| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | $51,857,759 | $42,870,031 | 82.7% | $8,987,728 | 17.3% | 4,042 | 2 | Summit Entertainment | - | false |
| 2 | The Blind Side | $48,696,901 | $40,111,364 | 82.4% | $8,585,537 | 17.6% | 3,140 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | 2012 | $21,387,123 | $17,651,729 | 82.5% | $3,735,394 | 17.5% | 3,444 | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 4 | Old Dogs | $19,698,085 | $16,894,511 | 85.8% | $2,803,574 | 14.2% | 3,425 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | A Christmas Carol | $18,316,544 | $15,758,273 | 86% | $2,558,271 | 14% | 3,013 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Ninja Assassin | $16,883,090 | $13,316,158 | 78.9% | $3,566,932 | 21.1% | 2,503 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Planet 51 | $11,397,235 | $10,218,641 | 89.7% | $1,178,594 | 10.3% | 3,035 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 8 | Precious | $8,617,485 | $7,081,032 | 82.2% | $1,536,453 | 17.8% | 663 | 4 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 9 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | $8,107,359 | $6,965,267 | 85.9% | $1,142,092 | 14.1% | 2,033 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | The Road | $1,969,592 | $1,502,231 | 76.3% | $467,361 | 23.7% | 111 | 2 | Dimension Films | - | false |
| 11 | The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day | $1,874,048 | $1,301,197 | 69.4% | $572,851 | 30.6% | 373 | 5 | Apparition | - | false |
| 12 | The Men Who Stare at Goats | $1,868,983 | $1,501,837 | 80.4% | $367,146 | 19.6% | 1,119 | 4 | Overture Films | - | false |
| 13 | The Princess and the Frog | $1,232,430 | $786,190 | 63.8% | $446,240 | 36.2% | 2 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Boat That Rocked | $1,208,733 | $989,260 | 81.8% | $219,473 | 18.2% | 478 | 3 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 15 | Couples Retreat | $1,180,985 | $960,995 | 81.4% | $219,990 | 18.6% | 862 | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | An Education | $1,132,721 | $911,388 | 80.5% | $221,333 | 19.5% | 265 | 8 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 17 | This Is It | $1,075,568 | $828,976 | 77.1% | $246,592 | 22.9% | 576 | 6 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 18 | Law Abiding Citizen | $1,019,296 | $786,534 | 77.2% | $232,762 | 22.8% | 584 | 7 | Overture Films | - | false |
| 19 | The Fourth Kind | $767,260 | $618,265 | 80.6% | $148,995 | 19.4% | 552 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 20 | De Dana Dan | $664,483 | $577,381 | 86.9% | $87,102 | 13.1% | 69 | 1 | Eros Worldwide | - | false |
| 21 | Paranormal Activity | $628,129 | $486,190 | 77.4% | $141,939 | 22.6% | 725 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 22 | A Serious Man | $582,067 | $478,235 | 82.2% | $103,832 | 17.8% | 173 | 9 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 23 | Where the Wild Things Are | $479,521 | $398,406 | 83.1% | $81,115 | 16.9% | 404 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 24 | Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | $394,452 | $291,464 | 73.9% | $102,988 | 26.1% | 57 | 2 | First Look International | - | false |
| 25 | Zombieland | $336,397 | $250,462 | 74.4% | $85,935 | 25.6% | 269 | 9 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 26 | Coco Before Chanel | $284,542 | $197,578 | 69.4% | $86,964 | 30.6% | 145 | 10 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 27 | The Wizard of Oz 2009 NCM Fathom Event | $230,000 | - | - | - | - | 293 | 11 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 28 | Astro Boy | $207,004 | $172,892 | 83.5% | $34,112 | 16.5% | 287 | 6 | Summit Entertainment | - | false |
| 29 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | $189,775 | $169,471 | 89.3% | $20,304 | 10.7% | 154 | 11 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 30 | The Messenger | $180,263 | $140,203 | 77.8% | $40,060 | 22.2% | 40 | 3 | Oscilloscope | - | false |
| 31 | Broken Embraces | $169,328 | $117,986 | 69.7% | $51,342 | 30.3% | 2 | 2 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 32 | Kurbaan | $161,459 | $130,885 | 81.1% | $30,574 | 18.9% | 70 | 2 | UTV Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 33 | Amelia | $157,187 | $118,176 | 75.2% | $39,011 | 24.8% | 175 | 6 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 34 | Julie & Julia | $135,211 | $135,211 | 100% | $0 | - | 229 | 17 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 35 | Surrogates | $134,256 | $98,902 | 73.7% | $35,354 | 26.3% | 158 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 36 | Red Cliff | $129,909 | $98,898 | 76.1% | $31,011 | 23.9% | 24 | 3 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 37 | G-Force | $124,866 | $108,348 | 86.8% | $16,518 | 13.2% | 153 | 19 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 38 | Under the Sea 3D | $121,077 | $82,841 | 68.4% | $38,236 | 31.6% | 30 | 42 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 39 | The Box | $117,714 | $95,374 | 81% | $22,340 | 19% | 144 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 40 | The Private Lives of Pippa Lee | $114,775 | $89,950 | 78.4% | $24,825 | 21.6% | 12 | 1 | Screen Media Films | - | false |
