The Filmmakers

ANDREW ADAMSON (director/co-producer/co-screenwriter) returns to the land of Narnia after directing and co-writing the extraordinarily successful "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" with THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN. He has quickly made a name for himself as a forerunner in the art of directing and producing visual effects, as well as a unique skill for writing fantasy and adventure, creating films that appeal to filmgoers of all ages and is taking his next turn on a similarly epic story.

Based on the second novel in C.S. Lewis' children's fantasy franchise, The Chronicles of Narnia, PRINCE CASPIAN is the second film from the Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media series. In this film, the Pevensie siblings are pulled back into the land of Narnia, where 1,000 years have passed since they left. The children are once again enlisted to join the colorful creatures of Narnia in combating an evil villain who prevents the rightful prince from ruling the land. THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN is scheduled to be released in theaters on May 16, 2008.

Adamson's directorial debut with 2001's "Shrek" made history winning the first Academy Award® ever presented for Best Animated Feature. Three years later, he followed up that incredible success with the triumphant sequel, "Shrek 2," a film he both directed and co-wrote the screenplay for. "Shrek 2" went on to become the highest-earning animated feature film to date in Hollywood. It earned Academy Award® nominations for Best Animated Feature and for Best Original Song.

Following those great accomplishments, Adamson directed and co-wrote his first live-action feature, "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," which, in addition to its commercial success, won the Academy Award® for Best Makeup and collected two additional nominations for Visual Effects and Sound. Most recently, he served as executive producer on "Shrek the Third."

Adamson began his career in computer graphics 20 years ago in his native New Zealand, working as a computer animator and a design director and animator. He first joined PDI/DreamWorks (formerly Pacific Design Graphics) in 1991 as a visual effects supervisor on films including "Angels in the Outfield" and "Double Dragon." He has also worked on the visual effects for such films as "True Lies," "Heart and Souls" and Barry Levinson's "Toys."

Adamson served as a key member of PDI/DreamWorks' commercial division on numerous award-winning spots, including Converse's "Planet Kevin," Dow's "Scrubbing Bubbles Greatest Show" and Miller Genuine Draft's "Juke Box." Apart from PDI/DreamWorks, Adamson's work as a visual effects supervisor includes the features "Batman Forever," "A Time to Kill" and "Batman & Robin."

Additional honors include an Annie (Achievements in Animation) and BAFTA Children's Award for "Shrek," a Grammy® nomination for "Shrek 2" and two nominations for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme D'Or for both "Shrek" features.

CHRISTOPHER MARKUS and STEPHEN McFEELY (screenwriters) return to the land of Narnia having co-written the adaptation of the first project, the global box-office hit "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Their work on that film earned them nominations for the Saturn, Hugo and Humanitas Awards.

Markus and McFeely, born in Buffalo and San Francisco, respectively, have been writing together since 1995. Chris (Rutgers University) and Steve (University of Notre Dame) met while attending the Graduate Writing Program at UC Davis.

Prior to their success with the C.S. Lewis project, Markus and McFeely penned the original screenplay for the critically acclaimed HBO feature "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers," starring Academy Award® winner Geoffrey Rush. Their first produced film premiered in competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and went on to earn numerous honors, including nine Emmy® Awards. Markus and McFeely themselves won the Emmy® for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special as well as a Writers Guild Award.

"You Kill Me," based on their original screenplay and directed by John Dahl, was released last year. Their latest project is "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader."

C.S. LEWIS (author), one of the 20th century's most respected and prolific authors, produced fiction ranging from children's books to fantasy, science fiction and novels. His scholarly work, from medieval and Renaissance literature to literary theory, and his witty and imaginative exposition of Christian belief have made him an intellectual and spiritual mentor to millions.

Born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898, Clive Staples Lewis was educated in various secondary schools before entering Oxford University in 1917. His college education was interrupted by his service in World War I as a second lieutenant with the Somerset Light Infantry. Wounded and hospitalized in 1918, he returned to Oxford in 1919, graduated with honors in 1923 and became a lecturer in philosophy at University College, Oxford, a year later.

In 1925, Lewis began a three-decade tenure at Oxford when he was named fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford. He retained the post until 1954, when he was elected professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, an appointment he held until his death in 1963.

He is the author of over 40 books, which includes virtually every genre except biography and drama. Lewis first expressed interest in becoming a poet with the publication of his first two volumes of verse, Spirits in Bondage (1919) and Dymer (1926), both written under the pseudonym of Clive Hamilton (his own first name plus his mother's maiden name).

His reputation as a scholar was established with his 1936 tome, The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition, which earned the Gollancz Memorial Prize for literature. He ventured into fiction with his 1938 novel, Out of the Silent Planet, the first of his science-fiction trilogy that included Perelandra (1943) and That Hideous Strength (1945), fiction dealing with the cosmic struggle between good and evil.

Lewis' broader reputation rests with his scholarly interpretation of Christianity, a subject the former atheist explored in such original works as The Screwtape Letters (1942), a unique look at life on Earth as seen from the viewpoint of the Devil, which became one of his most popular books; The Great Divorce (1946), a first-person narrative depicting a busload of souls from hell who travel to heaven to repent their sins; and Mere Christianity (1952), a collection of lectures on the basics of Christian faith broadcast by the BBC during World War II.

In 1950, Lewis turned to the world of fantasy and fairy tales with the first of seven children's books, collectively entitled The Chronicles of Narnia. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first book published, introduces the reader to the imaginative land of Narnia, an enchanting world of talking animals ruled by a noble lion, Aslan, which is discovered by a quartet of siblings in a magical wardrobe in an English country house.

