“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” director Michael Apted was recently honored by Queen Elizabeth II.  Variety.com reports:

In a Feb. 18 ceremony in London, the queen made Apted a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. The order is awarded to men and women who have held, or will hold, high office or those who render “extraordinary or important” non-military service in a foreign country.

Read the entire article here.  Mr. Apted is also president of the Directors Guild of America.

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Michael Petroni has been tapped to write the next installment in “The Chronicles of Narnia” franchise, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, for Walden Media and Fox 2000.

He will take over for Richard LaGravanese, who penned the most recent draft of the C.S. Lewis novel.

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The Brisbane Times is reporting that the Environmental Protection Agency has thrown its support behind plans to use Moreton Bay as a major film set for the next Chronicles of Narnia movie, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Redland City Council last night also backed the proposal, which would involve building a pier off Cleveland Point, south-east of Brisbane, and anchoring a barge in the bay as the site of a 40-metre-long film set ship.

Twentieth Century Fox and Walden Media have considered using Cleveland Point or Wellington Point to film some of the scenes for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

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Narnia Fans Spy Luke sent us an update about the third Narnia film.  According to the report, they might be shooting in Queensland in Australia before the end of the year!

Screenhub, a well respected professional site in the Australian film industry, is reporting that it is almost a done deal that Voyage of the Dawn Treader will begin filming in Queensland before the end of the year (Village Road Show is currently putting the finishing touches on a new processing lab on the Gold Coast that would be used for the film).

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Narnia Spy Shad wrote to us about the Narnia Exhibition that is now at the Franklin in Pennsylvania.  If you get the chance, go to it.  It very impressive!  Here are scans that he send in of a brochure that he picked up there.

Yesterday, my brother and I attended a conference in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  During one of the breaks, my brother picked up a brochure for the Narnia Exhibit, in Philadelphia.  I thought the brochure was interesting, and I thought other fans might think so, too.

I’ve attached two images of the brochure - the front, and inside.

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The Chronicles of Narnia has been in the works for a very long time.  With an animated version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe released nearly thirty years ago in 1979, and the BBC putting together four of the chronicles for TV in the mid-to-late 80s, Narnia had been attempted before.

The Chronicles of Narnia property was in different hands until the late 1990s, and now we have an idea of why it changed hands at that time.

Frank Marshall is a producer that is no stranger to children’s movies.  His credits include E.T., Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and An American Tail to name only a few of the 84 films on his producer credits list to date.

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Darren Jacobs was kind enough to forward another update on the C.S. Lewis 2009 Tour.  The update comes by way of the C.S. Lewis Society.

We have added a new and exciting dimension to our C.S. Lewis Society’s tour, “The Path of C.S. Lewis and British Christianity.” Douglas Gresham, the step-son of C.S. Lewis, will be our special guest for the Oxford portion of our nine-day educational tour of England, May 31st through June 8th, 2009. He will personally accompany us as we visit the colleges at Oxford, tour the Kilns (Lewis’s and Douglas’s home in Oxford,) and enjoy an evening meal at the Trout Inn, where J. R. R. Tolkien ate often with “Jack.” He will travel with us as we visit the Eagle and Child Pub, where Lewis gathered with his Christian soul mates, the “Inklings.” It is an incredible honor for our society to have Mr. Gresham with us, who is co-producer of the two recent Narnia Disney films. It is gracious of him to share with us his personal life-memories of his years with C.S. Lewis.

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Hey, everybody! Welcome to a very special Valentines Day Edition of Tumnus’s Book Shelf where we review any and all books related to Narnia and CS Lewis. Today we will be looking at CS Lewis’s The Four Loves.
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The C. S. Lewis Society is delighted to present “The Path of C. S. Lewis and British Christianity,” a nine-day educational tour of England, May 31st through June 8th, 2009. With its main focus on Oxford and Cambridge, the trip has been designed to touch minds and hearts –to inform and transform. By tracing the remarkable spread of the gospel in Great Britain and beyond-and C.S. Lewis’s unique role in that advance-we seek to inspire a vision of what God can do yet again, facing today’s challenges.

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Amazon.com has today announced the release of their new edition of Kindle. With that announcement comes new additions to the library of books available for Kindle, including many works written by C.S. Lewis.

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