[Sauron the White]

davem ... as a Yank, perhaps I can offer something in the way of explaination. First of all, Kidman is more or less considered as an American actress despite the reality of the stiuation. So its not the lack of US stars. Pullmans books are simply not any really big deal here. Period.

The Christian right has attempted boycotts of films and other things before with varied degrees of success. I do not think they get any credit for this one.

And I know from previous posts that there is interest in a sequel but I really think that New Line is moving beyond any Pullman films because of the massive investment in the upcoming Middle-earth films both in money as well as energy. New Line has never been a top studio and I really think they cannot juggle more than two very heavy bowling balls at the same time. And they have that with the 2 ME films. And those are more or less sure things.