'Alice Through the Looking Glass' News and Updates: A Good Start In Theatres On Friday, 27 May

After the super hit of 'Jungle Book' and 'Captain America: Civil War,' Disney's 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' hit the theatres on Friday, 27 May 2016.

The movie got off to a relatively indifferent start on Thursday, earning $1.5 million via preview shows. A similar performance would give it a $36m Fri-Sun weekend and around $46m over the Fri-Sun frame.

'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was first created in 1865 and its sequel, 'Through the Looking-Glass,' and 'What Alice Found There' in 1871. Later, in 2010 it was recreated by Tim Burton.

When 'Alice' was released in March 2010, it quickly racked up an impressive million in the United States and Canada - along with a truly remarkable $116 million opening weekend.

Overseas it pulled in $691 million with global total of $1.025 billion.

Alice Through the Looking Glass is directed by James Bobin but still produced by Burton and scripted by Woolverton - confirms that some rabbit holes shouldn't be ventured down twice.

Movies hit the box office to earn billion-dollars. Twenty-five total titles have earned over $1 billion worldwide, with the still-in-release.

Regarding Alice's success friendliness of Depp's turn as the Mad Hatter, find Alice (or is that Elizabeth Swann?) sailing the seas of Time in order to right the wrongs done to the Hatter's family long ago by the Red Queen.

Here, Woolverton has taken Carroll's playful personification of "Time" from the chapter "A Mad Tea-Party" (just as she ran with a couple lines from the poem "Jabberwocky" in the previous film) and crafted Alice Back to the Future with an icy-eyed Time (Sacha Baron Cohen), who unforgivably smacks of Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze, hunting down our heroine.

At one point, a dumbfounded woman sitting near me in the theatre simply shrugged and said, "Sure, why not?" It's to these ridiculous lengths that Burton, Bobin, and Woolverton go in order to try and make Alice a fantasy thrill ride rather than a competent story that bears some resemblance to its beloved source material.

As the movie hit the theatres on Friday, 27 May 2016