Month: January 2006

The trustees, board, committees, and staff of CAMIE awards, Inc. are delighted to announce ten wonderful motion pictures as winners of the 2006 CAMIE awards. John Schneider and 1993 Miss America, Leanza Cornett hosted this year’s CAMIES on the stage of the beautiful and prestigious Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood.

Now available after months of waiting, we’ve got the first selection of Narnia Fans T-shirts available now! There are five different choices, available in four colors.

By ANITA TORRES FISH. Have you seen any good movies lately? Over the Christmas holiday, my husband and I joined friends to see the much-talked-about “The Chronicles of Narnia — The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” Originally, I was a bit reluctant about seeing a movie that had children written all over it. It’s one thing to go see a kids’ flick with our granddaughters, but quite another to see a movie featuring a lion with two other consenting senior citizens.

The hit movie Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe has clearly renewed interest in the classic novels by C.S. Lewis. Terapeak Marketplace Research, a research firm specializing in the eBay platform, reports that The Chronicles of Narnia jumped 51 spots to number one on their Hot 100 eBay book list.

The PC game demo of The Chronicles of Narnia has been released for download. This announcement was made by NVIDIA, as they stated that it is one of the most unforgettable interactive features of the season, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe from Buena Vista Games.

Author Alan Jacobs will discuss “The Narnian: C. S. Lewis and the Culture Wars” at Cambridge Forum Wednesday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at 3 Church St. in Harvard Square.

Tilda Swinton was born to play a villainess — or so she says. “It was really, really easy,” says Swinton, also known as Jadis, the cold-blooded White Witch who terrorized characters in last month’s Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

The “Best Picture Buzz Index” measures what movies are the most talked about online and what proportion of that discussion is positive versus negative comments. These comments are gathered from postings on the Internet.