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The box office is enjoying solid traffic over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, with Universal’s action-thriller “Contraband” easily taking the lead. Starring Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale, “Contraband” is exepcted to gross $28.4 million for the four-day weekend, following a three-day gross of $24.1 million. This is a strong performance for January and, with the previous week’s performance by “The Devil Inside,” gives Hollywood a surprising reprieve from the lackluster December they underwent.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, through January 15, 2012 are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
| 1 | Contraband | Universal | 24,063,515 | 24,063,515 | 2,863 | 8,405 |
| 2 | Beauty And The Beast | Disney | 18,490,000 | 18,490,000 | 2,625 | 7,043 |
| 3 | Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol | Paramount | 11,500,000 | 186,746,789 | 3,346 | 3,436 |
| 4 | Joyful Noise | Warner Bros. | 11,345,000 | 11,345,000 | 2,735 | 4,148 |
| 5 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows | Warner Bros. | 8,410,000 | 170,009,644 | 3,155 | 2,665 |
| 6 | Devil Inside, The | Paramount Insurge | 7,900,000 | 46,246,847 | 2,551 | 3,096 |
| 7 | Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The | Sony | 6,800,000 | 87,980,849 | 2,674 | 2,543 |
| 8 | Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | 20th Century Fox | 5,800,000 | 118,781,288 | 2,849 | 2,035 |
| 9 | War Horse | Disney | 5,607,000 | 65,778,963 | 2,856 | 1,963 |
| 10 | Iron Lady, The | The Weinstein Company | 5,386,000 | 5,973,621 | 802 | 6,715 |
| 11 | We Bought A Zoo | 20th Century Fox | 5,200,000 | 63,688,534 | 2,909 | 1,787 |
| 12 | Adventures Of Tintin, The | Paramount | 4,000,000 | 67,705,206 | 2,073 | 1,929 |
