| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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|---|
| 1 | 12 | $24,981,027 | +2,834.3% | 23.7% | 4 | Knowing | $24,604,751 | 98.5% | 1 | Summit Entertainment | - |
| 2 | 3 | $19,803,495 | +38.8% | 18.8% | 3 | Duplicity | $13,965,110 | 70.5% | 1 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 3 | 11 | $18,391,780 | +1,877.6% | 17.4% | 3 | I Love You, Man | $17,810,270 | 96.8% | 1 | DreamWorks | - |
| 4 | 1 | $13,907,380 | -49% | 13.2% | 4 | Race to Witch Mountain | $12,786,041 | 91.9% | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 5 | 2 | $9,462,450 | -59.7% | 9% | 8 | Watchmen | $6,801,114 | 71.9% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 6 | 5 | $4,467,054 | -39.3% | 4.2% | 6 | Taken | $4,057,695 | 90.8% | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 7 | 4 | $3,511,663 | -55.4% | 3.3% | 4 | Slumdog Millionaire | $2,676,369 | 76.2% | 19 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - |
| 8 | 6 | $2,637,740 | -50.2% | 2.5% | 2 | Madea Goes to Jail | $2,566,535 | 97.3% | 5 | Lionsgate | - |
| 9 | 8 | $2,291,710 | -22.3% | 2.2% | 3 | Coraline | $2,130,746 | 93% | 7 | Focus Features | - |
| 10 | 7 | $2,223,728 | -49.1% | 2.1% | 3 | Paul Blart: Mall Cop | $1,842,984 | 82.9% | 10 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 11 | 15 | $783,531 | +108% | 0.7% | 2 | Sunshine Cleaning | $671,618 | 85.7% | 2 | Overture Films | - |
| 12 | 9 | $701,639 | -57.4% | 0.7% | 1 | Fired Up! | $701,639 | 100% | 5 | Screen Gems | - |
| 13 | 10 | $581,234 | -59.5% | 0.6% | 3 | The Reader | $535,983 | 92.2% | 15 | The Weinstein Company | - |
| 14 | 14 | $331,805 | -21.6% | 0.3% | 4 | Two Lovers | $206,127 | 62.1% | 6 | Magnolia Pictures | - |
| 15 | 13 | $259,986 | -43.2% | 0.2% | 6 | The Class | $206,232 | 79.3% | 14 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 16 | 18 | $201,228 | -26.8% | 0.2% | 5 | Gomorrah | $102,895 | 51.1% | 14 | IFC Films | - |
| 17 | 16 | $178,686 | -43% | 0.2% | 2 | Revolutionary Road | $111,319 | 62.3% | 13 | Paramount Vantage | - |
| 18 | 17 | $149,360 | -48.4% | 0.1% | 1 | Doubt | $149,360 | 100% | 15 | Miramax | - |
| 19 | 19 | $123,045 | -54.6% | 0.1% | 1 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | $123,045 | 100% | 13 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 20 | 21 | $73,357 | +3.9% | <0.1% | 2 | Space Station 3D | $37,718 | 51.4% | 362 | IMAX | - |
| 21 | 23 | $52,821 | +16.6% | <0.1% | 2 | Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure | $30,520 | 57.8% | 77 | National Geographic Entertainment | - |
| 22 | 22 | $38,425 | -41.5% | <0.1% | 1 | Wendy and Lucy | $38,425 | 100% | 15 | Oscilloscope | - |
| 23 | 29 | $36,247 | +41% | <0.1% | 1 | Tokyo! | $36,247 | 100% | 3 | Liberation Entertainment | - |
| 24 | 25 | $32,533 | -1% | <0.1% | 1 | Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean | $32,533 | 100% | 58 | 3D Entertainment | - |
| 25 | 20 | $25,875 | -65.4% | <0.1% | 1 | Valkyrie | $25,875 | 100% | 13 | United Artists | - |
| 28 | 26 | $17,728 | -44.1% | <0.1% | 3 | Tokyo Sonata | $14,763 | 83.3% | 2 | Regent Releasing | - |
| 29 | 27 | $15,730 | -48.7% | <0.1% | 2 | Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 | $12,153 | 77.3% | 18 | Kino International | - |
| 30 | 38 | $15,207 | +120.6% | <0.1% | 5 | Cherry Blossoms | $8,811 | 57.9% | 10 | Strand Releasing | - |
| 31 | 28 | $14,231 | -52.6% | <0.1% | 1 | Play the Game | $14,231 | 100% | 4 | Slowhand Cinema Releasing | - |
| 32 | 32 | $11,899 | -18.4% | <0.1% | 3 | The New Twenty | $6,272 | 52.7% | 1 | Argot Pictures | - |
| 33 | 24 | $10,419 | -68.6% | <0.1% | 1 | Brothers at War | $10,419 | 100% | 2 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - |
| 34 | 35 | $10,038 | -1% | <0.1% | 2 | Z | $7,802 | 77.7% | 2 | Rialto Pictures | - |
| 35 | 45 | $9,413 | +343.8% | <0.1% | 1 | Skills Like This | $9,413 | 100% | 1 | Shadow Distribution | - |
| 36 | 31 | $8,408 | -46.1% | <0.1% | 2 | Fados | $7,430 | 88.4% | 3 | Zeitgeist Films | - |
| 37 | 41 | $8,282 | +32.4% | <0.1% | 1 | Explicit Ills | $8,282 | 100% | 3 | Peace Arch Entertainment Group | - |
| 38 | 30 | $7,821 | -51.2% | <0.1% | 2 | The Secrets | $7,746 | 99% | 17 | Monterey Media | - |
| 40 | 33 | $7,064 | -44.6% | <0.1% | 4 | Carmen and Geoffrey | $3,180 | 45% | 2 | First Run | - |
| 41 | 36 | $6,502 | -24.9% | <0.1% | 2 | Katyn | $5,426 | 83.5% | 5 | Koch Lorber Films | - |
| 42 | 40 | $6,127 | -2.3% | <0.1% | 1 | 13B: Fear Has a New Address | $6,127 | 100% | 3 | Adlabs Films | - |
| 44 | 46 | $876 | -39% | <0.1% | 1 | An American Affair | $876 | 100% | 4 | Screen Media Films | - |
| 45 | 47 | $777 | -38.9% | <0.1% | 1 | The Betrayal | $777 | 100% | 18 | The Cinema Guild | - |
| 46 | 44 | $490 | -78.1% | <0.1% | 1 | The Wild Child | $490 | 100% | 20 | The Film Desk | - |
