Corona | Coming Attractions

With an opening weekend gross of $34.5 million dollars, The Devil Inside has catapulted to the top of this weekend's box office results. It's a fantastic opening weekend for a January release, the fourth highest opening ever for this month, but it will likely be a short celebration for the movie's distributor, Paramount Pictures. The reason? Poor critical reviews for the found footage film will likely mean that The Devil Inside will tumble hard in next week's box office standings.

But for the moment, it's number one -- and it's going to give Paramount the opportunity to crow about it being the Hollywood studio that knows how to market and release these low budget found footage kind of films, like Paranormal Activity.

In second place is Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol with $20.5 million, bringing its total up to $170.2 million dollars domestic. With this weekend's ticket sales Ghost Protocol moves past Mission: Impossible III and the first Mission: Impossible to become the second-highest grossing movie in the franchise (it needs about $30 million to surpass Mission: Impossible II.)

Third spot is taken up by Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ($14 million dollars new, $157.4m total.)

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo hangs in there at #4 with $11.3m in new ticket sales (bringing its three week total up to $76.8m.)

Fifth place was secured by Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-wrecked ($9.5m new, $111.5m total.)

War Horse brings in $8.6m this weekend, for a total domestic gross of $56.8m so far.

We Bought a Zoo is in seventh spot with $8.4m (and a total gross of $56.5m.)

In #8 is The Adventures of Tintin with $6.6m new and a total of $61.8m. No one's happy that Steven Spielberg's Tintin flick hasn't managed to break $100 million dollars domestically. Overseas the reception has been far more warmer for the film.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy expanded its number of screens and grew its revenue, adding a new round of $5.7 million to its gross (which is $10.4m to date.)

And bringing up the rear in tenth spot is New Year's Eve with a small but nevertheless significiant $3.2 million dollars. After five weekends out New Year's Eve has made $52 million dollars for Warner Bros.