The Golden Compass owes a lot to 2005's The Chronicles of Narnia. Like Narnia, it is a game based on a film based on a fantasy novel, and it even goes so far as to summarily lift hunks of gameplay ...

The Golden Compass: Fantasy. Starring Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman. Directed by Chris Weitz. (PG-13. 113 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Likable and eye-catching, "The Golden ...

The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film written and directed by Chris Weitz that is based on Philip Pullman’s 1995 novel Northern Lights. The plot follows Lyra, who joins a tribe of ...

The promoters of the controversial movie, The Golden Compass, are making an effort to diminish the boycott being threatened by Catholics and other Christian groups. The advertising agency for the ...

Dakota Blue Richards stars as orphan Lyra Belacqua in The Golden Compass. Photo: Courtesy of Laurie Sparham/New Line Cinema View Slideshow Editor's note: This story is an extended version of a piece ...

Is New Line Cinema soon to become the next Orion Pictures or United Artists (before Tom Cruise bought it and started it back up)? They've had an incredibly bad year with every movie they've released ...

Re-telling the story of “The Golden Compass,” with all its twists, turns and dense mythology, in videogame form is a near impossible task, which makes it mystifying why Sega tried in its vidgame ...

Ever since Atari buried thousands of copies of its 2600 game ET in a New Mexican landfill, film tie-ins have been synonymous with mediocrity. The Golden Compass, the new game from SEGA that coincides ...

Another holiday movie season, another fantastic mythological universe to contend with. This time, it's the world -- or multiple parallel worlds -- of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, the ...

With the glory of "The Lord of the Rings" cycle now fading, New Line looks to this first of a projected series of films derived from Philip Pullman's widely read trilogy, "His Dark Materials," to get ...