Question: When Isn't Johnny Depp a Leading Man?

When star's new movie, The Rum Diary, is no match for Puss in Boots, In Time and Anton Yelchin at the weekend box office, that's when

Answer: This weekend.

Johnny Depp took backseat at the box office to a kid, a cat and Justin Timberlake.

At least he fared better than his old Sleepy Hollow costar.

Depp's The Rum Diary bowed in fifth place in the weekend standings, and averaged just $2,205 at each of its theaters, Sunday estimates showed.

While the boozy R-rated travelogue predictably was outdone by the other two new wide releases,  Puss in Boots and Timberlake's In Time, the Hunter S. Thompson tale surprisingly earned few fans from the art-house crowd, whose members overwhelmingly voted Anton Yelchin their leading man.

The 22-year-young Yelchin's visa love story Like Crazy grossed $30,000 at each of its four theaters, by far the weekend's most impressive per-screen average.

For Depp, The Rum Diary is his weakest-debuting film since 2005's The Libertine, and was less potent than his last Thompson-spawned film, 1998's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

The Shrek spinoff Puss in Boots, meanwhile, was no Shrek. While the CGI comedy opened No. 1, it performed more like Gnomeo & Juliet than the ogre's franchise-launching blockbuster. 

In Time's debut was so-so, and definitely weaker than Timberlake's ultimately money-making summer comedy, Friends With Benefits. 

Elsewhere, Depp's former cohort Christina Ricci could use some extra viewers for her struggling Pan-Am tonight, seeing as how her big-screen Renaissance festival comedy, All's Faire in Love, won't be paying the bills anytime soon. The romantic comedy grossed just $237 at each of its 75 theaters.

Roland Emmerich's heavily promoted Anonymous ($1 million at 265 theaters) was, theater for theater, bigger than most of the films in the Top 10, but didn't pack the punch of Shakespeare in Love, which unlike Anonymous, showed William Shakespeare, like, writing and stuff. 

Here's a complete look at the weekend's top movies, as compiled from the studios' domestic estimates and Exhibitor Relations stats:

1. Puss in Boots, $34 million
2. Paranormal Activity 3, $18.5 million
3. In Time, $12 million
4. Footloose, $5.4 million
5. The Rum Diary, $5 million
6. Real Steel, $4.7 million
7. The Three Musketeers, $3.5 million
8. The Ides of March, $2.7 million
9. Moneyball, $2.4 million
10. Courageous, $1.8 million