The Lion, the Witch, and the Very Impressive Weekend
Disney & Walden's "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" had a pretty fantastic opening weekend at the box office, pulling in just over $67 million from 3,600 theaters. "Narnia" became the #3 biggest opening of the year, behind only "Star Wars Episode 3" and "Harry Potter Episode 4."
The wide release of Stephen Gaghan's oil-fest "Syriana" did fairly well, pulling in $12 million from over 1,700 theaters. Third place with about $10 million was "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," which has now grossed nearly $245 million in four weeks.
Fourth and fifth place went to "Walk the Line" ($5.7m weekend, $77m total) and "Yours, Mine and Ours" ($5.1m weekend, $40.9m total).
Next week sees the release of Peter Jackson's highly-anticipated "King Kong" (on Wednesday) and Fox's ensemble comedy "The Family Stone" (on Friday).
For a closer look at the weekend numbers, take a visit to the Rotten Tomatoes Box Office Page!
The wide release of Stephen Gaghan's oil-fest "Syriana" did fairly well, pulling in $12 million from over 1,700 theaters. Third place with about $10 million was "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," which has now grossed nearly $245 million in four weeks.
Fourth and fifth place went to "Walk the Line" ($5.7m weekend, $77m total) and "Yours, Mine and Ours" ($5.1m weekend, $40.9m total).
Next week sees the release of Peter Jackson's highly-anticipated "King Kong" (on Wednesday) and Fox's ensemble comedy "The Family Stone" (on Friday).
For a closer look at the weekend numbers, take a visit to the Rotten Tomatoes Box Office Page!
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on Dec 12 2005 10:39 AM [b]Woohoo[/b] This is great...I new LWW would do great. Also. Memoirs of a Geisha and Brokeback Moutain had fantastic weekends in limited release. Great weekend! (Reply to this) |
on Dec 12 2005 12:24 PM I'm glad Potter and Walk the Line are still making money, I still need to see Syriana. I can hardly wait for King Kong and The Family Stone. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 13 2005 07:04 AM Now that Andrew Adamson has made a big live-action splash, let's see his Shrek 2 co-director, Kelly Asbury, get his adaptation of Clive Barker's 'The Thief of Always' on the move at Fox. In fact, now that Disney have hit a rich vein of fantasy, perhaps they should consider hurrying up with their series based on Clive's illustrated 'Abarat' books - they did, after all, pay him $4million for the rights. If they bring in the right director for those films, people's eyes will fly out of their sockets. (Reply to this) |
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