Tumnus’s Bookshelf [NarniaFans.com] has a new book review: the devotional A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works (HarperOne, 2003), edited by Patricia Klein. Click here to read the review. Enjoy!

OfficialWire.com reports that 30-year-old Scottish actor James McAvoy (”Mr. Tumnus,” LWW) is being considered for the lead role of Ian Fleming, creator of fictional character James Bond, in a new film,
a big-screen adaptation of Andrew Lycett’s biography “Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond,” (1996) which Palmstar Entertainment and Animus Films are developing.
Collider.com offers more [...]

To celebrate the new year, we’re giving away an embroidered Aslan’s Country t-shirt!  The t-shirt is a 6.1-ounce, 100% pigment-dyed cotton with double-needle sleeves and hem and the AslansCountry.com logo embroidered onto the left chest.  To enter, fill out our AslansCountry.com 2009 Year-End Survey which will help us to be a better fansite for you [...]

According to Washington Times newswriter Julia Duin,
In a recent interview posted on NarniaWeb.com, Douglas Gresham, stepson to C. S. Lewis and the man who’s supposed to be holding the line on what his stepfather would have wanted, said he was “ambivalent” on changes made in “Voyage.” But, he was presented with a choice of either [...]

The New Zealand Herald reports:
White Island in the Bay of Plenty will provide a backdrop to the latest instalment of the Narnia films.
The third movie in The Chronicles Of Narnia series - based on the classic children’s books by C. S. Lewis - will be released next December.
White Island Tours marketing executive Patrick O’Sullivan said [...]

HJ Live!’s Mark Sommer has posted another installment in his “Narnia Nostalgia” series. This time, it’s the BBC version of The Silver Chair (1990). You can read Sommer’s movie review here. Enjoy!

From FlyBelfast.co.uk:
A new film is to be made in Belfast, chronicling the tales of a band trying to make its name at the same time as U2, which may interest fans of Ben Barnes, who is to play one of the lead roles.
Barnes - who starred in the recent adaptation of C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles [...]

NarniaWeb.com and the Narnia fansite lineups have received multiple reports lately about the Dawn Treader set being hosted at Movie World in Australia. These reports contain videos, pictures, and descriptions of the Dawn Treader’s set.
From NarniaWeb.com:
But the most interesting bit is there are some statues and bells that they say stuntmen slide down and attack [...]

According to HeraldSun.com.au, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’s Gary Sweet (”Captain Drinian”) will play “American drill sergeant Haney . . .  in Tom Hanks and Steve Spielberg’s World War II epic, The Pacific.” The miniseries will premiere on HBO next March. In order to prepare for the role, “Sweet pored over hours of speeches made [...]

Dark Horizons has listed The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as one its “notable films of 2010.” Here’s what they have to say:
The budget has been cut to a still substantial but more reasonable $140 million which means less pressure to perform but a tighter control on production. Fox Walden also [...]