Narnia Fans » The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Cast News

Walt Disney Pictures’ epic film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, based on C.S. Lewis’ timeless tale, comes to life through Robert Tonner’s collection of TONNER CHARACTER FIGURES™ (TCF).

The life-like figures are authorized portraits of William Moseley in the role of Peter Pevensie; Anna Popplewell in the role of Susan Pevensie; Skandar Keynes in the role of Edmund Pevensie; and Georgie Henley in the role of Lucy Pevensie.

Robert Tonner, CEO and head designer of the award-winning Tonner Company, is thrilled to re-create the magic and mystery of Narnia through his figures. “I was intrigued when I heard about the movie. When I saw it, I was convinced that I had to do it.”

This project has been one of the most painstaking endeavors for Tonner. “So much of each character is in the presentation that we didn’t want to overlook a single detail,” Tonner admits. “We drew on our strengths to accurately depict those critical elements.”

Ranging from 13″-19″ tall, each perfectly replicated Pevensie sibling comes authentically dressed. The intricate costume details range from to real buttons and lace-up shoes to custom knit sweaters. The kings and queens of Narnia also have separate coronation costumes available which include fine details such as intricately molded crowns, hand-embroidery details and luxurious fabrics.

These wardrobe adventurers are perfectly scaled and composed of fine quality hard-plastic and vinyl. Each TONNER CHARACTER FIGURE™ features hand-painted face details and 14-points of articulation for the most realistic poses.

About Tonner: Headquartered in Hurley, New York, the Tonner Doll Company, Inc. develops and markets high quality collectible dolls like Betsy McCall®, Effanbee® Dolls, and the popular Tyler Wentworth® line of dolls and fashions, as well as other licensed characters, including THE WIZARD OF OZ dolls and HARRY POTTER™ TCFs.

James McAvoy, the actor who played Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been nominated for the “Most Stylish Scotsman” award. The award is given to the man “whose truly inspirational personal style is an important factor in their celebrity.” The award is chosen by a panel of judges and presented at an awards ceremony on October 26.

McAvoy is running against fellow actor Kevin McKidd, goalkeeper Craig Gordon, cultural entrepreneur Mutley, and comic book/screenwriter Grant Morrison.

However, McAvoy is the favourite to win the competition. His citation states, “This 28-year-old Scotstoun-born actor exhibits an admirable sense of distinctive yet effortless style in his downtime. Sharply-suited and booted, however, he cuts an especially dashing figure on any red carpet occasion.”

James McAvoy, who played Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, is in a new movie called Becoming Jane. The movie opened today in limited movie theatres across the United States. McAvoy plays Tom Lefroy in this dramatic and romantic film.

Becoming Jane has already been released in other countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia and Israel. The movie has only been released in the United States to limited theatres, but will be widely available in most US theatres on August 10th, 2007. It will also be released to other countries in the coming months, including the Netherlands on August 16th, Germany on October 4th and Spain on October 19th.

Spoilers for Becoming Jane ahead!

This movie is a biography of Jane Austen (played by Anne Hathaway.) After rejecting many marriage proposals, Austen meets Lefroy and they fall in love. They wish to be married, but their families disapprove. Lefroy’s family threatens to disinherit Lefroy if he marries Austen, while Austen’s parents believe Lefroy will not be able to provide for Austen. Lefroy later becomes the inspiration for Mr. Darcy in her most famous work Pride and Prejudice.

End of Spoilers

Want to send Skandar Keynes a message for his birthday? Michael writes: I just wanted to tell you that we are currently doing a Skandar Keynes birthday project at SkandarFan.com. I’m heading up the project of sending to Skandar a personalized CD and Scrapbook for his sixteen years old. If the Skandar/Narnia fans want to get involved, they can participate on our special page (www.skandarfan.com/birthday).

Deadline for the project is the 30th of August 2007 and both girls and boys are welcome to participate.

Scottish actor James McAvoy fears he’ll miss out on the excitement of the Chronicles of Narnia film series because [he thinks] the character he played in the first film doesn’t show up again until book seven.

The Brit won acclaim as faun Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe but hasn’t been asked to reprise the role in the sequel, Prince Caspian.

And he fears he’ll be old and grey before he returns to the film franchise, based on C.S. Lewis’ books.

