Last weekend, Tom Cruise rang in 2012 by being the top draw around the world once again as his latest action sequel Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol topped the box office over the long Friday-to-Monday New Year's holiday weekend. The Paramount release saw its four-day gross dip 13% to $38.2M. according to final studio figures, which lifted the cume to a sturdy $141.2M allowing the new chapter to surpass the $134M final domestic take of the previous film in the series, 2006's Mission: Impossible 3, in a mere 18 days of release. Successfully reviving a franchise that was thought to be dead, the $145M-budgeted Ghost Protocol is now on track to reach the $200M mark while the global gross is on a trajectory to smash the $500M barrier.
Overseas, the newest Mission: Impossible ruled for the third consecutive frame with an estimated $37M over the standard Friday-to-Sunday period from 54 markets for a robust international cume to date of $225.3M and global tally of $366.5M. Leading territory totals include $35.7M in Japan, $34.8M in Korea, $14.8M in France, $12.7M in the U.K., $12.2M in Russia, and $10.1M in India. With key markets like China and Italy still to open, the overseas tally will climb well above $300M.
Finishing the long weekend in second place was the season's other star-driven action sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, which experienced an identical 13% slide to $26.9M over the Friday-to-Monday period. The big-budget Warner Bros. film has now grossed $136.9M after 18 days of play and is running 18% behind the $166.4M of its 2009 predecessor with Christmas and New Year's included in both totals. A final of $175-200M seems likely putting it below the $209M of the first Sherlock.
Following Robert Downey Jr. for the third straight weekend, the G-rated kidpic Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked enjoyed a 10% bump to $21.5M boosting the sum to $97.8M. The Fox pic is running 34% behind the pace of the first Alvin from 2007 which also opened in mid-December before the big holiday bump family films receive when schools close for Christmas. Chipwrecked may end up in the $130-140M range.
Holiday holdovers hope to keep the cash rolling in through mid-January since most college students are still out of school. Plus only one new film opens wide next weekend - the horror film The Devil Inside in 2,000+ theaters - so there will be little competition from new players until January 13 which is the start of the lucrative four-day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend which tends to be very busy at multiplexes.
Holding fourth place was 2011's top-grossing R-rated drama, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which took in $19.2M over four days raising the 13-day total to $60M. The Friday-to-Monday take was off a scant 2% giving the Sony title a better hold than the other two major movies playing to mature adults - Mission: Impossible and Sherlock Holmes - which each saw a decline of 13%. The American remake of the popular Swedish crime thriller should easily reach $90M and could possibly even hit the $100M mark in North America.
In its first full weekend of release, Steven Spielberg's War Horse grossed $18.1M over four days from 2,547 locations for a solid $7,091 average. Disney's release of the DreamWorks production has resulted in $44.1M in the nine days since its Christmas Day debut last Sunday. A final take of around $75M may result unless it shows strong legs.
Matt Damon's family dramedy We Bought a Zoo followed with $17M representing a nice 16% jump over its Christmas weekend debut. The Fox title has banked $44.5M in 11 days. Close behind was Spielberg's second offering of the season, The Adventures of Tintin, with $15.4M - up 2% - raising the total to $51.4M in 13 days.
The Warner Bros. dud New Year's Eve profited from its namesake holiday and saw sales soar by 46% to $7.6M. With $47.3M to date, the all-star comedy should see its numbers tumble into the new year now that its story is no longer relevant. Bad word-of-mouth won't help either. The 3D alien attack thriller The Darkest Hour ranked ninth with $5.2M, up 3%, giving Summit a modest $14.2M thus far. Oscar hopeful The Descendants rounded out the top ten surging 31% to $4.3M putting the Fox Searchlight hit at $40.3M with much of awards season still to go. Golden Globe wins and key Oscar nominations could keep the George Clooney film going all through January.
| # | Title | Dec 30 - Jan 2 | Weeks | Cumulative | Distributor | ||||
| 1 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | $ 38,202,439 | 3 | $ 141,186,646 | Paramount | ||||
| 2 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | 26,887,893 | 3 | 136,910,219 | Warner Bros. | ||||
| 3 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | 21,488,779 | 3 | 97,848,114 | Fox | ||||
| 4 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 19,190,649 | 2 | 59,950,953 | Sony | ||||
| 5 | War Horse | 18,060,743 | 2 | 44,089,786 | Disney | ||||
| 6 | We Bought a Zoo | 17,003,682 | 2 | 44,490,999 | Fox | ||||
| 7 | The Adventures of Tintin | 15,361,463 | 2 | 51,400,450 | Paramount | ||||
| 8 | New Year's Eve | 7,592,773 | 4 | 47,257,823 | Warner Bros. | ||||
| 9 | The Darkest Hour | 5,240,912 | 2 | 14,215,634 | Summit | ||||
| 10 | The Descendants | 4,291,019 | 7 | 40,315,665 | Fox Searchlight | ||||
| 11 | The Muppets | 3,693,812 | 6 | 83,561,073 | Disney | ||||
| 12 | Hugo | 3,320,903 | 6 | 50,313,495 | Paramount | ||||
| 13 | Young Adult | 2,700,114 | 4 | 12,669,252 | Paramount | ||||
| 14 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 | 2,655,680 | 7 | 276,125,476 | Summit | ||||
| 15 | The Sitter | 2,172,279 | 4 | 26,816,340 | Fox | ||||
| 16 | The Artist | 1,715,143 | 6 | 5,448,717 | Weinstein Co. | ||||
| 17 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | 1,409,896 | 4 | 4,280,214 | Focus | ||||
| 18 | My Week With Marilyn | 1,196,848 | 6 | 9,207,220 | Weinstein Co. | ||||
| 19 | Puss in Boots | 1,006,899 | 10 | 145,738,327 | Paramount | ||||
| 20 | Arthur Christmas | 936,096 | 6 | 46,073,163 | Sony |
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