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Tim Burton-directed 3D film one of only six films to pass the global benchmark
Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” has joined an exclusive list of only six films that have grossed $1 billion or more at the worldwide box office.
The Tim Burton-directed 3D adaptation, which debuted March 5, is now also the third highest grossing non-sequel of all time, trailing only James Cameron films “Avatar” and “Titanic.”
It’s the second entry into the $1 billion club by a film starring Johnny Depp,” with 2006’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” grossing nearly $1.06 billion worldwide.
“We feel incredibly fortunate to be able to showcase such an amazing 3D film from visionary director Tim Burton and the creative talents of Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway,” said Rich Ross, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, in a statement. “Our marketing teams joined with our exhibition partners to find every opportunity to bring this creative masterpiece to fans around the world.”
“Alice” has surpassed $332 million at the domestic box office, making it Disney’s third highest grossing film ever behind “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” and “Finding Nemo.” Overall, it’s the 19th highest grossing film of all time in the U.S. and Canada.
“Alice” has also tallied more than $667 million overseas.
Of course, adjusting for inflation, the “Alice’s” ranking becomes entirely diffferent. In fact, the film doesn’t even qualify for Box Office Mojo’s list of the all-time top domestic grossers by that metric.
In any event, here’s the full $1 billion club:

“Avatar” $2.72b
“Titanic” $1.84b
“The Lord of the Rings: ROTK” $1.19b
“Pirate of the Caribbean: DMC” $1.06b
“The Dark Knight” $1.00b
“Alice in Wonderland” $TKb

Just as Alice in Wonderland takes its leave of theaters after a hugely successful run and heads to DVD, the 3D film joins other record-breaking films with a grand tally of $1 billion in worldwide earnings before hitting the home video market.
With $332 million from the US and an international take of $667 million, Alice is only the sixth title to attain the exclusive ‘billionaire’ status, following Avatar, Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, and The Dark Knight.
The No. 1 movie for several weeks in many countries – including six weeks at the top in Japan – director Tim Burton’s re-imagining of the classic Lewis Carroll story starred Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Mia Wasikowska, and Anne Hathaway.
On June 1, the film is released on DVD and Blu-ray in North America, China, Mexico, and Italy. It rolls out in Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, and Argentina in June, and other international markets through August.

Fashion design from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland film will be on display in the FIDM Museum & Galleries.
Alice in Wonderland arrives at FIDM’s Museum & Galleries for a one-of-a-kind exhibition featuring Colleen Atwood’s creative costumes as well as sketches, accessories, and Alice-related collaborations from designers such as Sue Wong and Tom Binn.
On view will be a number of Alice looks worn by Mia Wasikowska in Tim Burton’s film, along with Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter “fighter” costume, and the Red Queen’s show-stopping gown, which Helena Bonham Carter wore on the big screen.
The free exhibition is on display at the FIDM Museum & Galleries from May 27, 2010 through September 30, 2010.
Students at the fashion design school were also asked to design Alice-inspired pieces, under the supervision of FIDM fashion mentor and instructor Nick Verreos, and they will also be on display.
With four dynamic California campuses, FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising is the premier west coast fashion design college, educating for careers in fashion, graphic design, interior design, and entertainment. FIDM’s graduates include renowned fashion designers like Monique Lhuillier, Emmy® and Academy Award® award-winning costume designers, top fashion industry executives, and entrepreneurs.

Focus Features has announced the release dates for its 2011 films. The Eagle of the Ninth has been pushed back from September 24th to February 25, 2011. The film is a Roman epic adventure directed by Kevin Macdonald (State of Play) and starring Channing Tatum of Jamie Bell. Jane Eyre, directed by Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre), has landed the date of March 11, 2011. Based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, the film stars Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. Moving on, the action-thriller Hanna is set for April 8, 2011. The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana with Joe Wright (Atonement) directing. Finally, One Day, starring Anne Hathaway, will be released in the third quarter of 2011. The film is directed by Lone Scherfig (An Education).

