http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=121495#ixzz39XlS8TEg
Hmm. I remember reading parts of the book as a kid. Could be interesting.
Note that my below 140m is gross, with that 18m tax credit here and I imagine some in New Zealand, that make it a 122m or less net one estimate.
The movie could make more domestic alone at the BO a good bar for success.