Total Film is a UK magazine, and they’ve just released a list of the twenty films releasing during the year 2010 that they’re excited about.  The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is on the list at #20.  The primary reason that they’re excited?  Director Michael Apted.  He is bound to bring a steady hand as a director of a great many films prior to this, and that experience could be a key to this effort.  Andrew Adamson, while capable, had only directed Shrek and Shrek 2, both animated, prior to this.  While I don’t look at animation as a very different medium, as they’re still films, I do think that the lack of experience directing live action created a learning curve to it, as far as getting shots that you want as well as performances.

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A wardrobe is one of the cover stars of the next issue of Total Film magazine.

The monthly title, published by Future Publishing, is giving readers the choice of three limited edition covers for its December issue, each featuring one of the heroes of the Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe film.

The magazine has made the new Disney movie – the first installment of a potential Chronicles of Narnia series tipped to rival the success of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy – the focus of its issue out on Thursday 4 November.

[More at Mediaweek]

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