A slightly above-average weekend at the box office abated further talks of a moviegoing slump (for now), with a proven star and a buffed-out Disney classic teaming up in the top two. Mission: Impossible continued its formidable hold, meanwhile, barely suppressing a certain Joyful Noise . Your Weekend Receipts are here. 1. Contraband Gross: $24,100,000 (new) Screens: 2,863 (PSA $8,418) Weeks: 1 This week’s Mark Wahlberg action-thriller — based on the 2008 international hit Reykjavik-Rotterdam — fared better than expected, potentially opening up a lucrative trend in Icelandic remakes. I nominate Dagur Kári’s Nói albinói , the white-knuckle tale of a sensitive young man’s coming of age in a remote fishing village (pop. 957). Could be huge . 2. Beauty and the Beast 3D Gross: $18,490,000 (new) Screens: 2,625 (PSA $7,044) Weeks: 1 People will fucking watch anything, I swear. 3. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Gross: $11,500,000 ($186,747,000) Screens: 3,346 (PSA $3,437) Weeks: 5 (Change: -42.1%) Hell, yes, Paula Patton was drunk at last night’s Golden Globe Awards — drunk on being the female lead in the biggest hit of the 2011-12 holiday session . Like any of us would have managed any better. 4. Joyful Noise Gross: $11,345,000 (new) Screens: 2,735 (PSA: $4,148) Weeks: 1 The Queen Latifah/Dolly Parton church-choir escapade narrowly missed a third-place finish. One look at Parton, and the film’s competitive shortcoming is clear: Needed more IMAX . 5. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Gross: $8,410,000 ($170,010,000) Screens: 3,155 (PSA $2,666) Weeks: 5 (Change: -38.6%) 6. The Devil Inside Gross: $7,900,000 ($46,247,000) Screens: 2,551 (PSA $3,097) Weeks: 2 (Change: -76.6%) Sherlock Holmes ‘s continued, steady representation in the top five should not be overlooked, but the real congratulations are in order to the abysmally reviewed , popularly loathed found-footage pustule on the heel of contemporary Hollywood for making it into the top 20 biggest week-two drops ever . We all knew you could do it. [Figures via Box Office Mojo ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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Weekend Receipts: Mark Wahlberg, Contraband Smuggle Away to No. 1
