A Narnia Quiz

Check this one out. There's some toughies here!

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David Buckna, 30.11.05

C. S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia

On December 9, Hallmark Channel will air the "docudrama" C. S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia. Normally, we don't get too much into "talking up" programs or films, but this is one we heartily recommend. To say that we were pleasantly surprised when we screened an advance copy of this program would be a vast understatement.

Check the links below for the review and feature article we've published on Hollywood Jesus.

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Hollywood Jesus, 01.12.05

Christians and Mormons Together

At least in Salt Lake City, Narnia is a uniter, not a divider. An Evangelical Christian group and a Mormon group are jointly offering free tickets to an opening night screening of the Narnia film, explicitly using the screening as an opportunity for bringing people of the two faiths together.

This is not insignificant. Most Christians consider Mormons to be heretics, and the Mormons obviously consider themselves the True Church. And relations between the two groups in Salt Lake City often become quite heated.

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KSL.com, 29.11.05

Narnia's Charms and Challenges

The Disney Insider has finally run a piece on the impending Narnia film. Hmmm.... Why now, I wonder?

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Disney Insider, 30.11.05

New Zealand Narnia Stamps

Okay, I think I've posted a link on this before, but new information is up and I actually think these are kind of cool. But I used to be a stamp collector, so I'm biased!

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New Zealand Post, 29.11.05

Another Narnia Sweepstakes

Sponsored by ABC Radio and Home Depot... No kidding! You've got to check this one out.

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ABC Radio, 29.11.05

Weekly Christian Opinion Roundup

The Christian Post (US), like its secular counterparts, is running an lengthy story based on the Reuters report of UK church-based efforts to promote the Narnia movie. Unlike many of its secular counterparts, however, the Post gets most of its facts right, and includes more detail about the organizations involved in the effort.

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The Catholic News Service is offering some commentary from Lewis biographer and documentarian John Ryan Duncan, who offers a balanced assessment of Lewis' objectives with Narnia—and its impact.

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Beliefnet has posted Q&A "about the moral messages of Narnia, its appropriateness for kids, and using it to spark discussions." The Kopps' intentions are nice, but they dodge (or don't even see) the kinds of really tough questions about paganism that Peter Chattaway highlighted recently (check a little further down in the blog for a link to Chattway's column).

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Terry Mattingly talks to Paul McCusker of Focus on the Family Radio Theatre and Douglas Gresham about the upcoming film. "Lewis has woven the Christian symbolism so tightly into the story that you can't cut it out without changing the story itself. The people who love this book are simply not going to let that happen," says McCusker.

Weekly Interview Roundup

The Star (Malaysia) has some new comments from producer Mark Johnson, who was a fill-in interview for a very preoccupied Andrew Adamson. "It’s not like we’re doing anything so cool no one’s ever seen before," confided Johnson. "Lord of the Rings was so well done, and the expectations of the audience are so strong, that anything less that that would be disappointing." This is consistent with the observations of scholar Matthew Zerrip. But as Zerrip muses: where does that leave us to go from here? Constant one-upsmanship? The books were much more restrained that that.

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The Daily Mail (UK) has got a new interview with the children who play the Pevensies in the upcoming Narnia movie. Nothing earthshaking here, but it's new!

Weekly Non-Christian Opinion Roundup

What does the mainstream press care about? Not the movie itself, but what Christians have planned for the movie. In a classic case of the media "whisper game," this Reuters story about Christian UK tie-ins has been the basis of all sorts of misinformation. As this story originally reported, one church is giving away 10,000 British Pounds worth of tickets, not 10,000 tickets. A BBC News article gives more details on that particular story.

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The Scotsman (UK) is running a very nice article on the literary legacy of C. S. Lewis and Narnia. While it recognizes the role that Lewis' faith has played in making his works controversial, it doesn't dwell on it—making the piece well worth reading for any audience. The article observes, "It is perhaps the mark of the best writers that opinions will always be divided on their worth and influence."

Interestingly, this article reveals that recently publicized comments from author Philip Pullman were made in 2001—not in connection with the current media blitz. Recent articles quoting Pullman's critical comments have managed to leave out that little fact... Journalists are getting pretty sloppy these days.

