Brooklyn’s Finest Articles

The Blue Caterpillar (voiced by Alan Rickman) in Alice in Wonderland (top); Jesse Williams, Richard Gere in Brooklyn’s Finest (bottom) Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, and the voices of Stephen Fry and Michael Sheen, scored a fantastic $31,196 per screen average at 3,728 sites, taking in a total of $116.3 million this weekend according [...]

Matt Lucas, Mia Wasikowska in Alice in Wonderland Alice in Wonderland decimated the competition on Friday, earning $41 million and an outstanding $10,998 per screen at 3,728 sites, according to estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Though $4 million short from early reports, Tim Burton’s version of Lewis Carroll’s fantasy is expected to gross around $110 million over the weekend. As expected, Avatar dropped out [...]

Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton’s revamping of Lewis Carroll’s fantasy, has decimated the competition at the Friday box office, reports Nikki Finke at Deadline.com. The film grossed an estimated $45 million on Friday, a staggering amount that easily beat Avatar’s opening day take (which was affected by a winter storm that covered much of the Eastern US). [Updated Alice in Wonderland box-office report.] Finke estimates [...]

Damon Wise in the London Times: "Written by the team responsible for the similarly dark Bad Santa and based on a true story, I Love You Phillip Morris is an extraordinary film that serves as a reminder of just how good [Jim] Carrey [above, with Ewan McGregor] can be when he’s not tied into a generic Hollywood crowd-pleaser. His comic timing remains as exquisite as [...]