Dawn Treader Variety Ad: $415,000,000 Worldwide to Date

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1. This is great! I’m happy the film is doing well. 🙂
   I hope it still earns a bit more, so we can get another Narnia film.

   Good news!

2. That is really good news. Wait not good, but fantastic news! If nothing else has made the last four films greenlit than this better have them greenlit. Well done Walden Media and Fox (especially Fox for they have disappointed me in the past, but not any more)!

3. Ha! in your face Disney!

   • Actually, if I were a Disney executive, I’d be very glad that I dropped Narnia when I did. It hasn’t even made PC’s box office numbers, and THAT wasn’t enough for Disney!!!

     • I think Disney is probably feeling it about now. Even though it’s not PC’s box office total, overseas it’s beaten PC.

     • Just the opposite. VDT cost less to produce but made about the same at the box office. Disney’s Tron underperformed, and Tangled has a long road to breaking even, given it’s gigantic budget. If anything, Disney probably regrets dropping Narnia.

       • yay!

4. Just five more million and they beat PC’s box office. But heck, the DVD’s out, so that’s it. Right?

   Well, Fox isn’t as greedy as Di$ney is, so I think Narnia 4 is a possibility after all.

   • That’s actually not it. Dawn Treader’s still making money in theaters. It’s still out in Japan (only recently having been released), and if all it needs is $5 million more, then it’s likely that it could cross that mark soon.

     • EVERYBODY PRAY!!!!! 123- pray!!!

       • Yes, indeed!

         Thanks, Japan. My prayers are both with the film, and the Japanese people.

     • Go-go-go… I think it might make it

       • I’m sure we’ll make it..YAY..Go VDT!

     • woohoo~

5. YESSSS!!!

   By the way, where do the DVD and Blu-ray sales go to???

   Fox? or Walden? or Where?

   • They go to both. It’s the same as the theatrical release.

6. VDT already did better than PC. Remember:

   PC’s budget = 225 million
   PC’s gross = 420 million
   PC’s profit = 195 million

   VDT’s budget = 140 million
   VDT’s gross = 415 million
   VDT’s profit = 295 million

   So yeah. VDT did 100 million more than PC =) In your face, Disney!

   • YAY..YAY!!

   • Laura, you forgot to include that movie theaters keep some of the ticket revenue.

   • Disney couldn’t care less; they broke box office records with Toy Story 3 and Alice in Wonderland. And dont forget to consider inflation, which goes AGAINST VDT’s profits.

     Other than that, Im glad the Narnia franchise is alive and strong!

     • They may have with those two, but look at the incredible loss of that was Prince of Persia and the fact that Tangled was one of the most expensive movies ever made. Remember, under the Disney / Pixar contracts, Disney used to see only 50% of the profits from a Pixar film… since Disney bought Pixar, there’s a different contract, but Pixar acts on their own, so it’s likely that the contract was either the same, or better for Pixar.

       As for inflation, that only goes against the profits a little bit. Inflation in two and a half years isn’t that much. It would be the difference of merely $5 million from 2008-2011 dollars.

       • i wonder if the music in prince of persia was actually music HGW had intended for VDT before he lost out on the project.

7. It’s not LW&W numbers, but close to Prince Caspian. I think it it did good. Lots of critics panned it. But critics don’t buy tickets. I’m looking forward to more Narnia on the silver screen.

8. I saw VDT not too long ago and HATE it! Why can’t they get even close to staying true to the book. PC did better. I think if Disney made VDT instead of Fox, it would have performed better and line up more to the book.

   • I thought it was done very well. If the movies were “exactly” like the books it might have some “ackward” kid-ish moments, like teaching the dufflepuds to use their feet as boats 😛

     So how do you find how much the DVD’s have sold?

     • No one wants these films EXACTLY like the books. That would be difficult and not a good film, but we do want a film that accurately interprets the book, like LWW.

       As much as I disliked a great deal of VDT, I don’t HATE it! That’s pretty harsh. At least I enjoyed the beginning.

       • I actually hated the PC and VDT books. The movie versions were much better.

         • I actually like the PC film better than the book for the most part, but NOT VDT. And VDT’s not even one of my favorites!

