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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Dec 12, 2010 5:00 AM UTC  A scene from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader A scene from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 20th Century Fox / Walden Media by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Dec 12, 2010 5:00 AM UTC Where were all the Christians who were supposed to make _The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader_ the first big hit of December? The movie didn’t roar; it mewled. And where were the pagans hiding? The romantic pairing of Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in a spy thriller, _The Tourist_, should have coaxed pleasure seekers out of their Snuggies. Instead, it was the biggest wide-release nonstarter that either of the two stars has endured in years. That left a news hole, and Mark Wahlberg filled it as a scrappy boxer in _The Fighter_, a smash in a very limited release. [(See TIME’s review of _The Fighter_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2036057,00.html) _Dawn Treader_, the third movie adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ fantasy series for children, won a soft weekend at North American theaters with $24.7 million, according to early studio estimates. That’s well below half of the $65.6 million that the original _Narnia_ film, _The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_, picked up in its first three days in 2005, or the $55 million the second, _Prince Caspian_, earned when it opened in 2008\. Fox, the franchise’s new distributor after Disney dropped it, pitched _Dawn Treader_ hard to the Evangelical community, hoping that the faithful would flock to another episode of adolescent adventure and religious allusion, with the leonine Aslan standing in for Jesus; and industry touts predicted a weekend of $40 million-plus. But not enough Christians came to see the lion — not in North America, anyway, despite a generous A-minus in the CinemaScore poll of exiting moviegoers. Abroad, _Dawn Treader_ did much better: an $81 million debut. Lewis wrote seven _Narnia_ books; the next few weeks will tell if the film series will get to four. [(See TIME’s review of _The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2036195,00.html) _The Tourist_, a remake of the 2005 French film _Anthony Zimmer_, has two stars of guaranteed radiance. Jolie’s _Wanted_ opened above $50 million two years ago, and _Salt_ started with $36 million this past summer, while three Depp movies have had debuts of more than $100 million. Even the wan, knotty _Secret Window_ back in 2004 outgrossed _The Tourist_ in its first three days. (Hell, _Kick-Ass_ did better.) Nor did the film, which cost about $100 million to produce and earned a middling B mark from CinemaScore, make waves overseas — $8 million in some major markets. Critics torched the picture, but Johnny and Angelina ought to be review-proof by now. _The Tourist_ may be one of those movies that audiences think of as less want-to-see than might-see. In a few months, at home, for next to nothing, on Netflix. [(See TIME’s review of _The Tourist_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2036475,00.html) Among the wide-release runners-up, the Disney animated feature _Tangled_ held strong with a modest 33% drop from last week; the fourth-place finisher, _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1_, passed the $250 million mark domestically and is closing in on $750 million worldwide; and Denzel Washington’s _Unstoppable_ proved nearly that, with a 37% drop and about $75 million in North America. Big releases like these grab most of their money when they open, with diminishing returns from each successive week’s take. December films with an eye to Oscar do just the reverse: open in a few theaters and gradually expand, as word of mouth spreads among the art-house class, until they’ve reached the saturation point just as the Academy Award nominations are announced. That will be Jan. 25, and three films — each made for $20 million or less — are on that reverse track to contention. _The King’s Speech_, with Best Actor favorite Colin Firth as Britain’s stammering monarch George VI, opened in a few theaters two weeks ago. Still on only six screens, it has amassed $1.5 million. Darren Aronofsky’s psychological thriller _Black Swan_, starring Best Actress front runner Natalie Portman as a young ballerina who is anxious about playing the lead role in _Swan Lake_, earned a wow-ish $1.4 million in 18 theaters in its premiere last weekend. This weekend it expanded to 90 venues and pulled in a zow-issimo $3.3 million, or more than the Cher film _Burlesque_ did in 2,876 theaters. Rarely has a film on fewer than 100 screens cracked the weekend top 10; _Black Swan_ finished sixth. [(Is _Black Swan_ Natalie Portman’s Oscar moment?)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2016150,00.html) This week’s challenger is _The Fighter_, a true-life sports inspirational in which Wahlberg, who also produced the film, stars with Christian Bale (another Oscar buzzee, for Supporting Actor), Melissa Leo and Amy Adams. Opening in four houses in New York City and Los Angeles, the movie took in $320,000, or $80,000 a theater. It’s the year’s third highest per-screen average, behind _The King’s Speech_ and _Black Swan_. Moviegoers elsewhere can catch up with _The Fighter_ next week, when it expands to some 2,000 venues. By Feb. 27, Oscar night, all three films may still be in the limelight — while _Dawn Treader_ and _The Tourist_ will be heading for a video store near you. Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader_, $24.5 million, first weekend 2\. _The Tourist_, $17 million, first weekend 3\. _Tangled_, $14.6 million; $115.6 million, third week 4\. _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1_, $8.5 million; $257.7 million, fourth week 5\. _Unstoppable_, $3.75 million; $74.3 million, fifth week 6\. _Black Swan_, $3.3 million; $5.6 million, second week 7\. _Burlesque_, $3.2 million; $32.6 million, third week 8\. _Love & Other Drugs_, $3 million; $27.6 million, third week 9\. _Due Date_, $2.5 million; $94.9 million, sixth week 10\. _Megamind_, $2.5 million; $140.2 million, sixth week [See TIME’s Pictures of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek) [Download TIME’s iPhone, BlackBerry and Android applications.](https://app.time.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911287/box-office-yawns-for-narnia-tsuris-for-the-tourist/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911287/box-office-yawns-for-narnia-tsuris-for-the-tourist/"},"headline":"Box Office: Yawns for Narnia, Tsuris for The Tourist","datePublished":"2010-12-12T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:24:02.539Z","description":"Where were all the Christians who were supposed to make The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader the first big hit of...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6911287/box-office-yawns-for-narnia-tsuris-for-the-tourist/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7158b61e3c00f273/698a4b8ee6e84a85712b1bdb/360_narnia_1208.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Richard Corliss","url":"https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7158b61e3c00f273/698a4b8ee6e84a85712b1bdb/360_narnia_1208.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"360_narnia_1208.jpg","caption":"A scene from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader","creditText":"20th Century Fox / Walden Media","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911287/box-office-yawns-for-narnia-tsuris-for-the-tourist/","name":"Box Office: Yawns for Narnia, Tsuris for The Tourist"}}]}] ```