Quote - Oh, man, are you out in left field with that one.  One of the criticisms of the movie from fans of the book series was that the script toned down or eliminated many of the elements critical of religion in order to pander to a religious public.  This despire the fatc that (a) Pullman's problem isn't with the idea of a deity or faith, it's with religion and how that's corrupted by people and (b) the atheistic elements are very subtle and dont' get explicit until the third book anyway when Pullman lets it get away from him.

In point of fact, Hollywood and the TV industry is incredibly sympathetic toward religion.  If anything, it's we atheists who are getting the shaft.  Quick, name a fictional TV series or movie where atheism plays a major role or there's a major character who is an atheist and a normal person.  Takes you a while to think of one, if any, doesn't it?

 

Well, fans of the book series probably aren't too religious to begin with, so consider the audience there.  Hollywood may have tried to tone down the antireligious themes from the book, but most peoples objection to the movie (as far as the moviegoing public was concerned) was that it was based on an antireligious series of books.

Hollywood is certainly in no way, shape or form sympathetic to religion, in fact they are normally quite caustic about it, but that certainly isn't a debate suited for this particular forum.