Photoshoots

• 18.02.04 - Hyrise Publicity Photoshoot

Events

• 17.06.08 - ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian’ Prague Premiere x 23
• 19.06.08 - ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian’ UK Premiere x 51

Appearances

• 22.06.08 - Emporio Armani - MFW Menswear Spring/Summer 2009 x 2

I’ve been unsuccessful so far in finding photos from the Paris premiere. If anyone has any they’d like to share, please email me at admin @ barnesfan.com. Thank you!

Source: The Press Association

Thousands of Narnia fans and a host of celebrities paraded the green carpet for an event billed as the UK’s biggest-ever film premiere.

Ten thousand fantasy fanatics descended on the O2 Arena in London to watch The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian on a screen measuring 91ft by 38ft - the largest ever constructed in Europe.

Kids dressed as lions, witches and Telmarine soldiers, teenage girls in posh frocks, as well as overly excited parents trekked down the 190m-long red and green carpet along with stars of the film and other famous faces.

Telmarine soldiers - characters from the film - mounted plinths along the walkway dressed in chain mail, helmets and masks with some wielding swords in mock battle.

Young British stars of the film were excited to be back on home soil, having attended premieres all over the world.

Ben Barnes, who plays Prince Caspian, said he was so overexcited that he was “babbling like an idiot”.

“This is the pinnacle, it’s the climax,” he said. “Despite all the people behind me I can guarantee I’m the most excited person here.”

He added: “I still find it difficult to watch myself because it’s difficult to suspend your disbelief enough to see a prince and not yourself but hopefully everyone else will see Prince Caspian and I think it’s a really exciting, engaging film.”

Director Andrew Adamson said: “People say not to work with children but I highly recommend it.

“They energise you, on those days on set when you’re tired, they are not. They give you the energy back.”

The BBC just sent us this video. Check it out!

Also, watch for a gallery update tonight with photos from the UK premiere!

Source: Wimbledon Guardian

A movie starring a former Kingston student has boasted the biggest ever film premiere.

According to organisers, the premier of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian has beaten records for a film’s opening.

Up to 10,000 people are expected to attend the film’s premier, which will star Ben Barnes, at London’s O2 Europe.

It is thought the event has seen the construction of Europe’s largest cinema screen at a massive 91ft by 38ft.

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I have been incredibly busy lately, but I think I’m ready to play catch-up with Ben and his news/travels. Thank you to everyone who has linked me over the past week or so.

To start off here’s an interview out of New Zealand.

Source: The New Zealand Herald

“Bastards,” says Ben Barnes. He’s talking about his fellow actors from Prince Caspian, the new Chronicles of Narnia film in which he plays the title role. He’s joking. Sort of. “I’m eternally jealous of all of them,” says Barnes.

The problem is the constant, tedious raving of castmates, as well as director Andrew Adamson, about a magical day they shared shooting a scene in a remote corner of New Zealand’s beautiful South Island.

On a gloriously crystalline, isolated river near Haast, all the stars except Barnes spent a day in rowboats, with Adamson working an outboard motor and wielding the radio controls for the actors’ dinghy. “It was like student film-making, completely idyllic and intimate,” says Adamson.

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