‘Dawn Treader’ Grosses $10.5m Over New Years Weekend
Happy 2011! The Voyage of the Dawn Treader grossed an estimated $10.5m over the holiday weekend. Box Office Mojo writes:
[Gulliver’s Travels] remained in eighth place and couldn’t top its 20th Century Fox stable mate The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which drew $10.3 million in its fourth weekend. With $86.9 million in 24 days, Voyage lost more ground to [Wardrobe] but it gained some on [Caspian].
The film has now grossed $86.9m domestically. Its worldwide total is up to $297.1m.
Still no word on another Narnia film being green-lit, but keep checking back!
I have a feeling that if SC is to be made, true to the book, the production budget won't be big, at least less than VDT. BTW, is the idea of the northern land of Narnia from the highland of Scotland?
If you're asking about Lewis' intentions, I have no idea. But if you're putting out a suggestion, I think that's brilliant! Check it out:
http://www.1adventure.com/archives/000120.html
Well, I was actually asking and… Enjoying the picture! It's a suggestion now… LOL
I also think that the landscape in BBC's SC is great. With technology now, you just need to add more high mountains and make it dimmer.
I applaud this comment. It sums up everything that needs to be said.
just crossed $300M.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=narnia3.htm
I have no choice. Those are the only two complete historical data sets available to use as baselines. To me, it makes more sense to use the percentage of gross over time as a basis of comparison than to rely on projected "hold" rates for an incomplete data set. Regardless, I do not maintain that the film will *not* reach $115 million domestically. Only that neither of the two historical examples we have thus far would support the notion that $115 million is "probable". It is *possible*, under ideal conditions. That's not the same thing.
Well. Narnia is a wonderfull movie. If Silver Chair will be relsead, I suggest it should be earlier than 2013 and it the remaining books: Magicians Nephew, Horse and His Boy and of course the Last Battle should be a motion picture too. Narnia will be a more better movie if the film and the book will be really related to each other. we must see the following movies in the near future. FOR NARNIA! FOR ASLAN!
So far, the franchise has made about $1.5 billion. If Fox continues, say on average they make about $350 million each, that's still about $3 billion and it would be one of the biggest franchises of all time, which is a pretty big incentive for Fox to make the rest of them. Here's what I think the plan should be for the rest of them.
– Silver Chair gets released in November 2012, because 2013 is too long a wait, Will Poulter still needs to be Eustace and if it comes in December, it will be smashed at the box office by The Hobbit. Silver Chair has a good chance of better box office success than the Dawn Treader because it is the market for such a story.
– Horse and his Boy and Magician's Nephew are filmed together. This will save Fox a lot of time making these movies. MN comes in November 2014 and HBB comes a year later. November 2014 is good so that it won't compete with Avatar 2. HBB should be made after MN so that audiences are introduced to the Calormenes in time for The Last Battle, and so the Pevensies can get time to grow up.
– The Last Battle gets released in December 2017. This should be a box office king because it will be last in the series. Whether it should be in two parts, I don't know. The second part can come in mid 2018. Comment as to whether The Last Battle could be done in two parts.
Exactly my sentiment. It is very bias to read the reviews. I posted my thoughts here: http://hshandoyo.net/wordpress/?p=1194
1. "one of the biggest franchises of all time, which is a big incentive . . ." A large gross is only an incentive if it's in proportion to the cost.
2. "This will save Fox a lot of time . . ." If Fox cared about saving time, they would have started pre-production on Silver Chair already.
3. "This should be box office king . . ." You seem to be living in the same La-La Land as Disney was when they spent 400 million on Prince Caspian. Chronicles of Narnia is not a baffo-popular series. It's a series with one baffo-popular book. There is no overarching plot to tie all of the books together, so people won't be waiting on the edge of their seats to see what happens to their characters. Add to that the fact that the last 3 books are more like addenda to the series than part of it. There is no reason to believe that LB will be particularly successful.
I can totally picture that as Etinsmore!
LOL Anhun! Funny!
Let's pass the 400 mark! I really want to see these movies made. All of them.
I like your optimism, cause it's all starting to look like a good possibility. Don't pay too much attention to the negative Marsh-wiggles.
you think you're jealous NOW, wait till you hear the prizes i won for Regal's 'Create Your Own Fantasy Island' contest! (partly because i was the only one that entered 🙂 )
– three movie posters (two were mini, and one is the full size poster)
-Narnia silly bands (there's even a reepicheep!!!!)
