The Chronicles of Narnia a young girl hiding in a wardrobe. Neil Gaiman's young-adult horror novella "Coraline" has been compared to "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", as both books involve young girls travelling to magical worlds through doors in their new houses and fighting evil with the help of talking animals. His "Sandman" comic book series also features a Narnia-like "dream island" in its story arc entitled "A Game of You". When the island is unmade by its creator Morpheus, the inhabitants march into the shadow of his cloak in a scene visually similar to Aslan's judgement of the inhabitants of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and the rest of Europe. Worldwide, "Narnia" earned $745,013,115 marking it the 55th highest-grossing film of all-time worldwide. It had a worldwide opening of $107.1 million, marking Disney's fifth largest opening worldwide (at the time it was the largest). It is the third-largest movie worldwide among those released in 2005 and it currently still remains the highest-grossing movie of the "Narnia" franchise worldwide, and separately in North America and overseas. Finally, it is also the most successful film of Walden Media worldwide. The film opened with $23,006,856 in 3,616 theatres on its opening day (Friday, December 9, 2005), averaging $6,363