The novel-turned-movie The Golden Compass has apparently become a huge flop for New Line Cinema, and the director Chris Weitz is pretty unhappy. Apparently the movie “tanked so badly that the second and third installments are not going to be made.”

A very likely culprit is the anti-Christian theme of the book, apparently admitted by the author (Philip Pullman) himself, announcing an intention “to undermine Christianity.” Who would have foreseen it – a holiday children’s movie that (according to the source at the link) trashes the Old Testament and isn’t a smashing success?

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