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Jan 7th 2013, 15:00

FROM MTV NEWS

The first weekend January, a notoriously slow month at the box office, found a surprise hit in Leatherface and his trusty piece of hardware.

The latest entry in the horror series, "Texas Chainsaw 3D," earned $23 million in its first weekend at US theaters. The sequel, which takes place immediately after Tobe Hooper's 1974 cult classic, won the weekend from December holdovers "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" and Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," which continued to perform surprisingly well adding $20 million to its total.

"Django Unchained"'s second-place weekend was actually enough to push it past the $100 million mark, so congrats to Tarantino and good movies performing well.

Head over to MTV News for your full box office report.

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