– an notebook with Aslan's picture (the same as the one on the soundtrack)
– a t-shirt with the same aslan pic that says 'The Chronicles of Narnia The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' on the sleeve
-and, almost as cool as the t-shirt, more movie tickets!!!!! guess what i saw???
😉
wow, you e-mailed them, Cyclops? that's cool. i REALLY like your picture, i love the colors. LWW is probably my fav movie in the series.
and Aslan 😉
i think HP and Narnia are compared sometimes because both authors Lewis and Rowling came from the UK and both are very popular fantasy novels for kids. i don't think it's fair for Narnia to be put down because it's more Christian than a ton of kids books, it makes me kind of sad when people do that. it really sucks sometimes, but, you know, you can't give up trying to make things better.
Why people think The Last Battle is just one of the last three books is beyond me. It won the presitgious Carnegie prize in 56 when it was first published and it remains, for me, the finest dramatisation of the book of revelation ever written. The pn;y question regarding it is whether anyone has the guts to film it with all the issues it addresses. It is far more significant than any of the others.
I think the Silver Chair would be a fabulous action/magical film. I don't know if people would agree with me but I think Silver chair could be a PG-13 if they stress the action. But I am totally fine with the PG status, I love family movies, and knowing my little cousins could go see it would make me happy.
Love Live Narnia! 🙂
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I agree, very positive attitude–but Colormenes have been introduced !
I am surprised I have not read any comments on this yet. I was so impressed ! The slave traders in VDT had slightly darker skin, curled mustached, long robes, turbans, and scimitars ! I thought, Wow, they introduced Calormenes !
I think I read somewhere that the inspiration for Ettinsmoor were the Mountains of Mourne in Northan Ireland.
If I understand correctly (which I might not in this case) one of the terms of the agreement between the C.S. Lewis Estate and Walden is that all movies must be PG or less.
It would not have suffered? Okay, this is a movie based on a boring, relatively unpopular book. While the overarching plot changes were an improvement, the movie suffers on it's own merits, not comparing it to the book series or the LWW movie.
Some of the editing decisions were just stupid. Because of the excitement over the LWW battle scene (which was unique and brilliantly envisioned) Adamson believed that "everyone wants to get to the battle scene." So he cut out some endearing character-development moments, like the picking of the Marshalls, and we ended up with a bloated, overdone battle scene that bored quickly.
Also, they darkened the movie unnecessarily, and targeted it more to teens. For me personally, it didn't hinder my enjoyment, but Narnia made it's name on childlike wonder and bright family-friendly magic. This teen action movie slant doubtless turned off some of the franchise's fan base.
All of these factors contributed to PC's "suffering." Not just the release date.
Tell me about it. They've actually set up a thread in the forum where you can vote for which line in VDT was the cheesiest. Way too many nominees. It seemed like they barely included any of Lewis' dialogue, which is a shame.
It's the little engine that could.
To me it seems like they are gonna have a hard time with LB
I would think–I would hope, that the release of "Book of Eli" and "The Passion of the Christ" shows some guts in the industry. But yeah, Last Battle would be taking it where it's never been.
It will also have to face off against major competition. If they release a new Narnia film every two years or so during the Christmas season.
The Hobbit is slated for December 2012 and its sequel the following year in the same month. Then in December 2014 comes Avatar 2 and in 2015 Avatar 3.
It's doing great! I went to see it New Year's Eve with family and the theater was packed. Everyone I've talked to likes it and can't wait for it to come out on DVD.
I didn't mean to "Rebel" when I said that I thought the PG-13 idea could work. But I forgot that they were all going to be pg 🙂 I ack-chelly knew that lol 🙂 Sorry
Not Tim Burton! I watched his movie 'Coraline' and it was kinda dark and disturbing. In my opinion, he seems to do really intense movies that are not family friendly.
HHB is my ultimate favorite, but SC is one of my other favorites.
it's so great it actually made me cry, no book has ever done that before
My first reaction was "That looks just like a scene from SC!!" 🙂 But, on further consideration, it's almost too pretty for Ettinsmoor; I see it more as Northern Narnia, before you reach the river Shribble.
Or maybe that is the river Shribble, or one of its tributaries.
