Disney CEO Robert Iger is now claiming that The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian isn’t performing as well as expected at the box office because the May 16 release date was “too competitive”. It probably had nothing to do with the fact that a large portion of moviegoers were
A. disappointed by the first film, and/or
B. Not excited by the trailers and prerelease advertising for the second film.
Yeah, it probably has NOTHING to do with either of those factors. It’s a good thing that Disney moved Prince Caspian from it’s original Christmas 2007 season release out of fear that The Water Horse would be targeting the same audience. Because we all [...]

At the Hollywood premiere of Iron Man, Viacom/CBS Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone and Paramount Pictures CEO Brad Grey told Entertainment Tonight that if the movie does as well as expected, Paramount will greenlight a sequel for the same week in 2010. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader already holds claim to the “first weekend of the summer” (May 7, 2010), but Iron Man 2 could easily open a week earlier on Friday, April 30th 2010 if all goes well.
Also Downey’s trainer, Brad Bose, told IESB that he starts training with Downey just after this final premiere in Los Angeles, stating that he will have Downey ready [...]

There has been so much news in the last few days that we just haven’t been able to get to all of it. Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2!
Yahoo Movies has the first character photo featuring Eva Mendes as Sand Saref from Frank Miller’s The Spirit.
The first internet teaser trailer for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno will hit the web on April 28th. A second teaser trailer will be released a month later. [newsaskew]
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader will start shooting in October. Producer Mark [...]

There have been a bunch of new release date changes announced in the last 24 hours, let’s take a look.
DreamWorks has announced that they are moving Monsters vs. Aliens 3D from May 15th 2009 to March 27th 2009. The monster film was originally scheduled to go head to head with James Cameron’s Avatar in what was being called the first head to head 3D battle. Now that the film is opening a while 2 months earlier that Cameron’s epic sci-fi tale, both films might have a chance at finding an audience, and filling up more of the available 3D digital screen space. Monsters vs. Aliens, which reinvents the classic ’50s [...]

Rumor has it that The Illusionist director Neil Burger has been approached to helm the third installment of the Chronicles of Narnia series.
Andrew Adamson, who directed the first two films, won’t be able to return because of the shortened release schedule .
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was originally published in 1952. It’s the third book in the series but the fifth in chronological order. The book follows Lucy, Edmund, and their dreadful cousin Eustace on a magical sea journey aboard the Dawn Trader. The children are pulled into a painting of a ship at sea. On board is Caspian, King of Narnia and his companions, [...]