The terrible secret of why Disney dumped the Narnia franchise

In case you care, Disney has decided against making any more Narnia films, leaving its partner in the deal, Walden Media, on their own. The guess at the time was because Prince Caspian was not box office magic (I am guessing due to the fact the youngest daughter is the creepiest looking child actress ever! She wants to bore into your soul and devour it from the inside out!) but it turns out it was part of a giant studio catfight.

From the LA Times blog:

But what really derailed Disney’s involvement with “Narnia” was a nasty feud between the studio and Phil Anschutz, the real estate baron and supporter of Christian conservative causes who seems to own half of America. Anschutz has a stake in or outright ownership of Regal Entertainment Group (the nation’s biggest movie theater chain), Staples Center, the Kodak Theatre, the Los Angeles Galaxy, the L.A. Kings, London’s Millennium Dome, a string of U.S. newspapers (including the San Francisco Examiner) and Walden Media, which has produced such films as “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “Nim’s Island” and “Because of Winn-Dixie.” So when Anschutz gets into an ugly dispute with Disney, we’re talking about a true battle of the titans.

It looks like Walden Media got greedy after the first film and demanded more money, which ticked off Disney and gave them an excuse to dump the film after the second underpreformed. Now Walden Media is shopping around the next film of the franchise. I am still convinced the youngest girl has something to do with it.