Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (top); Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler in The Bounty Hunter (middle); Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron in Diary of a Wimpy Kid (bottom)
Alice in Wonderland will continue to dominate the North American box office this weekend, according to very early — and apparently very rough — estimates posted by Nikki Finke at Deadline.com.
Even so, if Finke's figures hold up Tim Burton's 3D fantasy adventure won't maintain a distant lead as in weekends past. Either the Jennifer Aniston-Gerard Butler romantic comedy The Bounty Hunter or the kiddie flick Diary of a Wimpy Kid will land in the second spot for the weekend (low-to-mid $20m), though The Bounty Hunter may have had a small edge on Friday ($7.5 million vs. $7 million).
Repo Men, starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker, seems poised to become this weekend's major flop, with only $2 million on Friday and an estimated $5.5 million total.
The teen comedy She's Out of My League, one of the holdovers from last weekend, is expected to make about as much as Repo Men.
And if those early estimates are close to the actual box-office figures, both Matt Damon's Green Zone and Robert Pattinson's Remember Me will suffer significant drops, while James Cameron's Avatar may be about ready to drop out of the top ten. Perhaps that'll happen next weekend; perhaps the weekend after next. Or perhaps the sturdy 3D sci-fier will keep bouncing back for several more weeks.
Adjusted weekend box-office estimates will be posted on Saturday.
Photos: Alice in Wonderland (Disney Enterprises); The Bounty Hunter (Barry Wetcher / Columbia Pictures); Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Rob McEwan / 20th Century Fox)