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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. movie business saw ticket sales slide in 2011, despite a strong week to close out the year, Hollywood.com reported.
Attendance at the movies in the United States dropped to a 16-year low, falling to 1.3 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Gross receipts fell by 3.4 percent to $10.2 billion, a decline from $10.6 billion in 2010.
Helping box office sales in the final week of the year, "Mission Impossible," starring Tom Cruise grossed $141.2 million in the United States and Canada, quickly gaining back most of the film's $145 million production cost.
"Mission Impossible" is already in the black. Adding to domestic revenues, the film has grossed $225 million on the international market.
The final week of the year also included Warner Bros. Pictures' "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," which grossed $25.5 million over the four-day holiday, the Journal said.
"Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked," from Twentieth Century Fox, grossed $21 million through the holiday weekend, putting it in third place.
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