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The Observer (UK) has finally taken the gloves off and told us why we should all hate the Narnia movie. Says Cristina Odone, "Christian dogma apart, Lewis's message is unrepentantly conservative, a 1930s vision of a hierarchical society where everyone - men and women, the middle classes and the proles - have their rightful place. Thus, we fall out of an enchanted wardrobe into Daily Mail land, where the golden-haired Narnians and Archenlanders are honest, upright, and hospitable; the working classes have warm hearts but need to be gentrified; and the countryside is the green and pleasant land of patriotic lore. Boys are brave and bossy, while girls cook, clean and are pure of heart."

She also notes that Christians should be offended as well. After all, she notes, conservative Christians "detest [Lewis] as an effete Oxford don with a malevolent influence on young innocents. There are more than 500 web sites knocking Lewis for his 'occult fantasy' or satanic propaganda, in which children are encouraged to drink wine, worship nature and sundry other horrors."

Isn't such vitriol refreshing, affirming and tolerant? Isn't my own sarcasm so much better?

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Leslie Baldacci of the Chicago Sun-Times, meanwhile, has written a nicely informative article about the Narnia and Lewis resources maintained at Wheaton College's Wade Center. What a nice change of pace!

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Reuters has also struck gold today by breaking a story about Lewis' previously unpublished comments about a possible cinematic adaptation of the Narnia stories. "Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare," said Lewis in a private letter to a BBC producer in 1959. The Reuters story has already been picked up by a dozen other media outlets.

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The Sunday Herald (Scotland) is running a fairly obtuse article that confuses fanship with worship. As an example, the author says that Lewis' "personal effects – including his library, writing desk and, of course, his wardrobe – are venerated as relics and can be found in the Wade Centre, part of Wheaton College, Illinois, a Christian establishment." Now, it's certainly true that the Wade Center does have a collection of Lewis ephemera, including that celebrated wardrobe. But the collection is essentially a museum, as a well as a resource for researchers. To say this stuff is "venerated as relics" demonstrates a wild misunderstanding of veneration (and relics)—not to mention a complete disdain for Christians in general. What guff.

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The National Review, on the flip side of the coin, is running an article that details the political landscape of struggles over Lewis' legacy. Only subsrcribers get the complete article, but even the freebie excerpt is pretty good—and gives a pretty good basis for understanding that diatribe in the Sunday Herald.

Paganism and Narnia

Peter Chattaway has put together an excellent article dealing with the question of the pagan influence in Lewis' writing. He rightly points out that, if we are concerned with the Narnia films accurately reflecting the books, we need to come to grips with Lewis' thinking when he says things like, "When grave persons express their fear that England is relapsing into Paganism, I am tempted to reply, 'Would that she were.'" Chattaway does an excellent job of examining Lewis' ideas in the context of the books and the upcoming film.

The article is worth reading whether you're a Christian or not. Why? Because it will help you understand Lewis and his thinking.

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Canadian Christianity, 24.11.05

Early Reviews Roundup

Here's what's out there on early reviews. Bear in mind that, good or bad, these reviews are most likely being run against the wishes of Disney. So these sources really don't care much about maintaining a good relationship with the studio. Draw whatever conclusions from that you can. What's really odd is that these reviews don't say much more about the movie than what could be seen in publicity footage...

THE DAILY MAIL (UK)
24.11.05

THE TIMES (UK)
26.11.05

THE SUN (UK)
29.11.05

THE MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS (UK)
29.11.05

"Supertrailer" on DVD

The following is the content of a press release from NarniaResources.com:

NOW AVAILABLE ON A
FIRST-COME FIRST-SERVE BASIS:

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Very limited quantity. To be used for large audiences only.

Click here to Reserve your FREE Copy

This Narnia "Super Trailer" is composed of many different scenes from the movie, set to powerful music. It was used exclusively at the Narnia Sneak Peek events in October and November, and is now being made available ONLY to churches, schools, and orgs who wish to show it to LARGE audiences, preferably on the weekend of Dec. 3-4 or Dec. 10-11.

First-come, first-serve. Reserve a FREE copy now.

Weekly Interview Roundup

If you're interested in what the cast and crew of the upcoming Narnia movie have to say, here's where to look...

