WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
1) Alice in Wonderland - $116.3 million
2) Brooklyn's Finest - $13.5 million
3) Shutter Island - $13.3 million
4) Cop Out - $9.1 million
5) Avatar - $7.7million
6) The Crazies - $7 million
7) Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Lightning Thief - $5.1 million
8) Valentine's Day - 4.2 million
9) Crazy Heart - $3.3 million
10) Dear John - $2.8 million
Tim Burton's highly anticipated re-imagining of the Walt Disney classic Alice in Wonderland starring Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Sheen, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Alan Rickman, Christopher Lee, Stephen Fry, Timothy Sprall and Crispin Glover, completely destroyed the competition at the box office this Academy Awards weekend scoring an incredible $116.3 in their debut. The film, which was seen in 3,728 theaters earned an impressive $31,196 per theater for an opening weekend total of $116.3 million, well on its way to earning back its initial $200 million production budget. Also doing pretty well in its opening weekend but not quite as good as Burton's film is the Antoine Fuqua directed gritty cop movie Brooklyn's Finest starring Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Will Patton, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ellen Barkin, Lili Taylor and Wesley Snipes. The film, which played in 1,936 theaters, scored roughly $6,973 per theater for an opening weekend total of $13.5 million.
With the two new films in the box office taking the top two spots on the charts that pushes Shutter Island, which was number one since it debuted two weeks ago, to the number three spot. The psychological thriller starring international superstar-actor Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by the legendary Martin Scorsese dropped 41.3% from the previous week but still managed to earn $13.3 million over the weekend. The movie, which actually added 175 theaters for a total of 3,178, earned $4,185 per theater bringing its total gross to around $98.8 million in just three weeks. Moving two spots back from last week to the number four position is Kevin Smith's new buddy-cop movie, Cop Out, starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan. The homage to '80s cop comedies dropped 49.8% from its opening weekend but managed to still earn $2,903 in each of its 3,150 theaters for a weekend total of $9.1 million, which brings it's total gross to around $32 million in just two weeks earning back it's $30 million production cost. Rounding out the top five is James Cameron's 3D outer-space epic juggernaut Avatar. The film, which did drop 43.6% from the previous week and was seen on 293 less screens still managed to earn $3,560 per each of its 2,163 theaters for an additional $7.7 million, bringing its grand total to a mind-blowing $720 million. The film, which has not only been in the top five on the box office charts for twelve weeks, but will also compete for nine Oscar Awards this afternoon, has already won two Golden Globes and made over $2 billion worldwide now making it the highest grossing film both internationally and domestically of all-time.
Doing extremely well in limited release is the Irish animated film , which was seen in only one theater and earned $40,000 in its first week. Also doing very well in limited release again this weekend is the Roman Polanski film The Ghost Writer starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Hutton and Eli Wallach. The movie, which went up an astounding 64.8% from the previous week was added in 104 theaters for a total of 147 and earned $8,844 in each making it's weekend total around $1,300,000, which brings it's total gross to around $2.6 million in just three weeks. Finally, continuing to do well in limited release is the French film A Prophet, which will be competing for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards Ceremony this afternoon. The film, which went up 61.8% from last week was added in 21 theaters for a total of 30 and earned $8,833 in each for a weekend total of $265,000, bringing its total gross to around $517,000 in just two weeks.
Next weekend will see only four new films enter into wide release and two into limited release. First up is the "Nerd dates a Hottie" film She's Out Of My League starring Jay Baruchel (Tropic Thunder) and Alice Eve. Also next week is the romance film Remember Me starring Twilight star Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin from Lost, Chris Cooper, Lena Olin and Pierce Brosnan. Next week will also see the re-teaming of The Bourne Supremacy director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon in the Iraqi War action film, The Green Zone, as well as the family wedding comedy Our Family Wedding starring America Ferrera, Regina King, Charlie Murphy and Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker. Finally, in limited release we have the independent film Stolen starring John Hamm (Mad Men), Josh Lucas (Hulk), James Van Der Beek (Dawson's Creek) and Rhona Mitra (Doomsday), as well as the Korean film Mother by director Bong Joon-Ho. So please check back in seven days to see who comes out on top at the box office next week.