Lewis published six more volumes, one annually, continuing with Prince Caspian (1951), The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), The Silver Chair (1953), The Horse and His Boy (1954), The Magician's Nephew (1955, and the prequel to the first book) and concluded his adventures in Narnia with The Last Battle (1956), the latter honored with the prestigious Carnegie Award, the highest mark of excellence in children's literature. To date, the series has sold over 85,000,000 copies.

Lewis' other works of note include The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism (1933), The Problem of Pain (1940), Reflections on the Psalms (1958), Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956) and two autobiographical works- Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955) and A Grief Observed (1961), the former his spiritual journey from atheism to Christianity and the latter a response to his wife's untimely death from cancer in 1960. Lewis himself died on November 22, 1963, the same day as author Aldous Huxley and assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Three years after his death, his letters, edited and with a memoir by his older brother, W.H. Lewis, were published. With translation of dozens of books into scores of languages and foreign sales in multiple millions, Lewis has become a thinker of international importance.

MARK JOHNSON (producer), one of the industry's most accomplished producers, returns to the world of Narnia following the global box-office hit "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," which earned over $745 million in its worldwide theatrical release and collected numerous awards, including the Oscar® for Best Achievement in Makeup (as well as nominations for visual effects and sound).

Johnson is no stranger to the podium at the Academy Awards®-he won the Best Picture honor for Barry Levinson's poignant 1988 drama, "Rain Man," starring Dustin Hoffman (Best Actor Oscar®) and Tom Cruise. One of several films Johnson made with Levinson during a 12year span, the movie (winner of four Oscars®) also captured a Golden Globe® as Best Picture. Three years later, Johnson returned to the Oscar® ceremonies as a nominee for Levinson's epic biopic "Bugsy," which earned ten nominations, including Best Picture and Director.

Born in Maryland, Johnson spent ten years of his youth in Spain. Before commencing his career in feature films, he earned his undergraduate degree in drama from the University of Virginia and his M.A. in Film Scholarship from the University of Iowa. From there, he moved to New York and entered the Director's Guild Training Program, where one of his first projects was Paul Mazursky's touching autobiographical drama "Next Stop, Greenwich Village." He subsequently relocated to Los Angeles and moved up from production assistant to assistant director on such projects as "Movie, Movie," "The Brinks Job," "Escape from Alcatraz" and Mel Brooks' "High Anxiety," which was co-written by future business partner Barry Levinson.

In his successful partnership with Levinson, Johnson produced all of the writer-director's films from 1982-94. In addition to "Rain Man," their diverse slate of acclaimed features includes "Good Morning, Vietnam," "The Natural," "Tin Men," "Toys," "Young Sherlock Holmes," "Avalon," "Diner" (their 1982 debut project, for which Levinson earned an Oscar® nomination for his screenplay) and "Bugsy," which also captured a Best Picture Golden Globe® in addition to its ten Oscar® nominations.

In 1994, Johnson established his own independent production company and won the Los Angeles Film Critics New Generation Award for his very first effort-"A Little Princess," directed by Alfonso Cuaron. Johnson, under his new banner, also produced the comedy "Home Fries" with Drew Barrymore, and the dramatic thriller "Donnie Brasco," starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp. He served as executive producer for CBS-TV's "L.A. Doctors" and "Falcone" and also executive-produced the hit CBS drama "The Guardian." He currently serves as executive producer on the AMC episodic drama, "Breaking Bad."

He most recently produced Nick Cassavettes' hit drama, "The Notebook," based on Nicholas Sparks' bestseller, The Wendell Baker Story, which marked the directorial debuts of filmmaking brothers Luke and Andrew Wilson, and reunited with Walden Media on the film adaptation of Thomas Rockwell's children's book, How to Eat Fried Worms. He just completed two more feature films-the independent drama "Ballast" (as executive producer) and Richard Shepard's "The Hunting Party," starring Richard Gere and Terrence Howard.

Other recent motion pictures include "The Alamo" and "The Rookie," both directed by John Lee Hancock; "The Banger Sisters," with Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn; Brad Silberling's drama, "Moonlight Mile," with Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman; Tom Shadyac's supernatural thriller, "Dragonfly," with Kevin Costner and Kathy Bates; Levinson's Irish satire "An Everlasting Piece"; Robert Zemeckis' spooky thriller "What Lies Beneath," starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer; the hit comedy "Galaxy Quest" with Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver; and "My Dog Skip," the acclaimed family drama (co-produced with John Lee Hancock) starring Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane and Kevin Bacon.

Additionally, Johnson has either presented or executive-produced Luis Llosa's directorial debut, "Sniper," Tim Robbins' directorial debut, "Bob Roberts," Steven Soderbergh's "Kafka" and Robert Redford's Oscar®-nominated "Quiz Show." He serves as the chairman of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Foreign Language Film award selection committee and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy (Producers Branch).

PHILIP STEUER (producer) reunites with producer Mark Johnson for their fifth project together. In addition to the first "Narnia" project, Steuer first executive-produced two John Lee Hancock movies-"The Rookie," one of 2002's critical and commercial hits, and his epic retelling of the battle for Texas independence, "The Alamo." He and Johnson also produced the Walden Media adaptation of Thomas Rockwell's popular children's book How to Eat Fried Worms.

