'Alice' goes down a rabbit hole, comes up a boxoffice winner
AFP Global Edition | 137 days ago
Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" fell down a rabbit hole and came up a box office winner, garnering 62 million dollars in ticket sales, industry figures showed on Sunday.
The live-action, 3-D version of Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy tale starring Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska -- now the top earner for two weeks running -- came in well ahead of second place finisher Green Zone, which took in 14.5 million dollars in its debut.
Box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said third place went to just-released romantic comedy "She's Out of My League," in which a stunning woman and a dorky guy fall in love. It earned 9.6 million dollars in sales.
Fourth place went to the debut of the romantic drama "Remember Me," while fifth went to "Shutter Island" with 8.1 million dollars in ticket sales.
The interracial romantic comedy "Our Family Wedding" starring America Ferrera of "Ugly Betty" fame debuted at sixth place.
Box office juggernaut "Avatar," the top-grossing movie of all time, was in seventh place, selling 6.6 million dollars in movie seats.
With 4.3 million dollars in ticket sales, eighth place was nabbed by crime drama "Brooklyn's Finest," starring Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle as three burnt-out cops transformed by the same violent assignment.
Ninth place went to the police-buddy comedy "Cop Out" starring Bruce Willis, with 4.2 million dollars in sales.
"The Crazies," about the military's containment of a man-made virus that causes permanent insanity and death, rounded out the top 10, with 3.7 million dollars in receipts.
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