Me too! I can't wait to get the DVD. 🙂
VDT's daily take has dipped back below PC's at the same point in it's run. 🙁
I saw that too. I wonder if today is just an isolate "incident". Note that the week was pretty bad for other movies also (VDT actually performed better than Yogi Bear and tangled).
Well I meant all the characters, not just the kids. Puddleglum is one of the reasons SC is such a favorite of mine, but to go into how brillantly C.S. Lewis created him and what a wonderfully written character he is would take a much longer comment than I care to write. ^_^
Now that the holidays are over, all of the family-friendly films are down, during school days at least. We'll see if this trend holds on the weekend. Hopefully not.
At this point in PC's trajectory, school was already out. I suspect that, from here on in, VDT will do better than PC on weekends, but worse on week days.
That was precisely my thought about it. Indeed all family films did very poorly today, at the level of movies like black swan, the fighter, etc… Hopefully, it will pick up some stamina this weekend. I am hoping it will reach the 100mil mark soon (maybe next week). After that, I don't expect much more (115mil might be too much of an optimistic stretch). I only hope that, together with foreign profit, it is enough for the producers to continue the franchise.
To oppose your comments
1: I said presuming each one makes $350 million, which seems to be the average of the last two movies. I only said The Last Battle would be big because it's a finale. I never said it would be bigger than LWW.
2: Fox would want to see how the Dawn Treader plays out before they continue with these plans.
3: November is a good time for the next few Narnia movies so it can get a month's head start against major competition.
4: Viewers wouldn't know enough about Calormenes just from seeing the Dawn Treader. They are only mentioned when they are looking at the map and only subtly depicted through the slave traders so HBB would look a lot more in depth than Dawn Treader.
5: I still never got anything back about the Last Battle being in two parts.
6: Who said $400 million needed to be spent per Narnia film.
Yes I saw that too. I was pretty surprised at how much it has dropped since mon. I thought it would make close to a million per day this week, but I can see that the adult films are doing better now. The tourist topped vdt for the first time today. I guess we will have to wait for the weekend. I hope it can pull in at lest 4 mil.
I absolutely DREAD the thought of 'The Last Battle' in the hands of the current producers. It would not even be remotely recognizable after they water it down for the PG-rating, and to placate misguided parents. Can you imagine what they'd do to it? Susan not only would make it into the Real Narnia with everyone else, she'd probably single-handedly take out the entire Calormene army with her bow along the way. Or, they'd spend a zillion dollars on a spectacular CGI train wreck, only to have everyone walk away from it, unscathed, A-Team-style.
"Wow, Ed! That was a close one!"
"I'll say! Has anyone seen my torch?"
"I think it rolled under the White Witch."
Oh, to see a faithful adaptation of that book…
I thought that too, Anhun. I knew there was some sort of agreement that it had to be PG. If you guys remember in PC, they had the Telmarines wear masks in the battle so it could get a PG rating.
That was, by far, the funniest thing I've read up here. Because they would do exactly that; but it's improper teaching kids about death and all. It's not something they should be exposed to until they're old enough to die. (sarc.) So keep that in mind.
agreed, non, I dream of a production team that is brave enough to keep to the story, deepen the subtext, and blow our minds with the thrilling spiritual intensity of the original plots. Instead we get watered down, twisted, PC mishmashes. it's baffling. Taking superior material and trading it out for inferior dishwater, in the name of updating. If you look at the grosses, you can deduce this is not what the audience wants to see, it's what the producers are foolishly , incorrectly projecting that's what we will want. I am totally grateful for the new movies, but I really wish they would stop tampering with a classic. And i understand about adapting to cinema and am not against that where it is needed, the problem is they are changing things where they are not needed. Narnia is not a property that needs updating with more headbashing and dumbing down, it should stay intelligent and deep. It needs to stay heartfelt and character driven.
That looks incredible. It's very Puddleglum-ish–dark grey skies for pessimism, contrasted with the bright green vegetation for hope and faith. I could see that.
I saw the movie last Sunday and it was great! I brought my husband and 4 grown-up kids (ages 21-26), who all were reluctant to come. But since I rarely go out to the movies (just LoTR and Narnia recently), they treated me to this one. They were not disappointed. A couple of them were even teary (sniffling) by the end of the movie. My hubby kept commenting on how he loved the music score. Also, I noticed how the people lingered at the end either looking at the credits or listening to There's a Place for Us. I probably will watch it again just one more time then buy the blu-ray/dvd when it comes out.
