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A few new wide releases couldn’t keep the interest away from moviegoers seeing the 2010 “Alice In Wonderland.” The film topped the weekend box office for the third straight weekend.
The Johnny Depp and Tim Burton fantasy remake took in $34.5 million to remain the #1 movie for a third-straight weekend, raising its domestic haul to $265.8 million and its worldwide total to $565.8 million after just three weekends in theatres.
“You rarely see this kind of domination by one movie at this time of year,” Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com, told the Associated Press. “Normally at this time of year, films don’t make this kind of money, and they don’t hold in this long.”
“Alice” easily beat out the rush of new movies include “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” “The Bounty Hunter,” and “Repo Men,” all of which took the 2, 3 and 4 sports respectively.
20th Century Fox’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” opened at #2 with $21.8 million. It is an adaptation of Jeff Kinney’s cartoon novel about a sixth grader maneuvering through the intricate social structure at his middle school, which includes its own “cooties” game known as the “cheese touch.”
In at #3 was the Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler action comedy, “The Bounty Hunter”, taking in $21 million. It is about a bounty hunter chasing his ex-wife, a reporter with an arrest warrant over her head, after she misses a court date while pursuing a story.
And Jude Law and Forest Whitaker’s action thriller “Repo Men” flopped, debuting at #4 opening with just $6.2 million. Law plays a repo man on the run in a future where organs are bloodily repossessed if patients miss their payments.
Closing out the top 5 is “She’s Out of My League,” taking in just over $6 million in its second weekend.
In narrower release, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning’s Joan Jett rock music drama, “The Runaways”, opened with a week $803,629 in 244 theatres, averaging just $3,294 a cinema, reports the AP.
That wraps things up this weekend. Next weekend, look out the John Cusack comedy “Hot Tub Time Machine,” and the animated “How to Train Your Dragon.”
This weekend’s top 10 is as follows:
1 – “Alice in Wonderland,” $34.5 million.
2 – “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” $21.8 million.
3 – “The Bounty Hunter,” $21 million.
4 – “Repo Men,” $6.2 million.
5 – “She’s Out of My League,” $6 million.
6 – “Green Zone,” $5.96 million.
7 – “Shutter Island,” $4.8 million.
8 – “Avatar,” $4 million.
9 – “Our Family Wedding,” $3.8 million.
10 – “Remember Me,” $3.3 million.
