Through The Looking Glass On This One

Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland had an even bigger weekend opening than Avatar.

It clearly becomes the biggest 3D bow ever and the best March release ever and the highest grossing movie of 2010 with $41 million on Friday and $44.3 million on Saturday. Remember, those higher priced 3D tickets make all the difference. Even so, the Tim Burton-directed, Johnny Depp-starring fantasy flick had the biggest 3D release of all time. Of its 3,728 North American locations this weekend, its total domestic 3D count is 2,063, plus 180 Imax 3D engagements. That helped the pic post a $116.3M opening weekend with numbers  blowing away Avatar's first Fri-Sat-Sun. IMAX on Friday had the biggest day in their history with $4.3M for Alice. The IMAX weekend take of $11+M also is a record for the big screen company. Overseas, Alice shot to #1 almost everywhere after opening day and date in 40 territories beginning Wednesday. Disney narrowly avoided a boycott overseas when UK and other exhibitors were angered by the studio's plans to shorten the theatrical-to-DVD window from 16 weeks to just 12 weeks.

Saw this one myself in 3-D  It's a decent film, I thought Avatar was a better movie.  Johnny Depp manages to steal huge chunks of the film, and those he doesn't, the Cheshire Cat and March Hare do.

Like I was telling friends, the best part of the movie for me was the 3-D trailer for Tron Legacy.