Tim Burton’s trippy live-action take on Lewis Carroll’s classic novels, Alice in Wonderland, premiered at #1 with a record-breaking $116.3 million domestic, $210.3 million worldwide gross. In addition to far surpassing director Burton’s previous weekend all-time grosser, 2005’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wonderland became the biggest opening of all time for a non-sequel movie in the States. Converted to 3D after being filmed in 2D, the movie made 70% of its killings from the red-and-blue glasses. Showing on 3,728 screens, Friday’s intake was a whopping $41 million. Nowhere near the $35 million three-day overall I was predicting. Wonderland is over halfway to making back the $200 million budget Disney gave Burton to make it. However this unsettled many critics (including yours truly) as well. The majority claimed the 2010 imagining boosted style over substance.

In a land outside of your local Alice screenings, Antoine Fuqua’s (Training Day) latest Brooklyn’s Finest, first debuting at the Sundance Film Festival over a year ago, opened to mostly dismissal reviews, earning a 36% on Rotten Tomatoes. The gritty cop drama, following the lives of three New York police officers during a week-long drug affair, started off with $13.5 million. The lowest debut for a Fuqua picture, Brooklyn’s Finest may have only been placed in a bad weekend. I mean between a coked-up cop thriller and a coked-up Disney movie, which would you pick to see?

Shutter Island dropped two spots and 41.3% to third place, bringing in another $13.3 million. Martin Scorsese’s mind-bender has a total of $95.8 million in three weeks. Kevin Smith’s Cop Out, a movie no one I know has seen yet has still managed to nab a spot in the top five two weekends in a row, grossed $9.1 million, falling 49.8% from last Sunday’s tally. James Cameron’s Avatar closes us out with $7.7 million at #5, a domestic haul of $720.2 million in 12 weeks.

Out of the top five-

• Oscar-nominated animated feature The Secret of Kells debuted with $40,000 on one screen.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday-

1. 1. Alice in Wonderland (2010)…$116.3 million
2. 2. Brooklyn’s Finest…$13.5 million
3. 3. Shutter Island…$13.3 million
4. 4. Cop Out…$9.1 million
5. 5. Avatar…$7.7 million
6. 6. The Crazies (2010)…$7 million
7. 7. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief…$5.1 million
8. 8. Valentine’s Day…$4.3 million
9. 9. Crazy Heart…$3.4 million
10. 10. Dear John…$2.9 million