'Narnia' Topples 'King Kong' at Box Office

Mankato Free Press ^ | 1/2/06 | Jeff Wilson

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks for that link. Hadn't seen that one, yet. It'll help me update my Netflix queue.

DH & I are waiting for the kids to go back to school, and then we'll play hookey and go see "Narnia" when we can have the theater basically to ourselves during the week.

Self-Employment Rocks! :)

[Rastus]

It's made $15 million and officially opens this Friday.

Release Dates: December 23, 2005 (limited)
January 6, 2006 (wide)

Hopefully the 500 or so theaters showing it are spread around all the major cities so the wider release won't make much of a splash. I'd like to see this movie fail.

[DAC22]

"Not even in the top 10. I guess American's didn't want to see a movie about queer sheep herders after all"

Yeah, butt it's screen $ average is the highest of all the movies released, go figure. It's in less than 300 theaters, apparently 250 which are in San Francisco and West Hollywood.

[Socratic]

Thanks for the links, although I didn't read the PDF file. I happened to choose a passage at random which described why it was titled, Syriana, and that was enough for me!

[discostu]

They're both showing impressive holding power. With Narnia shorter and in more theaters and averaging $200 less per theater I think this is a draw in the end. Lots of people are breathing a sigh of relief at King Kong coming on so strong, it was looking like it was going to be a frightful flop for a while, now it might actually break even.

[DoughtyOne]

The premise may have been more to our liking than it might seem on the surface. A Chinese entrance into the oil market is going to cause problems. We may even have to play some games. What I objected to was the impression that it was going to be another Prescot Bush et al slam dunk for liberal operatives. I objected to that and thought, no thanks.

[marajade]

I enjoyed Munich.

[Emmet Fitzhume]

To Steven "Islamic Peace Prayer" Spielberg:

Hehehehehehe!!!!!!!

[xzins]

I'm a pastor. "Narnia" didn't have the proper release time, imho, to get the big Christmas rush that Disney hoped for. It competed with busy Christmas programs that pastors always have to run at this time of year.

Now that that is over, I'll be encouraging the church to go see the movie.

That's my explanation for the film's resurgence.

$400 million worldwide should put a grin on the producer's face. DVD sales will be huge.

[Aquinasfan]

Looks like Narnia will beat Kong, and may even beat out HP as the year's box-office winner. From Box Office Mojo: "Narnia was up six percent, lifting its gross to $225.7 million in 25 days, while Kong was down four percent for $174.6 million in 20 days."

Another Christian-themed movie tops the box office. When will Hollyweird learn?