Sorry if I posted in the wrong thread.. new here.
The Voyage didn't disappoint….
GET OUT!!!! . . . just kidding
Well, you're talking about how you contributed to the gross, so it fits perfectly in a conversation about Dawn Treader's weekend gross. 🙂
I was crying at the end, too. The look on Lucy's face was heart-wrenching. I can't wait to get this on DVD.
Welcome! By the way, what did you mean by LoTR? Just wondering 🙂
1. Did I say anything about LWW? You said that it would be "box office king" because it's a finale. That is the point I was contesting. I think it's doubtful that LB will be a success, let alone box office king. If it is, it will be a function of two variables: How well they make it, and how well they market it. The mere fact that it's a finale won't help LB, when you consider that it has no plot connection to the rest of the books, and the series as a whole isn't all that popular.
2. Um . . . My point exactly. Fox is not going to invest in any future Narnia film until they gauge whether or not the series still has life in it by observing the previous film's earnings. They certainly wouldn't invest all of that money in a struggling franchise by filming two installments at once.
3. November is extremely risky for this series. The movie might lose a lot of theatres before the holidays come around, so that it receives little or no benefit from the holiday bump.
6. I didn't say you thought they would earn back 400 million, I was saying that your LB automatic dominance theory was just as unrealistic as that.
Holy Moses you're young! You don't know LotR stands for Lord of the Rings?
[Anhun toddles off to go shoot herself]
That's right, Calormenes ! WOOHOO !!
That's an interesting idea, the Last Battle coming out in two parts. But I reckon it would be a very bad idea to do so.
Firstly, everyone would be comparing it to Harry Potter, which is already done too much for my liking. The truth is that Narnia isn't Harry Potter, in fact, it's completely different. Narnia shouldn't try to be Harry Potter, it should just be Narnia. If it were to have two parts to the last movie, movie critics everywhere would be claiming that Narnia was copying HP. Thing is, many people who have not read the books do not know they were written 50 years before HP. They will think Narnia is a cheap take-off, which is not what we want.
Secondly, and most importantly, I really can't see how LB would be split into two parts. To me, there aren't two parts of a story, there is one whole story, so why try to split it up? It's not like it's a long book either, so there's really no reason to split it up. There are no really suspenseful moments in the middle of the book where the filmmakers could end the film so that the audience would want to see it again, and I am fearful that if they tried to split the movie into two parts then many people would lose interest in the last part.
I see where you're coming from (two movies make more money than one?), but I believe that to keep with the spirit of Narnia that LB should just be one movie.
Now that I think about it, VDT might have benefited from being made in multiple parts. They could have made the conflict with the slave traders the central plot of the first one, with Gumpas as the arch-villain.
NNC, that made me laugh so hard… but it's kind of worrying because it's utterly ridiculous but scarily accurate. As for my concerns, I'm seriously worrried that they'll turn Jill into another 'warrior princess' with an unlimited supply of mascara. Or they'll have a huge battle between Susan and Lilliandil when Susan gets to the new Narnia, where she shouldn't be anyway. *shudders*
Yes, as JP said, the filmmakers will definitely need guts if they are going to do the Last Battle any justice. I'm not saying there needs to be blood and guts everywhere (Aslan forbid!), and it is definitely possible to do a train crash scene without being gory (they're all sitting on the train, then they're wondering why another train is coming towards them, then there's a jolt and it goes black?). As long as the kids realise that it doesn't matter the Pevensies died, because it meant they could spend eternity in Narnia with no more battles and everything, it wouldn't be too bad.
And if they do LB, they HAVE to keep in all the symbolism, no matter how weird they reckon the audience will think it will be.
How would the Telmarines wearing masks make it PG. Some people thought the masks made them scarier. And they let a lot of things slide into the PG catagory these days.
How amazing! Why do people go to New Zealand?
I think Ettinsmoors should have that kind of desolate beauty. The fun contrast about SC compared to the other books is that you can imagine the scenery in the North being so starkly different from the fairy-tale-like beauty of Narnia. It matches gloomy Puddleglum, man-eating giants, a dark, mysterious Underworld, and Rilian and his strange enchantment.