The mission, should Tom Cruise and company have chosen to accept it, was to come out on top this weekend at the box office, despite the presence of a certain damaged girl with a certain well-known tattoo.
And Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol – one of Cruise’s best-ever reviewed films – accomplished this goal with ease, earning $26.5 million on Friday and Saturday.
The action flick beat out Sherlock Holmes and a disappointing Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which debuted at number four with $13 million. Here is a look at the top 10 box office results:
- Mission: Impossible:Ghost Protocol – $26.5 million
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – $17.8 million
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked – $13.3 million
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – $13 million
- The Adventures of Tintin – $9.1 million
- We Bought a Zoo – $7.8 million
- New Year’s Eve – $3.0 million
- Arthur Christmas – $2.7 million
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 – $2.1 million
- Hugo – $2.0 million