All the holdover titles – Paddington, Penguins of Madagascar, Get Santa and Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! – achieved strong holds, dropping respectively by 24 %, 34, 22% and 16%.
Cinema bookers are now faced with a tough challenge trying to keep all the films on-screen, while making room for fresh arrivals Into the Woods, Foxcatcher and Taken 3. It's only going to get harder as January develops, yielding some tough negotiations in the holdover sessions every Monday morning.
Meanwhile, the Internal Security Act, a repressive colonial holdover, allows the government to detain suspects without trial.
Only three full members have resigned: Robert Gates, his original defence secretary, who was himself a holdover from the administration of George W. Bush, and two successive commerce secretaries, Gary Locke and John Bryson the first to become ambassador to China and the second after causing a string of traffic accidents.
George senior, on the other hand, was regarded as an awkward holdover from the previous regime.
The school system is a holdover from an era that deemed motherhood a full-time job, an attitude that France, for example, shed long ago.
I'm stuck with a conclusion of bureaucratic inertia: that this is a holdover from the days when most arrivals came from pre-EU continental Europe with a steamer-trunk covered in stickers.
But the union remains a powerful holdover from the old, corporatist Mexico.It does have a dissident faction, notably in the southern states of Oaxaca, Guerrero and Chiapas.
Perhaps that is no surprise, considering that the head of the minimum-wage commission is a holdover from a bygone era.
And crucial to LLX's plans is the expectation that global suppliers, forced to set up in Brazil if they want a piece of the oil bonanza, will choose Açu where, as a bonus, they will face state sales taxes of 2% instead of 18%, a holdover from the area's impoverished history.Mr Batista credits part of his success to his father, who pushed him out of the nest.
In Tunisia a sit-in by tens of thousands of protesters led to the resignation of the prime minister, Mohamed Ghannouchi, a holdover from the fallen government of the ousted president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, on February 27th.
