Chronicles of Narnia

Check the Narnia Super Bowl TV spot

One of the many movies showing their stuff during the Super Bowl was Prince Caspian, the second Narnia movie. If you weren't able to catch the spot during the game, here is your chance to see it in it's full glory.

Prince Caspian star still cannot believe his luck

The star of the new Chronicles of Narnia is a young man called Ben Barnes, who portrays the titular Prince Caspian in the soon to be blockbuster movie. “It still hasn’t sunk in. It’s been a whirlwind," Barnes recently said in an interview about the movie that is sure to propel him to star status. Click the link to see Barnes in action.

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Michael Apted to direct Narnia 3

Shooting on the second Narnia movie, Prince Caspian, is well underway in New Zealand as we speak, but Disney and Walden Media have decided to announce the director for the third movie already anyway. And, as with the new Bond-director, the Narnia team has also decided on choosing a director who hasn't really got a lot of experience with the genre. Apted is the man who directed James Bond: The World is Not Enough, Gorilla's in the Mist and Amazing Grace, and to him, directing The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (could they make that title any longer?) is an interesting new challenge. Or, to let the man speak for himself: ""I'm thrilled to be asked to make the film. It's something new and a great challenge," he told Coming Soon. Which isn't a very unexpected thing for him to say, as he is not going to say that "it's just a job that will make me a lot of money".

Still, it will be interesting to see how Apted will handle the franchise. Andrew Adamson, director of the first two movies, is a director with more of a history in the genre, and as we could see with the Harry Potter movies, different directors do bring a little bit of their own unique style to projects like this. The third Potter, directed by Alfonso Cuaron, was completely different from the earlier two directed by Chris Columbus, and it did the franchise a lot of good, in my opinion. Still, we will have to wait a little bit before we can see this third Narnia movie anyway, as shooting is only going to start in January, for a release on May 1st, 2009. The second Narnia movie, Prince Caspian, will be released almost a year earlier, on May 16th 2008.

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Read about how the storyboards for Prince Caspian are made

Over on the official site for Prince Caspian, there's a new interview on the blog. It goes into the making of the storyboard, with storyboard artist Mike Vosburg explaining how he works. It's an interesting read, showing you a little bit of the work behind the scenes. "On Prince Caspian, like "The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe,"" Vosburg says, we storyboarded the entire film so that it could be viewed on an animatic. Then Andrew is able to watch a test version of the film. He can suggest changes..so we draw new frames...he makes more changes...we draw more frames...he makes more changes...we draw more....well, you get the picture. His goal is to solve whatever problems there are in the story and visualization of it before any of the movie is shot.

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Can you win the Prince Caspian fan art contest?

If you would like to win some cool Narnia goodies, then maybe you should head on over to the official site for Prince Caspian and enter the fan art contest. You can upload anything you want, wether hand drawn or made by computer, and in any category you want (characters, props, backgrounds). The winning art will be printed as a limited edition poster and handed out at the San Diego Comicon. Director Andrew Adamson is the one who will hand pick the winner, so make sure your artwork comes in before July 7th!

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The plot for Prince Caspian revealed

While we are still in the middle of one of the most successful movie summers ever, Disney is already trying to drum up some interest for their second Chronicles of Narnia movie, titled Prince Caspian. They have sent out the synopsis for the movie to several websites, and although you can already know what it's all about if you have read the books, here it is anyway (besides, I never read the books, so it's a handy primer).

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While we are still in the middle of one of the most successful movie summers ever, Disney is already trying to drum up some interest for their second Chronicles of Narnia movie, titled Prince Caspian. They have sent out the synopsis for the movie to several websites, and although you can already know what it's all about if you have read the books, here it is anyway (besides, I never read the books, so it's a handy primer).

The top 10 Summer Movies for 2008

As it looks, the summer of 2007 might be the most profitable summer season ever. Already we have two movies breaking records, with another following today, and there are plenty more movies that could be making $ 200 million or more before August ends. But what about next summer? Will it be another threequel feast? Or are we actually going to be treated to a summer that has some more originality? (What do you expect?)

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As it looks, the summer of 2007 might be the most profitable summer season ever. Already we have two movies breaking records, with another following today, and there are plenty more movies that could be making $ 200 million or more before August ends. But what about next summer? Will it be another threequel feast? Or are we actually going to be treated to a summer that has some more originality? (What do you expect?)

Images from the New Zealand shoot of Prince Caspian

Narniaweb has some images that they took at the New Zealand shoot of upcoming Prince Caspian. There isn't that much to see, mostly a lot of people riding around on horses, but since it will probably take some time before we get any official material for this movie, it's worth clicking for.

Narnia 2 moved to 2008

Sad news for all the Narnia fans: You will have to wait six months longer for the second movie: Prince Caspian. The movie was originally scheduled in for Christmas 2007, but is moved to Summer 2008 to avoid having to go head to head with another big fantasy movie, The Water Horse. This movie was supposed to open one week before Narnia. Interestingly enough, both Narnia and Horse are produced by the same company, Walden Media, so that no doubt also played it's part in the decision. Oh well, gives them six more months to finetune it!

Narnia DVD tops sales charts

The new Narnia DVD has, not completely unexpectedly, sold the most DVD's of any release over the previous week. In total, some 4 million copies went over the counter in America alone, with the movie also racking up massive sales in other countries. Likewise, the movie is also still tops in Japan, where it has been playing in cinemas for seven weeks now, topping the charts for each and every one of those weeks.