LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A talking lion is expected to devour Marvel superhero "Iron Man" at the North American box office this weekend, as Walt Disney Co. opens its much-anticipated fantasy sequel "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian."
The follow-up to Disney's 2005 adaptation of British author C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" debuts on Friday in nearly 4,000 theaters, with forecasts of U.S.-Canadian ticket sales through Sunday exceeding $80 million.
"Prince Caspian" is widely expected to open at No. 1, knocking "Iron Man" from its two-week perch atop the domestic box office and easily surpassing the $65.6 million grossed by the earlier "Narnia" film during its first weekend in December 2005.
The big question on the minds of industry watchers is how the sequel will fare during its entire theatrical run against the first film, which grossed about $745 million worldwide.
"Even if it opens in the high-$80 million range, it's not a slam dunk to surpass the first movie's (long-term) box office, which benefited from a holiday release period when it was the best film in town," said Brandon Gray, president of the online movie publication Box Office Mojo.
"I'm thinking anything over $75 million will be solid for the movie," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box office tracking service Media By Numbers. "Prince Caspian" later faces tough competition, especially from "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," which opens May 22, he noted.
NO 'HARRY POTTER'
This weekend, however, "Caspian" has the domestic movie megaplex pretty much to itself, with no other films in wide release debuting against it.
Friday 30 May 2008
Monday 19 May 2008
KT Tunstall adds fall tour dates
KT Tunstall adds fall tour dates
Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall [ tickets ] will follow her electric current acoustic ladder of North American English dates with a arcsecond US leg later this summer.The performer, world Health Organization continues her stream trek tonight (5/16) in Chicago, will launch the summer field day Aug. 4 in Northampton, MA. Singer/songwriter Martha Waggonwright testament allow for porta support for all of the midsummer shows.Tunstall is touring in arrears "Drastic Fantastic," which strike stores last Sep. She once more worked with producer Steve Osbourne (U2, Newly Order), wHO also handled production duties on her 2004 debut, "Eye to the Telescope.""With 'Drastic Fantastic,' what I real wanted to do was bask fashioning it a little to a greater extent complex than the number one one," the isaac Merrit Singer told LiveDaily late. "So the orchestration and the arrangements ar really satisfying on this moment album, whereas, I wasn't yet really thinking around it on the first base one. It was very simply presenting the songs I had written. "On this one, there's a bite more guitar-solo work, there's a brace of string arrangements, there's a slew of work departure into financial support vocals and general instrumentation on the tunes. It was great fun to do that."
Juliane Werding
Saturday 10 May 2008
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