Box Office: ‘Contraband’ takes weekend with $28.8M
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Mark Wahlberg smuggling drama “Contraband” stole the top spot at box office away from the 3-D rerelease of “Beauty and the Beast” and the musical comedy “Joyful Noise” with a $28.8 million debut haul, while “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” earned $14.2 million in its fifth weekend to take third place.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:
1: “Contraband” – $28,816,095
2: “Beauty and the Beast” – $23,507,000
3: “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” – $14,200,000
4: “Joyful Noise” – $13,785,000
5: “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” – $10,505,000
6: “The Devil Inside” – $9,175,000
7: “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” – $8,100,000
8: “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked” – $7,825,000
9: “War Horse” – $7,166,000
10: “We Bought a Zoo” – $6,800,000
