‘Dawn Treader’ Hits the $100 Million Domestic Mark
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader officially hit the $100 million mark domestically this past weekend at the box office.
Overseas, the movie brought in another $8 million dollars bringing the foreign total to approxmiately $265.8 million.
The worldwide total is now up to just over $366 million.
Dawn Treader will release in Venezuela next weekend and Japan in one month.
That's awsome! I was waiting till it hit 1 million. Still waiting for Silver Chair…..
to Narnia and the North
GREAT NEWS!
Does anyone know when we will be hearing something about SC?
EPIC AWESOMNESS!!!!
Yay! I'm so glad! 🙂 I hope Silver Chair gets greenlit now!!!
Hip, hip, hooray! 😀
Well, that's fantastic! But I hope the other places VDT will soon be coming out in will push it closer and maybe even higher to 400 million worldwide! 😉
Awesome!!!! 🙂
I have to say that I'm excited about this. It's nowhere near past box office hits for Narnia, but it's still exciting to see the numbers climb, (very) slowly but surely.
Any predictions as to how much the worldwide total will be? Is there even a slight chance we might make it to 400 million?
So this is a good sign, right?
I WANT THE SILVER CHAIR!!!
Sorry, that just slipped out…
Yes, there most certainly is a chance. It still has to finish out its run in the current markets and then there is Venezuela and Japan where it will open later this month. In Japan LWW made $57 million and PC made $27 million. PC also made $3 million more in Venezuela. So in all we possibly have another $30 to $50 million more dollars yet to make. Good news, huh.
YES!! TAKE THAT, PESSIMISTS!!!
~courteous, chivalrous reep
YAY! Now just have to make half a milion more to reach the goal!
the posters or comercials of VDT,finally come 2 Japan!!
I waited this 4 looooong time*
& my grandma promised me 2 go theater with me!!
& I'm waiting 4 SC,2!!
AWWEEESSSSOOOOOMMMMMMEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
Yay! Thank you, God! 🙂 How exciting. I would REALLY love to see Fox and Walden do all 7 books…
awsome does that mean they r going to do the SC now……. i am hoping they will
same here!!! i am praying it will be too.
It hasn't came out in japan yet? it is well over here.
VDT's domestic intake is still pretty close to PC's $141 million. It's great to see it getting legs after its profoundly disappointing opening.
At least we know the the Lewis Estate are still trying to come up with what to do next so this as well as VDT passing the $100 million line and that VDT has surpassed its total budget by over $115 million compared to PC only doing so by only $20 million means Fox will have to give SC the green light. FOR NARNIA!!!
Feb 25
$99 or $100 million, still a disappointment. I'll be surprised if Fox moves forward with another sequel. If they do, expect even more budget cuts.
So, is it still one of 2010's biggest botches(rolls eyes)?
Oh my god!! i want the Silver Chair!!!!!! WE want the silver chair!!!! I want my dvd of the Voyage of the dawn treader!!!
Narnia and the North are waiting for us!!!
OH YEAH! Silver Chair here we come!!!!
But according to the book, SC will need less budget? You know, less actors or computer help or sth like that… I'm not sure about it.
No,it hasn't come yet..
But it comes Just around the corner**
But i don't like stand-in version in japanese(I mean,LWW &PC),so i will watch it in English!
They might learn from their mistakes and NOT go with 3D conversion for one that would save a lot of budget, plus SC might not be as CG heavy. at least it won't necessarily have as much FX (read: don't make PC budget mistakes)
Hey I just learned something somewhat encouraging. This is the first Fox movie that has passed the $100 mark in 13 months since Alvin and the Chipmunks: the Sqeakquel! And they are making a third Chipmunks! now for the downside, The Squeakquel did better than VOTD in it's opening week and had about half the budget, but Fox may look upon VOTD and see their second best feature in 13 month and greenlight SC?? MAYBE??
In everything, give thanks.
$100 million at this point ain't so amazing, but God still blessed Fox with a decent income, and they have made more than their budget now!
Don't be a wet blanket you 'ole bear!
WOOOOOOOOTTT!! : )
Poor Japan! Those guys there have my utmost respect for being able to wait this long!
There's hope… Dawn Treader will still sail in other countries. There is a big hope that the VDT will reach half a million or 1 million when it reaches all theaters.
There is the Utter East.
I would say that, $100 million is a disappointment. But much less than Prince Caspian (only $141 million with a $225 million budget and $175 million marketing costs), which only had a $140-$155 million budget and $100 million marketing costs.
Your words "I'll be surprised," well, maybe you'll be, but Fox will not be. Because, besides being the first film to surpass $100 million mark domestically in 13 months, it's a success compared to their other movies overseas (compared to Disney's Caspian that only really earned $20 million) because it already earned $127 million (production and marketing already deducted). For me, it is enough to warrant Fox to make a sequel.
Only one lesson they need to learn–don't make a rich work of literature like C.S. Lewis' Narnia a short movie. Disney was right when they made the first two films about two and a half hours. VODT was just less than 2 hours. Added to that is the budget–they should go for like LWW budget. What Fox and Walden did was a short movie and a low-budget movie.
