The next big-budget Chronicles of Narnia movie gets official release date, IMAX run

Narnia: The Magician's Nephew from the director of Barbie has a new release date Narnia: The Magician's Nephew, the new C.S. Lewis adaptation from Barbie director Greta Gerwig, won't make its previously scheduled November 2026 release date. Instead, it will debut in theaters in February 2027, Netflix announced Friday. While that's a substantial delay, movie theater aficionados have reason to rejoice: Gerwig's origin story for the land of Narnia will get a lengthy seven-week run in theaters, an unusual step for Netflix. Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew will be released in IMAX and globally in movie theaters on Feb. 12, 2027, and will stream on Netflix on April 2, 2027. Early showings in IMAX will begin on Feb. 10, 2027. The Magician’s Nephew is the sixth book Lewis released in The Chronicles of Narnia series. Published in 1955, it's a prequel that details how Aslan the lion created the magical land of Narnia. The book chronicles the early days of Narnia's history and is set a thousand years before The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lewis' first and best-known Narnia book. "I was a child when I first read The Magician’s Nephew, and I fell in love with the gorgeously improbable but co