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Citing strong ticket sales, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which is now running the Lincoln Theatre on U Street NW, announced it is adding another week to the run of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo currently playing at the historic venue. The film, which was originally slated to close Wednesday, will run through January 26.

The extension was announced last night by DCCAH director Lionell Thomas at a special screening of the film cosponsored by the Embassy of Sweden. Though DCCAH staffers were not able to say exactly how much the David Fincher-directed adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s blockbuster novel has hauled in at the 90-year-old theater, it has been a profitable venture for the commission, which seized control of the Lincoln after its previous operators ran out of money.

“We’re still figuring it out because we’ve never been in the movie business before,” Marquis Perkins, a spokesman for DCCAH, said.

After Dragon Tattoo, next up for the Lincoln is a pair of concerts by Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum. (Sold out for weeks, good luck with tickets.) But more important on the horizon is a $1 million facelift to the 1,200-seat theater, which is in desperate need of new heating and air-conditioning systems, among other upgrades. (It’s also, in its current state, not the greatest place to see a movie.)