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MARCH 12, 2010

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND

ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL

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TIM BURTON'S WONDERLAND HOLDS COURT MARCH 12 -14

Tim Burton's take on Alice in Wonderland continued to blast everything else out the box office as it reaped $62 million. Despite controversy surrounding the release schedule and battles with theater owners, Disney's feature leaves little time for veiwers to see it on the big screen and movie goers responded in droves. It's worldwide take is equally impressive at $429.6 million - that's even with Europes Odeon Theatrers refusing to show the film in Italy, France and the UK! Three wide release films didn't come close. Matt Damon's Green Zone was a distant second grabbing only $14.5 million. Nerd gets girl comedy She's Out of My League scored even further back grossing only $9.6 million ahead of the romantic tragedy Remember Me, which garnered $8.3 mil. Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island continued to perform taking fith with a close $8.1 million take ahead of the other wide release, Forest Whitaker's Our Family Wedding which grabbed a dismal $7.6 million.

James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar came in a a fading seventh grossing another $4 million to boost it's YTD earnings to an insane $730 million domestically. It is now making inroads to the very important stat reflecting number of tickets sold. It is currently 14th just passing "Return of the Jedi" using the inflation adjustment calculation, closing in on "Ben Hur". "Gone with the Wind" leads the statistic with a commanding $1.5 billion domestic take. "Star Wars" is a close second with $1.3 billion. Though it's not likely that "Avatar" will catch either, it will be interesting to see how many of the old standards it passes as it climbs up. Brooklyn's Finest with Richard Gere and Wesley Snipes fell to eighth with $4 million while Cop Out and a star studded cast came in eigthy with a disappointing $4.2 million take. The Crazies rounded out the top ten.

PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF

PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND

GREEN ZONE

SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE

REMEMBER ME

SHUTTER ISLAND

OUR FAMILY WEDDING

AVATAR

BROOKLYN'S FINEST

COP OUT

THE CRAZIES

[* Source Box Office Mojo]

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Estimated Gross

$62,000,000

$14,535,000

$9,600,000

$8,300,000

$8,100,000

$7,600,000

$6,600,000

$4,290,000

$3,350,000

$4,230,000

YTD Gross

$208,625,000

$14,535,000

$9,600,000

$8,300,000

$108,008,000

$7,600,000

$730,344,000

$21,351,000

$39,442,000

$33,358,000

SAINT JOHN OF LAS VEGAS

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THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF

YOUNG VICTORIA

PEPPER GETS GRIT

Barry Pepper has signed a deal to play Ned Pepper, the nemeisi originally played by Robert Duval in the remake of True Grit. The Coen Brothers cast hi with Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin and Hailee Steinfeldin the remake of the Hank Hathaway classic which brought John Wayne his only Oscar. Pepper's previous credits include as the sharp shooter in "Saving Private Ryan" and the weeping prison guard in "The Green Mile."

WB GETS BOX OFFICE AWARD

Warner Brothers generated $4.01 billion in worldwide ticket sales in 2009, including an all-time domestic high of $2.13 billion and will thus be rewarded the 2010 ShoWest Worldwide Box Office Achievement Award. The award will be giving during ShoWest which runs March 15-18 in Las Vegas at the Bally and Paris hotels. The WB had nine films open at No. 1 domestically, and six titles zoomed past the $100 million mark, including "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" ($302 million), "The Hangover" ($277 million) and "The Blind Side" ($248 million).

"GILLIGAN" TO THE SILVER SCREEN

Warner Bros has begun development on a feature film based on the 1960s CBS sitcom which generated solid ratings during its three seasons and then found something close to eternal life in syndication. Original show producer Sherwood Schwartz is in as executive producer along with his son Lloyd Schwartz. The 98 episodes of "Gilligan's Island," starring Bob Denver as the hapless title character, centered on the slapstick adventures of seven castaways (two crew members, a millionaire couple, a professor, a movie starlet and a pretty farm girl) on an uncharted and uninhabited island in the Pacific.

