- $43.3M Dreamworks' animated adventure torched the competition this week, besting the nearest debut film by more than $30M. Of course Dragon had the benefit of higher ticket prices for it's 3D screens, in particular since the prices for these tickets went up by as much as $3 on opening day. Roughly 70% of the film's gross was hauled in at 3D sites. But that shouldn' take away from the accomplishment, considering Dragon is the best reviewed Dreamworks film yet and arguably the best reviewed film of the year so far.
2. Alice in Wonderland
- $17.3M/$293M Losing a good portion of it's 3D screens to HTTYD brought Alice it's biggest drop yet, down 49% but still closing in on $300M.
3. Hot Tub Time Machine
- $13.7M Am I surprised that Hot Tub Time Machine received only a lukewarm response from audiences? No. The film, which is a comedy basically about four friends sent back into the 80s, never really had a hook that anybody could latch on to, other than trying to make this out to be this year's The Hangover. Which it ain't.
4. The Bounty Hunter
- $12.4M/$38.8M 5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- $10M/$35.8M The arrival of another kid-centric flick like How to Train Your Dragon clearly had an adverse effect, taking a pretty hefty 50% hit this week.
6. She's Out of My League
- $3.53M/$25.6M Still hanging around and performing better than it's opening weekend would've suggested, thanks mostly to relatively strong word of mouth from audiences, not necessarily critics.
7. Green Zone
- $3.35M/$30.4M So far the search for Green Zone's missing audience has turned up absolutely nothing. I think the Pentagon is stonewalling them.
8. Shutter Island
- $3.17M/$121M It seems like only a couple of weeks ago this flick was at the tip of everyone's tongue and was dominating the box office, and now I look at it and it's only at $121M? It deserves better.
9. Repo Men
- $3.05M/$11.3M 10. Our Family Wedding
- $2.2M/$16.8M Strangely enough, Forest Whittaker is DOMINATING the last two spots on the Top 10! That should be cause for celebration, right? Um, no. The combined gross for both these films after two weeks doesn't get within' sniffing distance of the first weekend of either of the Top 2 movies this week.
Other new releases....
Amanda Seyfried's coming out party in the erotic thriller, Chloe, debuted at only 350 locations and pulled in about $1M.
