We can make this film empty theaters as much as we helped empty them for Snow White.
There is another issue here.
Snow White was a cultural film with mass appeal. The original Disney cartoon placed it in the center of popular culture.
Narnia plays to a select audience. Beloved, but plays to a Christian crowd formost. And this is a crowd that doesn’t like their stories manipulated.
They will lose big. Obamas still consulting there? Who is paying them to cut the legs off of Netflix?
When my progeny were in lower school at an old, elite, well known in some circles, private day school, NOT affiliated with any religion/church, The Lion, The Wit, and The Wardrobe was required reading in the third or fourth grade and the students were encouraged to read the rest of the Narnia books for pleasure.
That was quite a bit ago, I don't know IF that school still has it as REQUIRED reading, but most of the kids DID go on and read the other books.