9. Alice in Wonderland - $1,024,299,904
The second and last Johnny Depp film to appear on the list. Profiting massively from the post-Avatar craze for 3D (i.e. higher ticket prices) and the popularity of its director and lead actor, this seventh (only?) collaboration between Depp and Tim Burton somehow became the seventh film to gross more than a billion dollars worldwide. It's not a terrible film as such, just an incredibly mediocre and forgettable one in which all the vintage Tim Burton elements are present but do not coalesce well into an ultimately satisfying narrative. Mia Wasikowska acquits herself well enough as Alice and there's a huge talented voice cast to enjoy, but other characters such as Helena Bonham Carter (her sixth collaboration with partner Burton), in a performance mimicking the Queen from Blackadder II but with an inconsistent lisp, and Anne Hathaway who mostly just floats around ethereally, quickly grow tiresome. Depp is an effective Mad Hatter but his performance, like Burton's direction, is all too predictable. The film ends with a generic battle sequence, similar and inferior to many other CGI-heavy films of the previous decade, and an unnecessary epilogue in which Alice sets off to China as a colonialist trader, thus transforming the origin of the exploitation that was to be suffered by British colonies during the Victorian era into a young woman's ultimate freedom of expression.