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China Daily | Updated: 2009-12-28 07:44
Elementary: Holmes wins US box office
British director Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes set a Christmas Day sales record at the box office in North America, taking a narrow lead over last weekend's champ, Avatar, according to early estimates released on Saturday. Sherlock Holmes, in which Robert Downey Jr. reinvents the ascetic Victorian sleuth as a dashing superhero, earned $24.9 million during its first day of release on Friday, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said.
The record for a Christmas Day opening was set last year when Marley and Me launched with $14.4 million.
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