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A family of four is about to get a rare look into America’s space-exploration HQ, NASA Space Center Houston.

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Dear Friends:

We are delighted to offer the first of a planned series of reports direct from the set of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. These will not be the kinds of canned pieces you’d find on “traditional” outlets. Instead, you’ll be getting unfiltered reports from and about the filmmakers, as they work tirelessly to bring all the magic of C.S. Lewis’ beloved story and characters to the big screen:

“Dedicated to the Ones He Loves” by Ernie Malik

“All Narnians, with grateful hearts may we give thanks to the crew of the mighty Dawn Treader for their strong minds and artisan hands”

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Your character is a hockey player. Is being in movies that features sports important to you?

You bet. I just know how important sports was to me, and everything that sports and athletics taught me from the time I started doing gymnastics when I was a kid, which didn’t last very long, till the time I took martial arts and everything else. And I know the lessons that it taught me, and I’m aware of the impact that sports has on children’s lives, all around the world. So any time I’m able to implement that it’s just really, really a cool thing.

Was it difficult to play the tooth fairy?

It wasn’t difficult at all. I mean, it was a no brainer for me. The tooth fairy is part of our culture and it’s part of the wonderment of being a child and, and the beauty of growing up. The very first time that I was approached to play the tooth fairy, I loved it. I loved the idea number one, and because it’s a character that we haven’t seen come to life in movies before.

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Walden Pond Press is Walden Media’s first dedicated publishing imprint. In partnership with HarperCollins, they publish books for young readers; and for selected titles, they develop them with filmmakers to become feature films. Their first book is COSMIC by Frank Cottrell Boyce.

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The well-loved series of children’s books The Berenstain Bears by Stan and Jan Berenstain are coming to the big screen, thanks in part to Canadian animation studio Nelvana.

The company, based in Toronto, is responsible for several kid’s shows, many of them involving anthropomorphic bears, including Care Bears and Maurice Sendak’s Little Bear.

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It’s a bear market for one group of moviemakers.  Shawn Levy, director of the Night at the Museum movies, has signed on to produce a feature film based on The Berenstain Bears books, a comedy he says will be a mix of live-action and computer animation.

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Walden Media is keeping its focus on the family audience, tapping Mark Dindal to helm the live-action family comedy “Housebroken.”  Michael De Luca is producing.

“Housebroken” will center around a newly married couple’s talking pets, who must adjust to living together under one roof. Walden is looking for a scribe to work with Dindal (“Chicken Little”) on the script, originally penned by Adam Sztykiel.

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Last spring Micheal Flaherty, President of Walden Media, visited Asbury College as part of its Engaging Culture weekend. As those who have met him know, he is a truly great man–full of wisdom, enthusiasm, real joy, and deep compassion.

While he was on campus, Devin Brown had the opportunity to ask him about Walden’s mission, where its name came from, and even what his favorite scene is. His response to these and other questions can be viewed in “An Interview with Micheal Flaherty” which has been posted at: Asbury.edu

There’s also a question and answer session about The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

The National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) has named Ingrid Law’s SAVVY as one of its Gold Award winners.

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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is starring in the upcoming film “Tooth Fairy” from 20th Century Fox and Walden Media. Walden Media tends to make great films that are very under-appreciated, and if the response to this trailer is anything to go by, it looks like another film doomed to low box office, based only on a trailer. Bandslam was one of the worst, if not THE worst, marketed films of 2009 and turned out to be far better than the trailer lets on. I’m hoping that this film turns out to be the same.