Holdovers liven New Year's B.O. party

'Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol'Thanks to solid holdover perfs from top gamers like "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol" and "A Virtual Detective: A Game Title of Shadows," domestic B.O. remained despite 2010's three-day New Year's frame -- but there might be a small uptick, according to Sunday estimations. "Ghost Protocol" totalled a forecasted $40 million through Monday, while "Sherlock" made in 72 hours an believed $22.a million. (Some galleries have elected to not estimate grosses for that lengthy weekend, including Monday's holiday.) Paramount's "Mission" four-peat moss, which rose 6% over last weekend's three-day holiday frame, has cumed by Sunday $134.a million locally, pushing it past Warner Bros.' "Sherlock" follow up (at $132.a million) being the greatest-grossing Stateside holiday release. "Mission's" believed cume through Monday stands at $142.9 million. Both "Mission" and "Sherlock" are carrying out well and likely will exceed last year's best-carrying out holiday pair, "Tron: Legacy" and "True Grit," which cumed just north of $170 million each. Though ringing within the year usually is not a large trip to the plexes, Warner's "New Year's Eve" gained $6.7 million, a lot more than two times around it did over last weekend's three-day Christmas frame. (That's also partially because of last weekend's Christmas Eve downturn on Saturday.) In third place a few days ago, Fox's "Alvin and also the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" raked within an believed $18.3 million from Friday to Sunday, repping a weekend-to-weekend rush of 45%. "Alvin" should mix the $100 million domestic mark by Monday. While there have been no new wide releases entering the marketplace a few days ago, several niche game titles bowed limited. The Weinstein Co.'s "The Iron Lady" brought the charge, posting an awesome per-screen average of $55,438 from four U.S. locations. Pic bowed Friday, as did The new sony Pictures Classic's Iranian foreign-lingo Oscar submission, "A Separation," which averaged $22,199 at three playdates in NY and L.A. Meanwhile, Focus Features' "Pariah" first showed mid-week at four locations, but averaged from Friday to Sunday an believed $12,424 per screen. One of the remaining top holdovers, Disney-DreamWorks' "War Equine," with $16.9 million in 72 hours, edged out a narrow victory over Sony's "The Lady Using the Dragon Tattoo," which published through Sunday an believed $16.3 million. The new sony is predicting that "Tattoo" will prove to add another $5.two million on Monday, which may place the pic's Stateside cume at $62.3 million. As a whole, "War Equine" has made nearly $43 million locally. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com