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‘The Devil Inside’ Tops The Box Office

The Devil InsideParamount’s horror film “The Devil Inside” opened to a record-breaking $34.5 million. The R-rated movie–acquired by Paramount for only $1 million–scored the best opening ever for early January, and the third biggest for the month after fellow Paramount title Cloverfield($40.1 million) and George Lucas‘ 1997 reissue of Star Wars($35.9 million). Those two films were released in late January.

The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, through January 8, 2012 are as follows:

RankFilm NameDistributor NameWeekend RevenueCume RevenueLocsLoc Avg
1Devil Inside, TheParamount Insurge34,500,00034,500,0002,28515,098
2Mission: Impossible Ghost ProtocolParamount20,500,000170,200,9123,5555,766
3Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of ShadowsWarner Bros.14,055,000157,415,0613,6033,900
4Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, TheSony11,300,00076,835,9142,9503,830
5Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked20th Century Fox9,500,000111,588,4543,4252,773
6War HorseDisney8,603,00056,828,2122,7833,091
7We Bought A Zoo20th Century Fox8,450,00056,544,1093,1702,665
8Adventures Of Tintin, TheParamount6,600,00061,880,2753,0062,195
9Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyFocus Features5,767,28810,418,4378097,128
10New Year’s EveWarner Bros.3,265,00052,025,7971,8641,751
11Darkest Hour, TheSummit Entertainment3,140,00018,706,2892,1631,451
12Descendants, TheFox Searchlight2,565,00043,941,5637373,480

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