<P> The film was released on December 9, 2005, in both Europe and North America to positive reviews and was highly successful at the box office grossing more than $745 million worldwide, making it 2005's third most successful film . It won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Makeup and various other awards . An Extended Edition was released on December 12, 2006, and was only made available on DVD until January 31, 2007, when it was discontinued . It was the best selling DVD in North America in 2006 taking in $332.7 million that year . </P> <P> The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was the first of three adaptations of C.S. Lewis' series thus far released, and was followed by Prince Caspian in 2008 and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 2010 . The three films have grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide among them . </P> <P> During World War II, the Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, are evacuated from a London suburb to Professor Digory Kirke's country home . Mrs Macready, the strict housekeeper, explains he is unaccustomed to hosting children . </P> <P> While the Pevensies play hide - and - seek, Lucy discovers a wardrobe and enters the fantasy world called Narnia . Seeing a lamppost, Lucy encounters the faun Mr. Tumnus, who invites her to his home . He puts Lucy to sleep by playing a lullaby on his flute . When Lucy wakes up, she finds Tumnus grieving . He explains that Jadis, the White Witch, has cursed Narnia to a hundred years of winter . If a human is encountered, they are to be brought to her . Tumnus cannot bring himself to kidnap Lucy, so he sends her home . When she returns to Professor Kirke's house, hardly any time has passed, and her siblings disbelieve her story . </P>

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