ALICE IN WONDERLAND Box Office: Better Than Estimated; GREEN ZONE, REMEMBER ME Worse
Anne Hathaway in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (top); Matt Damon in Paul Greengrass‘ Green Zone (middle); Tate Ellington, Robert Pattinson in Allen Coulter’s Remember Me (bottom)
Alice in Wonderland grossed slightly more than expected this past weekend at the North American box office. Tim Burton’s fantasy-adventure took in an estimated $62.7 million (an impressive $16,822 per screen) according to final figures found at Box Office Mojo.
Alice in Wonderland’s total take to date is $209.3 million — it’s the first 2010 release to cross the $200 million mark. The film stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Matt [...]
by Michelle Hutton | March 15, 2010
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Tags: Alice in Wonderland, Allen Coulter, Anne Hathaway, Avatar, Box Office, Green Zone, Matt Damon, Our Family Wedding, Paul Greengrass, Remember Me, Robert Pattinson, She's Out of My League, Shutter Island, Tate Ellington, Tim Burton
International Box Office: SHUTTER ISLAND #2, AVATAR #3; Robert Pattinson’s REMEMBER ME Flops
Shutter Island was the #2 movie at the international box office this past weekend, after runaway #1 Alice in Wonderland. Martin Scorsese’s dark thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio (above) and Mark Ruffalo grossed an estimated $19.2 million in 43 markets. The film’s total overseas take to date is $82 million, while the worldwide total is $190 million. For comparison’s sake, the Oscar-winning The Departed (2006) grossed $289.8 million worldwide.
At #3, James Cameron’s Avatar grossed $17 million at 4,000 screens in 69 markets. Japan was its biggest market this past weekend, with $3.1 million in revenues. The sci-fier’s foreign box office total to date is $1.914 billion; worldwide total: $2.644 billion.
Matt Damon’s Green Zone was #4, with $9.7 million at 1,562 [...]
by Michelle Hutton | March 15, 2010
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Tags: Avatar, Box Office, Green Zone, James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass, Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Remember Me, Robert Pattinson, Shutter Island
More GREEN ZONE Reviews
Paul Greengrass-Matt Damon’s GREEN ZONE Reviews
"Similarly, Green Zone comes off as a picture made by a person with a brain as well as a conscience, though the movie’s big flaw may be its unblinking insistence that we’ve been lied to — you don’t have to read too much between the lines to see how adamant Greengrass is about that fact, though he isn’t telling us anything particularly new. Stephanie Zacharek at Salon.com.
"Better late than never—a bang-bang pulse-pounder predicated on the Bush administration’s deliberate fabrication of WMD in Iraq. Paul Greengrass’s expertly assembled Green Zone has evidently been parked for some time on Universal’s shelf. Had the movie been released during the 2008 election season, [...]
by Anna Robinson | March 14, 2010
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Tags: Green Zone, J. Hoberman, Matt Damon, Mick LaSalle, Paul Greengrass
Matt Damon’s GREEN ZONE Reviews
Green Zone: Amy Ryan, Matt Damon (top); director Paul Greengrass, Matt Damon on the Green Zone set
Paul Greengrass‘ Iraq War thriller Green Zone follows a US Army officer (Matt Damon) who discovers there’s a government conspiracy at work to dupe Americans into believing Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction." As to be expected, right-wingers have called the movie "anti-American," while US critics have given it mixed reviews.
An expensive production — $100 million, plus marketing and distribution costs — Green Zone took in only $14.5 million at the North American box office on its debut weekend, following a pattern of poor receipts for film productions set in Iraq. Unless Green Zone does exceedingly well on home video and [...]
by Anna Robinson | March 14, 2010
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Tags: Amy Ryan, Green Zone, Kenneth Turan, Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass, Roger Ebert
Weekend Box Office: ALICE IN WONDERLAND Rules; GREEN ZONE, REMEMBER ME Disappoint
Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway in Alice in Wonderland (top); Brendan Gleeson, Matt Damon in Green Zone (upper middle); Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve in She’s Out of My League (lower middle); Robert Pattinson, Pierce Brosnan in Remember Me (bottom)
Alice in Wonderland dominated the North American box office on its second weekend, grossing an estimated $62 million (an impressive $16,631 per screen) according to Box Office Mojo.
Tim Burton’s fantasy-adventure blockbuster had a below-average 46 percent drop from the previous weekend chiefly thanks to great Saturday/Sunday business. (Friday’s decrease had been steeper — 57 percent.) Alice in Wonderland’s total take to date is $208.6 million — the first 2010 release to cross the $200 million mark. The [...]
by Michelle Hutton | March 14, 2010
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Tags: Alice in Wonderland, Brendan Gleeson, Green Zone, Jay Baruchel, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass, Pierce Brosnan, Remember Me, Robert Pattinson, She's Out of My League, Tim Burton