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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol continued to beat the competition as the film rang in 2012 with $31.3 million for the three-day New Year’s weekend for a domestic total of $134.2 million.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, through January 1, 2012 are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
| 1 | Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol | Paramount | 31,250,000 | 134,139,000 | 3,455 | 9,044 |
| 2 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows | Warner Bros. | 22,095,000 | 132,100,000 | 3,703 | 5,966 |
| 3 | Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | 20th Century Fox | 18,250,000 | 94,609,335 | 3,724 | 4,900 |
| 4 | War Horse | Disney | 16,940,000 | 42,969,000 | 2,547 | 6,650 |
| 5 | Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The | Sony | 16,300,000 | 57,111,473 | 2,914 | 5,593 |
| 6 | We Bought A Zoo | 20th Century Fox | 14,300,000 | 41,787,317 | 3,163 | 4,521 |
| 7 | Adventures Of Tintin, The | Paramount | 12,000,000 | 47,841,000 | 3,087 | 3,887 |
| 8 | New Year’s Eve | Warner Bros. | 6,710,000 | 46,372,000 | 2,225 | 3,015 |
| 9 | Darkest Hour, The | Summit Entertainment | 4,300,000 | 13,278,000 | 2,327 | 1,847 |
| 10 | Descendants, The | Fox Searchlight | 3,650,000 | 39,674,646 | 758 | 4,815 |
| 11 | Muppets, The | Disney | 2,588,000 | 82,456,000 | 1,541 | 1,679 |
| 12 | Hugo | Paramount | 2,525,000 | 49,540,000 | 951 | 2,655 |
