10:05 am, January 14th, 2012
BOX OFFICE
(Universal)
Contraband, the new Mark Wahlberg crime movie, is expected to win the box office for the extended Martin Luther King Day Weekend.
With an estimated $30 million haul, Contraband would edge Beauty and the Beast 3D, the Disney re-release, which is tracking toward $26 million for its own opening.
Meanwhile, the Queen Latifah-Dolly Parton release Joyful Noise is battling it out with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol for third place.
Both movies are on pace to hit $14.5 million for the long weekend.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ($10 million) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ($9 million) are both expected to finish ahead of last week’s champ, The Devil Inside, which should slip to about $8.5 million.
The Matt Damon family film We Bought a Zoo is targeting a $7 million weekend, just ahead of War Horse ($6.5 million) and The Iron Lady ($6.5 million).
Gossip Cop will have updates.
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