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Channel 4 (UK) is running an "interview" with director Andrew Adamson. It appears to be a series of readers' questions relayed to Adamson for response. Nothing earthshakingly new here, but at least it's current.

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The Sun (UK) is running a short interview with Dawn French, the comedian who voices Mrs. Beaver. Among other things, Ms. French has the following to say: "I was on my own in a small darkened room eating a lot of cake with Andrew on the other end of the phone line but I had a great time. I thought he might want me to put strange beaver teeth in or to try to talk like a beaver even though I don’t know what a beaver sounds like."

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Dark Horizons is running an extensive interview with Andrew Adamson, and there's some good new stuff there. For example, Adamson details what he saw as the only major disagreement with Doug Gresham. "The only thing we really debated at any length was what I considered a sexist aspect of the book. It's when Father Christmas gives weapons to the kids, and says to the girls, 'I don't intend you to use them because weapons are ugly when women fight.'" Read the interview to find out how the disagreement was resolved—and for some insight into how the movie will differ in sensibility from the books.

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Killer Movies has got a short bit with Popplewell and Moseley. Popplewell's opinion of the movie's theme? "You've got to change yourself before you can change the world."

Scotland and James McAvoy

The folks up in Scotland just can't seem to get enough of home-grown actor James McAvoy. The 26-year-old plays the faun Tumnus in the upcoming Narnia movie. Over the last year, a whole bunch of McAvoy pieces have appeared, and we stopped running links to them because we just got tired of reading them. But here's a new one, which is a bit more current than what you'll find in the archives here.

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Scotsman.com, 20.11.05

Weekly Christian Opinion Roundup

The BBC online is running an article by Steve Tomkins, author of A Short History of Christianity, that offers a couple of nice reminders about what Lewis was trying to accomplish with Narnia: first, that he wasn't really wanting to offer a retelling of the Christian story, but was rather hoping to capture what he felt the feeling of the Christian story ought to be; and second, that he wasn't hoping to bring children to the Christian story through Narnia, but rather expected children to already be familiar with the story. Technically, this article doesn't really represent "Christian opinion" about Narnia, but does adequately and accurately relate the very Christian ideas of Lewis himself about art and Narnia. It's a worthwhile read.

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Today's Christian is running a couple of articles related to the Narnia film. The first is fairly short piece on Doug Gresham and his involvement in the project. The second is a pretty lengthy article by Christin Ditchfield, author of a couple 0f books on Narnia. Ms. Ditchfield's article is pretty representative of Christian thought about the significance ofLewis and The Chronicles.

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A Mission America Coalition newsletter this week included the reminder that Lewis' aim in writing The Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe was recapturing the feeling of wonder we're supposed to have about the story of Christ—a feeling of wonder we often lack because we're just too familiar with it, or we're too reverent. The newsletter concludes,

Let's take the kids to see the movie, for sure, but let's take the adults too. This will be one of those rare opportunities, for both family and friends, to not just be entertained by a magnificent cinematic production, but to talk about a movie—and perhaps the 'story within the story'—with our guards finally down. Lewis himself thought so, and we agree! In his words: 'The inhibitions which I hoped my stories would overcome in a child's mind may exist in a grown-up's mind too, and may perhaps be overcome by the same means.' Please join the Mission America Coalition in encouraging your church or ministry to make the most of the opportunities offered by the release of film December 9.

Aside from the assumption that this will be a "magnificent cinematic production"—that may well be, of course, but it's not a given—this serves as a great reminder of Lewis' purpose.

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BreatheCast has got details about a major multi-week Narnia-themed multimedia festival running in NYC. It's being hosted by Trinity Church-St. Paul's Chapel, and the program will include the premiere of the Hallmark Channel's upcoming special program on Lewis (I've seen this program, by the way; it's excellent). "This is the first time Trinity has ever held a multimedia event involving webcast, workshops and a film screening," says the article. "We wanted to take advantage of a lot of interest in the movie," said a spokesperson for the church. The program of events begain the 15th of November.

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ToTheSource is running a pretty decent article on Lewis and Narnia. It's written by Dr. Anne Carson Daly. While I ordinarily find ToTheSource articles to be excessively church-bound, I can recommend this one pretty heartily.

