1. Alice In Wonderland (Disney) New (3,728 Theaters) $115+ Million
2. Brooklyn’s Finest (Overture) New (1,936 Theaters) $13.5 Million
3. Shutter Island (Paramount) Week 3 (3,178 Theaters) Weekend $13.5 Million, Total $96.0 Million
4. Cop Out (Warner Bros) Week 2 (3,150 Theaters) Weekend $9.2 Million, Total $32.4 Million
5. The Crazies (Overture) Week 2 (2,479 Theaters) Weekend $6.9 Million, Total $27.3 Million
6. Avatar (Fox) (2,163 Theaters) Week 12) Weekend $7.6 Million, Total $720.0 Million
7. Valentine’s Day (Warner Bros) Week 4 (3,040 Theaters) Weekend $4.5 Million, Total $106.4 Million
8. Percy Jackson (Fox) Week 4 (2,994 Theaters) Weekend $5.2 Million, Total $78.0 Million
9. Dear John (Sony) Week 5 (2,496 Theaters) Weekend $3.0 Million, Total $76.8 Million
10. Crazy Heart (Fox Searchlight) Week 12 (1,274 Theaters) Weekend $3.5 Million, Total $29.6M

While all of Hollywood is in a tizzy over the upcoming Oscar weekend, most moviegoers are far more interested in following Alice–and Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter–down the rabbit hole. Tim Burton’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland is the first movie to bow in 3-D since Avatar changed the rules of the game. And while Burton’s film has already been criticized for its 2-D to 3-D conversion compared to Avatar’s advanced technological efforts, it’s still set to dominate the weekend in a big way. Almost every other studio has left Burton and Depp alone this frame for what is sure to be the duo’s most successful opening weekend ever. The only other new wide release this weekend is Overture’s 2009 Sundance film Brooklyn’s Finest, which is bowing in more than 1900 theaters. Here’s how we predict these films will fare:

1. Alice in Wonderland: $71 million

Disney pulled out all the stops with its beautiful, eye-catching campaign for Burton’s interpretation of Carroll’s world. Too bad the reviews of the film haven’t been as pleasant. It’s unlikely those reviews will hurt the film’s opening weekend, but if audiences agree, it could lead to a severe drop off for the film’s second week. Also working in the movie’s b.o. favor is its 3-D release. Burton and Depp’s last pairing was 2005’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. That movie bowed to $56.2 million in the middle of summer, and this film is likely to outgross it. More expensive 3-D tickets, plus the absence of other kid-friendly films in market could put the PG-rated release into record-breaking territory. Look for it to beat Warner Bros.’s March record-holder, the 2007 $70 million debut of 300.

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Tim Burton and Johnny Depp’s newest collaboration, Alice in Wonderland, hits theaters today. Tim usually scores big when he remakes anything, and it is rumored that he is working on revamping the Disney fairy tale Sleeping Beauty as a live-action picture, focusing on the film’s villain, Maleficent.

Best known as the director of Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Sweeney Todd, Tim usually creates dark and quirky-themed movies and loves using Johnny Depp in his films. We picked a few more fairy tales we’d like to see remade by Tim Burton:

The Little Mermaid – The Little Mermaid is a classic Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale about a young mermaid who falls in love with a human and makes a deal with an evil witch to give up her life in the sea and become a human herself. We’d like to see Tim transform Johnny Depp as Sebastian the crab (one of the main characters in the Disney version) and cast Meryl Streep as the sea witch.

Beauty and the Beast – Beauty and the Beast was first published by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot but was famously recreated by Disney in 1991. The fairy tale is about a beautiful girl who falls in love with a beast only to find out he’s really a prince under a spell.

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(CNN) — “Alice in Wonderland” — with its hat-wearing madmen, anxious rabbits and disturbing, smiling cats — would seem to have filmmaker Tim Burton’s name written all over it.

After all, since he started producing and directing films more than 20 years ago, Burton’s name has become synonymous with everything wondrously strange.

Take the delightfully weird world of Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” that Burton brought to the screen in 2005 (with, it must be noted, very mixed reviews). Or the extreme spirits of “Beetlejuice.” Or the gleeful aliens of “Mars Attacks!”

While the reviews of “Alice” haven’t been overwhelmingly positive, the expectations have been high.

“He’s one of the few filmmakers left where his movie release is an event,” said Kristian Fraga, filmmaker and author of “Tim Burton: Interviews.”

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Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” is the first 3-D release since James Cameron’s “Avatar” opened to box-office numbers that made had every studio exec in Hollywood crying, “We need our own 3-D mega-blockbuster!” Luckily, Disney had long planned “Alice” as a 3-D release, and Burton didn’t have to submit his film to the last-minute addition of a third dimension, as “Clash of the Titans” filmmakers had to earlier this year.

So with 3-D effects, and the higher ticket prices that come as a result, in place — plus Johnny Depp in a starring role as the Mad Hatter — “Alice” is well positioned for a huge opening weekend. But how will it compare to past collaborations from Burton and Depp? Will “Alice,” the duo’s seventh big-screen outing, become their most profitable ever?

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