This weekend featured the Martin Luther King Day holiday, which meant one additional day for films to nab audiences. Contraband won the weekend handily, beating out competition from one new release (choir comedy drama Joyful Noise) and one returning classic boasting a fresh coat of 3D paint (Disney’s Beauty And The Beast).
The Mark Wahlberg smuggling thriller took in $24.5 million, while Beauty had to make do with $18.75 million. Still, that wasn’t bad for a film that originally arrived back in 1991. The torrent of Disney movies getting the 3D makeover will continue!
In third, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol managed to hang on well (not a Tom Cruise joke), earning $11.7 million for $187 million in the domestic bank after five weeks in the charts. It pipped Joyful Noise, which made $11.2 million for fourth. Another long in the tooth release, Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, rounded out the top five with $8.6 million.
At sixth, we find The Devil Inside, with last week’s surprise box office champ now on a fast tumble down the charts thanks to poor audience word of mouth. Still, it managed to nab $8 million. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo slipped to seventh, making $6.7 million and War Horse was eighth with $5.93 million. **Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked **continued to prove puzzlingly popular, with $5.9 million and $118 in the bank so far in ninth. And finally, at 10th, We Bought A Zoo prepared to leave the top 10, earning $5.5 million this weekend and $64 million in total from the US to date.
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