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Thanks to Narnia_Fan12 for the heads up!

The Los Angeles Business Journal reports that Walt Disney is crediting the Prince Caspian video game with strong third quarter sales last year. This year, the revenues in that department have dropped by twenty percent. Check out the full story here. Thanks to Lucy P. for the link!

Walden Media’s website walden.com has been given a new look with the top right corner of the site dedicated to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (which includes a good look at the logo for the movie).

If you click on that logo, it will take you to a page which primarily includes information from the press release, but down at the bottom it says “In the coming months, we’ll update walden.com regularly with news from the set, exclusive photos and special offers to walden.com registered users. We hope you take this ‘voyage’ with us.” We can’t wait to see what they have to show us!

Check out the new Walden.com here.

Thanks icarus for the heads up!

NarniaWeb spy Craig has sent us sent a picture of the Dawn Treader in mostly one piece. There is still a lot of work to be done on it clearly, but the overall hull of the ship is put together so we can start to see what size it will be.

The Dawn Treader Hull in One Piece

Thanks Craig for the picture!

UPDATE: We’ve posted three more photos, one with the dragon prow.

If you look carefully, you can see the Dragon's Head lying on the ground.

You can start to see the gold gilding on the sides of the ship

The Stern of the Dawn Treader. You can see a man standing on it for scale.

 Thanks Narnia_fanatic for finding the pics!

PeaceandLove has sent us an interesting tidbit right off of Fox’s official website. They have a PDF file of their movie release schedule for 2009 and 2010. According to this file, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader releases on Thursday, December 9, 2010. That’s one day earlier than the previously announced release date. You can view the PDF file here.

NarniaWeb has confirmed the film identities of the new casting announcements from the press release which was released earlier today.

Gary Sweet: Drinian
Gary Sweet will play the role of the Dawn Treader’s Captain Drinian. Click here for Gary Sweet’s IMDB listing.

Arthur Angel: Rhince
Arthur Angel will play the role of Rhince, Drinian’s First Mate. Click here for Arthur Angel’s IMDB listing.

Bruce Spence: Lord Rhoop
Bruce Spence will play the role of the Lord Rhoop, one of the seven lords for whom Caspian is searching. Click here for Bruce Spence’s IMDB listing.

Tsaress from Ben Barnes Online has contacted us to let us know that they are working on a project for Ben Barnes’ birthday and would like to invite us all to be a part of it. They are trying to raise £100.00 to donate to the Make a Wish foundation as he is a patron of that charity. For more information or to make a donation, visit their website here.

“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” the third in the epic series of films based on the bestselling books by C.S. Lewis, will begin principal photography on location in Queensland, Australia, today – July 27, 2009. The production, a joint venture between Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Walden Media, continues the franchise which commenced with the spectacular, Oscar®-winning 2005 release, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and its 2008 follow-up, “Prince Caspian,” whose combined global boxoffice gross tops $1.2 billion.

This time around – Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb – find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.
Joining forces once again with their royal friend Prince Caspian and the warrior mouse Reepicheep, they are whisked away on a mysterious mission to the Lone Islands, and beyond. On this bewitching voyage that will test their hearts and spirits, the trio will face magical Dufflepuds, sinister slave traders, roaring dragons and enchanted merfolk. Only an entirely uncharted journey to Aslan’s Country – a voyage of destiny and transformation for each of those aboard the Dawn Treader – can save Narnia, and all the astonishing creatures in it, from an unfathomable fate.

Veteran filmmaker Michael Apted (the 007 epic “The World Is Not Enough,” “Gorillas in the Mist,” “Coal Miner’s Daughter”) is at the helm of the new Narnia venture. Returning as the Pevensie children are Georgie Henley as Lucy and Skandar Keynes as Edmund. Ben Barnes (“Easy Virtue,” “Dorian Gray”) reprises the role of Caspian. Cousin Eustace will be played by UK native Will Poulter (“Son of Rambow”).

The supporting cast includes several veterans of the Aussie film world, including Gary Sweet (“Stingers”), Bruce Spence (“Road Warrior”), Arthur Angel (“Ghost Rider”) and Kiwi native Shane Rangi, back for his third go-round in Lewis’ fantastical world (donning the guise of a Minotaur, as he did in the two previous films). And, lending his vocal talents again to the project is Academy Award® nominee Liam Neeson (“Kinsey,” “Schindler’s List”) as the all-powerful ruler of Narnia, Aslan the Lion.

