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One of these stars is Matt Damon, who is portrayed as such an idiot that all his dialogue consists of is his grinning stupidly while saying, “Matt Damon!” The puppet Damon ends up dead, his head snapped by a Team America hero. The real Matt Damon didn’t fare much better as the star of the new _Green Zone_: he went looking for the truth about Iraq’s WMDs, and got blown up by the IED of public indifference. The box-office curse of movies about the U.S. Mess-o-potamian escapade remained unbroken, as Damon became the latest star — after George Clooney, Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, not to mention the _South Park_ guys — whose attempt to address the blood and blunders in our Mideast wars tanked with the mass audience. [(See TIME’s review of _Green Zone_.)](https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1971437,00.html) _Green Zone_, reteaming Damon with Paul Greengrass, his director in the last two, very popular Jason Bourne films, earned just $14.5 million in its first three days at North American theaters, according to early studio estimates. That’s way below industry predictions (in the low- to middle-$20 millions) and less than a quarter of the $62 million amassed this weekend by the defending champ, _Alice in Wonderland_, which has leapt like a White Rabbit past the $200 million mark in just 10 days. The Tim Burton–Johnny Depp effort is also a war movie, at least partly, but with the Red Queen and the White Queen, not Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush, as the executive adversaries. [(See _Alice in Wonderland_ through the ages.)](https://techland.com/2010/03/05/through-the-looking-glass-the-many-alices-of-wonderland/) _Green Zone_ was one of a quartet of new movies this weekend whose grosses fell into the modest-to-awful range. _She’s Out of Your League_, a no-star, R-rated comedy about a schlub who unaccountably attracts the interest of a hottie, secured third place with $9.6 million. Just behind that, at $8.3 million, was the love story _Remember Me_, starring vampire swoon king Robert Pattinson; not nearly enough _Twilight_ fans booked tickets on the young male dreamboat. The interracial _Our Family Wedding_, with America Ferrara and Forest Whitaker, earned $7.6 million to finish sixth (after the holdover _Shutter Island_). So the four brand-new movies took in only about $40 million. It’s the first weekend since the chill of pre-_Avatar_ December when only two movies made more than $10 million. In _Green Zone_, Damon plays a U.S. warrant officer who, just after the Iraq invasion, discovers that Saddam in fact had no weapons of mass destruction and fights to expose the dirty secret. No less than _Inglourious Basterds_, starring Damon’s _Ocean’s Eleven_ buddy Brad Pitt, the film is a revisionist political fantasy disguised as gritty war reality. And given moviegoers’ resistance to Iraq themes, _Green Zone_‘s trailers tried skirting the _I_ word by making the picture seem like another Bourne adventure in all but name. There was no more hint of America’s fatal foreign policy frustrations in Iraq than there was of homosexuality in the trailers for _A Single Man_. But somehow, just possibly through the Internet, people know. Both films couldn’t escape their true identity, and suffered — not for their sins but for their boldness. [(See the top 10 CIA films.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1848628%5F1848935,00.html) Universal, the studio that produced _Green Zone_, had smelled something bad for more than a year. Greengrass and Damon shot their picture during the last few months of the Bush Administration. Then, writes Anne Thompson on her IndieWire blog, the studio’s co-chairmen, Marc Shmuger and David Linde, “pushed back the _Green Zone_ postproduction and release to allow Greengrass to find the film — and an ending — in the editing room.” The movie’s budget was at least $130 million, plus another $100 million or so to bring to market, and is unlikely to return even half that sum to Universal. The _Green Zone_ shadow, plus the failures of a bunch of other Universal movies (_Land of the Lost_, _Bruno_, _Funny People_, _Duplicity_, _State of Play_, etc.), cost Shmuger and Linde their jobs in October. Their legacy projects — this and the expensive disappointment _The Wolfman_ — are still costing Universal. “It’s a bit of a disappointment,” Nikki Rocco, the studio’s president of distribution, said of _Green Zone_. Actually, it’s a bit of a disaster. It’s a smidge of financial calamity. It’s a flop of Universal proportions. With a grudging B-rating from CinemaScore’s polling of moviegoers who’d seen the film, _Green Zone_ could join _Syriana, The Kingdom, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, Rendition_ and the Oscar-triumphant _The Hurt Locker_ in the box-office body count of Mideast war movies. Indeed, the film’s opening-weekend tally was almost exactly the same (factoring in inflation) as _Team America: World Police_. The real Damon will survive _Green Zone_. And those critics (like this one) who gave it a favorable review think he should be proud of a movie that provokes political discussion among viewers even as it amps up their adrenaline rush. But his and Greengrass’s flop makes this potentially valuable genre even more endangered. They fought the war, and the war won. Here are the weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Alice in Wonderland_, $62 million; $208.6 million, second week 2\. _Green Zone_, $14.5 million, first weekend 3\. _She’s Out of My League_, $9.6 million, first weekend 4\. _Remember Me_, $8.3 million, first weekend 5\. _Shutter Island_, $8.1 million; $108 million, fourth week 6\. _Our Family Wedding_, $7.6 million, first weekend 7\. _Avatar_, $6.6 million; $730.3 million, 13th week 8\. _Brooklyn’s Finest_, $4.3 million; $21.4 million, second week 9\. _Cop Out_, $4.2 million; $39.4 million, third week 10\. _The Crazies_, $3.7 million; $33.3 million, third week [See TIME’s Pictures of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek) [See the Cartoons of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/cartoonsoftheweek) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910749/box-office-alice-turns-damon-a-sickly-green/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910749/box-office-alice-turns-damon-a-sickly-green/"},"headline":"Box Office: Alice Turns Damon a Sickly Green","datePublished":"2010-03-14T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:12:45.701Z","description":"In Team America: World Police, the first Hollywood-financed movie inspired by the U.S. invasion of Iraq and its attendant political controversy, South Park's Trey Parker...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6910749/box-office-alice-turns-damon-a-sickly-green/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5372aaaabfcb3a50/698a4b65b21a9c7597508d63/360_alice_box_office_0305.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Richard Corliss","url":"https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5372aaaabfcb3a50/698a4b65b21a9c7597508d63/360_alice_box_office_0305.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"360_alice_box_office_0305.jpg","caption":"Johnny Depp in Alice in Wonderland","creditText":"Disney","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910749/box-office-alice-turns-damon-a-sickly-green/","name":"Box Office: Alice Turns Damon a Sickly Green"}}]}] ```