'Narnia' stakes a claim on summer landscape
USA TODAY, May, 2008 by Cindy Clark
NEW YORK -- "People are looking at us," says 12-year-old Georgie Henley, perched on a stone ledge of the New York Public Library for a photo shoot on a crowded spring afternoon.
"Get used to it," whispers Skandar Keynes, 16, posing behind her.
The pair, along with William Moseley, 21, and Anna Popplewell, 19, are the stars of Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia films, and they're back for the second installment, Prince Caspian, opening nationwide Friday.
The British actors were thrust into the spotlight in 2005 after being cast as the Pevensie children in Disney's first Narnia film, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, adapted from C.S. Lewis' classic series.
Apparently, Georgie has forgotten all the hoopla that accompanied the first film, which opened with $65.6 million, the second-largest December debut ever, and went on to collect $291.7 million in the USA and Canada ...