Despite the major competition over the holiday weekend, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol took number 1 at the box office for the second week in a row with $29.6 million.

Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows kept its number 2 spot with $21 million, while the family film Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked moved up one spot to number 3 with $16.4 million. The highly-anticipated David Fincher film The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was bumped down to number 4 with $14.8 million, and Steven Spielberg's War Horse rounded out the Top 5 at $14.4 million.

1. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Paramount, $29,580,000 (avg. $8,562)
2. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Warner Brothers, $21,010,000 (avg. $5,674)
3. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Fox, $16,350,000 (avg. $4,390)
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Sony $14,800,000 (avg. $5,079)
5. War Horse, Buena Vista, $14,395,000 (avg. $5,652)
6. We Bought a Zoo, Fox, $13,200,000 (avg. $4,173)
7. The Adventures of Tintin, Paramount, $11,415,000 (avg. $3,698)
8. New Year's Eve, Warner Brothers, $6,385,000 (avg. $2,870)
9. The Darkest Hour, Summit, $4,300,000 (avg. $1,848)
10. The Descendants, Fox Searchlight, $3,400,000 (avg. $4,485)