The first box office results are in for “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” which hit theaters this weekend and it topped the box office with an estimated $40.02 million, “Alvin and the Chipmunks 3” ($23,5 million) came in second and Mission: Impossible 4 third ($13 million).
Warner Bros. Pictures’ Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows easily topped the domestic box office its first weekend, earning an estimated $40 million from 3,703 theaters, an average of $10,807 per theater. The opening was quite a bit down from Sherlock Homes, which debuted to $62.3 million over Christmas weekend in 2009. The sequel, which cost about $125 million to make, was directed by Guy Ritchie and stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Fry and Rachel McAdams.
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Did you see “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” this weekend?