News for Dec. 11, 2006

Czech film studios enter new world with Narnia

12/11/06, 5:15 pm EST - Xoanon

PRAGUE (AFP) - Filming of the interior shots of Walt Disney's film "Prince Caspian," the next movie in the "Chronicles of Narnia," will commence in new studios at Prague's Barrandov studios, managers announced during a news conference. At the same time, shooting of "Babylon Babies," the new 60-million dollar film of French director Mathieu Kassovitz, based on the novel by Maurice Dantec, will begin on the same site, the director of the studio's management board, Vladimir Kuba, added. The two films will together launch Barrandov's new studios which have cost owner, Moravia Steel, more than 100 million koruna (3.5 million euros). [More]