| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | He's Just Not That Into You | $35,468,468 | $27,785,487 | 78.3% | $7,682,981 | 21.7% | 3,175 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Taken | $25,611,154 | $20,547,346 | 80.2% | $5,063,808 | 19.8% | 3,184 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Coraline | $20,235,921 | $16,849,640 | 83.3% | $3,386,281 | 16.7% | 2,299 | 1 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 4 | The Pink Panther 2 | $13,320,994 | $11,588,150 | 87% | $1,732,844 | 13% | 3,243 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 5 | Paul Blart: Mall Cop | $12,812,638 | $10,884,825 | 85% | $1,927,813 | 15% | 3,169 | 4 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 6 | Push | $12,394,428 | $10,079,109 | 81.3% | $2,315,319 | 18.7% | 2,313 | 1 | Summit Entertainment | - | false |
| 7 | Slumdog Millionaire | $9,370,130 | $7,177,270 | 76.6% | $2,192,860 | 23.4% | 1,724 | 14 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Gran Torino | $9,103,514 | $7,155,339 | 78.6% | $1,948,175 | 21.4% | 2,705 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | The Uninvited | $7,386,273 | $6,262,651 | 84.8% | $1,123,622 | 15.2% | 2,344 | 2 | DreamWorks | - | false |
| 10 | Hotel for Dogs | $6,555,128 | $5,711,229 | 87.1% | $843,899 | 12.9% | 2,734 | 4 | DreamWorks | - | false |
| 11 | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans | $5,322,158 | $4,083,369 | 76.7% | $1,238,789 | 23.3% | 2,042 | 3 | Screen Gems | - | false |
| 12 | New in Town | $4,195,012 | $3,228,190 | 77% | $966,822 | 23% | 1,941 | 2 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 13 | The Reader | $3,190,533 | $2,275,489 | 71.3% | $915,044 | 28.7% | 862 | 10 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 14 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | $2,996,676 | $2,302,188 | 76.8% | $694,488 | 23.2% | 1,478 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Wrestler | $2,939,551 | $2,207,555 | 75.1% | $731,996 | 24.9% | 754 | 9 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | My Bloody Valentine | $2,675,207 | $1,856,829 | 69.4% | $818,378 | 30.6% | 671 | 4 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 17 | Revolutionary Road | $2,264,248 | $1,670,594 | 73.8% | $593,654 | 26.2% | 935 | 7 | Paramount Vantage | - | false |
| 18 | Bride Wars | $1,859,145 | $1,500,029 | 80.7% | $359,116 | 19.3% | 1,097 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 19 | Defiance | $1,848,683 | $1,393,322 | 75.4% | $455,361 | 24.6% | 858 | 7 | Paramount Vantage | - | false |
| 20 | Milk | $1,532,309 | $1,125,312 | 73.4% | $406,997 | 26.6% | 601 | 12 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 21 | Inkheart | $1,504,183 | $1,231,458 | 81.9% | $272,725 | 18.1% | 1,175 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 22 | Frost/Nixon | $1,037,120 | $771,985 | 74.4% | $265,135 | 25.6% | 478 | 10 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 23 | Doubt | $1,017,026 | $722,534 | 71% | $294,492 | 29% | 401 | 9 | Miramax | - | false |
| 24 | Last Chance Harvey | $806,020 | $576,363 | 71.5% | $229,657 | 28.5% | 448 | 8 | Overture Films | - | false |
| 25 | Notorious | $804,326 | $628,621 | 78.2% | $175,705 | 21.8% | 440 | 4 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 26 | Twilight | $654,279 | $480,388 | 73.4% | $173,891 | 26.6% | 326 | 12 | Summit Entertainment | - | false |
| 27 | Marley & Me | $574,679 | $455,301 | 79.2% | $119,378 | 20.8% | 450 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 28 | Yes Man | $497,434 | $368,295 | 74% | $129,139 | 26% | 345 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 29 | The Unborn | $480,975 | $393,830 | 81.9% | $87,145 | 18.1% | 388 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 30 | The Dark Knight | $438,399 | $353,826 | 80.7% | $84,573 | 19.3% | 188 | 30 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 31 | Bedtime Stories | $295,970 | $244,664 | 82.7% | $51,306 | 17.3% | 265 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 32 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | $293,513 | $247,079 | 84.2% | $46,434 | 15.8% | 240 | 14 | DreamWorks | - | false |
| 33 | Valkyrie | $290,768 | $206,382 | 71% | $84,386 | 29% | 258 | 8 | United Artists | - | false |