The son of Robert Steuer, a film production/distribution executive at American International Pictures, Steuer spent summers as an intern on several of AIP's productions. Those apprenticeships imbued the future producer with a thorough education of all aspects of filmmaking.

He became a top property master in the feature-film arena (working with such respected filmmakers as Mike Nichols, Neil Jordan, Ken Russell and Bruce Beresford) before graduating to production supervisor on Peter Weir's award-winning "The Truman Show," David Mirkin's comedy, "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion," and Beresford's prison drama, "Last Dance."

Steuer next established an ongoing collaboration with respected filmmaker Neil LaBute. The pair joined forces for Propaganda Films and produced "Your Friends and Neighbors," the biting romantic satire starring Ben Stiller, Aaron Eckhardt and Jason Patric. They collaborated again on the critically acclaimed, offbeat comedy "Nurse Betty," with Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock, which was nominated for the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. He again reunited with LaBute on "The Shape of Things," a quirky romantic story starring Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz.

In addition to his stellar film resume, Steuer has also lent his talents to the advertising world, executive-producing the second series of memorable BMW Internet short features. The followup trilogy, "Hire: The Hostage," once again starred Clive Owen in spots directed by John Woo, Joe Carnahan and Tony Scott. Additionally, he has produced over 40 national commercial campaigns with such notable production companies as RSA, Propaganda and Anonymous Content, among others.

PERRY MOORE (executive producer) was a longtime production executive for Walden Media who was instrumental in bringing the "Narnia" franchise to the company (the first film represented his debut as a motion-picture executive producer). After landing the rights to the

C.S. Lewis series, he segued into a production deal with his former employer. In addition to his work in production and development, Moore also wrote the film's official "making of" book for HarperCollins, titled The Chronicles of Narnia-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Official Illustrated Movie Companion, which became a New York Times bestseller.

Moore hails from Virginia Beach, Virginia. He majored in English at the University of Virginia (where he was an Echols Scholar) and later served as an intern in the White House before launching his entertainment career in talent and development at Viacom's premier music networks, MTV and VH1.

He followed that experience as one of the original segment producers for the upstart "Rosie O'Donnell Show," one of daytime television's most popular recent hits. Changing arenas, he segued into the motion-picture world as a development executive for the late filmmaker Ted Demme ("Blow") and producer Joel Stillman (co-writer on "Shrek," "Shrek 2") before joining Walden Media, where he developed and oversaw such film projects as the upcoming "I Am David," the big-screen adaptation of Anne Holm's acclaimed novel "North to Freedom."

During his tenure with Walden, Moore also obtained and developed such forthcoming Walden projects as "The Giver," "Bridge to Terabithia" and "Manhunt." Most recently, he made his feature-film writing-and-directing debut (with co-writer/director Hunter Hill) on the independent drama "Lake City," starring Sissy Spacek, Rebecca Romijn, Dave Matthews, Keith Carradine, Drea De Matteo and Troy Garity.

In addition to his work in the film arena, Moore just completed a new novel, Hero, published by Hyperion last August, the first in a multiple-book deal with the publisher.

DOUGLAS GRESHAM (co-producer), who served in the same capacity on "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," is the son of Joy Davidman Gresham and William Lindsay Gresham and stepson of C.S. Lewis.

Gresham was born in 1946, the second son of novelist William Lindsay Gresham (190962), and the poet/novelist, Helen Joy Davidman Gresham (1915-60). After the publication of his father's novel, Nightmare Alley, in 1946, the family moved to Ossining, New York, and then to Staatsburg. It was not long afterwards, however, that marital problems began, and in 1952, his mother spent several months in England completing her book Smoke on the Mountain (1953). While there, she became friends with C.S. Lewis and spent Christmas with the Lewis brothers in Oxford. After breaking with William Gresham, his mother returned to England (London) in 1953 with her sons.

Following his parents' divorce in 1954, the young Gresham went to school in Surrey. The next year, the family moved to Headington, Oxford. In 1956, his mother and Lewis were married in a civil ceremony, which was shortly followed, after the discovery of her terminal cancer condition, by a Christian marriage. After his mother died of cancer in 1960, Douglas continued to live with Lewis in their Headington Quarry home until Lewis' death in 1963 (the year after the death of his own father).

For the next few years, Gresham studied agriculture and worked on farms. During this time, he met and fell in love with Meredith ("Merrie") Conan-Davies, with the couple marrying in 1967. Shortly after the wedding, he and his new wife sailed for Australia. Over the many and eventful years they spent in Australia, he was a farmer, a radio and television broadcaster, a restauranteur and many other things between. It was there in Australia that their children were born-James in 1968, Timothy in 1969, Dominick in 1971 and Lucinda in 1976. In 1990, they adopted Melody, then five years old, from Korea. They now have nine grandchildren.

Since 1973, Gresham has worked with all aspects of the Estate of C.S. Lewis, and in 1993, the family moved to Ireland so that he could give it more of his attention. He and his wife (both committed Christians who recently relocated to Malta) previously made their home in County Carlow Ireland, a multifaceted non-denominational Christian House Ministry, which specializes in counseling ministry and seminar-hosting.

In 1988 he published his autobiographical book Lenten Lands (HarperCollins). His new book, Jack's Life: The Life Story of C.S. Lewis, was published by Broadman and Holman in October 2005. He now works full-time for the C.S. Lewis Company and devotes his spare time to a variety of Christian work.

