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Coed Magazine has published their Top 20 Most Anticipated movies of 2010. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is number 17. You can see the full list and vote for the movie you’re most looking forward to here. Just as a side note, this website does have what many may consider inappropriate content, visit at your own risk! Thanks to Melissa for the heads up!

Bonhams, a British auction house, will be auctioning off original costumes from the BBC Narnia TV series. The costumes include the White Witch’s outfit, three of the Pevensies’ coronation robes, one of Lucy’s outfits, the Reepicheep costume, one of Caspian’s outfits, and the outfit of the nanny giantess in Harfang. The costumes will be auctioned off next week in Knightsbridge. For more information about the auction, visit Bonhams’ website here. Thanks to RoseRed for the heads-up!

“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” will be on ABC Family this Wednesday, June 10, 7:30/6:30c. This will most likely be the extended cut, which is about eight minutes longer than the theatrical cut. Thanks to ’Narnia Lover’ for the heads up.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Logo

Jim Hill has updated his blog with several pictures from the 2009 Licensing International Expo. One of which is the logo for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Hill says that Fox’s licensing department was trying hard to get toy makers and t-shirt makers excited about the film.

To read the full story, visit his blog here. Click image to view larger.

Thanks to caspianX for the link.

The casting call that’s was listed on My Entertainment World’s website expired at the end of April. However, the production has updated it again. Even though we can’t view it, here’s the update for those of you who are serious about audition and are subscribed to the website.

CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER, THE – August, 2009 – Queensland, Australia; Details Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: In the enchanted land of Narnia, Edmund and Lucy join King Caspian on a sworn mission to find the seven lost Lords of Narnia. So begins a perilous new quest that takes them to the farthest edge of the Eastern world on board the mighty Dawn Treader. Sailing uncharted seas, the old friends must survive a terrible storm, encounters with sea serpents, dragons, and invisible enemies to reach lands where magicians weave mysterious spells and nightmares come true. They need every ounce of courage and the help of the great lion Aslan to triumph in their most hazardous adventure of all. (Posted: May 8, 2008. Revised: June 4, 2009)

You can see the listing on the website here.

Concept Art of Lucy in the Magician’s House

AslansCountry.com, a new fansite for Narnia, has an exclusive interview with John Dickenson. For those of you who have been around the forum on NarniaWeb, member Narnia_Fan12 was kind enough to share this interview with us a month ago. We waited to post it on the front page however until AslansCountry.com launched.

Just as a side note, in the interview, John Dickenson says that filming is already in progress, but we were able to confirm for AslansCountry.com that he was mistaken: filming does not begin until July.

So, were you asked to be a part of the concept artist group, or did you have to do something to acquire the position?

“I’m good friends with Justin Sweet, he and my other good friend Vance Kovacs had done work on the Lion Witch and the Wardrobe film. So when Prince Caspian was starting to go into pre-production, they mentioned me to Andrew Adamson, and their Production Designer Roger Ford. Roger called me in for an interview within a week. They liked my portfolio and hired me to be a part of the concept art team. I worked on it for about 4 months.”

How did you like working among the other concept artists?

“It was my first movie, so I was pretty nervous. All the people that I met and created with there were great. It is a pretty small community of people that do concept work for the film industry. Of course my 2 best friends (Justin & Vance) were a part of it as well. That made it really special for me.”

How goes work on the Dawn Treader?

“It’s been over a year since I worked on it up in L.A. They are now shooting it down in Australia. It was my highlight so far in my career to be a part of. The 3 of us(Justin, Vance), got to work with Director Michael Apted, who was amazing to work for. We really liked the way he went about making a movie. And we also got to work with an amazingly talented Production Designer named Jan Roelfs. He had some great takes on the way this film should look and feel. We also met with Weta’s Richard Taylor for an afternoon. He was a great inspiration. We hope to get the chance to work with him in the future. [Jan Roelfs] left when we did, so I have no idea how the new PD will do on it. But the work we created was some of our best I feel. Once the movies out, I’ll post all my art on my website.”

Read the full interview at Aslan’s Country website here.

John Dickenson’s website can be found here. Justin Sweet’s page is here. And Vance Kovacs’ page is here.

Special thanks to Narnia_Fan12 for giving us a sneak peek!

According to the Bearwood College website, one of their students was almost Eustace Clarence Scrubb. Ciaran Cresswell made it clear up to the last six choices for the role of Eustace which ultimately went to Will Poulter, but it’s fun to see what might have been. You can read about Ciaran and see his picture here. Thanks to icarus for the heads up!

Even though The Voyage of the Dawn Treader production has confirmed filming at the Warner Roadshow Studios in Queensland, Australia, there’s word that the production may still have its eye on filming a scene or two in New Zealand, though no one can confirm this yet. You can check out the story at Stuff.co.nz. Thanks to Lucy P. for the heads up!

We received a spy report from Molly who writes: “On a recent episode of their ’Adventures in Odyssey’ podcast, Focus on the Family announced that their next Radio Theatre production is C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. (Focus on the Family also produced all seven The Chronicles of Narnia radio dramas.) The podcast also announced that Andy Serkis (of Gollum fame) will be portraying Uncle Screwtape! A brief interview with Dave Arnold (the producer) and a clip of Serkis in the recording studio can be found near the end of the video. The program is slated for an October 2009 release!” You can watch the podcast here. Thanks Molly!

From Malverngazette.co.uk: The future of the gas lamps has once again been raised after parish councils around Malvern were hit with unexpected top-up bills to pay for their maintenance and running. The lamps were the inspiration for a scene in Lewis’s much-loved novel The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Malvern currently has 102 gas lamps, split between the parishes of Malvern town, the Wells and West Malvern. The three councils were shocked to receive bills for maintaining the lamps from Malvern Hills District Council, over and above the previously-agreed figures. The Wells was charged an extra £1400, Malvern town £639, and West Malvern £798. Wells parish chairman Malcolm Victory is promoting a suggestion that the lamps could be sponsored to keep them going. He hopes the idea can be put on the agenda at the next parish council meeting on June 24. Read the full story here. Thanks to Lucy P. for the heads up.