Posted on 12/13/2010 9:57:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
"The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader" debuted at the top of the box office this weekend.
The third movie entry based on the beloved children novels by C.S. Lewis raked in $24.5 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters despite a weak start on Friday.
In the latest Narnia movie, the two youngest Pevensies, Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy (Georgie Henley) journey back to the magical Kingdom along with their bratty cousin Eustace (Will Pouter). Led by King Caspian (Ben Barnes), the crew set out on a quest on the Dawn Treader to battle new threats to the Narnia while struggling over temptations like pride, greed, and envy.
Despite nabbing the number one box office rank, "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" fared way below what its predecessors of the same series took in opening weekend.
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," the first movie installment of the Narnia series, made $65.5 million during its opening weekend in 2005.
Three years later, "Prince Caspian" took in about $55 million during its first week in theaters.
Both previous movie adaptations were produced by Disney, which abandoned plans to translate all seven books of the series into film following dismal results from Prince Caspian.
The second installment took in a total of $419 million worldwide but cost $200 million to produce. "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" had a smaller budget of $180 million but pulled in $745 million in ticket sales worldwide.
This time around, 20th Century Fox partnered with Walden Media to set sail with "Voyage of the Dawn Treader." The producers made an effort to make the film more accessible to families by steering clear of the warlike tone of "Prince Caspian." The franchise also marketed to faith audiences by offering early screenings and preaching resources to pastors.
Despite a less than stellar opening weekend, Fox senior vice president Chris Aronson said, "On the domestic side, our best days are still ahead of us with the school holidays and Christmas yet to come," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The fantasy film has so far earned a worldwide total of $105.5 million.
Disney remains a box office contender, raking in $14.5 million with "Tangled," an animated feature based on the classical story of Rapunzel.
"The Tourist" also opened this weekend, coming in second with $17 million.
Meanwhile, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1" fell down to fourth place with $8.5 million.
Sounds like your daughter had an inclination to have a negative opinion of it because it wasn’t distributed by Disney, for whatever reason, and that clouded her enjoyment of the movie, which is a shame. Walden Media did the first ones distributed by Disney just like they did this one that was distributed by 20th Century Fox, so there was no difference in the animation or who did the animation. It was always Walden Media - it did not go from Disney to Walden Media in who made the film. The distribution / financing just went from Disney to 20th Century Fox. That’s all.
It's Obama's fault. Movies would do much better if not for his lousy economy.
Mrs Bear and I enjoy seeing a movie without worrying that God’s name will be blasphemed.
It’s the MPAA ratings board, they’re notorious for being more afraid of sex than violence but also not getting innuendo at all. You can fill a movie with penis jokes but so long as nobody actually uses any of the normal slang words for penis you can get a PG. You can drop up to 4 f-bombs in a movie and get a PG13 so long as they’re only used as expletives not as references to fornication, but do it even once in reference to sex and you get an R. And that doesn’t even get into the “negotiation” process which leads to retarded things like 13 frames of a guy getting shot getting removed from Robocop to move it from X to R. By and large the MPAA ratings people don’t think, at all.
Between that line, and Ramandu's daughter saying of Aslan's table "It is FOR YOU" (with strong emphasis on the last two words) all of sacramentology that I had loved in the book was displayed...perhaps even better than in print, for it is difficult to show inflections and emphasis in the written word.
The filmaker turned the Anglican Lewis into a fine Lutheran, IMHO.
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