| 34 | The Tale of Despereaux | $277,315 | $223,560 | 80.6% | $53,755 | 19.4% | 276 | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 35 | The Class | $251,170 | $180,590 | 71.9% | $70,580 | 28.1% | 27 | 8 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 36 | Fanboys | $220,427 | $171,533 | 77.8% | $48,894 | 22.2% | 44 | 1 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 37 | The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2009: Live Action | $214,205 | $150,203 | 70.1% | $64,002 | 29.9% | 41 | 1 | Shorts International | - | false |
| 38 | Waltz with Bashir | $213,686 | $137,749 | 64.5% | $75,937 | 35.5% | 46 | 8 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 39 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | $199,668 | $147,608 | 73.9% | $52,060 | 26.1% | 196 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 40 | Rachel Getting Married | $193,350 | $133,042 | 68.8% | $60,308 | 31.2% | 95 | 19 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 41 | Not Easily Broken | $184,751 | $184,751 | 100% | $0 | - | 148 | 5 | Screen Gems | - | false |
| 42 | Australia | $177,021 | $127,375 | 72% | $49,646 | 28% | 178 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 43 | Bolt | $133,549 | $111,175 | 83.2% | $22,374 | 16.8% | 132 | 12 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 44 | Luck by Chance | $90,628 | $79,044 | 87.2% | $11,584 | 12.8% | 49 | 2 | Adlabs Films | - | false |
| 45 | Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon | $74,763 | $27,325 | 36.6% | $47,438 | 63.4% | 7 | 177 | IMAX | - | false |
| 46 | Che: Part One/Che: Part Two | $73,014 | $52,602 | 72% | $20,412 | 28% | 17 | 9 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 47 | Space Station 3D | $71,862 | $26,576 | 37% | $45,286 | 63% | 9 | 356 | IMAX | - | false |
| 48 | I've Loved You So Long | $71,636 | $42,575 | 59.4% | $29,061 | 40.6% | 28 | 16 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 49 | Wendy and Lucy | $63,333 | $44,501 | 70.3% | $18,832 | 29.7% | 20 | 10 | Oscilloscope | - | false |
| 50 | Fly Me to the Moon 3D | $54,921 | $30,460 | 55.5% | $24,461 | 44.5% | 11 | 26 | Summit Entertainment | - | false |
| 51 | Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean | $51,730 | $30,578 | 59.1% | $21,152 | 40.9% | 10 | 52 | 3D Entertainment | - | false |
| 52 | Let the Right One In | $49,988 | $32,333 | 64.7% | $17,655 | 35.3% | 28 | 16 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 53 | Four Christmases | $43,149 | $33,156 | 76.8% | $9,993 | 23.2% | 87 | 12 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 54 | Frozen River | $40,453 | $29,439 | 72.8% | $11,014 | 27.2% | 25 | 28 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 55 | Synecdoche, New York | $40,356 | $26,765 | 66.3% | $13,591 | 33.7% | 25 | 16 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 56 | Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure | $36,273 | $30,747 | 84.8% | $5,526 | 15.2% | 15 | 71 | National Geographic Entertainment | - | false |
| 57 | Roving Mars | $30,989 | $19,798 | 63.9% | $11,191 | 36.1% | 7 | 159 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 58 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | $23,947 | $17,743 | 74.1% | $6,204 | 25.9% | 15 | 26 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 59 | Crips and Bloods: Made in America | $19,651 | $13,978 | 71.1% | $5,673 | 28.9% | 1 | 3 | Argot Pictures | - | false |
| 60 | The Secret Life of Bees | $18,095 | $8,721 | 48.2% | $9,374 | 51.8% | 13 | 17 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 61 | Service | $13,589 | $9,239 | 68% | $4,350 | 32% | 2 | 2 | Regent Releasing | - | false |
| 62 | Deep Sea | $13,230 | $7,595 | 57.4% | $5,635 | 42.6% | 6 | 154 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 63 | Dev.D | $12,614 | $10,950 | 86.8% | $1,664 | 13.2% | 4 | 1 | UTV Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 64 | Chocolate | $11,180 | $11,180 | 100% | $0 | - | 7 | 1 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 65 | Medicine for Melancholy | $10,937 | $6,177 | 56.5% | $4,760 | 43.5% | 1 | 2 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 66 | Blessed Is the Match | $10,692 | $8,049 | 75.3% | $2,643 | 24.7% | 3 | 3 | Balcony Releasing | - | false |
