The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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Buena Vista Games to create Narnia for 2005

May 10, 2004 Paul Martin Comments Off on Buena Vista Games to create Narnia for 2005

Buena Vista Games, Inc., the global interactive entertainment arm of The Walt Disney Company, today announced that it will publish video games based on the epic tale of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, the best-selling story by C.S. Lewis and the forthcoming film by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, for the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, Xbox(R) video game system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube(TM), PC and handheld consoles in fall 2005. […]

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Swinton: Narnia’s White Witch! McAvoy: Tumnus?

May 7, 2004 Paul Martin Comments Off on Swinton: Narnia’s White Witch! McAvoy: Tumnus?

The part is one of the biggest movie roles of the year – and Tilda Swinton has landed it. She will play the wicked White Witch who rules as the ice queen of Narnia, the fictional land created by C. S. Lewis where it’s always winter but never Christmas, in his classic novel The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.

James McAvoy, one of the stars of award-winning TV drama State Of Play and TV series Shameless, is rumoured to have been offered the role of Mr Tumnus, the Narnian creature who tries to help the children after they stumble into his world via an old wardrobe. […]

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Narnia Casting Call Draws 300 Hopefuls for LWW

May 3, 2004 Paul Martin Comments Off on Narnia Casting Call Draws 300 Hopefuls for LWW

Braving rain, 300 tall and short people turned out to the Auckland casting call for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

And the film’s officials had a message for those who stayed away: “If you can’t handle the rain you can’t handle a film set,” said extras casting co-ordinator Victoria Cole. […]

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Gregson-Williams to score Narnia adventure

April 29, 2004 Paul Martin Comments Off on Gregson-Williams to score Narnia adventure

The prolific Harry Gregson-Williams has landed yet another major scoring assignment – perhaps his most prestigious so far. He will compose the music for Disney’s and Walden Media’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe based on the novel by C.S. Lewis. The film is directed by Andrew Adamson with whom Gregson-Williams just worked on Shrek 2 as well as its popular 2001 predecessor. […]

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Don McAlpine to do Cinematography on LWW

April 13, 2004 Paul Martin Comments Off on Don McAlpine to do Cinematography on LWW

Don McAlpine, one of Australia’s most distinguished film-makers, is now preparing to shoot a big-screen adaptation of C. S. Lewis’s novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in New Zealand. He celebrated his 70th birthday yesterday at his home at MacMasters Beach. […]

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Filming begins in Auckland in June

April 6, 2004 Paul Martin Comments Off on Filming begins in Auckland in June

Shooting for the first of the Narnia films starts in June. A crew 200 strong arrived in Auckland New Zealand today and was welcome with a Powhiri. Shooting will take place in Auckland, Christchurch and Queenstown. […]

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Rhythm and Hues Bringing Narnia F/X to Life

March 29, 2004 Paul Martin Comments Off on Rhythm and Hues Bringing Narnia F/X to Life

For “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” Rhythm and Hues will create matte paintings, as well as bring to life a cast of creatures from the C.S. Lewis children’s classic as photo-realistic computer-generated characters, including Aslan, a talking lion. […]

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Has Peter been Cast?

March 23, 2004 Paul Martin Comments Off on Has Peter been Cast?

DarkHorizons is reporting today that unknown actor Christopher Anderson-Peters (‘The Captives’) is rumoured to play the oldest of the four kids in “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (that’d be Peter). IMDb.com doesn’t seem to have a listing for the actor or the film, so anyone who has some info on this fellow; we’d love to hear it! […]