Now I wonder what made Tangled SO expensive. "scratches head"

Tangled cost so much because it was in Development Hell for 6 years. It took a lot of time for them to finalize their artistic vision for the film...it was originally supposed to be animated, then CGI textured to look like animation, then fully CGI. They ended up changing the name of the movie from Rapaunzel to Tangled, and I also believe they changed their script several times.

So after all of that, Tangled became the 5th most expensive film of all time adjusted for inflation! Kind of a shame, because even though it's box office run has been decent, it's still going to be a flop because of the monstrous production costs.

MinotaurforAslan, thanks for explaining.

I think that when all is said and done that VDT will be deepmed more of a success than Tangled just due to ROI (Return on Investment) ratios. Tangled is having good holds....but not good enough to recover their HUGE INVESTMENT in the film. I am shocked that it cost 95 Million more than VDT.

I am excited to read on boxofficemojo that VDT is having much strong holds than Eragon, and Golden COmpass....and I heard that holds were even better than LWW.

I am seeing VDT for the fifth time on boxing day with my three brothers. THey haven't seen it yet.

As I thought it would, Deadline got it wrong. VDT did an estimated $10.8M, bringing its total to $63.9M.

A $10.8m weekend is excellent, very minimal drop from last weekend's $12.3M.
A 12.8% drop, the lowest within the Top 10, in fact it's the lowest of all the movies this weekend according to BOM, (excluding of course new movies, and movies in limited release that expanded).

This is VDT's third weekend, this weekend- The Golden Compass had reached a cume of $48.9M, VDT has left it in the "dust". Eragon had $56.4M total by this point, but Narnia looks to go beyond this as well by a wide margin. Good legs for Narnia, good legs.

of course, VDT is just short of LWW's opening weekend. But given its opening, this is still good news for VDT. I don't know, though it opened far less than Caspian its final numbers might not be so far off thanks to holiday holds. Like someone else said, $115 seems about right- given their starts this would be impressive for VDT but dismal for PC. I can't see why Fox wouldn't want to greenlight The Silver Chair.

So, does anyone know how many foreign money it made this weekend?

Well, currently it's being reported that Narnia made around 25 million this weekend to fall to third place behind Fockers and Tron.

More:(no Harry Potter until Monday)

The 20th Century Fox film Gulliver's Travels, starring Jack Black in a digital 3D adaptation of the Jonathan Swift classic, opened at 2,844 overseas screens in 15 territories for a weekend tally of $12.4 million, or a per-screen average of $4,373.

Number 1 debuts were landed in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Colombia, augmenting No. 2 bows in Mexico ($2.8 million from 1,216 sites) and Spain ($2.3 million drawn from 535 screens). Gulliver's Travels ranked No. 4 on the weekend.

Paramount reported that the Weinstein Company's co-production The King's Speech, an historical drama costarring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter, opened No. 11 at 94 locations in Australia for an estimated $950,000 for a royal $10,106 per-screen average.

Warner Bros.' Yogi Bear, a combo live-action and animated comedy voiced principally by Dan Ayckroyd, got off to an inauspicious start on the foreign circuit, opening at 800 screens in five territories for $1.2 million. "Due to weather conditions across Europe, results were softer than expected," said the distributor. A Russia opening is due this week.

Fox's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which had been the top-grossing title overseas for two straight weekends, finished third this time with $25.5 million derived from 8,360 screens in 66 markets. Foreign gross total comes to $168.6 million, more than two-and-a-half times the film's domestic cume.

The weekend's No. 5 title -- pending weekend foreign results of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I, which Warners said won't be reported until Monday -- is DreamWorks Animation's Megamind in 3D, which, via Paramount, passed the $100 million gross mark overseas ($109 million) thanks to an estimated $11.6 million weekend from 4,961 situations.

Disney Animation's Tangled, the 3D animation retelling of the classic Rapunzel tale, drew $9.5 million in its fifth weekend overseas from 4,158 screens in 18 markets, pushing its foreign gross total to $118 million and its worldwide tally to $261.8 million.

