{"id":642899,"date":"2026-06-17T04:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642899\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T04:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:40:17","slug":"sony-to-release-gerwigs-narnia-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642899\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony To Release Gerwig&#8217;s &#8220;Narnia&#8221; Overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/sony-to-release-gerwigs-narnia-overseas.jpg\" data-caption=\"20th Century Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/sony-to-release-gerwigs-narnia-overseas.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"sony-to-release-gerwigs-narnia-overseas\"\/><\/a>20th Century Studios<\/p>\n<p>Sony Pictures Entertainment is set to handle the international theatrical rollout of Greta Gerwig\u2019s new film \u201cNarnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew\u201d on behalf of Netflix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/netflix-sony-spe-greta-gerwig-narnia-the-magicians-nephew-1236623054\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR<\/a> reports that the movie is set to be Netflix\u2019s first wide theatrical release and its first foray into releasing a movie into cinemas exclusively for a minimum of 45 days.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix will handle domestic distribution for the movie, which was originally scheduled to be released exclusively on 1,000 IMAX screens at Thanksgiving for a one-month run ahead of a Netflix premiere at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>When the 45-day window was announced, plans changed with the film now getting a wide theatrical release in the United States in February next year.  AMC, Regal, Cinemark, Cineplex, Marcus and Harkins, and many regional and independent theaters are all expected to play the film.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the streamer says: \u201cNetflix and Sony Pictures have a strong track record of partnership, including their landmark global pay-1 licensing deal under which SPE\u2019s feature films stream on Netflix worldwide \u2014 an industry-first for pay-1 \u2014 following their full theatrical and home entertainment windows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Written for the screen and directed by Gerwig, the project marks the first-ever screen adaptation of C. S. Lewis\u2019s \u201cThe Magician\u2019s Nephew\u201d and stars David McKenna, Beatrice Campbell, Emma Mackey, Carey Mulligan, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Daniel Craig, and Meryl Streep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20th Century Studios Sony Pictures Entertainment is set to handle the international theatrical rollout of Greta Gerwig\u2019s new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-642899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}