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Mission: Impossible Fails But Still Wins Weekend

Mission: ImpossibleIt’s amazing what a few years can do someone’s memory. Mission: Impossible’s win over the Christmas box office has the movie industry yelling that Tom Cruise is back. However, Mission: Impossible 4’s five day total of $58.9 million doesn’t match Mission: Impossible 3’s open. The third installment made $47.7 million in its opening weekend (compared to MI4’s weekend total of $26.5 million). MI3 was considered a failure, with many blaming the film’s shortfall on backlash to Tom Cruise’s bizarre behavior at the time. Hollywood needs the PR win more than the box office win as December has been incredibly soft for the industry. While the Christmas box office was strong, it was not strong enough to give blockbuster results to any of the films that opened.

The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, December 25, 2011 are as follows:

RankFilm NameDistributor NameWeekend RevenueCume RevenueLocsLoc Avg
1Mission: Impossible Ghost ProtocolParamount26,535,00058,970,3593,4487,695
2Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of ShadowsWarner Bros.17,800,00076,553,6223,7034,806
3Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked20th Century Fox13,325,00050,265,1873,7343,568
4Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, TheSony13,000,00021,376,4732,9144,461
5Adventures Of Tintin, TheParamount9,125,00017,132,0203,0872,955
6We Bought A Zoo20th Century Fox7,800,0007,800,0003,1172,502
7New Year’s EveWarner Bros.3,005,00032,342,1952,5851,162
8Arthur ChristmasSony2,700,00044,168,0021,8041,496
9HugoParamount2,025,00043,652,4131,2361,638
10Muppets, TheDisney2,003,00075,559,5251,7521,143
11Descendants, TheFox Searchlight1,715,00032,006,5528132,109
12Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, TheSummit Entertainment1,450,000270,251,9011,4111,027

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