Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland has beaten Avatar’s opening sale with eye-popping 210.3 million dollars worldwide.

Tim Burton’s adaptation of the classic tale, starring Johnny Depp generated about 70% of its opening weekend business from theaters with 3-D screens. It easily beat the premiere of Avatar and has now set a record for the biggest winter opening.

The movie “Alice in Wonderland” was shown at aboyt 220 more 3-D theaters than Avatar. As returns came in, it became clear that audiences generally preferred to see Disney’s movie with the advanced technology like 3-D despite the high ticket price.

3-D has accounted for an increasingly large percentage of ticket sales over the last three months for the movie of James Camron, “Avatar” with 2.6 dollars. IN the case of Alice in Wonderland, that would certainly be too difficult to beat because this coming march 26, 3-D screens will switch to DreamWorks Animation’s “How to Train Your Dragon”.

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