KARL WALTER LINDENLAUB, ASC, bvk (director of photography) was born in Bremen, Germany, and raised in Hamburg. The award-winning cameraman studied his craft at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (Academy of Television & Film in Munich, or HFF, one of Germany's two original film schools) before earning a scholarship to further his studies at England's renowned National Film and Television School.

Following early cinematography credits on student films made at HFF and in the European cinema, Lindenlaub established ongoing associations with such filmmakers as Michael Caton-Jones ("City by the Sea," "Rob Roy," "The Jackal"), Wayne Wang ("Maid in Manhattan," "Because of Winn-Dixie"), Garry Marshall ("The Princess Diaries," "Georgia Rule"), Jon Avnet ("Red Corner," "Up Close and Personal") and fellow German Roland Emmerich, with whom he has collaborated seven times.

His work with Emmerich includes the sci-fi epics "Independence Day" and "Stargate," as well as "Universal Soldier," "Moon 44" (winning the German Camera Award for his cinematography), "Hollywood-Monster" (aka "Ghost Chase"), "Eye of the Storm" (which Emmerich executive-produced) and his very first feature, "Altosax," which he co-wrote with Emmerich in 1980 while a student at the Munich academy.

Lindenlaub has also worked with such directors as Jan de Bont ("The Haunting"), Bob Dolman ("The Banger Sisters") and, most recently, Paul Verhoeven (on the upcoming release "Black Book").

ROGER FORD (production designer) is one of Australia's most distinguished film artists whose work (in both art direction and costume design) has been honored with several awards and nominations, most notably an Academy Award® nomination for his production design on Chris Noonan's endearing classic "Babe." He returns to the world of Narnia after having designed several dozen dazzling sets for the first film, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."

Ford won the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for production design on Peter Duncan's "Children of the Revolution," John Duigan's "Flirting" and AFI's Open Craft Category for Russell Mulcahy's miniseries, "On the Beach." He has collected six additional AFI nominations, for production design on "Doing Time for Patsy Cline" and Mulcahy's "Swimming Upstream," for costume design on "The Nostradamus Kid" and his debut feature, "Those Dear Departed," and dual nominations (costume and production design) for Philip Noyce's acclaimed docudrama, "Rabbit-Proof Fence."

Ford also worked with Noyce on the Oscar®-nominated drama "The Quiet American" and collaborated with Aussie filmmaker Duigan on two additional titles-"Romero" and "Sirens." He joined director George Miller, who produced "Babe," on the acclaimed sequel, "Babe: Pig in the City," and also designed the films "Lilian's Story," the IMAX film "Sydney-Story of a City" and P.J. Hogan's recent version of "Peter Pan."

A native of England, Ford attended the Leicester College of Art before working at the BBC, where his earliest projects in production design included "The Cliff Richard Show," "The Cillia Black Show," "The Spike Milligan Show," "The Dave Allen Show" and the cult classic "Dr. Who." After a six-year stint at the BBC, Ford visited Australia with the intent of staying for two years. His initial assignment with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) led to becoming design department head, and those two years have turned into three decades for the adopted Aussie.

SIM EVAN-JONES, A.C.E. (film editor) reunites with director Andrew Adamson after having previously served as his editor on "Shrek" (for which he earned an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award nomination), the blockbuster sequel, "Shrek 2," and "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."

A native of Great Britain, Evan-Jones received a degree in Film and Communication from the University of London, Goldsmiths College. He joined DreamWorks SKG in 1995 after working at Steven Spielberg's Amblimation studio in London. His credits there included the posts of assistant editor on "An American Tail" and co-editor on "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story" and "Balto." He also served as associate editor on DreamWorks' 1998 animated musical "The Prince of Egypt," then a visual effects supervisor.

ISIS MUSSENDEN (costume designer) reunites with director Andrew Adamson after designing the wardrobes for his two animated classics, "Shrek" and "Shrek 2," and "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." For her work on the latter project, Mussenden won the Costume Designers Guild honor and the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Saturn Award and received a nomination for the British Academy Award (BAFTA).

In a career spanning two decades, the California native has created costumes for a wide range of stage and screen projects, including such diverse films as "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," "Thirteen Days," "Life of the Party," "American Psycho," "The Astronaut's Wife," "Some Girl," "Dante's Peak," "Daylight," "Albino Alligator," "White Man's Burden," "Ghost in the Machine," "Shocker," "Bodies, Rest & Motion," "Matinee," "The Waterdance," "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," "Breakin'All the Rules" and Brad Silberling's offbeat dramedy, "10 Items or Less."

She made her feature debut in 1986 with the romantic comedy "The Allnighter" and earlier served as an assistant designer on "Crocodile Dundee" and "Falling in Love" and a costume assistant on Robert Benton's Oscar®-winning "Places in the Heart" and Woody Allen's "The Purple Rose of Cairo."

She has also worked on a number of long-form television projects, including HBO's "A Private Matter," Lifetime's "Storm and Sorrow," CBS' "Taken Away" and Turner Pictures' "Memphis," for which she earned a CableACE nomination for her designs. She also served as a costume assistant on the miniseries "Kennedy," starring Martin Sheen in the title role.

Mussenden attended the University of California at Santa Barbara as an art major and later graduated from New York's prestigious Parson School of Design, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fashion design. She began her career with two seasons at Joseph Papp's renowned New York Shakespeare Festival and cut her teeth in the theater world on dozens of plays, including "Been Taken," "The Crate," "At Home" and Roger Hedden's "Bodies, Rest & Motion" at Lincoln Center. She also designed the wardrobes for the "Marathons" festival of one-act plays (by such playwrights as Hedden, David Mamet and Shel Silverstein) at New York's Ensemble Studio Theater. She is currently working with Sam Raimi on his upcoming horror film titled "Drag Me to Hell."

HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS (composer) is one of Hollywood's most sought-after composers, working on a variety of high-profile projects, both animated and live action. Over the last few years, Harry has scored some of the industry's biggest blockbusters, including "Shrek the Third," "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" (for which he received nominations for a Golden Globe® and Grammy®), "Shrek" (for which he received a BAFTA nomination), "Shrek 2" and "Chicken Run." He most recently wrote the score for "Gone Baby Gone," which marked the directorial debut of Ben Affleck.

Gregson-Williams has collaborated on several movies with director Tony Scott, including "Man on Fire," "Domino," "Spy Game" and "Déjà Vu," as well as three films with Joel Schumacher, the thriller "Phone Booth," "Veronica Guerin" and the recent film "The Number 23," starring Jim Carrey. His other film credits include "Seraphim Falls," "Kingdom of Heaven" (nominee for a Classical Brit award and winner of a Golden Satellite award), "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," "Enemy of the State," "The Replacement Killers," "Smilla's Sense of Snow" and "Antz," among others. Born in England to a musical family, Gregson-Williams earned a scholarship from the music school of St. John's College in Cambridge at the age of seven.

By age 13, his singing had been featured on over a dozen records, and he subsequently earned a coveted spot at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He started his film career as an orchestrator and arranger for composer Stanley Myers and went on to compose his first scores for the veteran English director Nicolas Roeg. Gregson-Williams' initiation into Hollywood film scoring was then facilitated by his collaboration and friendship with Oscar®-winning composer Hans Zimmer. This resulted in Gregson-Williams providing music for such films as "The Rock," "Broken Arrow," "The Fan," "Muppet Treasure Island," "Armageddon," "As Good as It Gets" and "The Prince of Egypt." Gregson-Williams has conducted acclaimed concerts of his music from "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" in Madrid in 2006 and in Denver in 2007.

Upcoming projects include "The Taking of Pelham 123," directed by Tony Scott; "G-Force" from Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney; and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," directed by Gavin Hood.

DEAN WRIGHT (visual effects supervisor) earned nominations for the Oscar®, BAFTA, Saturn and Visual Effects Society awards for his work as visual effects supervisor on "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (sharing the nominations with fellow VFX wizards Jim Berney, Scott Farrar and Bill Westenhofer).

Prior to his achievement on "The Chronicles of Narnia," Wright had been involved with motion-picture visual effects for over a decade on such prestigious projects as "Titanic," "What Dreams May Come," "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" and "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"-all Academy Award® winners for their innovative effects works.

Wright, a Michigan native, enrolled in the University of Arizona film school to pursue a career as a filmmaker. After completing his studies in 1986, he secured his first job on a Western movie-of-the-week for NBC entitled "Desperado." Relocating to Los Angeles in 1989, he soon landed work with one of the industry's most prominent directors, James Cameron, on the groundbreaking project "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," which went on to win the Academy Award® for Best Visual Effects.

This project propelled Wright into larger production roles in a variety of capacities- production coordinator, post-production coordinator and, ultimately, production manager for such acclaimed filmmakers as Wes Craven ("Scream"), Christopher Guest ("Almost Heroes"), Ron Underwood ("Heart & Souls," "Speechless"), Glenn Jordan ("Neil Simon's Jake's Women"), Diane Keaton ("Wildflower") and Danny DeVito ("Sunset Park").

Wright was again presented with an opportunity to work in the visual effects arena as the VFX Production Manager for Cameron's own VFX house, Digital Domain. Collaborating with Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato, Wright dove into what would prove to be the most popular movie of all time, "Titanic," which captured 11 Academy Awards® in 1997, including the Oscar® for Best Visual Effects.

Following this triumph, Wright was promoted to visual effects producer and helped land the facility's next landmark project, "What Dreams May Come." Working with director Vincent Ward and visual effects supervisor Kevin Scott Mack, Wright and Digital Domain again helped create cutting-edge work, and the film earned the Academy Award® for Best Visual Effects for 1998.

After producing the VFX for several other projects, he joined Dream Quest Images. During his four-year tenure there (1998-2002), Wright was responsible for the production of all VFX at the facility, overseeing more than 30 feature films, theme-park attractions and animation projects, including "Kangaroo Jack," "Reign of Fire," "102 Dalmatians," "Mission to Mars," "Inspector Gadget," "Mighty Joe Young" (Oscar® nominee), "Unbreakable," "Gone in 60 Seconds," "The Sixth Sense," "Bicentennial Man" and "Shanghai Noon," to name a few.

In early 2002, filmmaker Peter Jackson called upon Wright to fill the role of visual effects producer for the final two chapters in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy-"The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King," teaming with Oscar®-winning VFX supervisor Jim Rygiel. In 2003, "The Two Towers" would be recognized for its revolutionary achievements in visual effects with an astounding eight Visual Effects Society Awards, the BAFTA Award, as well as the Academy Award® for Visual Effects.

"The Return of the King," proving to be the ultimate jewel in Jackson's triple crown, shattered box-office records worldwide to become the second-highest-grossing film of all time and the second film to cross the $1 billion mark (both behind "Titanic"). "The Return of the King" would also triumph at the 2004 Academy Awards®, sweeping all 11 categories in which it was nominated, including Best Picture, Director and Visual Effects. Wright himself picked up the top Visual Effects Society Award in recognition for his work on the project.

