| 'Alice in Wonderland' tops Box Office for Second Straight Weekend earning $62 million |
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15/03/2010 14:10 (699 Day 03:57 minutes ago) | |||||
The FINANCIAL -- Director Tim Burton's 3-D "Alice in Wonderland" topped the box office for the second straight weekend earning $62 million, according to studio estimates.
Even with four new wide releases in theaters this weekend, Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" proved its staying power by claiming the gold medal at this weekend's box office. Suffering a 46.6% drop from last weekend's $116.1 million intake, "Alice" still managed an impressive $62 million stateside result, MTV reports. Combined with foreign box office numbers, "Alice" has made $429.6 million worldwide in just two weeks.
It's 10-day total now adds up to $208 million--besting 2005's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" to become Burton's highest grossing film, according to CNN. A good 13 percent of its dollars came from its IMAX 3-D screens.
“Alice,” which stars Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, has earned $208.6 million in its first two weeks of release, Reuters reports. It set a handful of records in its opening weekend: the sixth-biggest opening ever, the biggest debut for March and for a 3-D film, the largest opening weekend for the year, and the best-ever Imax opening.
“Alice’s” $62 million in receipts “would be a great number for an opening weekend,” said Paul Dergarabedian, film analyst for Hollywood.com Box-Office in Los Angeles, according to the same source. “And for this to happen in the first quarter, it has never been done before. It has to be word-of-mouth that’s driving this.”
The Iraq action drama "Green Zone" from the Universal Pictures, starring Matt Demon, played at 3,000-strong theaters and raked in only 14.5 million dollars worth of tickets, or 4 million dollars less than the modest expectations for the 100 million dollars flick, Xinhua News Agency reports. Analysts believed the war movie continues the trend of low box-office returns for dramas set in Iraq and the Middle East, following such commercial flops like "The Kingdom" and "Body of Lies."
Paramount's romantic comedy "She's Out of My League" debuted at No. 3 with $9.6 million. The movie stars Jay Baruchel as a geek in an unlikely romance with a babe, Chron com informs.
In its fourth weekend, Paramount's "Shutter Island," the latest collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese, was No. 5 with $8.1 million, raising its domestic total to $108 million, according to the same source. Debuting at No. 6 with $7.6 million was Fox Searchlight's comedy "Our Family Wedding," starring America Ferrera as a Hispanic bride marrying a black man. "Alice in Wonderland" took in nearly as much as the rest of the top-10 movies combined.
“Avatar” finished in seventh place with $6.6 million, Reuters reports. The sci-fi adventure, the highest grossing film ever, has made $730.3 million domestically for News Corp.’s Fox Studio since its Dec. 18 release.
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