'MI 4' Tops Holiday Box Office

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'MI 4' Tops Holiday Box Office

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol rang in the New Year with a bang, as it beat out Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows and War Horse for box office supremacy.

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The fourth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise pulled in $40 million over the four-day holiday weekend -- more than double that of Steven Spielberg's War Horse, which made $17.6 million.

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Sherlock Holmes 2 squeezed in between the two with $27 million.

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