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 books that make up "The Chronicles of Narnia" are presented here in order of original publication date: "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", completed by the end of March 1949 and published by Geoffrey Bles in the United Kingdom on 16 October 1950, tells the story of four ordinary children: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, who have been evacuated to the English countryside from London in 1940 following the outbreak of World War II. They discover a wardrobe in Professor Digory Kirke's house that leads to the magical land of Narnia. The Pevensie children help Aslan, a talking