Variety and The L.A. Times are reporting that 20th Century Fox has picked up the option to co-finance Walden Media’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader just a month after Disney decided to pass on helping to finance the third film in the series. Budgeting and script issues are being worked out although there’s hope that the film will start shooting at the end of summer for a planned holiday 2010 release through the Fox Walden label.
Fox and Walden will split the production and P&A costs for “Dawn Treader,” which is projected to have a $140 million budget, down from the $215 million spent on last year’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. “Caspian” grossed $419 million worldwide, compared to the $745 million earned by its predecessor “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.”
As planned, the third film will be directed by Michael Apted with Mark Johnson and original director Andrew Adamson co-producing. Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley will be returning as Prince Caspian, Edmund and Lucy while Will Poulter from Garth Jennings’ Son of Rambow will play Eustace Clarence Scrubb.
Happy holidays, everyone! We are also approaching 3 years online, and I just want to say a huge thanks to everyone who has visited and supported us over that time 
Disney has announced that it has pulled out of financing the next Chronicles Of Narnia film adaptation.
The studio had been committed to co-produce and co-finance The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader alongside Walden Media.
However, the studio has now revealed that for budgetary and logistical reasons, it will not be involved in production of the next movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The first film in the franchise, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, cost $180 million (£122 million) to make and made around $745 million (£505 million) at the worldwide box office. Second instalment Prince Caspian had a budget of $200 million (£135 million) but grossed just $419 million (£284 million) worldwide, a significant drop from the previous movie.
Dawn Treader is already in pre-production, with an anticipated release date of May 2010. All and key characters from the previous instalments are thought to have signed on.
Walden Media is expected to go ahead with the production, with Fox studios a likely contender to replace Disney.
Earlier this year, it was rumoured that the Narnia franchise would end with Dawn Treader after producer Mark Johnson said that there were no plans to adapt any of the remaining four books.
Also, just a reminder – if you are in the UK, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will be showing on BBC1 on December 26 at 5.50pm!
Screencaps from the Prince Caspian DVD extras have been added to the gallery! I’ve only been able to find 3 of the 6 Easter Eggs however, so if anyone knows how to find them all then please let me know.
Blonde Cam (Easter Egg):
Inside Narnia:
Sets of Narnia:
Big Movie Comes to a Small Town:
Deleted scenes:
Screencaptures from the Prince Caspian DVD have been added to the gallery! Extras coming soon.
If you are in the UK you can pick up Prince Caspian on DVD from today! I will hopefully be getting it very soon so expect to see screencaps shortly.
The rest of the DVD release schedule is as follows:
November 19, 2008 – Denmark
November 21, 2008 – Japan
November 26, 2008 – Australia & New Zealand
December 2, 2008 – U.S. & Canada
December 3, 2008 – Italy
December 4, 2008 – Germany
December 10, 2008 – the Netherlands
Thanks to everyone who emailed links – videos of the bloopers and deleted scenes have been uploaded to YouTube and the ones featuring Skandar have been added to our video archive:
I received a signed note from Skandar in the mail this morning thanking us for the Birthday Book, so we now have confirmation that he has definitely got it!
I don’t have access to a scanner at the moment so I have taken a picture of it and added it to the gallery.