He tells Venice magazine, “Tumnus doesn’t show up until the last Narnia book, which is called The Last Battle… so I’m a bit devastated.

“But, if they ever get to the seventh book, when I’m about 45 years old, maybe they’ll (producers) come knocking.”

Tumnus DOES show up at least once before then, though: The Horse and His Boy.

Would you like the White Witch to read you a bedtime story?

That is what Tilda Swinton is offering in a celebrity charity auction for the Macmillan Cancer Support. Swinton has offered to read one lucky child from London or Scotland a bedtime story of their choice.

Bidding takes place in an exclusive auction at the Edinburgh Charity Fashion Show on Saturday. Also up for bidding are the biker jacket Ewan McGregor wore during the documentary The Long Way Round, and a lunch hosted by Comedian Harry Enfield.

Liam Neeson, who was the voice of Aslan in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, will be staring in a film called “Taken.”

Neeson will be playing an ex-soldier whose daughter is kidnapped by slave-owners on route to Europe. Neeson’s character will have to track down the kidnappers to save his daughter before she is lost forever.

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William Moseley is the 18-year-old Brit who plays the oldest brother Peter in the smash hit “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” the first story in C.S. Lewis’ “Chronicles of Narnia.” After garnering great reviews and an ardent following of teen screamers, Moseley took the autumn off from his life in England to explore acting classes and wander the streets of Greenwich Village.

Just like the Narnia story, Moseley’s energy makes one truly believe that he finds wonder behind every cupboard door. His excitement and joy colors everything he encounters here, from acting classes to cup cakes to Downtown street life. I recently spoke to the young actor about his enthusiasm for the Village, before he left for New Zealand to shoot the second Narnia film, Prince Caspian.

You did have a plan beyond breakfast, right?

I came to hone my craft a bit before I head off to New Zealand for the next installment of Narnia, “Prince Caspian.” I find the atmosphere here, in New York so motivating. It’s funny, I knew I would have one class to take with Sheila Gray, but I worried I wouldn’t be busy enough, and now I am constantly doing scenes with people from my classes, going to theater and the movies.

For me acting is so much about confidence. If you believe you are good enough you give that off and it makes you actually better. So studying with a teacher where I am being exposed to method and sensory work seems to have moved my acting to a different level.

What’s next after the Village?

Well, I leave for New Zealand at the end of January, and then we shoot there and in Prague, Slovenia and Poland. This role is going to be very physical, with lots of battles. I have been training in Gleason’s gym in Brooklyn. It is a place where they see me, as rather smallish boy with a funny accent, and they make me earn my respect there. I have been studying sword fighting as well, which is sort of a dream come true because when I was a boy my mum wouldn’t let me fight or kick box because she thought I’d just use it against my sister. Now I am getting to do it all.

[Read the rest at The Villager]

William Moseley’s favorite Village spots

Magnolia Café: “Yes, I would wait in line for a cupcake.”

Cowgirl Café: “I love that I get to have a taste of the south and still stay in New York.”

Fat Cat: “Pool tables and shuffle board— what could be bad about that?”

Bread and Pastry Café: “For the paninni. Need I say more?”

Cafe doma: “Decaf tea and a place to write or read or just look out the big window”

Chronicles of Narnia star Georgie Henley made the switch-on of Ilkley’s Christmas lights a magical evening on Saturday.

The schoolgirl film star, who lives in Ilkley, told the many families gathered on The Grove how the town’s festive lights had always been a highlight of the year for her.

She told crowds that of all the places she had visited on her film-making travels, including New Zealand, Japan and the United States, she still liked Ilkley the best.

Georgie, 11, played Lucy Pevensie in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first of Disney’s big-screen adaptations of C S Lewis’ classic children’s books. She’ll return to the Narnia set in early 2007 to start shooting the sequel, Prince Caspian.

Crowds waited in a cold and breezy Ilkley town centre for the young actress to make her appearance and push the brightly coloured plunger to light up the town for Christmas.

The build-up to the lights switch-on began with some festive singing, led by Ilkley singer, Shirley Britton, and a parade of schoolchildren, air cadets. Then Father Christmas aboard a horse-drawn carriage, made his way to The Grove from Springs lane, led by Town Crier Chris Richards.

Tilda Swinton, the actress that portrayed the White Witch in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, celebrates her birthday today. Swinton turns 46 today.