Weekly Non-Christian Opinion Roundup

The Wall Street Journal has finally covered the Narnia story. Naturally, their piece focuses on the business aspects of the project. They don't come up with anything particularly new, but you might be interested in their particular spin.

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The Times Online (UK) details the scope of British Christian efforts to help promote the upcoming Narnia movie. In closing the article on a cautionary tone, though, I think the authors pull a quote from Colin Duriez out of context—and I doubt he'll be too happy about it.

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The Economist (UK) is running a lengthy feature on Walden Media financier Philip Anschutz. As with most secular features on the billionaire, the focus is on Anschutz' conservative agenda. The article is titled, "God's Media Mogul." But this article also includes some Hollywood insider scuttlebutt concerning Walden's track record with films, too.

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Well, the opinion that really counts is in. OneNews (NZ) reports that former Disney head Michael Eisner has seen the film and predicts it will do LOTR-type worldwide boxoffice. (Of course, Disney passed on LOTR while Eisner was there, so what does he know? Heh heh. That's a joke, really. Obviously, if I knew as much as Eisner, I wouldn't be blogging, would I?)

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In yet another article emphasizing how un-family-like the upcoming film will be, The Sun (UK) reports that Tilda Swinton's own kids declined to see her performance. Just too dang scary. (Swinton plays the White Witch.)

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Says John Hiscock, a reporter for The Telegraph (UK) who's seen the finished film, "The religious references are there - Aslan is a Christ-like figure who offers himself as a sacrifice to save a young human sinner - but the younger audiences are likely to see it as just a dramatic part of the story."

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Disney is now positioning their publicity campaign for the film as "classy." Marketing reps told the Hollywood Reporter's Gail Schiller that "Even the promotions themselves are not overhyped in the way that sometimes promotions can be." Hmmm.

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"Disney thus has been attempting a tricky dance that involves assuring Christian higher-ups that The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe stays true to Lewis' Christian roots while telling everyone else that the movie has mass, secular appeal," says the Chicago Tribune. "The question now is whether Disney can have and eat its secular and religious cakes. In a cultural climate that pits 'red' vs. 'blue' states, conservatives vs. liberals and the religious vs. the secular, one group's embrace of a movie might reflexively trigger an opposite reaction from another." I guess we'll know soon enough whether mainstream audience view the film as a Christian "Trojan Horse," as the article quotes Dick Staub as saying. The Trib article is exhaustive and thorough, and reflects mainstream concerns about the film pretty well. And it's got some juicy Gresham quotes, too, like this one regarding comparisons of The Passion of the Christ to Narnia: "That's a little like comparing a slaughterhouse to a loving family. Each is valuable to mankind, but I know darn well where I'd want to spend my time."

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Meanwhile, the Denver Post addresses speculation that "a holy war is waging over Disney's much-anticipated holiday blockbuster, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Colleen O'Connor does a nice job of rounding up opinions from the center of the aisle and the secular side, and concludes with a quote from us folks here at HollywoodJesus. "Whether or not you like (Lewis') agenda, The Chronicles of Narnia works as literature. The test of the film is whether Narnia succeeds as cinema. If so, it will be successful whether or not Disney throws the right amount of money at it, or whether the evangelical community gets on board. Evangelicals are as bored with bad art as the next audience."

Cable Preview Thanksgiving Day

The ten-minute preview that's been shopped around at various "Sneak Peek" events for the last six weeks or so will show up on the cable networks Starz and Encore on Thanksgiving Day. Check out the report below for a screening schedule.

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ComingSoon.net, 17.11.05

Final Cut Screened in London

OneNews (NZ) reports on the first screening of the finished film, conducted in London for cast members and select press. And just in time, too! Press junkets start in earnest this week, with a screening Friday night in NYC.

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OneNews, 17.11.05

Detailed Narnia Soundtrack Preview

SoundtrackNet has an exclusive track-by-track review of the theatrical soundtrack up, including audio clips! Check it out for some audio inspiration.

But speaking of inspiration, where are all those "Christian" tracks we've been hearing about for ages? Hmmm.... Oh, that's right. They're on the offical Christian Ghetto "Narnia Soundtrack" CD. (Sorry. Just had to be snide for a moment.)