"HURT LOCKER" PRODUCER BARRED FROM OSCARS

Nicolas Chartier, a producer of the war story "The Hurt Locker" will not be allowed to attend Sunday's Academy Awards because of e-mails he sent urging academy members to vote for his movie, Oscar overseers said Tuesday. Chartier sent an e-mail Feb. 19 to some academy members asking for their support for "The Hurt Locker" and "not a $500 million film" � referencing the blockbuster best-picture contender "Avatar".

AMC THEATERS CAVES TO DISNEY

AMC Theatres and Odeon (Europe) gave into Disney on "Alice in Wonderland". Both had threatened to not show the film becuse Disney changed it's theatrical release from the usual 17 weeks to 12 weeks so they can release it on DVD sooner. The compromise is now 13 weeks.

"AVATAR" TOPS IMAX

After nailing down $200 million in the IMAX segment of it's release, James Cameron's "Avatar" surpassed Warner Brothers "The Dark Knight" as the number one IMAX flick. "Dark Knight" grabbed $66 million during it's original run. Warner Brother's other film, "The Polar Express," released in 2004, has earned over $71 million due to several holiday re-releases. IMAX will shift gears March 5 replacing "Avatar" with Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" for at least 3 weeks. No word if "Avatar" will return if there is consumer demand.

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WHAT'S NEW ON DVD

PONYO (3/2/2010) Hayao Miyazaki returns for his ninth animated feature with Ponyo, which deals with a friendship between a five-year-old boy and a goldfish princess who yearns to be human. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY

2012 (3/2/2010) Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich crafts this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller following the prophecy stated by the ancient Mayan calendar, which says that the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. When a global cataclysm thrusts the world into chaos, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) joins the race to ensure that humankind is not completely wiped out. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY

CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY (3/9/2010) Michael Moore returns to his roots by pulling back the curtain on capitalism to reveal the insidious role it has played in the destruction of the American dream for many people. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY

PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE (3/9/2010) Clareece "Precious" Jones is only a teenager, yet she's about to give birth to her second child. Unable to read or write, Clareece shows little prospect for the future until discovering that she has been accepted into an alternative school. There, with a little help from a sympathetic teacher (Paula Patton) and a kindly nurse (Lenny Kravitiz), the young girl receives something that most teens never get - a chance to start over. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY

THE STONING OF SORAYA M. (3/9/2010) The story of Soraya whose husband Ali wants to divorce her to marry a 14 year old girl. She refuses and he conspires to have her stoned for adultry. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY

UP IN THE AIR (3/9/2010) A human resource administrator (George Clooney) whose life up in the friendly skies becomes his only world as he works to reach his ten-millionth frequent flyer mile. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY

OLD DOGS (3/9/2010) John Travolta and Robin Williams team up in this a family comedy that pairs the two as close business partners whose lives are thrown into disarray when twin seven-year-olds are put into their care. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY

PLANET 51 (3/9/2010) Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker (voice of Johnson) was on a mission to boldly go where no man had gone before, a remote celestial body dubbed Planet 51. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY

THE BOONDOCKS SAINTS 2 (3/9/2010) Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus reunite as the vigilante MacManus brothers, with Billy Connolly returning as Il Duce. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (3/16/2010) Disney's first African-American heroine in their long heritage of fairy tale animated features. Also in the voice cast is Keith David, lending his baritone chords to the film's villain, Dr. Facilier. ~ Jason Buchanan. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY

DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS? (3/16/2010) A bickering New York couple on the verge of divorce is placed in the Witness Protection Program and relocated to Wyoming after witnessing a murder. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY

THE FOURTH KIND (3/16/2010) Set in the fall of 2000 and purportedly based on actual events, The Fourth Kind stars Milla Jovovich as Dr. Abigail Tyler, a Nome, Alaska-based psychotherapist whose videotaped sessions with her patients offer the most compelling evidence of alien abduction ever documented. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY

ARMORED (3/16/2010) Ty, an armored truck guard who gets wrapped up in a heist scheme hatched by his godfather and mentor on the job, Mike (Matt Dillon). Along with a team that includes Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno, and Skeet Ulrich, the group makes off with a shipment of 40 million dollars [DVD, BLURAY] BUY

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