Studio confident about Golden Compass movie

The Chief Operating Officer of Time Warner, Jeff Bewkes, has spoken out on the movies his studios (Warner, New Line) are releasing next year, and he expressed confidence in The Golden Compass. ""It won't be another Lord of the Rings," he said, "but it could be a nice solid thing. And if it is, we have three of them." I'm not sure if the comparison with Lord of the Rings was really necessary, since the books are hard to compare in my opinion, but at least it's a good thing that the head of the studio responsible for making the money has confidence that it will be a success. Although it does sting a little bit to see that Bewkes is minimalizing these wonderful books to nothing more than money machines.

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