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The Golden Compass is a fantasy film based on Northern Lights (published as The Golden Compass in the U.S.), the first novel in Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials, and was released on December 5, 2007 by New Line Cinema.

It stars Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman, Eva Green and Dakota Blue Richards. The project was announced in February 2002, following the success of recent adaptations of other fantasy epics, but troubles over the script and the selection of a director caused significant delays. At US$180 million, it was one of New Line’s most expensive projects ever, & its middling success in the US contributed to New Line’s February 2008 restructuring.

Plot: It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford’s motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra’s greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust- found only in the vast Artic expanse of the North was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it. Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from clans, gyptians, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle…
Box office
The North American opening weekend return of US$25.8 million was “a little disappointing” for New Line Cinema, though its performance outside the United States was described as “stellar” by Variety,[68] and as “astonishing” by New Line. The Golden Compass completed its theatrical run in North America having earned $70,107,728. In the United Kingdom, the film grossed $53,198,635. The film opened in Japan in March 2008 on 700 screens. Previews of the film on 23–24 February 2008 earned $2.5 million, and the film ultimately grossed $33,501,399 in Japan by the end of its run there. As of July 6, 2008, it had earned $302,127,136 internationally, totaling $372,234,864 worldwide. Overseas rights to the film were sold to fund the $180 million production budget for the film, so most of these profits did not go to New Line, though they gained considerably by selling the foreign rights, and 60% of the film’s budget was already recouped by the film’s release; by the time the film had earned a global box office of $330 million in March 2008, it was estimated that the decision had cost New Line 75% of the film’s return. This has been cited as a potential “last straw” in Time Warner’s decision to merge New Line Cinema into Warner Bros Pictures.