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Paramount’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:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
| 1 | Devil Inside, The | Paramount Insurge | 34,500,000 | 34,500,000 | 2,285 | 15,098 |
| 2 | Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol | Paramount | 20,500,000 | 170,200,912 | 3,555 | 5,766 |
| 3 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows | Warner Bros. | 14,055,000 | 157,415,061 | 3,603 | 3,900 |
| 4 | Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The | Sony | 11,300,000 | 76,835,914 | 2,950 | 3,830 |
| 5 | Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | 20th Century Fox | 9,500,000 | 111,588,454 | 3,425 | 2,773 |
| 6 | War Horse | Disney | 8,603,000 | 56,828,212 | 2,783 | 3,091 |
| 7 | We Bought A Zoo | 20th Century Fox | 8,450,000 | 56,544,109 | 3,170 | 2,665 |
| 8 | Adventures Of Tintin, The | Paramount | 6,600,000 | 61,880,275 | 3,006 | 2,195 |
| 9 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | Focus Features | 5,767,288 | 10,418,437 | 809 | 7,128 |
| 10 | New Year’s Eve | Warner Bros. | 3,265,000 | 52,025,797 | 1,864 | 1,751 |
| 11 | Darkest Hour, The | Summit Entertainment | 3,140,000 | 18,706,289 | 2,163 | 1,451 |
| 12 | Descendants, The | Fox Searchlight | 2,565,000 | 43,941,563 | 737 | 3,480 |
