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• Mission: Impossible 4 tops New Year's box office

  The fourth instalment of the Tom Cruise starrer Mission: Impossible, Ghost Protocol, has topped the three-day New Year's weekend box office.

• Tom Cruise takes quiet Christmas with $26.5 mn 'Mission'

  Tom Cruise's latest mission has won a holiday weekend that's shaping up with silent nights at movie theaters

• Downey dips, 'Sherlock' slips with $40 mn debut

  Sherlock Holmes faces declining crowds at theaters as US domestic movie attendance dips to the lowest in 16 years.