| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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| 1 | 12 | $32,028,637 | +2,449.8% | 23% | 4 | Knowing | $31,515,012 | 98.4% | 1 | Summit Entertainment | - |
| 2 | 3 | $25,895,255 | +41.3% | 18.6% | 3 | Duplicity | $18,082,380 | 69.8% | 1 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 3 | 11 | $25,183,149 | +1,559.9% | 18.1% | 3 | I Love You, Man | $24,406,773 | 96.9% | 1 | DreamWorks | - |
| 4 | 1 | $17,487,361 | -51.3% | 12.6% | 4 | Race to Witch Mountain | $15,947,425 | 91.2% | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 5 | 2 | $12,977,918 | -58.8% | 9.3% | 8 | Watchmen | $9,201,251 | 70.9% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 6 | 5 | $5,909,685 | -40.7% | 4.2% | 6 | Taken | $5,334,836 | 90.3% | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 7 | 4 | $4,893,317 | -55.5% | 3.5% | 4 | Slumdog Millionaire | $3,674,773 | 75.1% | 20 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - |
| 8 | 6 | $3,342,471 | -51.4% | 2.4% | 2 | Madea Goes to Jail | $3,236,667 | 96.8% | 5 | Lionsgate | - |
| 9 | 8 | $3,147,153 | -30.2% | 2.3% | 3 | Coraline | $2,914,395 | 92.6% | 7 | Focus Features | - |
| 10 | 7 | $2,834,768 | -55.6% | 2% | 3 | Paul Blart: Mall Cop | $2,454,024 | 86.6% | 10 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 11 | 15 | $1,089,051 | +113.3% | 0.8% | 2 | Sunshine Cleaning | $915,274 | 84% | 2 | Overture Films | - |
| 12 | 9 | $885,532 | -61% | 0.6% | 1 | Fired Up! | $885,532 | 100% | 5 | Screen Gems | - |
| 13 | 10 | $882,745 | -55% | 0.6% | 3 | The Reader | $811,278 | 91.9% | 16 | The Weinstein Company | - |
| 14 | 14 | $465,133 | -17.9% | 0.3% | 4 | Two Lovers | $287,444 | 61.8% | 6 | Magnolia Pictures | - |
| 15 | 13 | $389,303 | -40.2% | 0.3% | 6 | The Class | $296,924 | 76.3% | 14 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 16 | 18 | $307,814 | -19.3% | 0.2% | 5 | Gomorrah | $155,222 | 50.4% | 14 | IFC Films | - |
| 17 | 16 | $270,654 | -39.1% | 0.2% | 2 | Revolutionary Road | $171,580 | 63.4% | 13 | Paramount Vantage | - |
| 18 | 17 | $231,542 | -45.5% | 0.2% | 1 | Doubt | $231,542 | 100% | 15 | Miramax | - |
| 19 | 20 | $183,300 | +3.6% | 0.1% | 3 | Space Station 3D | $95,767 | 52.2% | 362 | IMAX | - |
| 20 | 19 | $178,272 | -52.5% | 0.1% | 1 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | $178,272 | 100% | 14 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 21 | 23 | $119,979 | +72.7% | <0.1% | 2 | Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure | $94,234 | 78.5% | 77 | National Geographic Entertainment | - |
| 22 | 29 | $53,693 | +40.1% | <0.1% | 1 | Tokyo! | $53,693 | 100% | 3 | Liberation Entertainment | - |
| 23 | 22 | $52,943 | -38.2% | <0.1% | 1 | Wendy and Lucy | $52,943 | 100% | 16 | Oscilloscope | - |
| 24 | 26 | $49,597 | +16% | <0.1% | 1 | Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean | $49,597 | 100% | 58 | 3D Entertainment | - |
| 25 | 36 | $47,013 | +312.1% | <0.1% | 1 | Valentino: The Last Emperor | $47,013 | 100% | 2 | Truly Indie | - |
| 26 | 21 | $37,793 | -63.3% | <0.1% | 1 | Valkyrie | $37,793 | 100% | 14 | United Artists | - |
| 28 | 25 | $27,540 | -40.6% | <0.1% | 3 | Tokyo Sonata | $22,970 | 83.4% | 2 | Regent Releasing | - |
| 29 | 38 | $22,901 | +103.2% | <0.1% | 5 | Cherry Blossoms | $13,696 | 59.8% | 10 | Strand Releasing | - |
| 30 | 24 | $22,684 | -51.2% | <0.1% | 1 | Play the Game | $22,684 | 100% | 4 | Slowhand Cinema Releasing | - |
| 31 | 27 | $21,856 | -48% | <0.1% | 2 | Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 | $16,886 | 77.3% | 19 | Kino International | - |
| 32 | 32 | $16,041 | -12.7% | <0.1% | 3 | The New Twenty | $9,222 | 57.5% | 1 | Argot Pictures | - |
| 33 | 34 | $16,036 | +1% | <0.1% | 3 | Z | $13,800 | 86.1% | 2 | Rialto Pictures | - |
| 34 | 28 | $14,134 | -63.7% | <0.1% | 1 | Brothers at War | $14,134 | 100% | 2 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - |
| 35 | 30 | $12,985 | -48.5% | <0.1% | 2 | Fados | $11,310 | 87.1% | 3 | Zeitgeist Films | - |
| 37 | 31 | $11,608 | -44.3% | <0.1% | 2 | The Secrets | $11,303 | 97.4% | 18 | Monterey Media | - |
| 38 | 46 | $11,293 | +348.1% | <0.1% | 1 | Skills Like This | $11,293 | 100% | 1 | Shadow Distribution | - |
| 40 | 33 | $10,162 | -43.3% | <0.1% | 4 | Carmen and Geoffrey | $5,237 | 51.5% | 2 | First Run | - |
| 41 | 35 | $9,585 | -23.3% | <0.1% | 2 | Katyn | $7,953 | 83% | 6 | Koch Lorber Films | - |
| 42 | 42 | $8,282 | -5.8% | <0.1% | 1 | Explicit Ills | $8,282 | 100% | 3 | Peace Arch Entertainment Group | - |
| 43 | 40 | $7,854 | -27.6% | <0.1% | 1 | 13B: Fear Has a New Address | $7,854 | 100% | 3 | Adlabs Films | - |
| 44 | 47 | $1,696 | -31.7% | <0.1% | 1 | The Betrayal | $1,696 | 100% | 18 | The Cinema Guild | - |
| 45 | 48 | $1,644 | -14.9% | <0.1% | 1 | An American Affair | $1,644 | 100% | 4 | Screen Media Films | - |
| 46 | 44 | $745 | -78.8% | <0.1% | 2 | The Wild Child | $745 | 100% | 20 | The Film Desk | - |
