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Prince Caspian will be followed by Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, in whichEdmund and Lucy help locate the seven banished Lords of Narnia. Theintention is for Prince Caspian, Dawn Treader, and The Silver Chair willinterlock to create a trilogy.

Chronologically speaking, The Magician’s Nephew is set before Wardrobe, withThe Horse & His Boy following, before the apocalyptic The Last Battle endsthe series. The magazine adds that the most likely of the three to be made firstis The Magicoan’s Nephew, as it explains how the Professor came to own themagical wardrobe.

ALIEN VS PREDATOR 2A script review at ‘Ain’t It Cool News’ for the Alien Vs Predator sequel hascaused massive online upset. Picking up immediately after the first film’sending, the storyline for AVP2 finds the Alien/Predator hybrid creature (thePredalien) causing the Predator spaceship to crashland outside a remotetown.

From that point it’s a much more intimate affair between Predators, Aliensand the Predalien, with a ragtag group of small town cliches stuck in themiddle of the action. But fans are quite rightly up in arms about themediocre plot, terrible characters, and the fact the sequel stamps all overthe original Alien and Predator mythologies.

And you thought the first AVP was bad, eh?

STAR TREK XI’Paramount Pictures’ is breathing new life into Star Trek. No, not withanother TV series, but with a return to the movie franchise. Writer-directorJ.J Abrams will produce and direct the eleventh Trek feature film, aimingfor a 2008 release. ‘Variety’ reports that Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk,Abrams’ producing team from hit TV series Lost, also will produce theyet-to-be-titled feature.

The project will be written by Abrams and his Mission: Impossible IIIscreenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and will focus on the earlydays of seminal Trek characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including theirfirst meeting at Starfleet Academy and outer space mission.

All figures are weekend box-office gross.

• 1. Silent Hill ($20.2m)
• 2. Scary Movie 4 ($16.8m)
• 3. The Sentinel ($14.4m)
• 4. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown ($13.3m) (total to date: $168m)
• 5. The Wild ($8.33m)
• 6. The Benchwarmers ($7.26m)
• 7. Take the Lead ($4.18m)
• 8. The Inside Man ($3.75m)
• 9. American Dreamz ($3.67m)
• 10. Friends with Money ($3.18m)

UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)

• 1. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (£1.88m)
• 2. Silent Hill (£0.99m)
• 3. Scary Movie 4 (£0.92m)
• 4. American Dreamz (£0.69m)
• 5. Eight Below (£0.41m)
• 6. She’s The Man (£0.37m)
• 7. Take The Lead (£0.355m)
• 8. The Inside Man (£0.354m)
• 9. An American Haunting (£0.27m)
• 10. Tristan & Isolde (£0.22m)

All the following are U.K. release dates, and are subject to change.

• 28th April 2006: Lucky You, Slither (right)
• 5th May 2006: Love + Hate, The Magician, Confetti, The Devil and Daniel Johnson, Russian Dolls, Three, In the Mix
• 12th May 2006: When a Stranger Calls, Quo Vadis, Baby?, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Aquamarine, Prime
• 19th May 2006: Once in a Lifetime, The Da Vinci Code, Waiting…
• 26th May 2006: Thief Lord, The Wild, X-Men: The Last Stand, Down in the Valley, Hoot

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