‘Alice in Wonderland’ wins another weekend with $34.2 million box-office haul

By AP
Monday, March 22, 2010

‘Alice in Wonderland’ wins again with $34.2M

LOS ANGELES — Audiences are still in Mad Hatter mode as “Alice in Wonderland” stayed on top of the box office for a third-straight weekend with $34.2 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

1. “Alice in Wonderland,” Disney, $34,189,969, 3,739 locations, $9,144 average, $265,433,637, three weeks.

2. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” Fox, $22,126,166, 3,077 locations, $7,191 average, $22,126,166, one week.

3. “The Bounty Hunter,” Sony, $20,686,423, 3,074 locations, $6,729 average, $20,686,423, one week.

4. “Repo Men,” Universal, $6,126,170, 2,521 locations, $2,430 average, $6,126,170, one week.

5. “Green Zone,” Universal, $6,113,105, 3,004 locations, $2,035 average, $24,852,135, two weeks.

6. “She’s Out of My League,” Paramount, $5,802,363, 2,958 locations, $1,962 average, $19,741,174, two weeks.

7. “Shutter Island,” Paramount, $4,735,834, 2,704 locations, $1,751 average, $115,750,466, five weeks.

8. “Avatar,” Fox, $4,027,005, 1,236 locations, $3,258 average, $736,907,957, 14 weeks.

9. “Our Family Wedding,” Fox Searchlight, $3,739,600, 1,609 locations, $2,324 average, $13,608,107, two weeks.

10. “Remember Me,” Summit, $3,252,494, 2,215 locations, $1,468 average, $13,918,922, two weeks.

11. “The Ghost Writer,” Summit, $2,063,595, 819 locations, $2,520 average, $6,753,764, five weeks.

12. “Brooklyn’s Finest,” Overture, $1,640,703, 1,311 locations, $1,251 average, $24,821,335, three weeks.

13. “The Crazies,” Overture, $1,488,933, 1,495 locations, $996 average, $36,396,873, four weeks.

14. “Cop Out,” Warner Bros., $1,417,365, 1,563 locations, $907 average, $42,571,478, four weeks.

15. “Crazy Heart,” Fox Searchlight, $1,395,387, 1,154 locations, $1,209 average, $36,430,281, 14 weeks.

16. “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,” Fox, $1,368,470, 1,348 locations, $1,015 average, $85,038,766, six weeks.

17. “The Blind Side,” Warner Bros., $877,736, 602 locations, $1,458 average, $254,273,981, 18 weeks.

18. “The Runaways,” Apparition, $805,115, 244 locations, $3,300 average, $805,115, one week.

19. “Hubble 3D,” Warner Bros., $410,920, 39 locations, $10,536 average, $410,920, one week.

20. “Sherlock Holmes,” Warner Bros., $405,443, 372 locations, $1,090 average, $207,902,824, 13 weeks.

On the Net:

www.hollywood.com/boxoffice

Universal Pictures and Focus Features are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney’s parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue Pictures is owned by Relativity Media LLC; Overture Films is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp.

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