         • I’m the same way Arvan, when it comes to PC. However, with VDT, you know my thoughts on it. 😉 I’m also taking part in a college level wiki where we’re discussing all of the areas of the books as well as the films.

         • Cool, paul martin!

         • paul, is that online stuff that we could also read?

         • Yeah, where is that, Paul?

         • It’s not available to the general public. The writer was paid and the script was shredded. The only place that it exists is in the minds of those that read it, as far as I know.

         • i totally agree.

         • The wiki?

         • anyone know how to mind meld? lol

       • If the movies were just like the books, people like me(who have read the books over ten times) wouldn’t get the excitement of the unknown. If they change the movie up just a little bit, it is like rediscovering the story all over again!

         • Except it’s not the same story.

         • It’s the same story as the book tells. It starts and ends in the same places, and all of the locales are either condensed or visually a little different, but they are present in one way or another. It’s not the EXACT same story, but not unrecognizable. If this movie came out untitled, and they said “Guess which Narnia this is” we’d all say “Voyage of the Dawn Treader” and not just because the Dawn Treader is in it. It’s because we’d recognize the story.

   • You’re actually not correct. What we got was much closer to the book than Disney was going to do. Next to Disney’s script, this was word for word from the book.

     • at least Disney didn’t have the ~GREEN MIST~ in their script LOL!!!

       • It actually did. Plus more: The White Witch (and not just the mist posing as her) and the Lady of the Green Kirtle.

         • At least the LotGK kind of made sense. The whole green smoke plot is totally incomprehensible.

         • As incomprehensible to me as a mysterious Dark Island appearing in the book, where sailors get trapped by their nightmares. Food for thought.

         • IDK, gP, the soul-eating cave was about as weird as the Green Mist. The plot may have been better, but it was even farther from the book.

         • What??? Can you read the script somewhere, I’d love to see what Disney wanted to do.

         • No, fortunately and unfortunately the script is not out there. Parts leaked back in 2008, but I was told about the rest by a few various people that are closely involved.

         • Oh I see. Too bad people don’t realise that Disney was going to destroy the series, Fox stayed much closer than they would have it seems.

         • what kills me is that they find these new script developments superior to the original, and they end up being so stupid.

     • thanks for telling us that, paul, i feel better about it being out of disney’s hands then.(still missed their promotion and merchandising though)

     • also wish it was real film instead of digital, which disney had the funds to pay for.

       • Yeah. I don’t think it’s a huge deal, really, but VDT just… looked different. Not as magical feeling. Digital is fine for average films, but fantasy?

         • Digital is the future. It’s actually been used on many fantasy films, and it’s actually the perfect medium for fantasy and sci-fi. It’s much easier to start adding effects to film shot digitally.

           They’re shooting The Hobbit with digital cameras (and at 48 FPS).

         • I know, but that doesn’t change the look of digital or film. Screamo is becoming more popular with teens, but I don’t like it more because of that.

           However, it’s not as big a deal to me as to others.

         • yeah, VDT looked like a tv show.

   • you’re being very rude. I hate it when people do that. Please, keep that to your self

   • You are being very rude. I hate it when people are like this. How would you feel if someone said that about your work? I’m sure you would not like that. So please, if you feel this way about it, please keep it to your self.

9. En realidad VDT esta haciendo: 415.666.410 dólares.
   cerca de los 416 millones.

10. This is such great news! Another Narnia in the making…perhaps?

    • Maybe, I hope so. Rock on Narnia!

11. I just got it for my birthday yesterday. (well, my late birthday). I love all the narnia movies, even if the are different from the books. I love narnia so much, that if a movie is made different from the book, I see it as another adventure that we never read about! I do think i was a bit disappointed the first time I watched it because I was already watching it in my head, (i have an awesome vizualizing imagination), and then some of the things i imagined weren’t in there. But I don’t think it is very polite, or narnian, for people to go around slamming something that others have poured their money, effort, and time into.

    • Slamming? This is NarniaFans.com. You have not seen slamming.

      • yes, it’s very sweet how generally polite people are on narnia fansites compared to other sites. sometimes it’s a shock to go from here to other secular sites- like you need to wash your eyes out afterward. lol

        • I try to avoid such websites when possible for just that reason.

          • Me too… i only really come here..and Webkinz world and StarWars.com….thats it!

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