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After several weeks of below average box office weekend, Disney/Pixar came to the rescue.

‘Toy Story 3′ the much anticipated movie opened this weekend 11 years after ‘Toy Story 2′ opened in 1999 with a record breaking box office gross.

‘Toy Story 3′ has brought in an estimated $109 million dollars, making it the highest opening weekend for an animated movie.  Topping the previous record made by ‘Shrek 2′ of $108.3 million.

This weekends other opener ‘Jonah Hex’, has been well hexed, the comic book western movie came in at 8th place with a blink and you miss it total of $5 million dollars.  This makes it the summers 2nd lowest grossing opening weekend, ‘MacGruber’ grossed the lowest of $4 million when it opened back in May.

Last weeks number one ‘Karate Kid’ fell down to number two with $29 million, bringing its 2 week run to $106 million.  ’The A-Team’  slipped to number 3 with $13.7 million for a grand total of $49.7 million, a far cry from its $110 million budget.

After its 3rd weekend in the release the awesomely funny ‘Get Him to the Greek’ came in at number four with $6.1 million, bringing to a total of $47 million.  Falling to number five is ‘Shrek Forever After’ with $5.5 million.

Weekends Top Ten

Next week’s big opener is the Tom Cruise helmed ‘Knight & Day’, personally I think ‘Toy Story 3′ will be the hold over for next weekend.

For those who have yet to see ‘Alice in Wonderland’ take a look at the ‘Tron Legacy’ trailer that debuted before the film

If you pay really close attention, you will notice Micheal Sheen (Aro from New Moon)!.

‘Tron Legacy’ hits IMAX 3D and theaters nationwide 12/17/2010

Disney and Tim Burton should be very happy right now.  ’Alice in Wonderland’ top Friday’s box office with $40 million, putting it on track to not only take #1, but also smash March opening weekend records with an estimated gross of $110-140 million. ’300′ currently holds the record with $71 million.

This weekends other new release ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’ grossed $4.7 million and ‘Shutter Island’ rounds out Friday’s top 3 with $3.9 million.

We’ll have the final tallies tomorrow evening!!

With only a week left till Tim Burton’s ‘Alice In Wonderland’ opens in theaters on March 5th, Entertainment Weekly is celebrating by having Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter grace the cover for for this weeks issue (available on news stands 3/26).

In the issue both Johnny and director Tim Burton talk about their 20yr movie relationship.

We asked about Alice being in 3-D Johnny had this to say “I’m actually unable to see 3-D,” he says. “I’ve got a weird thing where I don’t see properly out of my left eye, so I truly can’t see 3-D.” Then again, he never likes watching himself onscreen anyway. “So I have an excuse this time.”

Check out everything we have on ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and be sure to check in out in IMAX 3-D on March 5th.

Check out the newly released ‘Alice’ Music Video from Avril Lavigne from the soundtrack to Tim Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’

Kinda tripy but we also get a better look at the film.

Catch ‘Alice in Wonderland’ out nationwide on March 5th!