People wouldn't be spending anything if there's a blizzard going on.

Please tell me this blizzard is what's keeping people away this weekend.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/weekend-winter-storm-preview_2010-12-06

To those there, be safe! and next weekend when it's better. Get to your local theaters for Narnia

Yep that be the one.

To put it into another perspective there is still a shot that it does better than PC world wide. with 61 countries, if there's an average of $10m per country (not saying it would do that) that would bring $610m world wide. I doubt it would go that high but not to stay that getting more than 419m is not possible.

I just thought putting it into a different perspective to try to cheer people up.

gstommylee, that makes it look positive, the end result, but of course that won't happen. and to say only $10m in the major countries- individually it's still would be a disappointment to a degree. Can't wait until we see their results coming in...

The economy is not that bad. Retail sales are up quite a bit over last year. People are spending money. For reasons that aren't clear right now, audiences aren't spending it on a third Narnia film.

People wouldn't be spending anything if there's a blizzard going on.

I'm in the Midwest. We had a dusting of snow Thursday and that's it. People who live here are used to the snow and don't shut down their lives just because it snows. Besides, that link talks about a storm that is supposed to hit just one part of the US Saturday and Sunday. These dismal box office numbers are from Friday, including midnight showings from Thursday night.

I understand the need to find reasons why VDT isn't performing well, but this fanbase needs to be realistic. PC tanked and people blamed the marketing and timing. VDT does even worse and people are blaming the weather. C'mon - the weather wasn't a problem in Australia, where VDT couldn't even muster a #1 debut over weeks-old Harry Potter.

gstommylee, that makes it look positive, the end result, but of course that won't happen. and to say only $10m in the major countries- individually it's still would be a disappointment to a degree. Can't wait until we see their results coming in...

Of course the major countries will have higher than 10m but that's besides the point. I was just pointing out the average if you divide the total amount world wide by the number of countries that's what the average per country would be. I doubt it'll hit 600m but that doesn't mean it won't hit 400 or 450m

The economy is not that bad. Retail sales are up quite a bit over last year. People are spending money. For reasons that aren't clear right now, audiences aren't spending it on a third Narnia film.

People wouldn't be spending anything if there's a blizzard going on.

I'm in the Midwest. We had a dusting of snow Thursday and that's it. People who live here are used to the snow and don't shut down their lives just because it snows. Besides, that link talks about a storm that is supposed to hit just one part of the US Saturday and Sunday. These dismal box office numbers are from Friday, including midnight showings from Thursday night.

I understand the need to find reasons why VDT isn't performing well, but this fanbase needs to be realistic. PC tanked and people blamed the marketing and timing. VDT does even worse and people are blaming the weather. C'mon - the weather wasn't a problem in Australia, where VDT couldn't even muster a #1 debut over weeks-old Harry Potter.

But weather does play a factor. Take away the blizzard and it would probably done better to a certain degere. Maybe your area isn't as affect by the snow but that doesn't mean other parts of the mid west is aren't.

As VDT had a lower budget than PC, even a lower grossing would be more beneficial than PC's because more money would be made than spent, correct?

As VDT had a lower budget than PC, even a lower grossing would be more beneficial than PC's because more money would be made than spent, correct?

Correct.

Trufflehunter, Yes but it depends on how much less is made. To little and the lower budget won't help...

WE CAN'T LET THIS FLOP!!! Go out and reccomend this to other families. The average person doesnt go on narniaweb, so its necessary that we go spread the word to see this film. Oh and if you have a facebook, make a status about it.

I don't have facebook, but I do have LiveJournal, so I made a post about seeing the movie and what I liked about it.

This is awful.

As VDT had a lower budget than PC, even a lower grossing would be more beneficial than PC's because more money would be made than spent, correct?

Correct.

Slight encouragement, I guess.

Trufflehunter, Yes but it depends on how much less is made. To little and the lower budget won't help...

Correct but if DT still hits 419m as what PC made it will still would have made more money than PC.

gstommylee, Yes if it at least makes PC's numbers I'll be content (if SC gets greenlit that is).

gstommylee, Yes if it at least makes PC's numbers I'll be content (if SC gets greenlit that is).

Which is what i was trying to point out it may not do 143m domestically but that doesn't mean overall it doesn't do better than PC. No additional movie would be green light at all period based on a domestic # that low not even DT.

Look at potter if it made that much 143m domestically and yet still do good overall they would still be making the movies.

Ok so I went online and I found this:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/cha ... io=fox.htm

*Edit Yeah I misinterpreted my #'s...anyway... I'd still thik that if it can manage PC's numbers it can have a chance...

g, don't take this the wrong way, but you're clinging to a factor that isn't explaining why VDT flopped. There were blizzards, as you call them, the weekend Wardrobe came out. It did $23 million in one day with no 3D premium and lower ticket prices for 2D. The fact that VDT missed that mark by over 60% (!) is not due to potentially bad weather in one section of the US.

No one at Fox/Walden is going to say, "Gee, if only it hadn't snowed in that one part of the US, we would have had a huge weekend!" Let's be honest - the actual BO performance here is worse than even the pessimistic estimates entering the weekend. The reason for that is something more complicated than the weather.

And it's too bad - SC would've made a solid film.