The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader releases, and grossed $9.5 million. In the 2011 New Year's weekend, the film increased 8% from the previous weekend, grossing $10.3 million. On January 22, 2011, the film's forty-fourth day in theaters, "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" became 20th Century Fox's first film to gross $100 million in the United States and Canada since "" crossed that mark in December 2009. However, it is the slowest "Narnia" film to reach $100 million in these regions, taking much longer than "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (nine days) and "Prince Caspian" (thirteen days). Overseas, the film performed better. On
The Chronicles of Narnia song "Further Up, Further In" from the album "Room to Roam" by The Waterboys is heavily influenced by "The Chronicles of Narnia", with the title coming from a passage in "The Last Battle". C. S. Lewis is acknowledged in the liner notes as an influence. A convert to Christianity in later life, Lewis had authored a number of works on Christian apologetics and other literature with Christian-based themes before writing the "Narnia" books. The character Aslan is widely accepted by literary academia as being based on Jesus Christ. Lewis did not initially plan to incorporate Christian theological concepts into his