The colourful characters and stories from the Tales of Narnia have been brought to life in this year's Belfast Lord Mayor's show. The magical story by one of the city's most famous sons - CS Lewis - was the theme of Saturday's event. More than 1,000 participants were expected to dress in costumes associated with Narnia. [More]

Charles writes: I have a bunch of pics up of the Narnia display at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles which included actual film props, prosthetics and maquettes. [More]

While most Hollywood actresses are wearing the most glamorous shades from their cosmetic cases for the Cannes Film Festival red carpet, there's one star who is swimming against the tide when it comes to making up her famous face. [More]

The end of this year will see a complete Narnia marketing blitz. NarniaWeb has received the official Disney Consumer Products licensee list and it seems clear that there won’t be an area of our lives not touched by the Narnia marketing machine. Whether it’s toothbrushes, Kleenex, beach towels, rugs, cake decorations, mousepads, checks, footwear or watches, you’ll be able to get your Narnia-themed products this year. [More]

Tilda Swinton (The White Witch) is currently at the Cannes film festival promoting her latest film 'Broken Flowers' directed by American director Jim Jarmusch. Take a look! [More]

Two years in the planning and nearly 18 months in production, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a film surrounded by dizzying facts and figures long before its scheduled release this December. Whether it’s the 1,350 weapons created; the 2,000 plus children auditioned for the four key roles; or the more than 1,000 computer-generated images required to produce the minotaurs, centaurs, cyclops, and other unusual animals that inhabit the world of Narnia, everything about the film is big and ambitious. [More]

Weta Workshop is helping its less glamorous namesake, one of New Zealand's biggest and ugliest insects. The Wellington special effects company responsible for the props and make-up in Peter Jackson's award-winning Lord of the Rings films is sponsoring research into Mahoenui giant weta in the central Waikato. The research, comprising hours of night surveys in the Warrenheip reserve, aims to determine whether efforts to save the threatened species are working. [More]

Tilda Swinton, best known as an indie film actress, talks about her experience playing the wicked White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. British actress Tilda Swinton is an angular, ethereal beauty so far best known as a presiding muse to independent filmmakers the world over. Early in her career, she worked consistently with the late Derek Jarman, beginning with his acclaimed Caravaggio, and has since gone on to appear in such well-regarded films as Orlando, The War Zone, The Deep End and Young Adam. [More]

Studio that passed on LOTR trilogy spends $100-million on C.S. Lewis classic. The Disney studio is spending $100 million on C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in hopes that the answer is a resounding yes. [More]