Tom Cruise's latest spy adventure Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol has beaten competition from David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to take the number one spot at the box office here in the UK over the New Year's weekend, with the fourth installment of the franchise banking an impressive £8.1m compared to TGWTDT's £4.3m. Mission: Impossible's opening is the biggest since the release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 back in the middle of November, although it's helped considerably by a healthy dose of advance screenings. Elsewhere in the chart and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Puss in Boots and New Year's Eve all drop one place apiece to occupy third through to sixth, while last week's number one, Arthur Christmas, plunges down into seventh in its eighth weekend on screens. Meanwhile Hugo and Happy Feet Two also fall one spot each to eighth and ninth respectively, leaving Bollywood actioner Don 2 to prop up the chart in tenth after a sixth-placed debut last time out.
Number one this time last year: Gulliver's Travels
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | £8,188,209 | 1 |
| 2 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | £4,325,594 | 1 |
| 3 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | £2,546,529 | 3 |
| 4 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | £1,451,331 | 3 |
| 5 | Puss in Boots | £1,366,975 | 4 |
| 6 | New Year's Eve | £736,024 | 4 |
| 7 | Arthur Christmas | £302,006 | 8 |
| 8 | Hugo | £244,283 | 5 |
| 9 | Happy Feet Two | £221,804 | 5 |
| 10 | Don 2 | £189,669 | 2 |
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So we come to the first new releases of 2012, which is led by the biopic The Iron Lady (cert. 12A) starring Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher. If Thatcher's not your thing, then there's always Michel Hazanavicius' acclaimed tribute to the silent era, The Artist (cert. PG) [read our review here], otherwise I'm afraid you're stuck with Sean William Scott in the ice hockey comedy Goon (cert. 15).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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