Earlier this year, Alice in Wonderland, the 3-D adaptation of the classic Lewis Carroll tale, quickly became not only the first blockbuster hit of 2010, but the sixth highest-grossing film of all time. Much of the reason for the movie’s popularity probably stems from the visionary work of director Tim Burton, who successfully brought the movie to life in his signature surreal, wildly original style. Just before the movie’s release on Blu-ray and DVD June 1, Burton talked about why the original tale remains so powerful, and how utilizing 3-D was necessary in telling his version of the story.

MovieMaker (MM): The film almost suggests that you were Lewis Carroll in a former life.

Tim Burton (TB): I’m like a lot of people, I just responded to what he did. There have been so many movie versions and I hope that, somewhere, there is a version that might have pleased him.

MM: It’s filmed as though you put a camera into our dreams and recorded them. Was that dream-like quality what you wanted to create?

TB: Yeah, that’s why we didn’t follow the literal stories. That seemed to be the problem with the other versions. What I liked about this was that it explored the characters and what I feel that Carroll’s work did for me and other people in exploring your dream state, and using fantasy in your dream state to deal with real issues and problems in your life. People like to separate those things but the fact is that they are things that are intertwined. That is what Carroll did so beautifully and he was so cryptic with what he wrote. You can analyze it to death but it still remains a mystical, kind of unidentifiable thing and yet it is so powerful.

Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter.
Director: Tim Burton
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Genre: Kids, Live Action, Adventure, CGI, Studios, Disney, Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Myths
Running Time: 100 min.
Languages: English
Available on: June 1, 2010
Synopsis
Director Tim Burton and screenwriter Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King) team up to deliver this visually dazzling take on the classic Lewis Carroll tale. Nineteen-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is attending party at a lavish country estate when she sees a white rabbit with a pocket watch dart into the bushes. Curious, she follows the rabbit to an enormous tree, and tumbles down a hole that takes her to Underland, a strange world inhabited by anthropomorphic creatures in search of someone to save them from the dreaded Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), who has assumed control of the kingdom by decapitating anyone who dares disagree with her. According to a scroll detailing a historical timeline of Underland — including events that have not yet taken place — it is Alice who will set the kingdom free by defeating the Jabberwocky, a powerful dragon-like creature under the control of the Red Queen. But is this Alice the same Alice who appears in the scroll? While some of the creatures of Underland have their doubts, the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) and his friends are certain she’s the same girl who previously visited them years ago. When the Red Queen kidnaps the Mad Hatter, Alice attempts to free her friend and locate the one weapon with the power to slay the Jabberwocky, thereby restoring the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) to the throne, and bringing peace back to Underland.

Much like her heroine in Tim Burton’s fantastical Alice in Wonderland, Mia Wasikowska knows her own mind.
In the mega-budget adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, which just crushed box-office records with its $116.3 million opening, her now-older Alice refuses to be pushed around. Not by the Victorian upper-class twit who wants to wed her, nor by the oddball inhabitants of Wonderland who insist that she rescue them from the evil Red Queen.
Similarly, this 20-year-old Australian newcomer from Canberra is not about to change her mouthful of a last name — which is pronounced VAH-shee-kov-ska and comes courtesy of her Polish-born photographer mother — for the convenience of others.
“Very character-building,” she says.
Nor will the actress, who has been likened to a young Cate Blanchett, ever flinch from doing a foreign accent. Besides her British-lite intonations for Alice, the natural mimic has done Polish (2008’s Defiance opposite Daniel Craig), Southern (last year’s That Evening Sun with Hal Holbrook, which earned her a supporting Spirit Award nomination), as well as other American varieties for Amelia and the recent Sundance hit The Kids Are All Right.
And Wasikowska happily chopped off her wavy golden locks (“When they cut it, I was jumping out of my skin with excitement!”) to appear in Milk director Gus Van Sant’s upcoming semi-comic romance, formerly titled Restless, about a teenage couple who crash funerals and are obsessed with death.

But her most life-altering decision came at age 14, when she decided to move away from ballet to pursue acting instead. “I started taking dance when I was 8 years old,” she says. “The last four years were very intense. I was training about 35 hours a week.”

Ballet had its benefits. “It did prepare me for a lot of things that happened in film and probably gave me a sense of purpose, something to achieve.” But the downside proved too much. “Sort of suddenly, it was about perfection and your body being perfect. As a small girl, I had low self-esteem and felt very imperfect. It wasn’t something I confronted until I was older and was forced to look at my body.”