WENDY ROGERS (visual effects supervisor) reteams with director Andrew Adamson, with whom she collaborated on visual effects for his Oscar®-winning animated hit, "Shrek," and Joel Schumacher's "Batman" films-"Batman & Robin" and "Batman Forever" (on which she served as technical director for the exciting "Luge" sequence).

A native of Melbourne, Australia, Rogers majored in business studies as a student in Brisbane. She began her career in computer programming before segueing into graphic design and visual effects.

She moved to the U.S. in 1991 and worked as a senior animator at Pacific Data Images (now PDI/DreamWorks), where she met another rising visual effects talent, Andrew Adamson (first working with him on Barry Levinson's film "Toys").

Her early animation and CG work include such live-action credits as Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" and Brian de Palma's "Carlito's Way," as CG supervisor on the epic "Waterworld" and as digital artist on Peter Jackson's 1996 horror film, "The Frighteners."

In 1997, she joined DreamWorks, initially as a CG visual development artist on Adamson's "Shrek." She followed as digital effects supervisor on the animated film "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," then as the lead effects artist on "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas." Most recently, she supervised the visual effects on the computer-animated hit film "Flushed Away."

THE MOVING PICTURE COMPANY/MPC (visual effects) creates world-leading digital visual effects and computer animation for feature films, advertising, music videos and television. Based in Soho, London, MPC is a purpose-built facility boasting a dedicated digital infrastructure to ensure the most efficient VFX pipeline is utilized by 550 of the most talented visual effects artists and production staff.

In addition to PRINCE CASPIAN, the team again executed VFX for high-profile projects, including sole vendor handling all the VFX for the newly released "Sweeney Todd" musical film directed by Tim Burton. Other projects encompass "10,000 B.C." (Roland Emmerich), "Golden Age" (Shekhar Kapur), "The Other Boleyn Girl" (Justin Chadwick) and "Fred Claus" (David Dobkin). MPC is also excited to have completed shots for its fifth movie in the "Harry Potter" franchise, entitled "The Order of the Phoenix," directed by David Yates.

MPC was proud to work on international feature films including Wolfgang Petersen's Academy Award® VFX nominee "Poseidon," Ron Howard's "The Da Vinci Code," Brett Ratner's "X-Men 3: The Last Stand" and Danny Boyle's space feature "Sunshine," for which it created all the visual effects.

In the last couple of years, the crew has successfully matched stylized CG work to internationally renowned stop-motion projects, including creating CG bunnies for the Oscar®winning "Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit" and the floating veil, birds and spiders for Burton's acclaimed animated feature "The Corpse Bride."

MPC also won the VES (Visual Effects Society) Award for Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven." The company picked up two additional nominations for the TV program "Hogfather" and for The Killer's music video "Bones." It also won an Emmy® for "Virtual History: The Secret Plot to Kill Hitler" (Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic and Artistic Design) and an Annie Award for its animated effects on "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit."

London's bespoke Digital Lab has digitally color-graded high-profile movies, including Joe Wright's "Pride and Prejudice," Burton's "The Corpse Bride" and Nick Park and Steve Box's "Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit." Other features to have been graded at MPC include Paul Weiland's "Sixty Six," Wolfgang Petersen's epic "Troy," the runaway "zomcom" "Shaun of the Dead" (Edgar Wright) and "Sunshine," "28 Days Later" and "Millions," all directed by Danny Boyle.

The other side of MPC works on some of the most exciting commercials in the world today. By mixing fresh talent from different cultures, they've built a dynamic team of artists and a diverse creative portfolio. Recent work has included spots such as the BTAA Ad of the Year 2006, Jonathan Glazer's Sony Bravia "Paint"; Johnny Green's Audi, "Satellite"; and Lynn Fox's Ballantines, "Underground." The team was also instrumental in contemporary classics such as Anthony Minghella's Guinness, "Redemption"; Volkswagen Golf GTi, "Singin' in the Rain" (N-eo); and the BTAA ad of the year 2005, Stella Artois, "Ice Skating Priests" (Jonathan Glazer) as well as new campaigns for high profile brands such as Levi's, "Moonbathe" (Anthony Atanasio); Orange, "Illuminations" (Nicolai Fuglsig) Vodafone "Work and Play" (Dougal Wilson); and many of the "Planet 3" (Traktor) series.

MPC also has a department dedicated to developing CG for TV programs, currently in preproduction for Sky One's "Hogfather." Recently completed TV work includes the development of the new Channel 4 screen idents, BBC One's "The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs" and "Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution" for BBC History. The team completed award-winning effects for "Virtual History: The Secret Plot to Kill Hitler" through Tiger Aspect for The Discovery Channel. This ground-breaking documentary sees accurate face replacement (CG mapped onto the faces of real actors to recreate accurate archive footage of Adolf Hitler, Sir Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt) for the first time on television.

For PRINCE CASPIAN, MPC has assigned two of its creative wizards to serve as VFX supervisors on the film-Tom Wood and Greg Butler.

Coming from a fine art and graphic design background, Tom Wood brings a nonconformist approach to the visual effects branch of the company. With 11 years of experience supervising digital effects in London and five years as a visual effects supervisor, Tom has built a reputation for quality image-making for some of the world's most influential directors.

