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Following on the last week’s poor box office results, the holiday season appears to be off to a less than stellar start. “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ” missed estimates but topped the soft weekend with $40 million — compared to a $62.3 million opening for the first Sherlock Holmes film, which launched on Christmas Day in 2009. “Avin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked,” which took the number two spot, also disappointed. The family film brought in $23.5 million as yjee overall box office revenues tumbled 14 percent from last year.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, December 18, 2011 is as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
| 1 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows | Warner Bros. | 40,020,000 | 40,020,000 | 3,703 | 10,807 |
| 2 | Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | 20th Century Fox | 23,500,000 | 23,500,000 | 3,723 | 6,312 |
| 3 | Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol | Paramount | 13,000,000 | 13,600,000 | 425 | 30,588 |
| 4 | New Year’s Eve | Warner Bros. | 7,420,000 | 24,825,754 | 3,505 | 2,116 |
| 5 | Sitter, The | 20th Century Fox | 4,400,000 | 17,721,306 | 2,752 | 1,598 |
| 6 | Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, The | Summit Entertainment | 4,300,000 | 266,430,081 | 2,958 | 1,453 |
| 7 | Young Adult | Paramount | 3,650,000 | 4,089,924 | 986 | 3,701 |
| 8 | Hugo | Paramount | 3,625,000 | 39,072,861 | 2,532 | 1,431 |
| 9 | Arthur Christmas | Sony | 3,600,000 | 38,547,345 | 2,929 | 1,229 |
| 10 | Muppets, The | Disney | 3,454,000 | 70,927,645 | 2,808 | 1,230 |
| 11 | Descendants, The | Fox Searchlight | 3,350,000 | 28,727,552 | 878 | 3,815 |
| 12 | Jack And Jill | Sony | 1,225,000 | 70,502,786 | 1,910 | 641 |