She considered acting as an alternative simply by watching movies. “I thought, ‘I can do that.’ And then I thought, ‘I would regret it if I didn’t try it.’ It is funny I’m an actor now since I didn’t like making a spectacle of myself. I wasn’t really a drama kid. I was shy at school.”

After Googling the names of acting agencies, the resourceful teen visited a few. “I hounded them and was sent to auditions.”

A small part on an Aussie soap opera and a couple of features, including a crocodile horror thriller titled Rogue, quickly followed. But it was her impressive turn as a suicidal gymnast on HBO’s In Treatment that caught Hollywood’s attention and led to her casting as Alice. A middle child, she now splits her time between Los Angeles and her Canberra home with her mother, artist dad, brother and sister.

Burton had no doubt that Wasikowska was his Alice. “She had that quality, both young and an old soul,” the director says. “Looking at her, you can tell she has intelligence, creativity and an active internal life. She has Alice’s quiet strength.”

Helena Bonham Carter, whose bellicose Red Queen has it in for Alice, was also impressed with the young actress. “She is one of those people who is very changeable, ethereal but also rooted. A woman and a girl, like a hologram.”

And like a magazine cover model, too. Wasikowska was in this year’s lineup of actresses on the front of Vanity Fair’s Young Hollywood issue. As excited as she was to hang out with An Education’s Carey Mulligan, Up in the Air’s Anna Kendrick and Twilight’s Kristen Stewart, the budding shutterbug was even more thrilled to be photographed by the legendary Annie Leibovitz.

“Working with Annie Leibovitz was amazing,” she says. “It’s interesting because I was reading Susan Sontag’s On Photography at the time” — referring to the late essayist who shared a romantic relationship with Leibovitz.

Wasikowska’s next job starts shooting at the end of March and involves another great British literary heroine, Jane Eyre, directed by super-hot director Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre). But lately she has spent more time on red carpets than on movie sets.

“It’s so out of my world,” she says of such hoopla as the London premiere of Alice, where she met Prince Charles. “I try to make it something normal. It’s not something I am comfortable with, but you have to pretend you are.”

For Mia Wasikowska, taking on the iconic lead in Tim Burton’s adaptation/sequel/reimagining of Alice in Wonderland was like, well, falling down the rabbit hole.“Every day was completely bizarre and weird, and in many ways it emulated what it would actually be like to be in Wonderland, where so much doesn’t make sense,” says the elfin Aussie, sporting a Mia Farrow-circa-Rosemary’s Baby do as she leans forward for emphasis on a couch in a Four Seasons suite.
“One of my strangest days on set was when we were shooting falling down the rabbit hole, and there were a number of different rigs and harnesses that I was in. If it wasn’t enough spinning and spinning and spinning for a long time, it was in this fluorescent green room (the film was largely shot against green screens). It was sickening. So that was odd.”
In Burton’s film, Alice returns to Wonderland (here, Underland), almost thinking she can remember her previous visit as a recurring dream. The colossally craniumed Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) and her knave (Crispin Glover) have pulled off a royal flush, usurping the throne from the White Queen (Anne Hathaway). Forming La Resistance are the Cheshire Cat, Dormouse, White Rabbit and others (voiced by Stephen Fry, Barbara Windsor, Michael Sheen, et al), topped by the Mad Hatter, played by Johnny Depp with mismatched eyes, mercury hair and accents to suit his mood.

Meet Alice in Wonderland.
No matter that filmmaker Tim Burton made changes to Lewis Carroll’s classic tale for his new 3D movie — Mia Wasikowska, 20, looks like everybody’s ideal Alice.
Serene and serious, the young actress has gone from obscurity to lead roles in only a couple of years, stopping along the way long enough to impress viewers of TV’s In Treatment and anyone who saw the movies Defiance or Amelia.
Wasikowska won the lead in Alice in Wonderland against stiff competition, and she co-stars with Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway. The film opens March 5.
Wasikowska, who visited Toronto recently to help promote the movie, is the daughter of two visual artists and an accomplished photographer herself. When she’s not making movies all over the world, the actress still lives at home in Canberra, Australia, with her parents and brother and sister.
Up until age 15, Wasikowska had her heart set on ballet.