'Sherlock' tops Friday B.O.

'Sherlock Holmes: A Game Title Title of Shadows'Warner Bros. is searching at its second consecutive weekend on top as "An Online Detective: A Game Title Title of Shadows" trounced your competitors yesterday with $14.7 million.WB won last frame, through the least expensive overall domestic B.O. weekend in three years, with "New Year's Eve." Pic dropped 50% to fourth place yesterday with $2.5 million.Pre-weekend estimations had "An Online DetectiveInch coming north of $50 million through Sunday (its predecessor made $62 million Christmas weekend 2009), but B.O. experts have since scaly back their predictions for the low- or mid-$40 million range, that's ample to win the weekend.In second, Fox's "Alvin as well as the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" acquired $6.8 million in your area Friday. Studio is wanting for just about any three-day take of $25 million, but yesterday's gross signifies the threequel will land just shy of the target.Vital bowed "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol" an unequalled week early only for 425 large-format screens like Imax Stateside close to $4.millions of yesterday. Of the, $1.millions of came from from Thursday evening time tests, an identical sum to 2006's "Mission: Impossible III" evening time haul, but on 21% as much screens, although aided slightly by large screen taxes.Lastly, in fifth Fox's "The Sitter" made another $1.4 million for just about any domestic cume of $14.8 million. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com