A trading card game revolving around The Golden Compass will be released this November. The cards are set to retail at $1.99 a pack and there will be a base collection of 72 different trading cards. Also included in one pack from approximately every 24 packs will be a special bonus card, featuring a swathe of film costume material. You can read more about them here, and you can view photos of the trading card box and selected cards in our merchandise section.
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The Oxford Mail reports that Philip Pullman is to appear at a fundraiser for the redevelopment of the Pegasus Theatre in Oxford, which Pullman is a patron of, on November 17th. Wine and light refreshments are included in the evening. How to buy tickets and further details about the evening can be found here.
Update: The Pegasus Theatre fundraiser in Oxford has been moved. It will go ahead, as previously announced, on November 17th. It has however been moved from the theatre to St. John’s College, and it will start earlier than previously listed. It will now start at 7PM. There has also been a slight alteration in the ticket price and they are priced at £100 per person. It’s suggested that new price reflects the fact that Pullman has agreed to do more than first anticipated. Quite what this may be we’re not sure – a signing perhaps? You can read more about the event here, and the phone number book tickets through the Pegasus Theatre box office is 01865 722851.
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Kinders alerts us that Philip Pullman will in fact also be speaking at the University Church of St. Mary in Oxford next Monday 22nd October at 7.30PM (doors open 7.00PM). He will be in conversation with Canon Brian Mountford and tickets are free. Read more here.
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Here’s more footage from the Rockefeller event for The Golden Compass – this time, the run-up to the actual trailer unveiling itself.
The event was slated to last from 7.30pm – 9.30pm and was chaired by a local radio personality, who took great pains to mention his name and station frequently. He introduced the countdown for the trailer – you can see it in the video at its last ten seconds, but it ran for one hour previously. The intervening time was taken up with pumping out loud techno music and letting people onto the ice-rink. Sam Elliot joined him at the beginning and end of the wait, but had to hold his arm in front of his face the entire time due to the bright light being shone on the stage. His voice didn’t seem especially discernable to onlookers either.
Increasing amounts of rain from 8pm onwards meant that the crowd around the edges of the Plaza had thinned somewhat by the time of the trailer showing – 8.30pm – and an onset of driving rain seconds before the trailer aired led to rather more of an exodus. There were enough people left to give Sam Elliot’s first appearance in the trailer a good cheer, but once the trailer was done everyone left, leaving the big screen to cycle through still images to bedraggled security guards for another hour.
We’ll have our last video from the event up soon; with a bit more time with Sam Elliot.
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November sees the release of the documentary by Jean-Pierre Isbouts (through Koch Entertainment), Beyond The Golden Compass: The Magic of Philip Pullman on DVD. The film is described as using cutting edge CGI footage to bring to realisation some HDm scenes, as well as featuring analysis of symbols found in Lyra’s world by way of interview with experts and historians. Perhaps the highlight of the DVD is an interview with Philip Pullman himself. The DVD is available for pre-order here. You can view a trailer for the DVD below:
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