We received word from MundoNarnia about some new photos that have surfaced from the set of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader at The Spit.  It seems that a lot of progress has been made in the last few days.  If they’re shooting the film right now, though, the set doesn’t appear to be ready.  It’s close, though.  There is still no word as to who has arrived in Australia for the film shoot, aside from Skandar Keynes.  All that I know is that it’s on schedule to make it’s release on December 10, 2010, as scheduled by Fox and Walden Media.  It’s sure to be a good way to spend the holiday season, and to bide our time for The Hobbit a year later.

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Many many people have written us to let us know that The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is definitely, confirmed again, to be filming on the Gold Coast in Australia.  Thanks, in particular, to Brendan and Elika for the particular announcement.
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This week’s mailbag is a little bit late, and I apologize for that.  I had some stuff to get done this week, and I’ve started doing a new project.  Not to mention that I have been a little sick, so I’ve gotten a lot of extra sleep lately.  Not that it has anything to do with this.  Anyway, let’s get to it, some interesting letters came in this week.

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Here we are with this week’s mailbag!  It’s been pretty exciting to see the response that we’ve gotten so far, and I’ve had a great time writing them.  Hopefully the e-mails keep coming in each week so that I can continue.

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It looks like Disney has taken down the official Narnia website, formerly available at Narnia.com.  Perhaps they’re getting ready to transfer the domain to 20th Century Fox.  Get ready, then, for an all-new Narnia.com, sometime this year.

I’ve always thought that it should be in the hands of Walden Media for this very reason.  Walden Media holds the license on the series.  However, Disney’s hosting capacity was probably much larger, being as big a company as they are.

John Burkitt points out who the owner of the Narnia.com domain is. It’s as I figured, the Lewis Estate owns it.

The domain belongs to:

C.S. Lewis Pte Ltd
1st Floor, Unit 4, Old Generator House
Bourne Valley Road
Poole, Dorset BH12 1DZ
GB

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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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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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Following the news that 20th Century Fox would co-finance The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, an Australian industry insider announced yesterday that Sydney was likely to host filming of the Narnia sequel.

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Twentieth Century Fox has agreed to partner with Walden Media for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader after Disney dropped the film in December.

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If you’ve read the L.A. Times article that Mike posted about, you might have read far enough to know that there are other suitors for the Narnia franchise.  We’ve been speculating that 20th Century Fox would want the franchise, but we’ll take a look now, at the studios that the article says are showing strong interest in the series.

20th Century Fox: They have a good relationship with Walden Media, especially with the Fox Walden label that they released a few movies under.  None of the movies released together have done very well, though, and I’m sure they’re looking to change that around and have a few hits together.  Doing the Narnia series would be a good bet for that.

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