Sony and other distributors' The Tourist, costarring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, generated $8.5 million from 2,885 screens in 24 markets, raising its overseas gross total to $37.1 million drawn since its foreign opening on Dec. 9.

Ranking No. 1 in South Korea was Fox Korea's coproduction of Hwanghae (The Yellow Sea), a crime thriller from director Hong-jin Na, which drew $7.9 million from 625 Korean situations. No. 1 in Italy remains Natale in Sudafrica (Christmas in South Africa), the tenth edition of FilmAuro's popular Christmas In... series, which drew an estimated $6.2 million from 409 locations for a market cume of about $11.2 million over two frames.

Top local language title in France was Les Emotifs Anonymes, director Jean-Pierre Ameris' romantic comedy that Studio Canal opened at 308 situations for a weekend tally of an estimated $1.7 million.

Other international cumes: Fox's Love and Other Drugs, $4.66 million; DreamWorks Animation/Paramount's Shrek Forever After in 3D, $503.5 million; Sony's Burlesque, $6.8 million; Universal's Robin Hood, $213.2 million; Fox's Unstoppable, $57.9 million; Universal's Despicable Me, $290 million; Gaumont's A Bout Portant (Point Blank), $5.4 million in France only; Universal's Devil, $23.3 million; EuropaCorp. Distribution's Un balcon sur la mer (Balcony Overlooking the Sea), $1.1 million in France only; and Universal's Julia's Eyes, $9.5 million in Spain only.

Thanks for those Narnia numbers, I searched everywhere I could think of but came to nothing. I'll use BOM later on this week to update each country's personal BO. It's quite a hold for Narnia, very nice indeed.

Dawn Treader seems to be doing better than we expected.

Perhaps its lack of performance is due more to the times and the economy rather than a lack of appeal to audiences.

Dawn Treader seems to be doing better than we expected.

Perhaps its lack of performance is due more to the times and the economy rather than a lack of appeal to audiences.

Interesting point! I think that, if it continues to do this good for a couple of weeks, we will definitely see SC get made.

168.6 million foreign! Still going strong. It will definitely reach 200 million and with Japan included (only by the end of february) we can add 15-20 million.
I hope it reaches 100 million domestic and expect 220 foreign, so 320 millon Worldwide. VODT falls short of Prince Caspian boxoffice but it will have a higher financial succes because the budget was lowered with 70 million $.
Silver Chair is on the way if you ask me!

I think this next week should help VDT, at least domestically. Pretty much all schools in the US have off this next week for Winter Break!

I think this next week should help VDT, at least domestically. Pretty much all schools in the US have off this next week for Winter Break!

I don't expect much of a difference in weekly numbers from last week actually, kids were off of school last week as well But the numbers will help loads. LWW went up NY's weekend from Chr weekend. Hopefully VDT can do the same

What about the snow and blizzards you have been having? The local cinema is only letting VDT 2D one showing a day. The 3D still gets 3 performances. Harry Potter, at the bottom of the list, along with Due Date gets 4 theatres.

It is school holidays here also, and up to January 26th, but I can't see VDT lasting that long.

I think this next week should help VDT, at least domestically. Pretty much all schools in the US have off this next week for Winter Break!

Yes, next week is pretty much the week of Box Office Awesome. VDT should have giant weekday numbers, and close to a 0% drop next weekend domestically.

However, the week of Box Office Awesome was already factored into the $115 million predictions, so it's not like it will change expectations at all.

Yes, next week is pretty much the week of Box Office Awesome.

You never fail in putting a smile on my face, do you know that?

Weekend Actuals came in, and Narnia had been over estimated. It had a 23.5% drop from last weekend (vs the 12% that was estimated). Its weekend gross was $9.4M, and its total cume is at $62.6M. It still had the smallest decline among wide releases.