Weekend Box Office Preview: Mar. 5 and Mar. 12
The Weekend Box Office Preview features movies with teen and tween appeal opening in the next two weeks. For the most part I won’t feature R-rated films, but occasionally there will be R-rated movies on teens’ radar and the rating will be noted. Limited release movies will be featured the week they get a wide release.
March 5
Tim Burton’s hotly anticipated interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland finally opens this weekend. Teaming up with long-time collaboraters Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, along with relative newcomer Mia Wasikowska as Alice, Burton brings his trademark bizarre whimsy to the story for what looks like a visual treat of a movie.
March 12
Remember Me, a romantic drama starring Robert Pattinson as a suicidal youngster who finds love in the face of tragedy, is sure to be a hit with teen girls and other members of Team Edward.
In the broad comedy Our Family Wedding, Forest Whitaker and Carlos Mencia star as two fathers who butt heads as their respective children, played by America Ferrera and Lance Gross, plan their wedding.
Loosely based on the non-fiction book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, this weekend’s Green Zone (Rated R) reunites Matt Damon and Bourne Supremacy director Paul Greengrass war thriller about WMDs in Iraq.
Raunchy comedy She’s Out of My League (Rated R) stars Jay Baruchel as an average guy who keeps second guessing himself after snagging a way more attractive girlfriend.
Best bets: Alice in Wonderland for pure visual pleasure
Coming up: The Bounty Hunter, starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, based on the books by Jeff Kinney, How To Train Your Dragon, based on the book by Cressida Cowell, and Hot Tub Time Machine, which is just what it sounds like.
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