| 67 | The Secret of the Grain | $8,634 | $6,178 | 71.6% | $2,456 | 28.4% | 3 | 8 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 68 | Our City Dreams | $8,523 | $4,056 | 47.6% | $4,467 | 52.4% | 1 | 1 | First Run | - | false |
| 69 | Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 | $8,022 | $6,460 | 80.5% | $1,562 | 19.5% | 5 | 13 | Kino International | - | false |
| 70 | Pray the Devil Back to Hell | $7,490 | $3,903 | 52.1% | $3,587 | 47.9% | 3 | 14 | Balcony Releasing | - | false |
| 71 | Trouble the Water | $6,339 | $3,950 | 62.3% | $2,389 | 37.7% | 4 | 25 | Zeitgeist Films | - | false |
| 72 | Silent Light | $5,979 | $4,669 | 78.1% | $1,310 | 21.9% | 1 | 6 | Palisades Tartan | - | false |
| 73 | Donkey Punch | $5,756 | $3,665 | 63.7% | $2,091 | 36.3% | 4 | 3 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 74 | U2 3D | $5,612 | $3,315 | 59.1% | $2,297 | 40.9% | 3 | 56 | National Geographic Entertainment | - | false |
| 75 | A Secret | $4,686 | $4,195 | 89.5% | $491 | 10.5% | 4 | 23 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 76 | CC2C | $4,325 | $3,403 | 78.7% | $922 | 21.3% | 7 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 77 | Outlander | $4,054 | $2,495 | 61.5% | $1,559 | 38.5% | 15 | 3 | Third Rail Releasing | - | false |
| 78 | The Wild Child | $2,908 | $2,148 | 73.9% | $760 | 26.1% | 1 | 14 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 79 | Just Another Love Story | $2,889 | $2,032 | 70.3% | $857 | 29.7% | 2 | 5 | Koch Lorber Films | - | false |
| 80 | The Secrets | $2,842 | $2,304 | 81.1% | $538 | 18.9% | 2 | 12 | Monterey Media | - | false |
| 81 | Louise Bourgeois | $2,540 | $1,670 | 65.8% | $870 | 34.2% | 1 | 34 | Zeitgeist Films | - | false |
| 82 | Absurdistan | $2,529 | $1,441 | 57% | $1,088 | 43% | 1 | 1 | First Run | - | false |
| 83 | Tell No One | $2,374 | $2,374 | 100% | $0 | - | 3 | 33 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 84 | Owl and the Sparrow | $1,792 | $1,465 | 81.8% | $327 | 18.2% | 1 | 4 | Wave Releasing | - | false |
| 85 | Were the World Mine | $1,711 | $1,222 | 71.4% | $489 | 28.6% | 1 | 15 | SPEAK Productions | - | false |
| 86 | Made in U.S.A | $940 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | Rialto Pictures | - | false |
| 87 | Stranded | $769 | $624 | 81.1% | $145 | 18.9% | 1 | 17 | Zeitgeist Films | - | false |
| 88 | The Village Barbershop | $723 | $458 | 63.4% | $265 | 36.6% | 2 | 4 | Monterey Media | - | false |
| 89 | Momma's Man | $570 | $570 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 25 | Kino International | - | false |
| 90 | Galapagos | $455 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 485 | IMAX | - | false |
| 91 | A Man Named Pearl | $390 | $292 | 74.9% | $98 | 25.1% | 5 | 76 | Tentmakers Entertainment | - | false |
| 92 | Eden | $355 | $355 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 13 | Liberation Entertainment | - | false |
| 93 | The Betrayal | $193 | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| 94 | Monsieur Verdoux | $171 | $171 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 48 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 95 | Breakfast with Scot | $138 | $138 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 18 | Regent Releasing | - | false |
| 96 | The Objective | $95 | $95 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 2 | IFC Films | - | false |
| - | Killshot | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| - | How About You | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| - | I.O.U.S.A. | - | - | - | - | - | - | 25 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| - | Lola Montès | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | Rialto Pictures | - | false |
| - | Cherry Blossoms | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| - | Of Time and the City | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| - | Ciao | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Regent Releasing | - | false |
| - | Gomorrah | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | IFC Films | - | false |
| - | Ballerina | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | First Run | - | false |
