| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | $4,210,276 | -42.8% | 34.5% | 3 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | $3,325,353 | 79% | 2 | 20th Century Fox International | - |
| 2 | 17 | $3,087,393 | +315,261.9% | 25.3% | 1 | Drag Me to Hell | $3,087,393 | 100% | 1 | Lionsgate | - |
| 3 | 2 | $1,949,796 | -50.2% | 16% | 3 | Angels & Demons | $1,696,063 | 87% | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 4 | 3 | $1,455,910 | -48.1% | 11.9% | 2 | Star Trek | $1,401,973 | 96.3% | 4 | Paramount Pictures International | - |
| 5 | 5 | $597,644 | -9.2% | 4.9% | 2 | Hannah Montana: The Movie | $408,199 | 68.3% | 5 | Walt Disney Pictures | - |
| 6 | 4 | $556,028 | -59% | 4.6% | 3 | Coraline | $455,438 | 81.9% | 4 | Universal Pictures International (UPI) | - |
| 7 | 6 | $111,696 | -76.8% | 0.9% | 2 | Tormented | $100,172 | 89.7% | 2 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 8 | 7 | $66,005 | -74.6% | 0.5% | 1 | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | $66,005 | 100% | 5 | Entertainment Film Distributors | - |
| 9 | 9 | $61,706 | -45% | 0.5% | 2 | Synecdoche, New York | $56,914 | 92.2% | 3 | Revolver Entertainment | - |
| 10 | 8 | $38,467 | -69.9% | 0.3% | 3 | In the Loop | $25,078 | 65.2% | 7 | Optimum Releasing | - |
| 13 | 15 | $6,465 | +80.8% | <0.1% | 1 | Slumdog Millionaire | $6,465 | 100% | 21 | Pathé | - |
| 14 | 14 | $5,658 | +53.3% | <0.1% | 1 | The Young Victoria | $5,658 | 100% | 13 | Momentum Pictures | - |
| 16 | 16 | $2,971 | +138.3% | <0.1% | 1 | Sounds Like Teen Spirit | $2,971 | 100% | 4 | Warner Music | - |
| 17 | 10 | $2,042 | -94.7% | <0.1% | 3 | A Summer in Genoa | $984 | 48.2% | 10 | Metrodome Distribution | - |