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SoundtrackNet, 14.11.05

More Than Just Game News

Team XBox is running a pretty extensive interview with the producer and designer of the upcoming XBox Narnia game. Now, this isn't just some "Hey, there's another Narnia thing you can buy!" story—because we just won't bore you with that. The interview includes a lot of information about the film in an indirect way. (I actually sat on this one for over a week, because I wanted the time to read the three-page interview thoroughly before running a link.) You might be interested, if you don't mind some mild spoilers.

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Team XBox, 09.11.05

Narnia Sweepstakes

NarniaResources.com has an online submission form for Motive Entertainment's "Narnia Sweepstakes, " an opportunity to win promotional freebies and be entered in a drawing for a free screening.

Also, Fandango has a sweepstakes for a trip to the London premiere!

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NarniaResources.com, 17.11.o5 and Fandango.com, 15.11.05

Weekly Non-Christian Opinion Roundup

Flordia's Narnia essay contest continues to ruffle feathers. There's really nothing new to report: "Americans United for Separation of Church and State" has already protested Gov. Bush's inclusion of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in Florida's "Just Read" program, and the conservaive "Alliance Defense Fund" has already announced that they'll provide legal resources for any Florida school sued by the AUSCS over the contest. What's interesting is that actual citizens seem pretty quiet over the whole thing, and that as time goes by more and more press outlets have jumped on the story, as if they're just waiting for something controversial to happen. As an example, CourtTV.com is running a pretty exhaustive story on the fracas.

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Wanna see what secular Narnia enthusiasts are up to in the way of Narnia-leveraging? An estate in the Irish midlands is being gussied up in an effort to boost the area's tourism. The Sunday Times is running a full article on the event. It actually sounds pretty spectacular.

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In what seems to me a very nasty politicization of Narnia, the Guardian (UK) is running an article that links enthusiam for Narnia with the re-advent of the dark ages. Why? Because the author sees a direct connection between Narnia-lovers and abortion parental consent advocates. Seriously. Wow.

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The Telegraph (UK) is also running a provocative title on their interview-based article with actor Susan Popplewell, who portrays Susan in the upcoming film. The title? "Why I needed a body double by the Narnia star aged 16." Now, what could they possibly be hoping to imply with that lead line?

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"After the movie, the sermon," the Telegraph also warns in a separate article detailing faith-based plans to use Narnia interest for evangelistic purposes. Such warnings for secular audiences shouldn't be too surprising; maybe they're even in order.

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The New Yorker, meanwhile, engages in an exhaustive exercise in historic revisionism, arguing that Lewis ended his life doubting his faith. Why? Because, the article claims, he finally discovered sex and because his wife died of cancer. "We sense a deeper joy in Lewis’s prose," Adam Gopnik writes, "as it escapes from the demands of Christian belief into the darker realm of magic." Unfortunately, Gopnik not only got the title of A Grief Observed wrong, he seems not to have read the whole book, instead cherry-picking quotes from when Lewis' grief was the deepest. Lewis certainly did think, during his grief, that his faith had really been nothing more than a sham. But as Lewis himself said, that was, to a degree, grief and pity talking. He certainly didn't end up "in a state of uncertain personal faith that seems to the unbeliever comfortingly like doubt," as Gopnik claims. Shameful, agenda-driven scholarship.

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But Belfast isn't cashing in on the Narnia hype, anyway. And at least one newspaper finds that pretty shameful.

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Meanwhile, I think the BBC smells a rat, running a surpised-sounding article describing how current Disney publicity is downplaying Narnia's spirituality. "We're not selling the movie to any particular group," producer Mark Johnson is quoted as saying. "With a movie this size, we're trying to sell it to everybody." Duh. That's what sane folks have been saying all along. But I wonder how long it will be before some Christian folks start reading some of these published comments and smell a rat themselves?

Weekly Christian Opinion Roundup

The Christian Post has reported on LifeWay's new Narnia resource site. It's a major multimedia-style suite of webpages similar in flavor to the official Narnia website. The objective? According to Gary McClure, LifeWay's e-business marketing manager, "LifeWay wants to be the trusted resource to help individuals become fully engaged from a Christian perspective." Hmmm... I thought that's what NarniaResources.com wanted to be, too. (The cynic in me is also pretty sure that Lifeway would just love to steer a huge chunk of the holiday Narnia product sales business its way, too.) McClure, among others, is also comparing the Disney film's potential impact to that of The Passion of the Christ. However, he believes Narnia's "indirect references to Christianity" may have "greater potential to reach the unchurched" than Gibson's more direct presentation of the gospel.

