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ENTERTAINMENT / TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
MOVIES
Reviving 'Narnia' franchise
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Moviegoers will see all sorts of miracles in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," including a painting that springs to life, a star that becomes incarnate, and a book that conjures up spells. The companies behind the latest big-screen adaptation from C.S. Lewis' classic book series hope the film will perform a different kind of miracle: revive a stalled franchise.
Producers Walden Media and 20th Century Fox believe that the third "Narnia" picture, which opens Friday, can reclaim the fans who embraced 2005's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"but who were turned off by the darker 2008 sequel Prince Caspian," whose comparatively poor performance raised serious doubts about the series' future.
"We strayed from our core audience," said Mark Johnson, who has produced all three "Narnia" movies. In trying — and largely failing — to attract more teens, he said, the "Prince Caspian" movie might have alienated families.
The producers hope the 3-D "Dawn Treader" will win them back.
The story for "Dawn Treader," which is the name of the Caspian's sailing ship, centers on the adventures of siblings Edmund and Lucy Pevensie and their ill-tempered cousin, Eustace. The trio are transported back to the mythical land of Narnia, where they join Caspian on a voyage to mysterious islands.
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Todd Pickrell and Scott A. Winer
COOL THING
Blaise Marcoux
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23 Book of maps
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MOVIES
'Waste Land' depicts collaborative artist
Traveling with the Brooklyn-based, Brazilian-born artist Vik Muniz — an energetic figure whose large-
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On one level, "Waste Land" is a film about our planet and how humankind continues to abuse it.
scale photography and portraiture incorporates nontraditional materials (food, wire, metal) — Lucy Walker sets down with her small crew in Rio de Janeiro and watches a truly transformative project take shape.
Muniz goes to Jardim Gramacho, one of the largest landfills in the world, to shoot portraits of the catadores — pickers who sift through the towering hills of detritus, looking for recyclables to redeem for cash. These people stoop over the land, collecting, reaping a harvest.
But in more insightful, inspiring ways, "Waste Land" — one of 15 documentaries recently short-listed for Academy Awards consideration — is about what happens when an artist invites his subjects into a collaborative relationship. There's a cook who sells food at the dump. There's a young woman who has worked collecting garbage since she was 7. A spry, leathery old gent reflects on his past with wisdom and humor. Another man recounts with pride how he started a library for the pickers from the discarded books.
— MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE