The Golden Compass [Blu-ray] (2007)
The Golden Compass, starring in Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards and Daniel Craig, will be released in Bluray format on April 29, 2008.
A fantasy epic with more than a passing resemblance to the Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia film franchises, The Golden Compass takes place in an alternate universe where each human’s soul is embodied in a companion animal called a daemon.
Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards), an orphan who’s lived most of her life among the scholars at Oxford, is intrigued when her uncle, Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig), announces his plans to travel north to investigate the source of some mysterious particles called Dust. Lyra has little hope of following her uncle until a mysterious woman named Mrs. Coulter (Nicole Kidman, at her most icily beautiful) asks Lyra to travel north as her personal assistant.
All is not as it seems, however, and the disappearance of Lyra’s friend Roger (Ben Walker) sets her on a dizzying adventure. She does have an alethiometer, or golden compass, that can help her see the truth, and a number of companions, including her shape-shifting daemon, Pantalaimion (voiced by Freddie Highmore of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), polar-bear warrior Iorek Byrnison (voiced by Ian McKellen), Texas aeronaut Lee Scoresby (Sam Elliott), and witch queen Serafina Pekkala (Craig’s Casino Royale co-star, Eva Green).
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Forty Universal Titles on Bluray this Year
A staunch supporter of the HD DVD format (at least as long as it was alive and kicking!), Universal Studios yesterday announced it will soon release a raft of films including new titles on the Blu-ray format — around the same time as the release of its standard DVDs.
The studio said the Blu-ray series would kick-off this summer with recent blockbuster “Doomsday”, going on to include about 40 titles in the second half of 2008. Among the illustrious 40 are five of the studio’s real biggies including “The Incredible Hulk” starring Edward Norton, William Hurt, and Liv Tyler; “Wanted” starring James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie; “Hellboy II: The Golden Army”; “Mamma Mia” starring award-winning actor Meryl Streep; and the sequel “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” starring Brendan Fraser and Jet Li.
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