Chronicles of Narnia

Walden, a relative newcomer to the movie industry, envisages another business opportunity in Narnia: educational publishing, school workshops and teacher training.

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.

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!

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’s shooting title appears to have changed from “The Hundred Year Winter.”

We’ve just created some great new wallpapers based on the Newspaper ad for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Walden Media issued a statement denying rumours that Kidman was involved.

“It’s a project that we’re all very excited about, but unfortunately this is just not true. Hopefully we’ll have some exciting news soon,” company spokeswoman Alison Lehrer said.

We’ve heard that Nicole Kidman has travelled to visit New Zealand and was considering the role of the White Witch, but is it now official?

With work under way on a film of CS Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, BBC News Online’s Greg McKevitt investigates the roots of its Belfast-born author and the Northern Ireland settings that fired his boyhood imagination.