The Golden Compass

The opening flop of the expensive fantasy epic, The Golden Compass, is a big embarrassment for New Line Cinema. New Line had learned a lesson: Big, epic, fantasy movies are big hits at the box office and can be made with big budgets - in this case $180 million. Unfortunately for New Line - but fortunately for the case of Truth - the real lesson that New Line should have learned and is now painfully learning is that content matters and parents are not stupid.

All studio executives should learn this lesson: Big, epic, fantasy movies are big hits at the box office - when they have a strong Christian theme of lostness and redemption.

Here's looking forward to Prince Caspian...