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January 14th, 2012

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.

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January 8th, 2012

Low-budget horror flick The Devil Inside debuted on top of the box office heap, and won the weekend with an early January record-breaking $34.5 million.

Fueled by unconventional marketing and word of mouth, the possession thriller beat second place Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol with $20.5 million, and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, which came in third with $14.1 million.