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For those of you who have been hoping for a review from a more neutral perspective regarding the Narnia films, AICN has been sent a spoiler-free review of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by Maxwell Smart.
By AICN’s standards, this review is family-friendly for a change (though I would avoid the comments section), and it’s also fairly positive. If you remember their review of Prince Caspian, they pretty much hated that movie.
You can check out the story here.
Thanks Narnian_Maniac for the heads up!

Sony Music and Indian Idol 5 winner Sreeram Chandra have put together two Indian music videos for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. One in the dialect of Tamil and the other in Telugu. The song is called ‘Rehnuma’ and the videos have some new scenes from the movie. (Though the song is sung in different dialects, the music videos are the same).

The full story is available here.

Thanks to The Archenlander for the heads up!

Here’s the video from a local Indian news story on YouTube but it has a lot of scrolling text at the bottom.

Thanks to Narnian_Maniac and NarnianDuchess for the YouTube link!

UPDATE!! We have the lyrics.

Rehnuma – Leader

O my leader, now I desire for you every moment.
You wrote my story and molded my ways
and now this world is a pleasant place

O my leader, this world now shines
because of your presence

You became the breath of my life, dear friend
This world is now colorful because of your presence
O Lord who leads me

Thanks narnianprofessor for sending them in!

Doug Gresham on the set of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ~ Pic sent to us by Tamara

Crosswalk.com has posted an excellent interview with Douglas Gresham regarding The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Here are some highlights.

This is your third time out with a Narnia film. But even so, is it sill thrilling to see The Voyage of the Dawn Treader on the big screen?

Absolutely! I enjoy making these movies enormously for the most part. I spent the whole of the shooting time actually on set this time. I enjoy it enormously. This is a tough job. There’s a lot of work involved, but at the same time it’s a blessing for me to get to do it.

Can you give an example of something in the adaptation of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader that you took issue with or fought for or didn’t want changed from book to screen?

Well there are so many. Always when you translate a book from the sort of medium of print into a movie, you’re going to have to make changes. What happens in these things is that there’s a sort of group of people—almost an informal committee—that decide what to do and what to put into the screenplay and so forth. And being a complete and utter Narnia fanatical purist, any comma they moved to me is an anathema. So I argue pretty strongly for what I believe in. And we always come to a compromise situation. So there are always things that I would rather not have done, and there are always things the director probably would not have done. And he’s moved in my direction, and I’ve moved in his. This is the sort of cooperative process in making a movie from a book. And I think it probably doesn’t infringe on people’s consciousness when they see the movies as much as it does on mine when I’m actually making the movies. I work very hard to make my points and some of them are understood and some of them are not and so forth. But we always work as sort of a team to eventually come out with something that results in usually a first-class film.

What is your favorite scene in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?

Well, without a doubt, my favorite scene in this film is the ending of it. It’s one of the most moving and beautiful scenes ever put on-screen. I think everybody will find it the same way.

You can read the full and quite lengthy interview at Crosswalk’s Narnia coverage!

I also rather liked Crosswalk.com’s little editorial on whether or not you should read the book before you see the movie.

NarniaWebber Narnian_Maniac has pointed out to us that the sixth TV Spot for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader has been uploaded onto YouTube.

UPDATE: DanielJ let us know that he also has TV Spot 7 on YouTube as well. It can be seen here.

Thank you DanielJ for recording and uploading these clips!

Just in time for the holiday season, Fandango.com is selling The Voyage of the Dawn Treader themed gift cards which you can purchase and either mail or email to your friends and family. These Fandango Bucks Gift Cards can be used to purchase movie tickets from any theater that sells tickets through Fandango.com. Go here to check it out.
Thanks to icarus for the heads up!

NarniaLover went to see the new Harry Potter movie and sent in a spy report saying that the theatrical trailer for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was shown in the previews before the film. Thanks to NarniaLover for sending it in!

UPDATE: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One grossed an estimated $125m over the weekend, a new franchise high. Read the report here.

Tony Nixon and Arabella Morton will be hosting a charity screening of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for City Care Services in Victoria Point, Australia on December 15th. They will participate in a meet and greet after the film to sign autographs. Details on the event can be found here.

DJKuo and InscrutableRutabega have written in to let us know that Narnia Night at Asbury University on December 3rd. The event is free. Chip Flaherty of Walden Media and Dr. Devin Brown will be attending the event. There will be several highlights such as a showing of the super trailer and the premier of the documentary “Why C.S. Lewis Matters Today.” Thanks for sending this in! If anyone attends, please send in a report!

We’ve received a couple spy reports of possibly one or two new ‘Dawn Treader’ TV Spots we haven’t seen yet.

Aslan’s My Homeboy writes: “Just thought I would tell you guys so that you can keep a look out there is a new tv spot I saw it on abc family it was all about Lucy and her insecurity and at the beginning of the commercial it shows Lucy trying to copy what another woman is doing that she sees. It also has Aslan talking to her possibly after she takes the page with the beauty spell I couldn’t make out every thing he was saying though. I haven’t seen the tv spot online yet so I though I would give you guys a heads up to keep a look out.”

Caspian XI writes: “My brother and I saw this NEW Dawn Treader tv spot with a couple of new shots!! There was a shot of Dragon Eustace grabbing Edmund… then a bunch of other shots from the trailers, and then there’s this scene where Caspian and the crew were holding spears, reading to throw them at the sea serpant, and Caspian yelled, “READY…. NOW!!!” or something like that.”

If you see these TV Spots and manage to record them or find them online, please send them to us!

In the past couple weeks, interviews from the stars of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader have been coming out fast and furious and we haven’t been able to keep up. We’ve compiled as many as we’ve been able to find and sent in for you all to read through.

ChristianCinema.com Interviews Michael Apted

ChristianCinema.com Interviews Will Poulter

ChristianCinema.com Interviews Georgie Henley

J-14 Magazine, Four Things You Didn’t Know About Will Poulter

J-14 Magazine, Four Things You Didn’t Know About Georgie Henley

Just Jared Jr. Chats Briefly with Georgie Henley

ChiswickLife.TV Chats Briefly with Ben Barnes at Regent Street

Scotsman.com Interviews Georgie Henley

ReelzChannel Interviews Georgie and Will

Thanks to everybody who sent these stories in to us!