Category: Chronicles of Narnia

HOLLYWOOD — Walt Disney Studios is hoping that the same kind of church-based campaign that helped turn “The Passion of the Christ” into a blockbuster will convert C.S. Lewis‘ children’s classic “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe” into a big-screen franchise — with “Lion King”-sized profits. Directed by Andrew Adamson (“Shrek”), the $150-million mix of computer-generated imagery and live action is due out Dec. 9 from Disney and Walden Media. Based on the first installment in a book series that has sold a combined 90 million copies over 55 years, the project seems tailor-made for

Hollywood has been turning best-selling novels into movies for decades, as far back as “Gone With the Wind.” But publishers have usually had nothing to do with it. They watched and hoped the movie would drive up sales of the book. Sometimes it did, but just as often it didn’t. That whole disconnect is disappearing. The best new example is the Dec. 9 release of the movie “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” based on the C.S. Lewis children’s classic. Far from sitting back and watching, publisher HarperCollins is working closely with filmmaker Walden Media,

`Chronicles of Narnia’ campaign represents break with corporate policy In a marriage of modern myth makers, the Walt Disney Co. is marketing a film based on C.S. Lewis‘ The Chronicles of Narnia. And in doing so, Disney will take a page from Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, based on Lewis’ novel for children and Christian allegory, will be released Dec. 9. For Disney, the Christian marketing campaign represents a sharp break with corporate policy. Apart from Disney World’s annual Nights of Joy concerts, the film is the

The four young stars in Andrew Adamson’s The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe have finally revealed themselves to the world. All four were involved in a cricket game being filmed in the grounds of Monte Cecilia House in Hillsborough when Prime Minister Helen Clark visited the set today. Their names have been a closely guarded secret despite working around Auckland for the past month. The Chronicles of Narnia The Chronicles of Narnia (Full-Color Collector’s Edition) The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set Chronicles of Narnia (Individual Books) Journey into Narnia A Family Guide to Narnia: Biblical Truths in C.S. Lewis’s

Movie rights to works sold off Belfast Telegraph, 07 August 2002 http://www.headinout.co.uk/arts/story.jsp?story=322430 WORKS by the famous Ulster-born author CS Lewis may follow Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings as the next Hollywood movie sensation. The film rights to the Chronicles of Narnia, the writer’s Christian-theme children’s fantasy series from the 1950s, have been bought by Walden Media, a New York production company. At present, there are plans to film just one of the seven books in the series – The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Walden is aiming for a mid-2004 release and has hired a director,