Village Roadshow will relaunch the former Atlab Queensland film processing lab in May, a year after its original closure, with the hope of securing The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for work.

The Village Roadshow Digital Film Laboratory will offer services such as 16mm/35mm colour negative film processing as well as digital HD video or data rushes reporting in conjunction with post-production house The Post Lounge.

The Lab will be largely staffed by Atlab Queensland’s former key employees including general manager Gary Keir.  The company will be hoping to snare work for the latest instalment in the US blockbuster Narnia series, which is understood to be in the final stages of confirming its Queensland-based shoot, as well as TV series such as The Elephant Princess.

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Disney-ABC-ESPN Television said Tuesday that it has signed a multiyear deal with South African pay TV broadcaster M-Net for feature films from Walt Disney Pictures, Disney/Pixar and Miramax Films.  This will include films such as “There Will Be Blood” and “Enchanted.”

Also under the deal are “High School Musical 3: Senior Year,” “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” and Disney/Pixar’s Oscar winner “WALL-E.”

The deal was brokered by Tatjana Vucanovic, Disney-ABC-ESPN vp sales Central and Eastern Europe and Africa, and M-Net sales executive Louise Worth.  It is not yet known when the films will be available on South Africa’s M-Net.

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Fox has revealed plans today to continue ramping up the number of 3D films that they release.  This year, they are releasing two films in 3D: Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Avatar.  Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos announced, at ShoWest today, that they plan on releasing three films in 3D in 2010.

What he didn’t mention are the names of those three films.  In 2010, they have a few films that would make great potential 3D releases, that we know of.  One of those is the remake of Fantastic Voyage, which is about a scientist with a potentially fatal health problem takes a risk on his only chance of survival: for five of his colleagues to be miniaturized in a ship and injected into his bloodstream.

The other film on the list of 2010 releases includes The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  Does that mean we have the potential to see a Narnia film in 3D?  Definitely!

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Hey, everybody! Welcome to Tumnus’s Book Shelf, where we review any and all books related to CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia.  Today, we will be looking at CS Lewis’s  Of Other Worlds.

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Micheal Flaherty

Flaherty will speak in chapel services April 24 at 10 a.m. in Hughes Auditorium. Later that afternoon he will hold a special forum with Asbury College’s C.S. Lewis Scholar, Dr. Devin Brown, titled “Spiritual and Character Lessons from the Narnia Films.” He is also serving a judge for the weekend’s Highbridge Film Festival on April 25.

Prof. Greg Bandy, who produces the Engaging Culture Weekend under the sponsorship of a Lilly Grant, underlines the impact of Flaherty’s presence. “We’re incredibly excited to have Micheal Flaherty as our special guest for this weekend. We’ve been working with Walden Media for several years for good reason. We share their values for stories that matter. Also, Mr. Flaherty has a distinguished background as a visionary educator. We’ve had some good synergies as a result.”

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Part C. S. Lewis-biography, part literary analysis, The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia is, at its heart, the story of a journey. The first step came when its author, Laura Miller, was given a copy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by her second grade teacher. Today a well-respected writer and literary critic, Miller looks back at the spell this book cast on her and at how it shaped the reader and the person she has become.

Like all journey stories, some parts will be familiar and some will not. Most Narnia fans will be able to relate to Miller’s account of how the Chronicles of Narnia changed the way she looked at the world. They will identify with Miller’s deep desire to be Lucy, “that rare creation, a character who is good without being a prig or a bore.”

But these are side trips, not the main path in a book which promises to reclaim Narnia “for the rest of us,” this meaning readers who, like Miller, loved Narnia as young people but then felt “tricked, cheated, and betrayed” after they discovered that many Narnian themes mirrored themes found in Christianity.

Anyone not belonging to this “rest of us” group may find it hard to understand why this discovery produced so much anger and bitterness in Miller. Although she devotes most of her book to describing her rocky relationship with the Narnia books, she is never able to articulate exactly why learning that they represent C. S. Lewis’s attempt to put his most foundational beliefs into story form “horrified” her.

Would she have felt so horrified had she discovered Lewis was a Buddhist?

Read the rest at the C.S. Lewis Blog

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The C. S. Lewis Society announces that the spring tour to England is now closed.  The Society is very thankful as the response from Narnia fans worldwide has been very positive and encouraging and the tour is moving forward anticipating the trip of a lifetime.

In the Spirit of that anticipation, Douglas Gresham (who will be guiding the Oxford leg of the tour) has been kind enough to share an essay (originally published in Silver Leaves) that provides a refreshing glimpse of the many Inklings he attended with his stepfather, C. S. Lewis. There are many books about the Oxford Inklings (J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams & others) but Douglas’ essay is from a rather unique perspective – sitting around the table with them!  Shards of Diamonds can be found at www.oxfordspires.wordpress.com.

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I was optimistic about her condition, and sadly I was wrong. Aslan’s voice actor Liam Neeson’s wife, actress Natasha Richardson has passed away due to the injuries she suffered while learning how to ski.

It wasn’t but a year ago when I saw her in New York, full of life and I wasn’t really sure what I would have said to her, had I the guts to go up and talk to her.

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Ben Barnes, who we all know plays Caspian in Prince Caspian, is excited to move on to filming his favorite book in the series.

Barnes plans to return to Narnia mid-year when the third movie in the series, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, is filmed on the Gold Coast.

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20th Century Fox has appointed partnership specialist Lime Communications to handle all promotional activity for its film and DVD portfolio across Europe, which includes the campaign for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie, releasing in December 2010.

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