While attending the Cannes Film Festival where Swinton is one of twelve judges this week, Andrew Adamson confirmed that Swinton has indeed been chosen to play the role of Narnia’s evil White Witch.

The FriendsOfNarnia website brings us the first images of Aslan. Click for pictures of the lion chosen to play Aslan in the upcoming Narnia film.

ComingSoon.net reports: Buena Vista Games, Inc., announced today that it will publish video games based on the epic tale of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe to be released in fall of 2005.

The Insider Guide from This is London is reporting that British actress Tilda Swinton will play the role of the White Witch in the upcoming The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first of the Narnia films. We have received no official comment from Walden Media or Walt Disney Pictures so this casting can’t yet be treated as official.

NarniaWebber skye05 gives us an exclusive story on the Auckland Extras Casting Call with pictures.

This story ran on Monday in the NZ Herald.

We have confirmation that Gregson-Williams will indeed be scoring the film.

The “Music From The Movies” website is reporting that Harry Gregson-Williams has been signed on to compose the score for LWW. Gregson-Williams worked with Adamson on the forthcoming Shrek 2 and a host of other films including Sinbad and Spykids.

Lamp Post Productions will be conducting Auckland auditions on May 1st.

NarniaWebber Arvak delivers an exclusive report on the Christchurch casting call. Included are also exclusive pictures of the event.