Vatican Glad Compass Went South, More Movie News
If
The Golden Compass' tarnished box office tanks plans for more films based on Philip Pullman's
His Dark Materials trilogy, "it wouldn't be a big loss," the official Vatican daily
L'Osservatore Romano editorialized on Wednesday. The paper previously called the pic "devoid of any particular emotion apart from a great chill" and "the most anti-Christmas film possible." (Our Maitland says they must not have seen
Sweeney Todd!).... Per
Variety,
Sam Raimi next will spin
Drag Me to Hell, a thriller he wrote with his brother, Ivan....
Jennifer Hudson,
Queen Latifah and
Sophie Okonedo have signed on for
The Secret Life of Bees (
buy the novel at Amazon), while
Dakota Fanning is in talks to play the girl taken in by three sisters....
Dwight Little (
Anacondas) will direct
Tekken, based on the video game.
