No surprise here, Disney’s Alice in Wonderland will again take the #1 spot at the weekend box-office as it took in an estimated $17.4 million on Friday and I would guess will end up somewhere around $55-60 million for the three-day. Alice is dropping about 57-percent from its record-breaking weekend of $116 million last week, but with numbers like that I would say this weekend’s results are welcomed as it will have made north of $200 million domestically after this weekend and over $300 million worldwide. Solid work.
As for the weekend’s new releases, they make up the rest of the top five, starting with Paul Greengrass’s Green Zone taking in $5 million on Friday and what should be around $15 million for the weekend. Considering this is a film that went through a long post-production and ended up with a budget north of $100 million Universal is going to have to hope for big home video numbers should they ever expect it to end up in the black.
Summit’s Remember Me starring Robert Pattinson earned $3.6 million on Friday and will end up around $10-11 million for the weekend from 2,212 theaters. I can’t find any budgetary numbers, but I can’t believe it had that big of a budget. The film has more than divided critics, as I seem to be one of the lone few shouting from the rooftops saying you should see it. I know a few RopeofSilicon readers have reported back after seeing it in the comment section of my review, hopefully a few more will add their thoughts as the week goes on.
Next is Paramount’s R-rated comedy She’s Out of My League, a film I also enjoyed as it pulled in $3.3 million on Friday and will likely settle in around $10 million for the three day. Our Family Wedding rounds out the top five with $2.5 million from 1,605 theaters.
It looks like this week’s biggest loser is going to be Overture’s Brooklyn’s Finest, which opened last weekend with $13.3 million and is showing signs of a 70-percent drop with only $1.4 million on Friday. Yikes, but I guess that’s what you get for giving up on the ending after developing a relatively decent story. By the way, did you hear about how it originally ended? The Playlist offers an interesting recap, but it wouldn’t have helped the film had Fuqua gone that route either.
The complete Friday top ten is listed below and Laremy will be here Sunday morning with the complete weekend results. In the meantime add your thoughts in the comments below and check out Laremy’s predictions for this weekend right here.
- Alice in Wonderland – $17.4 million
- Green Zone – $5 million
- Remember Me – $3.6 million
- She’s Out of My League – $3.3 million
- Our Family Wedding – $2.5 million
- Shutter Island – $2.4 million
- Avatar – $1.6 million
- Brooklyn’s Finest – $1.4 million
- Cop Out – $1.2 million
- The Crazies – $1.1 million
Numbers courtesy of Variety.
