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Richard Taylor could be named ‘World Entrepreneur of the Year’
Special effects king Richard Taylor will fly the Kiwi flag in Monaco this week amid the world’s leading entrepreneurs, a prospect he finds daunting. […]
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Prince Caspian Train Station Set Pics
A Narnia fan was in Prague when she stumbled upon a set that was to be used for the filming of Prince Caspian. The set is a train station, made up with posters reminiscent of those on the walls in the Train Station in LWW. They’re very cool pictures that you can take a look at on her flickr account. […]
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Want to Work on Prince Caspian?
The Moving Picture Company in London is looking for some very high profile effects positions to be filled to help with the load of work they’ve acquired with Prince Caspian. They’re looking for a Lighting TD, Senior R&D Developer and Shader Writer. […]
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Want to Work in London… on Prince Caspian?
MPC, The Moving Picture Company, the award-winning visual effects
facility has secured lead VFX vendor status for the forthcoming Narnia;
Prince Caspian movie. This exciting news along with the growth of existing projects such as Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd, the Vince Vaughn starrer Fred Claus, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Roland Emmerich’s 10,000 BC means we are expanding our London based team and will be touring North America on the hunt for great talent to work on projects in production through to 2008. […]
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‘Caspian’ to qualify as U.K. movie
Tarva2Alambil sent us a link to a story on Variety.com about Prince Caspian. It seems that all of the confusion recently about the filming locations is because of misunderstood comments, or poor communication of what was actually happening with regard to Britain. […]
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Vote for ‘LWW’ in the BAFTA Kids’ Vote
Neil Christians and Darth Sparhawk both sent us e-mails to get this up on the site. You can now vote for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for the BAFTA Kids’ Vote! Winners will be announced on November 26th at a ceremony in London. […]
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Caspian CG work to be done by London companies
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian promises to be an even bigger visual spectacle than The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was — if that’s possible. However, in spite of the top-notch CG work done on LWW by companies like ILM, Rhythm + Hues, and Sony Imageworks, the producers of Caspian are apparently hiring different companies for the sequel, notably two British effects houses. Industry sources tell IGN Filmforce that Moving Picture Company and Framestore, both based in London, will be responsible for the bulk of the film’s digital effects. […]
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A Change of Plans for Skandar and his Family
In “The Chronicles of Narnia,” the four Pevensie children are evacuated from London during the Blitz and sent to stay with an elderly professor in a house in the countryside. Last Wednesday evening, in an old Ottoman villa in West Beirut, Skandar Keynes, the fourteen-year-old actor who played Edmund Pevensie in last year’s film of “Narnia,” his mother, Zelfa, and his grandfather, Cecil Hourani, were packing their things and getting ready to evacuate. […]
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Anna Popplewell talks Prince Caspian
BANG Showbiz told ComingSoon.net about a recent chat they had with Anna Popplewell about Prince Caspian: “I am usually the last to know about these things but I know the producers are scouting for locations at the moment,” Popplewell said. […]
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The London Premiere of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is Happening Now
I have just spoken with James, a reporter on the site of the World Premiere of the film in London. He’s stationed under a tent with about 30 journalists. He says that there are more people there than he’s ever seen, the mood is great, and the people are excited. […]