Shutter Island remains untouchable

Despite competition from caterwauling loons ( The Crazies ) and Bruce Willis shooting off ( Cop Out , below), Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island held firm at this weekend’s box office.

Snapping up a further $22m, Island outdid both Cop Out ’s $18m and Crazies’ $16m, clinging to first place for its second weekend in a row.

American audiences were still feeling the love weeks after V-Day, as Garry Marshall’s Valentine’s Day took sixth place with $9.5m, and Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum love-in Dear John pitched its tent at seventh with $5m. (The latter has now made $72m domestically – about the same as Percy Jackson . Fox can’t be very pleased.)

The rest of the top ten looked like this: Benicio Del Toro howled at the moon in eighth place with The Wolfman , which pocketed an anaemic $4.1m, Dwayne Johnson’s Tooth Fairy snapped up $3.4m (that’s probably less than Madge leaves under her kids’ pillows when they lose a tooth) and Oscar contender Crazy Heart took tenth with $2.5m.

Next week Alice In Wonderland is rolled out worldwide. Should be interesting to see what it does to the box office...

Will Alice topple Shutter next weekend? Place your bets...

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.