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...Golden Compass, the first of the Pullman trilogy, reached the screen last December. It cost the same as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ($180 million) but grossed only $70 million at the domestic box office. The very respectable $301 million the movie earned in foreign markets wasn't enough to mask the disappointment of its producing studio, New Line. No sequels were green-lighted, and in February New Line was folded into its parent company, Warner Bros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Narnia Hits While Golden Compass Flops | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...better or for worse, an artist gives the people exactly what they want. Philip Pullman's brief, exquisite novel ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE NORTH (Knopf; 104 pages) is fan service at its best. North is set in the same quasi-Victorian alternative universe as Pullman's Golden Compass, where every human is accompanied by a talking-animal soul mate called a daemon. It's a prequel, the story of how a young and not-yet-grizzled Lee Scoresby, gunslinging aeronaut extraordinaire, and his rabbit daemon, Hester, first met up with armored polar bear Iorek Byrnison. Nobody writes dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bear Necessity | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

What happened before The Golden Compass Books, page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scorsese's Moonlighting Gig | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...company in Germany since 1998, is more casual. Tonight's finale showcases the Hugo label, the brand's most avant-garde offering, and marks the debut of Belgian designer Bruno Pieters, the first major creative appointment Boss has made outside the company since the Milan fiasco. Pieters' collection of compass-cut coats, jackets and tunics wows this audience, which rises to give a standing ovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Boss | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...Foote came to rely on the compass in his watch to find his way to his office. When in doubt, he would follow its arrow south...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Blank Page | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

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