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Disney Insider Yearbook features Narnia

March 15, 2006 Paul Martin
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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Prince Caspian already Greenlit?

December 13, 2005 Paul Martin
According to a source at Disney, who requested anonymity, Prince Caspian, the second story in the Chronicles of Narnia, has been greenlit for a December 2007 theatrical release. Disney was hoping for a $60 million opening weekend for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and since the film’s opening exceeded their expectation they are moving forward.

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Comes to Life

November 30, 2005 Paul Martin
Filming C.S. Lewis’ masterwork, the seven books that compose the Chronicles of Narnia, has been something of an impossible dream for decades. Ever since the first of the books, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” was published in 1950, children and adults have adored them alike – they have been perennial bestsellers for more than 50 years. The history of Narnia has everything: magic, adventure, tragedy, humor, and triumph — it’s not surprising that Hollywood has longed to bring it to the big screen.

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