LOS ANGELES : Tim Burton's ‘Alice in Wonderland’ broke through the looking glass to the top of the North American box office this weekend with 116.3 million dollars in takings, estimates showed on Sunday.
The live-action, CGI (computer generated imagery), 3D version of Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy tale starring Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska has netted the highest grossing debut for a film which is not a sequel.
The seventh Burton-Depp collaboration ended Martin Scorsese's two-week reign at the top of the box office with "Shutter Island," which fell to third place with 13.3 million dollars, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.
Crime drama "Brooklyn's Finest," starring Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle as three burnt-out cops transformed by the same violent assignment debuted in second place with 13.5 million dollars.
The Bruce Willis action comedy "Cop Out" fell from second to fourth in its second weekend, raking in 9.1 million dollars.
Fifth place went to science-fiction epic "Avatar," with 7.7 million dollars. James Cameron's film, the highest-grossing movie of all time, has earned more than 2.5 billion dollars since its release last December.
"The Crazies," about the military's containment of a man-made virus that causes permanent insanity and death fell to sixth with 7.0 million dollars in its second weekend.
In seventh was "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," based on Rick Riordan's book and starring Pierce Brosnan and Uma Thurman. The movie earned 5.1 million dollars in its fourth week.
Romantic ensemble "Valentine's Day," starring Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner and Jessica Alba amongst others scooped 4.3 million dollars in its fourth week for eighth place.
Ninth place with 3.3 million dollars went to "Crazy Heart," a low-budget drama about a washed-up country singer struggling to rebuild his career, starring Jeff Bridges in the Oscar-nominated lead role.
Romantic tearjerker "Dear John," an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel, took tenth place with 2.8 million dollars in its fifth week.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2010 |
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