Alice in Wonderland

It's deja vu at the box office this weekend, with Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland dominating a pack of new releases.

Burton's Wonderland, which was last week's big winner, took in $17.5 million this past Friday, putting it on track to easily win the weekend with a likely earnings of $58 million.

Audiences have slipped down the rabbit hole, giving Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland a record-breaking opening weekend.

The film took in $116.3 million, making it the highest-grossing opening weekend ever for a movie that wasn't released in either May, July or November. The number was also big enough to make Alice's opening the sixth highest debut overall.

These are the first glimpses of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which is based on Lewis Carroll’s famous novel.

Johnny Depp will play the Mad Hatter, Burton’s girlfriend, Helena Bonham Carter is the Red Queen and Anne Hathaway will star as the White Queen.

Looks like this has typical creepy Burton all over it. A little Sweeny Todd mixed with Edward Scissorhands – both which starred Depp.

The film opens in March 2010.

Mark this on your calendar; you don’t want to be late for this very important date.

Anne Hathaway (who we saw at the Four Seasons yesterday and is so much tinier, shorter and more frail-looking than we ever would have imagined) is set to join Johnny Depp, and Helena Bonham Carter, in director Tim Burton's adaptation of Alice In Wonderland.

Anne will appear as the White Queen opposite Bonham Carter's Red Queen.

Australian newcomer, Mia Wasikowska, is starring as Alice, while Depp will play the Mad Hatter.

In these troubled financial times, you need all the safe bets you can muster.

Given the success of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Disney chairman Dick Cook held a press conference at Los Angeles' Kodak Theatre on Wednesday to announce the studio’s plans for three upcoming films, all centered around Johnny Depp, the Mouse’s new cash cow.

Thank God they didn’t think those movies succeeded because of Orlando Bloom or Keira Knightley. (Is it just us or is she getting screechier?)

As we trudge through the summer months, desperately awaiting the arrival of 2009 when new episodes of Lost return (we still believe “Australia is the key to the game”), the nice folks at ABC came up with The Lost Book Club, a way for us to pass the time and for them to screw with our minds.

Because you don’t have enough theories yet.