Revealing news at Toy Fair was the announcement that Dark Horse had signed on as the exclusive distributor of upcoming product from WETA Collectibles.

Following last year’s success, CEA has formulated a new mission strategy for 2005 which focuses on introducing Christian faith through contemporary culture.

Amy H. Sturgis, Conference Director for ‘Past Watchful Dragons’ writes: Just a quick update re: the “‘Past Watchful Dragons’: Fantasy and Faith in the World of C.S. Lewis” conference on November 3-5, 2005, at Belmont University in Nashville, TN.

Aslan, a talking lion with mystical powers, is the central figure in “The Chronicles of Narnia,” the much-beloved seven-volume series of fantasy novels written by the British academic C. S. Lewis in the 1950’s. By the year’s end, if Disney marketers have their way, he will have joined Mickey Mouse, Pinocchio and Buzz Lightyear in a long line of characters that have periodically provided the Burbank giant with entertainment’s most valuable asset, a new fantasy to trade on.

Today is Ray Winstone’s Birthday today! Happy Birthday Ray! To find out what Ray did in the film, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, check out his profile here on NarniaFans.

The company plans to use the system first on the upcoming film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

From information of daily press you could estimate that Tisá where the film about Narnia is beeing shooted is surrounded by a cordon of guards and so the journalists are unlucky. It is both truth and lie. Our newspaper Ústecký weekly can show off with something special, you can see the cast and people around from the strictly guarded area.” We proclaimed you to be a cuckoo of the year”, I was praised by a colleague when I phoned to him from the centre of shooting on Tuesday afternoon.

When he lived in the US, Tate established a career as a voiceover man for film trailers. It began with Jurassic Park and during his time in California, he found that his voiceover commitments precluded time to audition for acting roles, though he has worked on JAG, The X-Files, Party of Five, Murder She Wrote and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, among others. Now he does the voice work from a booth in his home in Sydney, his latest jobs being for The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe and Being Julia.