Some of our regular readers might have expected our weekly ‘post-weekend box office drop‘ yesterday, but since we had the Memorial Day weekend, we can’t really compare the results. In the post-weekend drop we compare the box office results of Saturday + Sunday and Monday + Tuesday. And this Monday was actually a Sunday, so we would generate skewed results.

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Those tears make Aslan look so sad. No need to cry though. As we saw in our ‘Prince Caspian’ box office story, the Disney blockbuster is doing well overseas and will still be very profitable. It might not make $750 million like the first movie, but it will soon have a bigger worldwide gross than its $200 million budget. Disney CEO Robert Iger however, found it necessary to defend Prince Caspian’s box office performance. Maybe because analysts have downgraded their forecasts for Disney’s next financial quarter.

He blamed the release date, which Disney themselves moved from Christmas to spring, for the weak showing in the US. Between ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Indiana Jones 4,’ ‘Prince Caspian’ got lost in the crowded market place. “There’s just too much out there,” Iger said. The question is, will they move the next Narnia back to the Christmas season, which was much more fitting for the movies’ atmosphere, or will they keep the May 7, 2010 release date?

‘The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian’ was left in the cold this weekend. Indy 4 got all the fame and only a couple of people got lost and went to ‘Prince Caspian’ by accident. It all started with a disappointing opening last weekend. The Disney picture only made $55 million, while everybody expected a bigger opening for the $200 million fantasy project. And how much did last weekend bring in for Aslan and his gang? Less than $23 million, a drop of almost 60%.

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