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Originally Posted by monolith21

I'm glad they are still going ahead with it. For Disney, having the first one make an unbelievable amount of money pretty much spelled out their withdrawal in a way. So backwards. The second one still made a whole grip of money...well beyond what most films rake in. It didn't make as much as the first one though...boo hoo.

Hopefully this way it'll start off making about as much as the second film which will spell success to anyone other than Disney.

When you posted this, I hadn't realized that Fox rode in to the rescue.

Fox to develop 3rd 'Narnia' film

Mon, Feb 02, 2009
AFP



LOS ANGELES - TWENTIETH Century Fox is to co-produce a third film based on C.S Lewis's 'Chronicles of Narnia' books, one month after Disney's withdrawal placed the franchise in doubt, reports said on Thursday.

Daily Variety reported that Fox would join Walden Media in developing 'The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader', which faced an uncertain future after Disney's decision to pull out of the project.

Tentative plans are for the film to be shot later this year in time for release in 2010, Variety reported. Fox and Walden will share the cost for the film, estimated at $140 million (S$210.9 million), Variety reported.

The two previous films in the series 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' and 'Prince Caspian' have grossed nearly $1.2 billion worldwide since the first film was released in 2005. -- AFP

Source: http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%...02-118694.html


This makes me happy!!!