He has served as VFX supervisor on three projects-"Sunshine," "Sylvia" and Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven," for which he shared a VES Award for Best Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture. His other work for MPC (in digital effects, compositing and title design) include two 007 thrillers, "Tomorrow Never Dies" and "The World Is Not Enough," "Lost in Space," "Event Horizon," "Enemy at the Gates," "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Snatch."

Greg Butler has a long history in creature- and character-dominated visual effects. After an early introduction to large-scale CG production at ILM, the Connecticut native joined a small team at Tippett Studio as they transitioned from a traditional stop-motion creature shop to create the bugs for Paul Verhoeven's "Starship Troopers."

Prior to joining The Moving Picture Company for the final stages of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," Butler spent six years in New Zealand, first building Weta Digital's Creature Department, then supervising sequences on all the "Lord of the Rings" films. He shared a VES Award for Outstanding Character Animation for the final chapter, "Return of the King."

With an academic background in film, television and theater design, the Hampshire College graduate approaches visual effects work with an emphasis on blending traditional rules of these older crafts with emerging visual technologies.

His other motion-picture credits include CG supervisor on all three of Peter Jackson's "LOTR" films as well as "King Kong," "I, Robot" and "My Favorite Martian" before jumping up to VFX supervisor on "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" and Michael Apted's historical drama, "Amazing Grace."

Additionally, he worked in various capacities on such films as "Baby's Day Out," "The Mask," "Practical Magic," "The Flintstones" and "Forrest Gump," which earned the 1994 Oscar® for Best Visual Effects.

You can learn more about the company at its website-www.moving-picture.com.

FRAMESTORE-CFC (visual effects) is the largest visual effects and computer animation studio in Europe, with over 20 years' experience in digital film and video technology.

The company has won numerous international awards, including two Technical Academy Awards® from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, three BAFTA Craft Awards and thirteen Primetime Emmy® Awards.

Work in the pipeline for 2007/2008 includes "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," "His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass" and Christopher Nolan's Batman sequel, "The Dark Knight." Work continues on the company's first animated feature project, "The Tale of Despereaux" and, for television, "Primeval 2."

The company's movie portfolio includes work on such films as "Children of Men," "Superman Returns," "X-Men: The Last Stand," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and the four previous "Harry Potter" films. Recent Digital Intermediate projects include "Mr. Bean's Holiday," "Hot Fuzz," "Hannibal's Rising," "United 93," "The Queen," "The Last King of Scotland" and "Casino Royale."

Recent television work includes "Primeval," "Prehistoric Park," "Ocean Odyssey," "Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets" and all the episodes of the "Walking With..." series.

Among Framestore-CFC's notable commercial credits are Casino Royale (title sequence), Vauxhall ("C'mon"), Sure ("Go Wild"), Guinness ("noitulovE" and "Surfer"), Dairy Crest ("Cityside"), Johnnie Walker ("Fish") and Levi's ("Odyssey").

Oscar®-winning VFX supervisor Jon Thum will oversee the company's visual effects creations for the film. Thum collected Hollywood's highest honor for his work on the Wachowski Bros.' 1999 sci-fi classic, "The Matrix." Most recently, he earned his second Academy Award® nomination for "Superman Returns," for which he also was cited for his third BAFTA nomination (he won the BAFTA Award for "The Matrix" and picked up a second nod for Tim Burton's magical "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"). He began his association with the company as a compositing artist on such projects as "What Lies Beneath," "Chicken Run" and "Mission: Impossible II" before graduating to VFX supervisor on two historical epics-Wolfgang Petersen's "Troy" and Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven."

WETA WORKSHOP (armor/weapon designs and fabrication) is a multifaceted effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand, which produces effects for television and film. Founded in 1986 by five-time Academy Award® winner Richard Taylor and partner Tania Rodger, Weta has produced creature and makeup effects for all of Peter Jackson's films, including his Oscar®-winning "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "Meet the Feebles," "The Frighteners," "Braindead," "King Kong" and "Heavenly Creatures."

In 1993, Taylor and partners, working with just one computer, created Weta Digital to produce the digital effects for Jackson's Oscar®-nominated (Original Screenplay) fantasy, "Heavenly Creatures."

Weta continued its collaboration with Jackson on his "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, which brought the effects company worldwide prominence. For the landmark "Rings" trilogy, Weta manufactured over 1,200 suits of armor, 2,000 weapons, 68 miniatures, a dozen major creatures, all of the special makeup effects and prosthetic suits servicing seven shooting units and two miniatures units.

Taylor, along with the firm's innovative co-founder and partner, Rodger, won four Academy Awards® for his contributions to "Lord of the Rings"-Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup for "Fellowship of the Ring" (in addition to a nomination for Best Costume Design) and Best Costume Design and Best Makeup on "Return of the King." He won British Academy (BAFTA) Awards for Best Costume Design on "The Two Towers" and Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup on "The Fellowship of the Ring" and earned additional nominations for Best Makeup on "The Two Towers" and "Return of the King" and Best Costume Design on "Return of the King."

On his most recent collaboration with Jackson, Taylor won his fifth Oscar® and another BAFTA honor for Best Visual Effects on "King Kong," Jackson's epic retelling of the 1933 horror classic.

In addition to his ongoing association with Jackson, he also served as miniature effects supervisor on Peter Weir's "Master & Commander," produced 1,700 weapons for Ed Zwick's "The Last Samurai," designed the guns for "Hellboy" and collaborated with Jackson on his earlier efforts, "Braindead" and "The Frighteners," the TV miniseries "The Tommyknockers," the Kiwi-based TV series "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" and "Xena: Warrior Princess," and effects for Lee Tamahori's "Once Were Warriors." He most recently completed work on Jonathan King's Kiwi horror-comedy, "Black Sheep."

