The Chronicles of Narnia

By Peter T Chattaway(noreply@blogger.com) 1. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader began principal photography today ... and it sounds like the filmmakers may once again be adding more unnecessary peril and more gratuitous World War II footage to C.S. Lewis's story. The film's press release suggests that King Caspian...

By Peter T Chattaway(noreply@blogger.com) 5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will open in regular theatres on July 14, but it won't play on IMAX screens until July 29 -- and the fact that IMAX venues won't be getting the film until it's more than two weeks old prompted IMAX shares to fall 4% last Monday. The delay is due to Warner Br...

By Peter T Chattaway(noreply@blogger.com) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe opened in December 2005 and made a lot of money. Its sequel, Prince Caspian, opened two and a half years later, in May 2008, and made just a little more than half as much money.

By Peter T Chattaway(noreply@blogger.com) Fox, which was entitled to first crack at "The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader" after Disney dropped out because of the shared Fox Walden marketing and distribution label, has made a commitment to develop the project. The two sides are still working out budget and script i...

By Peter T Chattaway(noreply@blogger.com) More ominous news has come out of Walden Media. First, co-founder Cary Granat has left the company. Second, in reporting on his departure, the Hollywood Reporter says Granat will stay on as a "creative consultant" on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which the compa...

By Peter T Chattaway(noreply@blogger.com) 3. Producer Mark Johnson, who once said that he was hoping to release a new Chronicles of Narnia movie every year until 2013, now says that the plan is to release a new Narnia movie every two years -- partly to give the filmmakers time to ensure, with each installment in the franchise, that the...

By noreply@blogger.com (Peter T Chattaway) The videos that MTV puts up on its website are inaccessible to Canadians, so I have no idea what happens in this clip, but the written intro alone gives me a chuckle:We did it last year with “World’s Sexiest Woman” Megan Fox, and now we’re scouting the local shopping scene with another up-an...

By noreply@blogger.com (Peter T Chattaway) My review of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is now up at CT Movies. For a little more background on the paragraph where I talk about C.S. Lewis's approach to pre-Christian paganism versus post-Christian modernity, see my three-year-old posts on the astrology of Narnia and the pag...