Big Weekend For Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland exceeded expectations and should finish its opening weekend in the 90-100 million dollar ballpark.  Like Avatar, Alice in Wonderland's gorss is a bit augmented by its use of 3-D.  Of course Johnny Depp has become quite the marquee name of late, and people seem to have taken to his colloborations with Tim Burton (even if it's getting tired in my eyes).  Their last team-up Sweeney Todd did modestly at the boxoffice for a violent musical.  Before that they hit it big with the mostly forgotten Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which opened to over 50 million in the summer of 2005, so perhaps the success of Alice shouldn't be too shocking.  I havn't seen Alice yet, but despite slightly better than average reviews I'm not too keen about this project.  Burton seems to have lost his artistic vision of the last five years.

Also released this weekend to a respectable opening was Antoine Fuqua's latest Brooklyn's Finest.  The movie seems like a retread of most gritty cop dramas, so I can't expect it perform much better from this pint forward.

Avatar should be passing Return of the Jedi by the end of the weekend also on the inflation adjusted chart.