While relinquishing the director’s chair this time out, filmmaker Andrew Adamson (the Oscar®-winning “Shrek,” “Shrek 2″) will return as one of the film’s three producers, reteaming with his colleagues from the first two “Narnia” films — Academy Award®-winner Mark Johnson (“Rain Man,” “Bugsy,” “The Notebook”) and Philip Steuer (“The Rookie,” “The Alamo”).

Also back for another Narnian adventure are Executive Producers Perry Moore and Lewis’ stepson, Douglas Gresham. The screenplay was written by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Lion, Witch & The Wardrobe and Prince Caspian) and Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King) and Michael Petroni (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys).

Inspired by Lewis’ imaginative creations, the story’s human cast will once again be complemented by a gallery of original creatures portrayed onscreen in the combined efforts of live-action and CGI animation under the supervision of visual effects supervisor Angus Bickerton (“The Da Vinci Code,” “Angels and Demons”). Oscar® winners Howard Berger and Tami Lane, back for their third “Narnia” project, will reprise their efforts on the film’s prosthetic makeup effects for many of the unique characters in the story.

Apted’s technical crew also includes two industry veterans with whom he has shared an ongoing collaboration — Oscar®-nominated director of photography Dante Spinotti (“L.A. Confidential,” “The Insider”) and film editor Rick Shaine (“The Incredible Hulk,” HBO’s “Rome”). The production has also secured the talents of veteran production designer Barry Robison (“Wolverine”) and award-winning costume designer Isis Mussenden (“Shrek,” “Shrek 2″), who created the wardrobe for the previous two Narnia movies.

“The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” is the third (appearing in 1952) of Lewis’ seven-book “Chronicles of Narnia” series. Published between 1950-56 and long regarded as one of literature’s most enduring and imaginative classics, Lewis’ books have sold over 100,000,000 copies in over 50 different languages, making it the second biggest book series the world over. In addition to the third novel, the Oxford scholar wrote six additional books, including “Prince Caspian” (1951), “The Silver Chair” (1953), “The Horse and His Boy” (1954), “The Magician’s Nephew” (1955), “The Last Battle” (1956) and the story that launched the series in 1950, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”

Production on “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” will take place entirely in Queensland, Australia, primarily at the Warner Roadshow Studio facility in Gold Coast, which houses the Southern Hemisphere’s largest water tank facility, crucial to the production’s needs. Filming will conclude in November 2009, with a year-long post-production schedule leading to the film’s global release in December 2010.

The international trailer for Dorian Gray, starring Ben Barnes (Caspian) in the title role, is now online. Based on The Picture of Dorian Gray, the story centers on Gray, a young man who becomes the subject of a painting. As the man descends into a hedonistic lifestyle, the portrait begins to age and morph, but he doesn’t. The film releases on 9/9/09. View the trailer here.

Pictures of the The Voyage of the Dawn Treader sets are arriving on an almost daily basis now. Today we have bits and pieces from all over.

The Spit
Here is today’s picture of the Wharf set on The Spit from SpringHillVoice.com.

Here is an older picture of the Wharf set, but it’s from a different angle than one we’ve seen.
Link to chelsea_rose04′s photobucket website.

Movie World Carpark
myartismylife sent us some of the photos that he took of the MovieWorld carpark set. There isn’t too much to see, but it’s fun to speculate what might be hidden there.

Cleveland Point
This one is new to me. It’s a lighthouse that’s undergoing construction of some type. It’s located at Cleveland Point where they won’t be shooting until September. Since it is an actual lighthouse, they may simply be using it as a place to shoot from or they may be modifying it for a set piece.
Link to kekojohn’s Flickr site.
Link to the Wikipedia page for the actual lighthouse.

Special thanks to Poggin (AslansCountry.com), myartismylife, and ceppault for sending us the links and pictures!

UPDATE: Salem pointed out to us that SpringHillVoice mentioned last week the Lighthouse just happens to be right next to the set where the Dawn Treader is being built, and just happens to be undergoing some restoration. It doesn’t have anything to do with the set.

Thanks Salem!