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The previous high for a March weekend had been the $70.9 million registered by the Spartan muscleman movie _300_, while Mel Gibson’s _The Passion of the Christ_ had been the all-time opener in the January-to-March period, with $83.8 million. Even factoring in inflation, _Alice_ is the unchallenged first-quarter queen. It’s sixth among the most lucrative openings in movie history, after _The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 3, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest_ and _Shrek the Third_. Which is to say, _Alice_ had the top nonsequel opening weekend of all time. [(See TIME’s picks for this year’s Oscar winners.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1968189%5F1969675%5F1969671,00.html) Yes, bigger than _Avatar_, which took in $77 million during its first weekend last December. _Alice_ made its big bucks the same way: it took the pill that makes you larger and went wide in 3-D. Of its 3,728 North American venues, 2,063 were on 3-D screens, plus another 180 in Imax 3-D. So _Alice_ topped _Avatar_ as the all-time biggest opener in the stereoptic format. “It also shattered _Avatar_‘s recently set Imax record,” industry website the Wrap reported, “selling out each of the 188 digital 3-D outlets on the way to a weekend total of $11.9 million.” Overseas, _Alice_ was just as impressive, ending _Avatar_‘s 11-week reign by earning $94 million abroad, for a worldwide total of $210.3 million. The movie has yet to open in about 40% of the global market. [(See pictures of _Alice in Wonderland_ through the years.)](https://techland.com/2010/03/05/through-the-looking-glass-the-many-alices-of-wonderland/) That imposing number just about covers _Alice_‘s $200 million budget; it’s the most expensive new movie since _Avatar_, and Disney probably spent another $100 million or so to advertise it. The Burton picture is unlikely to come near the $2.5 billion global gross of James Cameron’s epic, which became the all-time top grosser in Energizer-bunny fashion, by just going and going and going. _Alice_ got so-so reviews from critics, but it achieved a healthy A– rating from Cinemascore’s poll of people who’d just seen the movie, and it should hang on through spring break until another 3-D release, the DreamWorks animated feature _How to Train Your Dragon_, opens March 26. The rest of the weekend’s top 10 teemed with cops, marshals and soldiers. _Brooklyn’s Finest_, with Don Cheadle, Wesley Snipes, Ethan Hawke and Richard Gere, snagged a better-than-expected $13.5 million for second place, two notches above another Kings County policier, _Cop Out_. Martin Scorsese’s _Shelter Island_ took third place and is nearing the $100 million mark. In other milestones, Sandra Bullock’s sports inspirational _The Blind Side_ broke $250 million; _Valentine’s Day_ topped $100 million; and _Dear John_ and _Percy Jackson_ each hit $75 million. Jeff Bridges’ _Crazy Heart_, the one indie drama to reap box-office benefits from Oscar buzz, stayed in the top 10 and is grazing $30 million — not bad for a movie with a $9 million budget that was originally to go straight to DVD and be denied a theatrical release. [(See the top 10 Oscar nomination snubs.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1958245%5F1958244,00.html) The box office is expected to take a dip Sunday night — at least Hollywood hopes it does, since the industry has labored frantically to jack up the Oscar ceremony’s sagging ratings. The show’s producers have packed the on-camera guest list with young stars from _The Twilight Saga_ and _So You Think You Can Dance_. More important, the Motion Picture Academy expanded its list of Best Picture nominees from five to 10, hoping that more hits would be included, since the highest-rated Oscar shows in the past 15 years have been when the big prizes went to the megahits _Titanic_ and _The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King_. The scheme worked: half of the Best Picture nominees have grossed more than a quarter-billion dollars worldwide. Here’s the full roster, with each movie’s domestic and worldwide gross: 1\. _Avatar_, $720.2 million, $2.559 billion 2\. _Up_, $293 million, $723 million 3\. _Inglourious Basterds_, $120.5 million, $313.6 million 4\. _District 9_, $115.6 million, $304.8 million 5\. _The Blind Side_, $250.5 million, $251 million 6\. _Up in the Air_, $83 million, $153.5 million 7\. _Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire_, $47.4 million, $53.3 million 8\. _A Serious Man_, $9.2 million, $24.2 million 9\. _The Hurt Locker_, $14.7 million, $21.4 million 10\. _An Education_, $12.1 million, $17.1 million [See the top 10 movie performances of 2009.](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379%5F1944194,00.html) Note that _The Hurt Locker_, the predictors’ favorite to cop Best Picture and Best Director, has the second lowest total gross of the 10\. But those awards are announced at the end of the show; _Avatar_ should have piled up enough little-people statuettes in the intervening three hours to keep the masses satisfied. The big threat to big ratings, as of mid-afternoon Sunday, is that the show may not be seen by millions of New York viewers in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Westchester County and on Long Island. Disney, in a dispute with the cable supplier Cablevision, last night shut down Cablevision’s access to WABC, the country’s most watched local TV station, on which the Oscars are to be shown. Although the show can be seen online, including on Hulu, if a deal isn’t reached by 8:30 this evening, movie-mad viewers may have no choice but to go to the local multiplex and see … Disney’s _Alice in Wonderland_. Here are the weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by BoxOfficeMojo.com: 1\. _Alice in Wonderland_, $116.3 million, first weekend 2\. _Brooklyn’s Finest_, $13.5 million, first weekend 3\. _Shutter Island_, $13.3 million; $95.8 million, third week 4\. _Cop Out_, $9.1 million; $32.4 million, second week 5\. _Avatar_, $7.7 million; $720.2 million, 12th week 6\. _The Crazies_, $7 million; $27.4 million, second week 7\. _Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief_, $5.1 million; $78 million, fourth week 8\. _Valentine’s Day_, $4.3 million; $106.4 million, fourth week 9\. _Crazy Heart_, $3.4 million; $29.6 million, 12th week 10\. _Dear John_, $2.9 million; $76.7 million, fifth week [See the 100 best movies of all time.](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1953094,00.html) [See the top 10 movies of 2009.](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379%5F1943915,00.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910731/box-office-report-alices-wonderful-weekend/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910731/box-office-report-alices-wonderful-weekend/"},"headline":"Box-Office Report: Alice's Wonderful Weekend","datePublished":"2010-03-07T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:12:22.938Z","description":"The March Hare came in like a lion. 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