Year: 2005

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C.S. Lewis

Chronicling C.S. Lewis

November 8, 2005 Paul Martin Comments Off on Chronicling C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis was renowned during his lifetime as a scholar, literary critic and perhaps the most influential Christian apologist of the 20th century, and he still is. He wrote a volume of “The Oxford History of English Literature” and was also the author of a science-fiction series (“Space Trilogy”) and “Till We Have Faces,” a retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche. […]

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Past Watchful Dragons Report

November 8, 2005 Paul Martin Comments Off on Past Watchful Dragons Report

This past week, beginning November 3, the doors were opened to Narnia and Middle-Earth. Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted a conference which featured Inklings scholars from around the world talking about a various range of subjects in relation to their works for two and a half magic filled days. The wardrobe door was opened on Wednesday by C.S. Lewis stepson and author, Mr. Douglas Gresham. […]

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Belfast launches C.S. Lewis Festival

November 8, 2005 Paul Martin Comments Off on Belfast launches C.S. Lewis Festival

To coincide with the release by Disney of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – planned as the opening salvo in a money-spinning series of major features – Belfast City Council launches the first C.S. Lewis Festival on December 3. […]

Narnia Film News

Andrew Adamson Visits Borders Books

November 8, 2005 Paul Martin Comments Off on Andrew Adamson Visits Borders Books

Fans of all ages turned out Friday night (11/4) to meet Andrew Adamson, the director of Walt Disney Studios/Walden Media’s “Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe”, at the Borders bookstore in Westwood, Ca. He spoke about his new film, signed autographs and dedicated the “World of Narnia” in store display of CS Lewis’ classic book. The film “Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” opens nationwide December 9th. […]

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The Chronicles of Making ‘Narnia’ a Film

November 8, 2005 Paul Martin Comments Off on The Chronicles of Making ‘Narnia’ a Film

At the beginning of 2001, Perry Moore embarked on a quest. Moore, an executive with an untested movie company called Walden Media, dispatched an impassioned letter to the chief executive of C.S. Lewis Co., seeking movie rights to the “Chronicles of Narnia” fantasy novels. […]