Running Tom Cruise Is Your Christmas Weekend Box Office Champ
Your weekend box office:
1. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - $29.5 million. Tom Cruise is still a star! Said Tom Cruise, masturbating to a himself climbing a Dubai tower.
2. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - $20.3 million, dropping a spot thanks to the will of Xenu.
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - $12.8 million. Christmas 2011 just wasn't ready to be a Very Merkin Christmas.
4. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - $12.7 million, holding out over two Spielberg debuts and Matt Damon's purchase of a menagerie. Singing chipmunks are that fucking entertaining.
5. The Adventures of Tintin - $9.7 million. The all-American sentiment of "what the eff is a Tintin?" remains.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Your weekend box office:
1. Iron Man 3 - $72.5 million, holding off Baz Luhrmann's new release to remain America's most important literary adaptation.
2. The Great Gatsby - $51 million, a strong debut despite its failing to take out last week's leader. It should hold up reaso... / Continue →
Your weekend box office:
1. Iron Man 3 - $175.3 million, making for the second-biggest opening ever behind The Avengers. People love Gwyneth Paltrow movies!
2. Pain and Gain - $7.6 million, once again proving The Rock to be our closest equivalent to a guy in an inhumanly-powe... / Continue →
While Iron Man 3 was out making $195 million overseas this weekend, here's what happened in the domestic box office:
1. Pain and Gain - $20 million. It's a weak opening by Michael Bay standards, but lucky for Michael Bay, he doesn't really worry all that much about standards.
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