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'Django' sets holiday box-office record

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Jamie Foxx attends the 2012 GQ "Men of the Year" party at the Chateau Marmont in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on November 13, 2012. UPI/Phil McCarten
Jamie Foxx attends the 2012 GQ "Men of the Year" party at the Chateau Marmont in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on November 13, 2012. UPI/Phil McCarten 
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Published: Dec. 28, 2012 at 6:20 PM

NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" has set a record for highest-grossing R-rated Christmas release in the United States, its producers said.

The The Weinstein Co. release grossed $15 million when it opened on 3,010 screens in North America Tuesday. It has earned $34 million in its first three days in theaters.

Starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Christoph Waltz and Samuel L. Jackson, the film is set in the 19th-century American South.

It is about a German bounty hunter, who frees a slave in exchange for his help in tracking and killing his enemies. He then works to reunite the man with his wife, who was bought by a wealthy plantation owner.

Topics: Quentin Tarantino, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Foxx
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