This week’s mailbag features a topic that is very interesting to me: that of the relationship of J.R.R. Tolkien and his writing to C.S. Lewis and his.  Other topics include what Anna Popplewell and William Moseley are up to next, and Andrew Adamson’s past in Papua New Guinea.  I’ll see if I have the time to reach back into the mailbag archives after the five letters that I received this week.  Be sure to look through the comments from last week’s mailbag for some fascinating follow-up information as well!  Let’s get started!

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With just three weeks of sales figures available, “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” is one of the top ten DVDs of 2008.  From its release on December 2 though December 21, “Prince Caspian” sold over 5.1 million units, generating about $85 million in revenue.

A full chart is available at The Numbers.

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Along with the official press release from Disney, I have gathered some further information of Prince Caspian’s DVD and Blu-ray release on December 2.

I work at a Suncoast store at a mall near my house, and my manager, who knows I’m a NarniaFan and that I write for this site, told me personally about the news. Along with the BluRay and single disc edition of the film, there will be a three disc “special edition” DVD.

I did some digging around to find what the special features would be and managed to locate a complete list from TheHDRoom.com. Here is a look at the bonus features included on the BluRay edition will be:

Disc 1:

Audio Commentary with Director Andrew Adamson

BD-Live (Blu-ray exclusive)

Circle-Vision Interactive: Creating the Castle Raid (Blu-ray exclusive)

Disc 2:

The Bloopers of Narnia

Deleted Scenes

Inside Narnia: The Adventure Returns

Sets of Narnia: A Classic Comes to Life

Big Movies Comes to a Small Town

Previsualizing Narnia
Talking Animals and Walking Trees: The Magical World of Narnia

Secrets of the Duel

Becoming Trumpkin
Warwick Davis: The Man Behind Nikabrik

Disc 3:

DisneyFile Digital Copy.

Special features for the three disc edition of the DVD will be the same as on BluRay except where other wise indicated.

From the sounds of it, there might not be a Prince Caspian Extended Edition like with the first film. Unlike the Lord of the Rings, in which they had to cut a significant ammounts of footage for theaters, and thus providing fans with acompletly “different” film, it was not so with LWW. Seeing as a good portion of what may have been cut was more Susan/Caspian material,I doubt any of us would want that reinstated. If we hear otherwise, you can count on NarniaFans to break the story.

It should be noted that this release date is an improvement over the “rumored” release date for the DVD of Nov. 25. The rumored date would have pit Prince Caspian against two big family oriented movies: Dreamworks Kung Fu Panda and Disney and Pixar’s Wall-E which would have made for some very stiff competition, esepcailly from families buying the DVD’s. This current date only pits it against one big juggernaut, The Dark Knight.

So NarniaFans, mark the date on your calenders and remember if you want the DVD, just make sure to specify which version you want when you ask Father Christmas for it.

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