Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve in She's Out of My League (top); Matt Damon in Paul Greengrass' Green Zone (middle); Robert Pattinson, Ruby Jerins in Allen Coulter's Remember Me (bottom)
ALICE IN WONDERLAND #1; THE BOUNTY HUNTER #3
Only a little behind Repo Men, She's Out of My League grossed $6.015 million following a relatively low 38.5 percent drop according to Box Office Mojo. The teen comedy starring Jay Baruchel and Alice Eve averaged a mediocre $2,033 per theater. The film's total currently stands at $19.9 million.
The Paul Greengrass-Matt Damon Iraq War thriller Green Zone, which cost $100 million to produce and millions more to market, dropped 58.3% from last week, earning $5.9 million and averaging a measly $1,985 per screen — thus falling behind a not very well-received teen comedy with no stars. Total to date: $24.4 million. In a week, Green Zone will quite possibly be gone from the top-ten chart.
At #7, Martin Scorsese's thriller Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, added another $4.7 million (-41.6%) for a cume of $115.7 million. James Cameron's Avatar was next with $4 million (-38.7%) and a total of $736.8m. The 3D sci-fier has been out for 14 weeks.
Our Family Wedding, starring Forest Whitaker and America Ferrera, actually grossed more than Robert Pattinson's Remember Me even though it's playing at 600 fewer theaters. Our Family Wedding drew $3.8 million (-50.8%) versus Remember Me's $3.3 million, which suffered the weekend's second worst drop-off among the top twelve movies, 59.2%. Most of Pattinson's Twilight Saga fans clearly opted to stay away from a movie in which their idol gets killed.
Rounding out the top twelve were Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer with $2.1m (+71.4%) and Antoine Fuqua's's Brooklyn's Finest, starring Richard Gere and Ethan Hawke, with $1.6m (-62.5%).
Among the weekend's top twelve films, Alice in Wonderland had the highest per-screen average ($9,227) followed by Diary of a Wimpy Kid ($7,085); Brooklyn's Finest had the lowest average ($1,281).
Thanks to the addition of 595 screens, The Ghost Writer was the only movie among the holdovers to actually post an increase in revenues. Brooklyn's Finest suffered the steepest drop-off (-62.5%).
Photos: She's Out of My League (Darren Michaels / DW-Paramount); Remember Me (Myles Aronowitz / Summit Entertainment); Green Zone (Jasin Boland / Universal)
Those who haven't seen it are missing a really good films in Remember Me. It is engrossing, well enacted and gives the viewer a lot to ponder after it ends. Go see it and take your male and female friends. I guarantee they will enjoy it.