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Golden Compass Points to Lawsuit
Where's The Golden Compass headed? Back to court, probably.
New Line Cinema, the studio behind the $180 million, big-screen adaptation of the best-selling fantasy novel, has sued a video company over its documentary on the book's author.
The lawsuit, filed Nov. 15 against Koch Entertainment and other defendants, alleges copyright infringement, online federal court records show. The legal battle was first reported on in the Hollywood Reporter.
At issue is Beyond the Golden Compass: The Magic of Philip Pullman, a 70-minute documentary that Koch was due to be released on DVD on Tuesday.
New Line and a lawyer for Koch did not immediately return phone messages Wednesday seeking comment.
In its $10 million-plus lawsuit, New Line accuses Koch of trying to "capitalize on the massive publicity and promotional effort attendant to the upcoming release of the plaintiff's film."
The Golden Compass, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, is set to open Dec. 7.
On its Website, Koch Entertainment describes Beyond the Golden Compass as a discussion and analysis of "concepts developed in Philip Pullman's book." It notes the DVD "has been released to coincide with the big-budget film adaptation."
New Line's gripes with the DVD extend to its marketing—according to the Reporter, the studio claims Koch ripped off its marketing.
In addition to the faces of Kidman and Craig, the movie poster for The Golden Compass depicts an armored polar bear—the tale's beloved Iorek Byrnison character—and an alethiometer, a compass-like device that guides a person toward the truth, rather than, say, north-northwest.
The cover art for Beyond the Golden Compass depicts an unarmored polar bear and a compass-like device.
Koch has denied the copycat claim, the Reporter said.
The two sides squared off in a court hearing Monday in New York, the trade paper said. No ruling has yet been issued.
The court battle is the latest twist in the road for The Golden Compass. Religious groups have been on New Line's back for months, charging that its movie promotes an anti-God, anti-religion agenda. Writer-director Chris Weitz has maintained the film is about, as he put it to the Los Angeles Times, "honor and courage and loyalty and free choice and the human will." Author Pullman, an atheist, has long denied he set out to write an anti-religion, anti-Catholic tale. The Catholic League, the conservative group which urged a boycott of the big-screen version of The Da Vinci Code, similarly has urged a boycott of New Line's film.
The Golden Compass is the first tale from the Pullman trilogy, His Dark Materials. New Line, which gambled and won with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, making all three movies simultaneously, is proceeding more cautiously with His Dark Materials. The feature-film futures of The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, the other two books from the Pullman series, depend on the box-office success of The Golden Compass.
Dakota Blue Richards makes her movie debut in The Golden Compass as Pullman's heroine Lyra, a young girl who goes searching for her missing friend, and, in dramatic tradition, finds trouble.
Sort of like The Golden Compass.
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