now. I applaud your efforts of dedication). The reviewer gives the movie a mixed, but generally positive. The reviewer does not believe that it has fulufilled its potential. I hope to prove him wrong, but you can see what he says about it all HERE. The film has officially been rated PG13 in the USA, and PG in the UK. Ireland rates it a 12A. You can watch a video of the premiere by clicking here and launching the vid. That's it for now! Icy'll be up and reporting every day! Wednesday, November 28, 2007 'OK! magazine has had a brief interview with Daniel Craig, the actor who plays dear Lord Asriel. To read it, click HERE HisDarkMaterials.org has also posted interviews with Sam Elliot and Eva Green, the people behind Lee Scoresby and Serafina Pekkala. Watch them by Clicking Here.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The author of the book on which the new film The Golden Compass is based has hit back at critics who accuse him of peddling "candy-coated atheism". Philip Pullman dismissed as "absolute rubbish" accusations by the US-based Catholic League that the film promotes atheism and denigrates Christianity. "I am a story teller," he said. " If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon."You can read more at the BBC news site by clicking THIS LINK . |
