Variety reports the top movies, in terms of box office take, for the week of 26 March-1 April 2010. New 3-D animated release How to Train Your Dragon opened at the top of the charts, swooping up $63.1 million. That finally pushed Alice in Wonderland from #1 to #2 after three weeks at the top; it conjured up $25.7 million, for a four-week total of $301.5 million. Hot Tub Time Machine opened at #3, bubbling up with $19.8 million. Shutter Island slipped from #7 to #9, taking in $4.5 million, for a six-week total of $122.0 million. Repo Men fell from #5 to #10, repossessing $4.3 million, for a two-week total of $12.6 million.
Avatar fell from #8 to #12 (it’s first time outside the top 10), grabbing $3.0 million, for a fifteen-week total of $741.4 million. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief fell from #16 to #20, making $950 thousand, for a seven-week total of $86.4 million.
Falling out of the top 25 this week were:
Sherlock Holmes (last week’s #20) in its fourteenth week in release (total domestic box office: $208.5 million)
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (last week’s #21) in its fourteenth week in release ($219.1 million)
Tooth Fairy (last week’s #24) in its tenth week in release ($58.3 million)
SFScope reviews of movies mentioned in this article:
Forget the Sherlock Holmes you’ve read; this one’s more a Victorian James Bond, but a heck of a lot of fun by Ian Randal Strock