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Sometime around the turn of the century, Hollywood realized that adapting classic books from childhood into films was a license to print money. Next up is "Alice in Wonderland," which our friends at FilmDrunk are reporting will hit screens in March. The movie stars Johnny Depp in the Mad Hatter role he has been auditioning for his entire public life. (What about Tom Petty? He nailed that role in his video for "Don't Come Around Here No More.")

The movie will be directed by Tim Burton, and would probably smell like a worldwide megahit even if it were buried a mile beneath a landfill.

Beyond the actor and director, the movie's virtually assured success has a lot do with the bankability of similar adaptations that came before it. It will also be hyped relentlessly by every hipster with a Twitter account, a quirk obsession and a stifling nostalgia for childhood. (And, yes, that would be all of them.)

But going back to our first point, which of these 21st-century film adaptations, which paved the way for "Alice in Wonderland"'s impending dominance, is your favorite? Let us know the ones we missed, although any comment that dare mentions "Twilight" will be deleted with extreme prejudice.