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Narnia Film News

Producer Mark Johnson Discusses Future of Narnia

Producer Mark Johnson won an Oscar for producing 1988’s Best Picture, Rain Man, but that’s nothing compared to how his Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe kicked Kong’s butt at the box office last winter. (Okay, he didn’t say that, but he should have!) […]

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C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis Today Conference in Sydney, Australia

On Saturday 6 May, Douglas Gresham, Co-Producer of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, local members of the crew, film and TV industry, and writers are taking part in the first ever Australian national C.S. Lewis Conference in Sydney. […]

Narnia Film News

Disney Insider Yearbook features Narnia

It’s not easy to put a year in the palm of your hand, but the Disney Insider Yearbook: 2005 Year in Review aims to do just that. Or at least to put the year on your coffeetable – this is a large and lavish book. The Yearbook is an effort to put all the excitement and events of last year in one place, packed with the people, events, and pictures we’ll want to remember in years to come. […]

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Miscellaneous Fantasy

Walden Media’s The Giver has a Director

Vadim Perelman, who made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed adaptation of “House of Sand and Fog,” has signed on to turn the award-winning children’s book “The Giver” into a feature. […]

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Narnia Film News

Tilda Swinton to Appear at University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh Film Studies Program, with support from the Office of the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, will sponsor a March 14 appearance by internationally acclaimed actress Tilda Swinton, who starred as the witch in Andrew Adamson’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005). In conjunction with Swinton’s visit, the Film Studies Program will screen Derek Jarman’s Edward II (1991) March 13 and Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992) March 15. All events are at 7 p.m. in the Carnegie Museum of Art Screening Room, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Admission is free. […]

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Narnia Film News

Narnia Expected to do well in China

China’s distributor of fantasy epic “Narnia” is expecting the film to record healthy box office profits when it is released on Wednesday, after it won the Oscar for “Best Make-up” on Sunday. […]

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Narnia Film News

‘Narnia’ on top of the world again

The power of the Japan market for Hollywood films was amply demonstrated last weekend as “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe” propelled itself back into the No. 1 position at the international box office on the strength of its debut there. […]