'Mission: Impossible' wins Christmas frame

With Christmas Day totals in hand, film companies have a better sense of how their domestic horses are running: Paramount's ''Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol'' came in at first place, with a revised $46.2 million Friday-to-Monday gross, followed by Warner Bros.' holdover ''Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,'' collecting $31.8 million in four days.Overall domestically, bizzers project this year's four-day holiday frame to be up approximately 8% over last year.Most are predicting a sizable uptick today vs. Sunday's grosses -- typical of the day after Christmas, when kidpics see the largest bump between 60%-70%, while grosses for all other fare usually have increases that day at around 30%.''Ghost Protocol,'' which launched last weekend exclusively at large-format houses, has cumed domestically $78.6 million; ''Shadows,'' in its second frame, reached as of Monday $90.6 million.Another holdover that made good over the long holiday weekend, Fox's ''Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked'' scored an estimated four-day gross of $20 million, bringing its total Stateside tally to $56.9 million. ''Chipwrecked'' outdid the market's other kidpic, Par's ''The Adventures of Tintin,'' which bowed with a four-day estimate of $16.1 million. In North America, ''Tintin'' has cumed $24.1 million, including Canadian grosses, with $240 million internationally going into the weekend. ''Now you're headed into the best weekend of the year in terms of moviegoing,'' said Par vice chairman Rob Moore.Among the holiday's other wide releases, Fox's family drama ''We Bought a Zoo'' opened Friday with an estimated take of $15.6 million through Monday. Sony's ''The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'' posted an estimated $19.4 million in four days, with a domestic cume of $27.7 million. Sony launched the film latenight Tuesday.''Tattoo'' came in softer than expected, while Disney-DreamWorks' Christmas Day entry, ''War Horse,'' more than doubled industry expectations, having grossed just north $15 million for two days. Disney is predicting the film to stay flat from Sunday to Monday, given that ''War Horse'' isn't strictly a family film (though an uptick is entirely possible). Couples made up two-thirds of the pic's opening-day tally, according to the studio.Also bowing on Christmas Day, Summit's sci-fier ''The Darkest Hour'' posted a more modest -- but still in line with expectations -- $5.5 million in two days.At the specialty B.O., Warner Bros.' ''Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'' scored a solid opening day per-screen average of $11,753 from six locations. Pic launched Christmas day and will also benefit from increased film going this week. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com