Still, I think it's still a great movie, though, as I always say, it could be better.
I surely want THE SILVER CHAIR!
I think it will be CG Heavy, because of Aslan, the Serpent, the Talking Beasts when they get through the hole, Father Time, The Parliament of Owls, and also the Talking Beasts at the start and end of the movie when Eustace and Jill were in Narnia. Plus many, many special effects are needed.
I think the budget must be over VODT's budget but less than PC's, which I think would be LWW's budget. It will be better if they will make it 2.5 hours for better story flow.
I'm afraid your numbers are well off. Voyage is nowhere close to PC's numbers yet and it certainly isn't 115 million over its budget. I don't think you've taken into account marketing, plus cinema take. At best it's looking like it has a good chance of breaking even, but no chance of making $115 million over its costs.
I think Voyage will do good business on DVD and should be hopefully, a good testament to the Narnia franchise managing to make three movies. That in itself is a real accomplishment. All this Silver Chair talk is great, but I mean, Voyage isn't exactly 'dead' yet so more celebrating VDT and we can talk about SC when it's racking up DVD sales or something.
THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!!!!!!
I have found this to be interesting: if you look at the "Showdown" comparison on BoxOfficeMojo, "Dawn Treader" has actually done a good bit better than "Prince Caspian" for weeks 3, 4, 5, 6, and (likely when the numbers come out) week 7 in terms of domestic box office numbers. But in week 2 it clearly was lower than Caspian's numbers, and the opening week was disastrous vs. Caspian ($68 million versus $30 million). Perhaps this is a little bit due to Summer vs. Christmas release times, but since the opening of a movie is largely about publicity and anticipation, I think it may show that Fox didn't do a great job marketing this film. (I'm not saying that they didn't spend enough money on marketing, but maybe they used their money poorly?) It has had fairly good staying power, so it either has better word of mouth vs. Caspian or else fans don't mind seeing it 2 and 3 times… I saw "Dawn Treader" this weekend for the 2nd time, and I have to admit, I liked it even better the 2nd time around. It also has done very well around the world in comparison to most of the other movies in the last 365 days…but since, supposedly, U.S. Box Office is what counts, "Silver Chair" looks doubtful in my opinion. 🙁
*breaks out singing Justin Beiber*
AWESOME!!! Silver Chair, here we come! 😀
AWESOME!!!i,m hoping for silver chair too 🙂
Well, they still have a few territories left..the dvd and bluray haven't gone on sale yet…pay per view, television rights to show it, cable rights, itunes rental, netflix & whatever remaining video stores exist… purchases of the physical discs..walmart etc…looks pretty good. They've already made a profit on the flick..it cost nowhere even close to what the official release numbers even say.
'Narnia' Becomes Fox's First $100 Million Movie in 13 Months > http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3055 (Interesting Article)
Dawn Treader being Fox's most successful movie of the year means absolutely nothing. The difference between VDT and Fox's other films is that they don't own the rights to it, so any box office receipts have to be split close to 3 ways (Fox, Walden and the CS Lewis family). PLUS (and more importantly) Fox doesn't own the merchandising.
By my estimates, Dawn Treader has made back around $170 million out of the $250 million budget.
I commented on that a little ways up, but I forgot to post the link to the article. *facepalm*
I was gonna say, it's about time…
It would be the first sign of completing the series! I care about the new cast, but as long as I know it will be made, I am half satisfied!
No it didn't, you typed it.
Wow, you just lost all credibility with that comment. Gadzooks!
MUAHHAHAHAHA — Comedian, you owe me 250 bucks!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, you're insulting Narnia with Biebervitis. Gawain and Gwendolen!
there's nothing wrong with justin beiber. GRUFFEN!!
Well, it's still showing over here in the UK and has been 9th for the last 2 weeks in the UK top 10 latest films, so that's really good. Hopefully SC will get greenlit very soon. 🙂
so when that goal is reached, that's when It's decided that the silver chair will be made?
i predict $450M total. my total doesnt include DVD/Bluray receipts.
lets say $500M total with bluray/dvd sales. with $100M for P&A and $150 production thats double their money back.
not too shabby.
PC made about $420 million. Do you think VDT will pass that number or not make it?
Yes there is!
it will pass it.
PS it will pass it because i think it will make about 50M in the remaining countries it has to open. Is already showing approx. $370M on the numbers.com movie gross website
thats $370M + $50M = $420M.
then for the rest of the world it will go something like 6M and then minus 500, 000 for about 10 more weeks. the law of averages would say thats 5M, plus 4.5M the next week, 4M the next, plus 3.5M + 3M +2.5M + 2M + 1.5M +1M + .5M. for a grand total of
$420M plus
5M
4.5M
4M
3.5M
3M
2.5M
2M
1.5M
1M
.5M
$442M or higher.
i say it makes close to $450M on just the movie, not including the DVD/Bluray.
cheers
There's EVERYTHING wrong with Justin Bieber.