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Wanna know what at least one church has in store in the way of "Narnia Outreach?" Check out this news blurb about a Boston-area church's plans.

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Catholic Outreach, meanwhile, is fighting back about questions raised at Christianity Today (and here, for that matter) about whether Hollywood is using the Church to promote its film. "We're utterly compelled to help fuel and drive Hollywood's new interest in faith-based movies," Tom Allen is reported as saying. "We support it because we want it to continue and we want the mass public to profit from it spiritually. It's what countless concerned citizens have longed for and prayed for. Now it's here, prayers answered, and we intend to make the most of it."

November Feature at Hollywood Jesus

This month, we examine why various parties are concerned about how the movie's promotion is being handled, and conclude with some thoughts about how marketing considerations are likely to affect our experience of the film we finally end up seeing.

The essay is titled, "Previews and Coming Distractions; or, The Art of Marketing and the Marketing of Art." Here's a snippet...

Just yesterday, I ran across a "Noview Review" of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. "This is a review of a movie that I haven't seen," says writer Fred Stesney, "because they haven't even released it yet. Really, with all the advance publicity that they do these days, do you really have to see a movie to know if it's any good? I say, no."

I had to laugh, and even agree with his point of view somewhat. I must admit that, in the past, I have once or twice "prewritten" movie reviews based on advance publicity and then almost literally "filled in the blanks" with details from the actual screening.

Stesney's own quasi-informed assessment of the upcoming Narnia film? "The awesome spectacle runs roughshod over any objections to hammy acting, the liberal use of movie clichés, and a lack of suspense as to the outcome. " As to the meaning of the film, Stesney remarks, "If Jesus isn’t your thing, don’t worry. Lewis created the series to be a light-handed way of getting the message to kids, and Disney, needing audiences in blue states, goes easy on the salvation. Non-believers will still get an exciting story where good and evil meet on the battlefield to hack each other to pieces."

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Hollywood Jesus, 08.11.05

The Narnia Money Trail

The Sunday Times online edition (UK) is running an excellent review of the business end of the Narnia properties. The big revelation of the story is, not surprisingly, that the family of Narnia creator C. S. Lewis doesn't stand to profit from the huge financial windfalls about to come from Narnia films and merchandizing. What's most interesting, though, is finding out what stake stepsons David and Douglas Gresham have in all of this, and the revelation that Douglas is at present in the hire of the owners of Lewis' intellectual property. What an odd thing business makes of art...

A very interesting and enlightening read.

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The Sunday Times, 06.11.05

NarniaWeb Giveaways

NarniaWeb is running a series of contests, and this week they're having a drawing for autographed copies of Devin Brown's Inside Narnia. Enter this week, then bookmark the page and check back in coming weeks for new drawings.

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NarniaWeb, 07.11.05

Narnia Film Avoids PG-13

NarniaWeb has reported the final verdict from the MPAA on the rating for the upcoming Narnia film. As the website comments, "many parents have been watching closely to see what the film will be rated. A PG-13 rating may have scared off families with young children."

The MPAA website states: "Rated PG for battle sequences and frightening moments."

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NarniaWeb, 03.11.05

New Gresham Interview

Christianity Today is running a two-part interview with Douglas Gresham, C. S. Lewis' stepson, author of Jack's Life and co-producer on the upcoming Narnia film. There's some pretty good news bits in there, and its mixed in with some of the best stuff we've heard from Gresham before. A good job of interviewing on Mark Moring's part, and well worth the read.

The interview is published in two parts.

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Christianity Today, 31.10.05 & 01.11.05

Narnia Producer Says Caspian Next

Producer Perry Moore has been quoted as saying that, pending the successful opening of Lion, Walden Media will next be producing Prince Caspian. The key factor in the studio's thinking, naturally, is how to best utilize the children starring as the Pevensie children.

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Daily Mail, 28.10.05