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Turbocharged in Japan and taking the No. 1 spot was Fox's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which opened to $6.4 million from about 1,000 venues (83% of the gross came from 3D sites). Foreign cume overall stands at $284.1 million.

PC opened to $5,284,060. With better legs than PC, VDT should do well!

I sure hope we do well, i want the SC!

Wow! Great opening weekend! This is more than 20% higher than Prince Caspians opening weekend.. And a whopping 83% of that from 3D screens? Awesome! This might be the biggest opening weekend of any international market. VDT won't beat LWW if this trend holds but could end up with more than PC!

I hope it will pass PC then its a greenlight for SC!

By the way, today I went to IKSPIARI at Tokyo Disney Resort to watch VDT and take some photos of mini Dawn Treader.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41751993@N03/

These are some great photos. Looks like the marketing was a lot more expansive than here and culturally attuned too. And the technology on that enVision trailer that was posted at Aslan's Country, that has to be able to draw some box office for the 3D screen effects?

I am glad that it had a solid opening. I hope it can do at least 30 Million in Japan.

Wow. Great opening. Here we come $400 M!

Based on the trajectories of other recent films in Japan, I think 30 mil is a strong possibility, but of course you never know what sort of legs a movie will have. Does anybody know what word of mouth or critic response is like in Japan?

Let's hope VDT can pull through to $400 if not more!

Um... I think VDT has already passed $400... Right now we're hoping for $400 million.

Oh I know, lol. I just assumed people would take it to mean I meant $400 million.

I'm very glad VDT is doing well so far Japan. I feel there is a chance it can still slightly pass PC's World Wide preformance. Let's hope it at least comes close!!

Black Swan is about to overtake VDT on 2010's Yearly list, bumping it down to #27. What a story THAT movie was!

Then again, the Japan number is great, and easily makes up for VDT losing a domestic notch.

yes i was mad that america didn't stand up for VDT!

Why be angry? The people who were interested in the film went to see it. Those who weren't didn't. All of America isn't obligated to go see the Narnia movies.

Three movies within the past few months in Japan had a $6.0-$6.4 million opening weekend. I should have made a note of what movies they were, but one finished with $27 million, another with $34 million and another with a whopping $49 million! Let's hope VDT has some serious legs!

Well according to BOM's statistics, Tron Legacy, VDT's neck and neck competitor, only scored $25,155,442 in Japan. I don't know which movies scored the rest.

Why be angry? The people who were interested in the film went to see it. Those who weren't didn't. All of America isn't obligated to go see the Narnia movies.

Fair point. Just as the world as a whole wasn't really obligated to obey an Iranian directive not to read 'The Satanic Verses', even though to a non-Muslim it must have been the most boring book on record, and the only real reason to read it is to see what the kerfuffle was all about. But then that was followed by an equally ill-thought out attempt to ban Harry Potter books from school libraries aka Laura Mallory, who did not take the trouble and effort to read and understand them for herself before insisting on her opinion in a court of law.

When 'The Golden Compass' was released in 2007, I happened to be in a church congregation where the minister asked us not to go to that movie because of its anti-Christian content. And so I know that when Golden Compass did not succeed at the USA box office, earning a mere $70 mill, that it was mostly due to a similar boycott, rather than the quality of the movie, which did splendidly overseas, where such boycotts matter less.

Similarly when VDT was about to be released, it seemed that the movie was getting a whole lot of scrutiny that a mere fantasy movie, based on C.S.Lewis' imaginative 'supposals', really should not have been subjected to when VDT was at least pro-Christian. Was LOTR (movies) subjected to this sort of treatment? Was the theology apparent in HP ever subjected to such investigation? And why is the movie still being criticised as being unbiblical when VDT recently won the top Movieguide award for the most inspiring and Christian movie of 2010-2011?

And so, with due respect, though I agree to a point, I still need to be convinced that your 'all of America isn't obligated to visit the Narnia movies' isn't just a disingenuous shrug, disguising yet another boycott by those who want to enforce their own theological ideas, whatever they might be, especially those humanists aligned with the Golden Compass author, Phillip Pullman. Especially when the critics who first reviewed the movie objected to it because of 'lion-delivered sermons'.

Otherwise, I am thrilled with VDT's success up-to-date. It has passed PC's foreign total, and with luck it will not only pass $400,000,000 worldwide, but also the foreign earnings of 'Golden Compass'

Well according to BOM's statistics, Tron Legacy, VDT's neck and neck competitor, only scored $25,155,442 in Japan. I don't know which movies scored the rest.

Tron: Legacy only had an Japanese opening weekend of $3,385,618
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So VODT has a way better start, it could definitely make 40 million $ seeing as more than 80% of the Japanese audience goes to the 3D-version.