It’s confirmed that one of the Hobbits out of the four from India was severly injured during the LWW shoot in New Zealand. “Swamy,” the short actor from India, sustained a severe injury on his foot and was operated in NZ. Though he has been sent back to India he still can’t resume normal work.
Nicole let us know that JoBlo.com has a list of the most anticipated movies of 2005. With your help, we can move Narnia up from #13.
“This website has the top 20 most anticipated films of 2005 on it; Narnia is #13, surely we can move it up with our votes!”
(please be advised: some profanity on other parts of the website)
Though remaining focused on big-budget action films, several big studios are turning to Walden Media to capture some of the family-film market.
Financed by billionaire investor Philip Anschutz, Walden began mining “nice” films in 2001. “There’s been a desire to grow an underserved market with non-cynical family entertainment, films that provide inspirational experiences,” says Walden Media CEO and co-founder Cary Granat.
Walden and Disney teamed on 2003’s Holes, which is based on the Louis Sachar novel and screenplay about a boy who is unjustly sent to a detention center. The $40 million film made $71 million worldwide, and DVD sales have been strong. Less successful was this year’s Walden/Disney remake of Around the World in 80 Days, which cost about $140 million but made just $51.5 million worldwide, a sign that these films, like others, carry risk and aren’t automatic cash cows.
Walden already has struck partnership deals with Disney, 20th Century Fox and Paramount that could result in more than a dozen family films. Walden and Disney will release The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a live-action film based on the C.S. Lewis children’s classic, in December 2005.
The studios are hoping for a Harry Potter-size franchise, with six more films based on Lewis’ novels to follow over the next decade.
Merry Christmas from Narnia Fans! It’s this time of year that we celebrate the birth of our Lord and visit with family and friends. Take some time to sit back and reflect of what a year this has been. Right now, our armed forces are overseas fighting for the safety of the United States, away from family during these important holidays, and many are without members of their family to bring comfort and joy. So during this holiday season, remember that the most important thing that you can do, is make others feel accepted. Bring a little light of love into everyone you pass, and perhaps you’ll save a few lives, or give someone that much needed glimmer of hope. Have a warm and safe holiday season!
We wish all of you and yours a safe and wonderful Christmas. Visit with your family. When it comes down to it, they’re the ones that will stick by you through good times and bad. And yes, friends can be considered family. Celebrate the day that Christ has come into the world, to die for us!
“I Celebrate The Day”
Relient K
Deck the Halls, Bruise your Hand, or Let it Snow Baby, Let it Reindeer
And with this Christmas wish is missed
The point I could convey
If only I could find the words to say to let You know how much You’ve touched my life
Because here is where You’re finding me, in the exact same place as New Year’s eve
And from a lack of my persistency
We’re less than half as close as I want to be
And the first time
That You opened Your eyes did You realize
that You would be my Savior
And the first breath that left Your lips
Did You know that it would change this world forever
And so this Christmas I’ll compare the things I felt in prior years
To what this midnight made so clear
That You have come to meet me here
To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me
In the hope that what You did
That you were born so I might live
To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me
And I, I celebrate the day
That You were born to die
So I could one day pray for You to save my life
We have gotten ahold of the scans that appear in this article, they also wrote it. A new 8-page Narnia catalog advertising the Chronicles of Narnia hit booksellers this week. The catalog describes the movie and the new Narnia-theme additions of the book. Also described is “A Giant Surprise”, the new story based on the character of Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle. Thanks to Glumpuddle for the heads-up and excellent scans.
The catalog describes new Narnia book editions and movie companions that will be released next year to coincide with the release of the movie, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. We’ll describe the most interesting points of the catalog below but you can download a portion of the catalog by clicking this link:
Download narnia_catalog.zip (1.40 MB)
New for Spring 2005: Available for the first time – brand-new adult trade paperback editions of this beloved and classic series by C.S. Lewis. These paperbacks will retail for $10.95 and feature stylized photos/artwork on the covers. The picture at right is a shot of the new cover for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
New Special Editions to be Released: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Magician’s Nephew color gift editions (very nice) and a few more books with all seven books included.
Also being released is a short re-telling of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for younger fans with full-color illustrations by Tudor Humphries and a new book called “The Giant Surprise: A Narnia Story”. The description reads, “An exciting original story based on the beloved characters from C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. Join Puddleglum, the gloomy but valiant Marsh-wiggle from The Silver Chair, as he and his niece Lally rescue their mice friends from hungry giants.”
The Fall 2005 publishing plan includes a number of new movie tie-in programs. New companion editions will include “Step Into Narnia: A Journey Through The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” and “Beyond the Wardrobe: The Official Guide to Narnia”. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe book will get a new movie cover and an eight-page insert. Also being released is “The Movie Storybook” with photos from the movie and a 64-page chapter book called The Quest for Aslan covering the plot arc of the movie script. Two small books called “Welcome To Narnia” and “Tea with Tumnus” will have simple text which focuses on important scenes from the movie. There will also be two 32-page color and activity books released. Finally, there will be 8×8 storybooks released called “The Creatures of Narnia” and “Edmund and the White Witch.”
With the building expectation for the feature-film of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, BBC Audio Books have recently reissued Brian Sibley’s classic radio dramatization of CS Lewis’ entire Chronicles of Narnia (from The Magician’s Nephew to The Last Battle) in a limited edition.
Featuring a cast that includes Maurice Denham, Martin Jarvis, Fiona Shaw, Sylvester McCoy and John Sessions, the seven double-CD sets come handsomely boxed in their own ‘wardrobe’ and are accompanied by a booklet ‘Beyond the Wardrobe Door’, in which Brian tells how the series was brought to the microphone.
The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia Radio Theatre) [ABRIDGED VERSION]
The filming of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe has wrapped in New Zealand. We have received word from our sources that the four children are on their way home tomorrow, December 19th, and that director Andrew Adamson was very happy with their performance.
UPDATE: We have received information that the crew (and possibly the cast) had a final dinner together Sunday night at the Dux De Lux restaurant in Christchurch and at midnight had a final party at The Mansion nightclub.
The filmmakers will take a break for Christmas and after the first of the year will begin 11 months of post-production.
Thanks to LucyGoosey for pointing this story out!
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Great scans of the four children from the English Daily Mail. You can read the original article at Baz Bamigboye’s daily gossip column.
Download the Preview now! I’m working on getting screencaps up. Would have had them up sooner, but I received “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Special Extended DVD Edition” a day early, and you know what that means. I spent most of the evening visiting Middle-earth!
Anyway, the preview of Narnia is available for download at some links below, and I’ve taken 1000 screenshots and cut it down to 100.
The movie clip is 25 MB and is in Quicktime format. To download the movie, try downloading from AICN below or one of the mirrors. Right click and click “Save-as”.
AICN runs a marathon viewing of movies that runs for a 24 hour period once a year, and each year they get sneak peeks at movies that are sometimes still in production, and others that are soon to come, along with trailers and behind the scenes for movies that are coming much much later. This time, they were treated to a behind the scenes clip from Narnia. Apparently the Minotaur stood out as the centerpiece of what they saw.
(Clip): The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. This was mostly a behind the scenes look at the WETA progress being made on the design of the film. Some of the creatures looked frighteningly similar to LOTR while the Minotaur stood out as an exceptionally cool design…..
…..The minotaur from THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE looked photo-real. Nice.
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