{"id":279,"date":"2007-12-09T10:30:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T14:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/09\/compass-short-of-opening-weekend-expectations\/"},"modified":"2007-12-09T10:30:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T14:30:50","slug":"compass-short-of-opening-weekend-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/compass-short-of-opening-weekend-expectations","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Compass&#8217; short of opening weekend expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/entertainmentNews\/idUSN0835936220071208?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=entertainmentNews&amp;rpc=22&amp;sp=true\">Reuters<\/a>) &#8211; &#8220;The Golden Compass,&#8221; a costly fantasy starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, got off to a slow start at the North American box office and will likely fall short of opening-weekend expectations.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>New Line Cinema&#8217;s $180 million film sold an estimated $8.8 million worth of tickets during its first day in theaters on Friday, according to data issued on Saturday by tracking firm Box Office Mojo (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/\">www.boxofficemojo.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>After Saturday and Sunday sales are factored in, the film will come in at No. 1 with about $28 million when the studios issue their weekend estimates on Sunday, said Paul Dergarabedian at Media By Numbers, another tracking firm.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>New Line, a struggling Time Warner Inc unit hoping to launch another franchise along the lines of its blockbuster &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; series, said last week it was hoping the film would open to between $30 million and $40 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) &#8211; &#8220;The Golden Compass,&#8221; a costly fantasy starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, got off to a slow start at the North American box office and will likely fall short of opening-weekend expectations. New Line Cinema&#8217;s $180 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/compass-short-of-opening-weekend-expectations\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}