Taylor has also developed a merchandising business and has created high-end collectibles for "The Lord of the Rings," "King Kong," "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," "Superman," "Hellgate" and Jim Henson's Muppets.

Weta Digital VFX supervisor Guy Williams has more than 14 years' experience in the visual effects industry, with a specialty in photo-real effects and creatures for live-action film.

Born in Jackson, Mississippi, Williams intended to study aerospace engineering at Mississippi State University. During his college years, he turned his interests to CG effects and moved into the computer arts program.

After leaving the university to work at Boss Films, Williams worked at Warner Bros., Rhythm and Hues, Rainmaker LA, Cinesite and Pacific Title before relocating to New Zealand in 1999 to work on the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. He has had broad experience in both 2D and 3D work, on projects including feature films, television, commercials and ride films.

Since joining Weta Digital, he has also worked on "I, Robot," "King Kong" (VES Award), "X-Men: The Last Stand" and "Eragon," on which he served as co-VFX supervisor. Earlier in his career, Williams worked as a digital artist and compositor on such films as "Eraser," "True Lies," "Drop Zone" and "Batman Forever." His industry experience also includes such titles as "Mars Attacks!" (digital effects supervisor) and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."

KNB EFX GROUP (special makeup/creature/character prosthetics) founding partner Howard Berger won the 2005 Academy Award® for Best Achievement in Makeup (shared with Tami Lane) for his innovative character creations, animatronics and creature prosthetics on Andrew Adamson's "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." With partner Greg Nicotero, the pair also shared the BAFTA Award for the film's makeup as well as a Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.

KNB EFX Group was formed in 1988 by partners Nicotero and Berger and has become the industry's effects house of choice for cutting-edge directors such as Quentin Tarantino ("Kill Bill, Vol. 1" and "2"), Robert Rodriguez ("Spy Kids" trilogy, "Once Upon a Time in Mexico," "Sin City"), Steven Spielberg ("Amistad," "Minority Report") and Jay Roach ("Austin Powers in Goldmember," "Meet the Fockers"), among many other filmmakers.

The pair formed their partnership after collectively working on Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead II." They continued their affiliation with Raimi on such projects as "Army of Darkness," "A Simple Plan" and, most recently, "Spider-Man 3" and have also maintained an ongoing association with director Tarantino that began with "Reservoir Dogs." They supplied the creature and special makeup effects on the Tarantino-scripted vampire thriller, "From Dusk 'til Dawn," directed by Robert Rodriguez, which led to their continued association with both filmmakers, culminating most recently with their shared directorial effort, "Grindhouse."

KNB recently completed work on the current remake of the 1986 thriller "The Hitcher"; the Jim Carrey starrer, "Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events" (an Oscar® winner for makeup); "House of Wax" for producer Joel Silver; "Serenity" for director Joss Wheadon; Michael Bay's "The Island" and "Transformers"; George Romero's "Land of the Dead" and "Diary of the Dead"; Wolfgang Petersen's "Poseidon," "Hostel" and the upcoming sequel for director Eli Roth,; and the remake of the 1977 Wes Craven cult classic, "The Hills Have Eyes." The company also designed and applied the character makeup on Jamie Foxx, transforming the actor into singer Ray Charles in Taylor Hackford's biopic, "Ray."

Its innovative makeup effects are also on display in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights" and "Magnolia," Martin Scorsese's "Casino," Frank Darabont's "The Green Mile" and his current project, "The Mist," Rob Reinder's "Misery," Eli Roth's horror hit, "Cabin Fever," David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive," Kevin Costner's "Dances with Wolves" and Simon Wells' "The Time Machine," which earned an Academy Award® nomination for Best Makeup. KNB also worked on "The Cell," another Best Makeup Oscar® nominee.

KNB also devised both the superhero and the supervillain appliances for "Spawn," an ambitious adaptation of Todd McFarlane's bestselling comic book, which included the prosthetic makeup and body suits for John Leguizamo's Clown character and a 12-foot hydraulic puppet of the Violator, Spawn's demonic arch nemesis.

Although most of its work (600 titles) is in the feature-film arena, KNB has also excelled in the television arena, lending its talents not only to "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" and "Xena: Warrior Princess," but Showtime's "The Outer Limits," FOX's cult favorite "The X-Files" and "24," NBC's "Law and Order," HBO's "Deadwood" and the telefilm "Desperation" based on the Stephen King novel. Nicotero and Berger won an Emmy® for their work on the Sci-Fi Channel's "Dune."

KNB's partners come from disparate backgrounds. Nicotero hails from Pittsburgh, where he began his career under the tutelage of acclaimed horror director George Romero and makeup effects master Tom Savini. He most recently continued his ongoing affiliation with Romero on "Land of the Dead," serving as 2nd unit director and animatronic and creature makeup supervisor.

Berger grew up in Los Angeles (the son of a post-production sound mixer) and spent his younger years visiting the studios of Oscar® winners Stan Winston and Rick Baker, the renowned animatronic and makeup effects innovators, with whom he would later collaborate on "Aliens," "Pumpkinhead," "Predator," "Harry and the Hendersons" and "Men in Black." The company currently resides in a 22,000-square-foot studio in Van Nuys, California, with a staff of 82 artists.

Information contained within as of May 1, 2008.

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