December 27, 2011 by Vinnie Leduc
After a record-setting limited release in IMAX only last week, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol climbed to the top of the Christmas weekend domestic box office, bumping defending champ Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows to second place.
The bronze spot went to David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo remake if you don’t count yesterday as part of a four-day extended weekend; if you do, then that extra Monday the day after Christmas allowed holdover Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked to squeak by into third place.
In either case, Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin rounded out the top 5, while his other film, War Horse, opened late during the weekend on Christmas Sunday at No. 7. Another new film that opened on Christmas, We Bought A Zoo, fell just out of the top 5 at No. 6, while The Darkest Hour, which also opened on Christmas, barely cracked the top 10 at No. 9.
Here were the top 5 in the domestic box office last weekend via BOM:
- Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol — Weekend Gross: $29.5 million — Total Gross: $78.6 million (#3 last week)
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows — Weekend Gross: $20.3 million — Total Gross: $89.8 million (#1 last week)
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — Weekend Gross: $12.8 million — Total Gross: $27.8 million (new)
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked — Weekend Gross: $12.6 million — Total Gross: $56.5 million (#2 last week)
- The Adventures of Tintin — Weekend Gross: $9.7 million — Total Gross: $24.1 million (new)
