By Curt Schleier
Mark your calendars for next Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 8:30 p.m. on the east coast.
That’s when there will be a major premiere of THE GOLDEN COMPASS at the Rockefeller Ice Skating Rink in Manhattan. It will be held to coincide with the rink’s opening for the season and if that’s not enough – oh, be still my heart -- there also are special events planned in Italy, Germany, and Holland, as well, on the very same day.
THE GOLDEN COMPASS is a fantasy about a parallel universe where human souls take on the form of animal companions and only a 12-year-old girl can save the world. The film stars Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott and the voices if Ian McKellen and Ian McShane. It is expected to be the Big Film of the Holiday season, and it is being compared to the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, which came from the same movie company, New Line.
One might think what’s the big deal? It’s a movie premiere? But it’s much more than that naïve one. Or, more accurately, it’s much less. It’s not actually the premiere of the film. It’s the premiere of a new trailer. The film itself doesn’t actually open in the United States until December.
If you can make it to Rockefeller Center, you have a chance to win a trip to the London premiere of the film. But if you can’t make it or can’t wait, the trailer is down below. What do you think about it? Will you be seeing this one?
Blood and Chocolate, or “An American Werewolf in Bucharest”
If I hadn't gone into this movie with pre-expectations, I would have loved it and sung it's praises. The title and characters were taken from a book that was written several years ago, but bares absolutely no resemblance to it at all other than that. As a love story peppered with the peeks at the hidden society of a pack of werewolves, it was top notch and well done. I recently rented it and saw the deleted scenes and feel a little cheated that they were taken out. The deleted scene of Astrid committing suicide should have stayed in the original. But that's just my opinion. I got pulled into the story, and even though I love werewolves with a passion, found myself rooting for the human.
6/20/2007 12:59:22 PM |
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