Paul Greengrass’s Bourne-style action/thriller Green Zone won $14.5 million in its bow. The flick, about a U.S. Army badge (Matt Damon) seeking to uncover dangerous weaponry in central Baghdad, was unable to heighten the director’s filmography any. He and Damon couldn’t top their previous collaboration The Bourne Ultimatum’s opening haul of $69.3 million in 2007. Green Zone failed to perform well with critics either, holding a 48% rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Commentators claimed a lackluster screenplay by Brian Helgeland and unconvincing characters were what brought the movie down. This is Greengrass’s second lowest opening.

Jim Field Smith’s comedy She’s Out of My League, starring Apatow late-bloomer Jay Baruchel, cooped up at #3 with $9.6 million. It may not rank with the debut grosses of some of Baruchel’s previous flicks; however considering what it was up against I wouldn’t say this was a particularly bad start for the nerd-centric laugher. The movie’s poor campaign might be to blame when League surely slips out of the top ten rather quickly, but I do suggest you check it out sometime on DVD. Allen Coulter’s launch from TV to the big screen with Remember Me, starring Robert Pattinson of Twilight fame, came off as self-indulgent to most critics, but the title star helped Coulter’s pre-9/11 romance earned $8.3 million in fourth place at the box office this weekend.

Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island closes the head five with another $8.1 million, noting a 38.5% drop. The thriller’s total is up to $108.8 million in four weeks.

Out of the top five-

• The movie most everyone wasn’t laughing at, Rick Famuyiwa’s Our Family Wedding began its trot with $7.6 million behind Shutter Island. Expect this racial disaster to easily slide off the charts and soon from the face of the Earth.
• Bong Joon-ho’s Mother made $36,000 on six screens showing only in New York and Los Angeles. Not even close to Joon-ho’s successor The Host’s start-up of $314,488, Mother saw a $6,000 per-screen-average, a luxury Host couldn’t obtain.
• Bradley Rust Gray’s The Exploding Girl, about an epileptic woman trying to balance love and friendship, opened with $6,000 on a single screen in its States debut.

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

1. 1. Alice in Wonderland (2010)…$62 million
2. 2. Green Zone…$14.5 million
3. 3. She’s Out of My League…$9.6 million
4. 4. Remember Me…$8.3 million
5. 5. Shutter Island…$8.1 million
6. 6. Out Family Wedding…$7.6 million
7. 7. Avatar…$6.6 million
8. 8. Brooklyn’s Finest…$4.3 million
9. 9. Cop Out…$4.2 million
10. 10. The Crazies (2010)…$3.7 million