I wasn't even expecting $1M!

Really? That would have been a 70% week-to-week drop.

I know. I was basing it off my estimates on the previous page.

Aww yay $100 million

$100 million? oh wow! yay! this is so cool!
I hope it makes $200 million!

$100 million? oh wow! yay! this is so cool!
I hope it makes $200 million!

Well i hope so too!

We really have nothing else to hope for for domestic, so now we can just root for it to go to $400 M WW and possibly to pass PC!

Now the $100,000,000 has been passed, I can start breathing again! It is all good, and the domestic figure is closer to making up 66% of production costs. Now, I expect we need to see if VDT will beat Golden Compass in foreign takings.

I have a couple of questions: That BOM bloke, Brandon Grey, said:

One plus is that Voyage will end up having a comparable post-opening hold as the first Narnia, reaching over $100 million

What did he mean by saying that?

Does it translate into a longer running time in theatres?

The difference between $99million and $100million is largely insignificant in purely monetary terms, but psychologically it is a massive deal for the movie to have finally crossed that threshold - if nothing else it adds a weight of respectability to the movie.

Admittedly sixth months ago we were all thinking that with the December release and the higher 3D ticket prices that VDT would easily sail past PC with money to spare, so ultimately its still got to be seen as a disappointment, but given the way everything has gone i think we can afford to celebrate a bit

Incidentally, when the dust settles on all this, i would be interested to see some analysis on whether or not the 3D actually did help the movie or not - i honestly can't imagine the movie would of done much worse at the boxoffice if it had been released in 2D only, could it?

The difference between $99million and $100million is largely insignificant in purely monetary terms, but psychologically it is a massive deal for the movie to have finally crossed that threshold

I fully agree. I very much hope the 100 will be achieved and maybe even crossed, because in the same psychological way, every added figure over the 100 only strengthens the impression of success But much more than that, I hope we'll cross $400 million worldwide... luckily Fox seems to be basing decisions on worldwide gross, not just domestic (the latter I always considered odd and illogical, if not, in a non-offensive way, a tad narrow-minded), so I hope they will green-light SC

As per the 3D, I'm a bit curious about that too. Personally, I don't like 3D effect, it most often looks as if looking at something through a window, so to speak. But I valiantly break through my reluctance to 3D and will go see VoDT in 3D (after the 2D version leaves the theatres in my vicinity, which is always does first) just to pay that little bit of money more

I have a question. Regarding the box office, wouldn't it be fairer to compare VDT to other Fox films, rather than to the first two movies in the franchise which had a different production company [Disney]? I have a problem comparing Fox to Disney, apples to oranges. The fact that they're all the same franchise isn't that big of a deal to me. So for people to compare VDT to LWW and PC seems kind of unfair, since it's now Fox instead of Disney. I feel the same about comparing VDT to Tangled. Once again, it's Fox vs. Disney. I think it's much harder for Fox films to get $100M domestic than it is for Disney ones to do so, partly because of advertising. Yet they say that Black Swan, another Fox film (Fox Searchlight), may also pass the $100M domestic mark soon [it's not overseas yet]. It's made $83M already. Both will be the first $100M films for Fox since Avatar.

Your thoughts?

That BOM bloke, Brandon Grey, said:

One plus is that Voyage will end up having a comparable post-opening hold as the first Narnia, reaching over $100 million

What did he mean by saying that?

Does it translate into a longer running time in theatres?

Yes, VDT has showed a strong staying power but at a lower level than LWW. If VDT had opened the same as Prince Caspian and held over the same as it did, it would be over $200 million now instead of $100.7 million USA total.

Incidentally, when the dust settles on all this, i would be interested to see some analysis on whether or not the 3D actually did help the movie or not - i honestly can't imagine the movie would of done much worse at the boxoffice if it had been released in 2D only, could it?

I would really like to know that too because I think that it hurt. But I have no concrete evidence other than the the fact that VDT opened so low here, that there had to be more reason than word of mouth one way or the other. There wasn't enough time on that day for word of mouth one way or the other.

It's Friday opening was less than half of PC's but later on it recovered somewhat over the holidays. I'm sure that a certain number of people were looking for 2D theaters and couldn't find that many and decided to wait for the discount theaters or the DVD.

The DVD rentals and sales will be very important to watch when it comes out.

$100 million? oh wow! yay! this is so cool!
I hope it makes $200 million!

I assume aren't being for real, it's great it finally reached $100 but it isn't going much more than this. $105 tops.

I have a question. Regarding the box office, wouldn't it be fairer to compare VDT to other Fox films, rather than to the first two movies in the franchise which had a different production company [Disney]? I have a problem comparing Fox to Disney, apples to oranges. The fact that they're all the same franchise isn't that big of a deal to me. I feel the same about comparing VDT to Tangled. Once again, it's Fox vs. Disney.

Your thoughts?

I agree that I wouldn't compare it to Tangled, but despite it being with Fox now instead of Disney, it isn't apples to oranges- comparing it with LWW and PC makes perfect sense sine they are all Narnia.

Still waiting for the update on the foreign numbers. I'm guessing between 7.5 and 9 million more this week?

The Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Trader grossed $4.5m from 4,210 screens in 47 markets to boost the running total to an excellent $267.6m . China generated $1.5m from 450 in the weekend to hold on to third place for $15.7m after three. France is the biggest market to date on $25.9m after seven, followed by the UK on $21.8m after the same amount of time.

Source

So worldwide total 368.2 million

Still waiting for the update on the foreign numbers. I'm guessing between 7.5 and 9 million more this week?

No thats too high.. Even last week it was all holdover markers, just as it will be this week. I'm guessing around 4-5 million.

EDIT: wow the int'l update was posted just while I was typing my post and I was right on the mark!

Can someone post the link? Cause I'm not finding it on BOM.

@Rilian: good news style would be to post the link and put your post in quotes, since it's not yours... Always credit sources...

@narnian1: is there any other franchise that switched production companies? I'd love to know. Cause I still believe the company is more important than the franchise. Just because VDT is still Narnia doesn't matter if Fox can't deliver like Disney at the box office...

The box office numbers worldwide have slowed to a trickle. If my calculations are correct, having Japan & Venezuela bring in exactly what PC did (the last remaining worldwide markets) will have VDT come in at exactly $400 million worldwide.. This is cutting it VERY close!