A strong Christmas Day at the U.S. box office didn't give Sherlock Holmes the push it needed to dethrone James Cameron's sci-fi love story Avatar over the weekend.The humans vs. aliens movie, starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, scored a second week at the top of the chart with a stunning $75 million three-day take.
The weekend estimate gives the film a 10-day total of $212.3 million in America alone. The film made a worldwide splash last week when it scored a $232.2 million opening weekend.
After beating Avatar on Christmas Day, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes failed to keep up, but it's $65.4 million opening was still $15 million more than experts predicted.
Family film Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel has come in third after another strong Christmas weekend showing - it raked in $50.2 million over the three days.
Christmas weekend served up the biggest U.S. filmgoing weekend in recent history.
Estimated total theatrical receipts of $278 million from Friday to Sunday in the U.S. and Canada weren't just the largest ever recorded, according to Box Office at http://www.hollywood.com/, but also the highest number of tickets ever sold in a three-day period.
The next four biggest box-office weekends were all dominated by one picture that grossed well over $100 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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