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USA Today ranks The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe among top 5 to see in 2005

USA Today ranks five big pictures that are sure to pop your corn in 2005. And when we say big, we mean big. Big budgets, big concepts, big directors, big effects — especially that hairy beast who goes ape in King Kong, and we don’t mean Jack Black. Intentionally omitted is the most anticipated film event of the summer, the opening May 20 of Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, in which George Lucas finally brings his multigenerational space opera to a close. The only suspense is whether this prequel goes out with a bang or a bust. […]

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IGN Narnia Report #3: Mr. and Mrs. Beaver’s Lodge

Set Builder Pete MacKinnon, who constructed all twelve sections of the set with his team of three carpenters over three months, estimates that he used over 4500 sticks, all “between finger thickness and leg thickness,” to create the set. Each stick had to be individually “beaver-ized,” to eliminate all machine cuts, and every screw holding the set together had to be hidden while at the same time maintaining structural integrity. “It was a bit like making giant wicker baskets,” says MacKinnon. […]