Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland comes off a record debut to face a new challenger this weekend with the entry of Matt Damon action thriller The Green Zone into the market.
Released by Universal and directed by Paul Greengrass, the R-rated Green Zone opens in slightly more than 3,000 cinemas ‘ about 700 fewer than Wonderland was in last weekend. Most prognosticators expect Alice to hold off Green Zone and repeat as the weekend’s top movie.
Other new films coming out this week include the Fox Searchlight comedy Our Family Wedding, in 1,600 theaters; the Robert Pattinson romance Remember Me, in 2,200 theaters; and the Paramount romantic comedy She’s Out of My League, in 2,900 theaters.
The next major animated release is DreamWorks Animation’s 3-D epic, How to Train Your Dragon, set for March 26. That same day will see the release of Waking Sleeping Beauty, Don Hahn’s documentary on the revival of Disney animation in the late 1980s and 1990s.