Alice in Wonderland was released March 5th, 2010 and stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen. The film is directed by Tim Burton.
Brooklyn's Finest was released March 5th, 2010 and stars Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Vincent D'Onofrio, Brian F. O'Byrne, Will Patton, Michael K. Williams. The film is directed by Antoine Fuqua.
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morepdeath
This movie was awesome! Burton and Depp are so good at what they do, it's ridiculous.
2 years agoby @morepdeathFlag
CelluloidDreams
"The Ghost Writer" was a damn good film! A+!
2 years agoby @2movieguysFlag
LinkinFanNum1
Not a bad movie. Tim Burton did a good job.
2 years agoby @linkinfannum1Flag
Johnnyblaze09
Very huge amount it is... really big if in 3D.
2 years agoby @johnnyblaze09Flag
ed_wood
Burton did an amazing job with this movie. It will be number 1 until Clash of the Titans comes out.
2 years agoby @ed-woodFlag
slysnide
Tim Burton's probably celebrating this weekend's grosses more than any of the Oscar winners. This is great. It'd be cool if he'd do the more colorful prequel that was homaged in a few quick visuals in the film.
2 years agoby @slysnideFlag
Structure (ONSTRA)
holy crap.. that's alot of money.. damn..
2 years agoby @gaj1992Flag
Moviedude21
Johnny and Tim Burton do it again with Alice in Wonderland. These two talents were made for each other.
2 years agoby @moviedude21Flag
Buriblazing
wow that is a little to much $ for that film but johnny depp is awesome
2 years agoby @buriblazingFlag
Jason27
My short review... Copied and pasted off imdb...
Ok so I've been waiting for this to come out for aaaages, since it was announced.
I just came back from seeing it this morning...
I loved it, but some things bothered me:
The overall tone was very Burton'ish, which was awesome, but it felt that there was something missing... Could of just been the CG that felt a bit out of place.
The script, it felt a bit rushed, it wasn't bad, you don't really feel emotionally connected to the characters.
But the two things that bothered me the most, that actually pissed me off, was Hatter's and Alice's dance thing at the end - like WTF! You cant tell me Burton was actually happy about that! I seriously hate cheesyness like that! And then the film ended, nice ending... And then what? No amazingly stunning perfect score that we've been hearing for the past 2 hours that had the biggest emotional impact in the film, from one of the best film composers who ever lived, Mr. Danny Elfman, no no, instead what do we get? Avril fooking Lavigne! Shes hot and everything, but it was COMPLETELY out of place! Didn't fit at all, and just left me pissed off even more than seeing that stupid dance thing.
So over all, good film, I did enjoy it, I just wish it was done a bit better. This had the potential to be 'insanely awesome', but it passed with just 'very good'. I'll still buy the 2 disc dvd, or blu ray if I've changed over by then, but the highest I'm going to give this is a 7/10.
And I blame Disney, if Burton had his way 100%, I reckon it would of been a lot better.
2 years agoby @jason27Flag
Brian
Nice work Alice.
2 years agoby @brianFlag
Juanse2010
Excelent!!!!!!
2 years agoby @juanse2010Flag
TheMime
and IT will stay there until the next big thing, which I also agree would be the one and only "CLASH OF THE TITANS"...ahu ahu ahu!!!..........woop wooooop!!
2 years agoby @themimeFlag
T.Clark
I think Alice will stay #1 until Clash of the Titans...which I am definitely seeing, but I don't think it'll make this much...maybe 75 million in the first weekend.
God, I haven't been to the theater since Avatar.
2 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag
JonSpidey07
great movie!
2 years agoby @jonspidey07Flag
T.Clark
Jesus, this is summer numbers.
2 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag
Narzion
i was disappointed-this movie is sh*t......ok visuals are great
2 years agoby @narzionFlag
Draktyr
Great opening weekend! :)
2 years agoby @draktyrFlag
Batman Rules !!!
Alice is Gona be #1 for A little while
2 years agoby @the-fallenFlag