| 41 | The Invention of Lying | $92,338 | $68,023 | 73.7% | $24,315 | 26.3% | 136 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 42 | Me and Orson Welles | $87,680 | $63,638 | 72.6% | $24,042 | 27.4% | 4 | 2 | Freestyle Releasing | - | false |
| 43 | Inglourious Basterds | $76,931 | $56,456 | 73.4% | $20,475 | 26.6% | 102 | 15 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 44 | The Hangover | $65,069 | $50,371 | 77.4% | $14,698 | 22.6% | 85 | 26 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 45 | La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet | $64,770 | $48,550 | 75% | $16,220 | 25% | 13 | 5 | Zipporah Films | - | false |
| 46 | The Polar Express 2009 IMAX Release | $64,357 | $52,678 | 81.8% | $11,679 | 18.2% | 14 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 47 | Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon | $60,237 | $29,995 | 49.8% | $30,242 | 50.2% | 6 | 219 | IMAX | - | false |
| 48 | Space Station 3D | $58,679 | $37,261 | 63.5% | $21,418 | 36.5% | 7 | 398 | IMAX | - | false |
| 49 | Fame | $57,093 | $45,437 | 79.6% | $11,656 | 20.4% | 146 | 10 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 50 | Shorts | $51,834 | $46,186 | 89.1% | $5,648 | 10.9% | 97 | 15 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 51 | The Informant! | $48,081 | $35,672 | 74.2% | $12,409 | 25.8% | 62 | 11 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 52 | New York, I Love You | $46,295 | $34,958 | 75.5% | $11,337 | 24.5% | 26 | 7 | Vivendi Entertainment | - | false |
| 53 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | $44,417 | $34,824 | 78.4% | $9,593 | 21.6% | 44 | 21 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 54 | Paris | $44,006 | $34,008 | 77.3% | $9,998 | 22.7% | 28 | 11 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 55 | The Maid | $40,527 | $31,546 | 77.8% | $8,981 | 22.2% | 14 | 7 | Elephant Eye Films | - | false |
| 56 | Good Hair | $37,151 | $28,066 | 75.6% | $9,085 | 24.4% | 13 | 8 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 57 | 9 | $35,751 | $29,189 | 81.6% | $6,562 | 18.4% | 63 | 13 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 58 | Capitalism: A Love Story | $33,058 | $24,881 | 75.3% | $8,177 | 24.7% | 38 | 11 | Overture Films | - | false |
| 59 | Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure | $31,366 | $21,862 | 69.7% | $9,504 | 30.3% | 8 | 113 | National Geographic Entertainment | - | false |
| 60 | All About Steve | $29,283 | $22,483 | 76.8% | $6,800 | 23.2% | 59 | 13 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 61 | Bright Star | $25,084 | $19,120 | 76.2% | $5,964 | 23.8% | 25 | 12 | Apparition | - | false |
| 62 | Antichrist | $24,675 | $15,030 | 60.9% | $9,645 | 39.1% | 14 | 6 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 63 | Deep Sea | $24,264 | $21,070 | 86.8% | $3,194 | 13.2% | 4 | 196 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 64 | The September Issue | $21,375 | $13,908 | 65.1% | $7,467 | 34.9% | 13 | 14 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 65 | Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean | $18,689 | $12,500 | 66.9% | $6,189 | 33.1% | 4 | 94 | 3D Entertainment | - | false |
| 66 | The Sun 2009 Re-release | $18,608 | $13,748 | 73.9% | $4,860 | 26.1% | 3 | 3 | Lorber Films | - | false |
| 67 | The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry | $18,412 | $12,338 | 67% | $6,074 | 33% | 7 | 11 | Five & Two Pictures | - | false |
| 68 | (Untitled) | $15,105 | $12,238 | 81% | $2,867 | 19% | 7 | 6 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 69 | The Time Traveler's Wife | $14,706 | $11,338 | 77.1% | $3,368 | 22.9% | 29 | 16 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 70 | Oh My God | $14,610 | $9,288 | 63.6% | $5,322 | 36.4% | 7 | 3 | Mitropoulos Films | - | false |
| 71 | That Evening Sun | $14,385 | $10,347 | 71.9% | $4,038 | 28.1% | 6 | 4 | Freestyle Releasing | - | false |
| 72 | The Damned United | $13,405 | $10,604 | 79.1% | $2,801 | 20.9% | 17 | 8 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 73 | Whip It | $13,166 | $9,581 | 72.8% | $3,585 | 27.2% | 30 | 9 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 74 | The Yes Men Fix the World | $10,845 | $7,758 | 71.5% | $3,087 | 28.5% | 10 | 10 | Shadow Distribution | - | false |
| 75 | Until the Light Takes Us | $10,110 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Variance Films | - | false |
| 76 | It Might Get Loud | $7,923 | $3,473 | 43.8% | $4,450 | 56.2% | 7 | 16 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 77 | Small Change | $7,753 | $4,624 | 59.6% | $3,129 | 40.4% | 1 | 2 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 78 | The Little Traitor | $7,529 | $6,079 | 80.7% | $1,450 | 19.3% | 3 | 6 | N/A | - | false |
| 79 | The End of Poverty? | $7,487 | $5,812 | 77.6% | $1,675 | 22.4% | 2 | 3 | Cinema Libre Studio | - | false |
| 80 | The House of the Devil | $7,444 | $5,004 | 67.2% | $2,440 | 32.8% | 7 | 5 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 81 | Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg | $6,854 | $5,242 | 76.5% | $1,612 | 23.5% | 5 | 21 | International Film Circuit | - | false |
| 82 | Four Seasons Lodge | $5,488 | $3,862 | 70.4% | $1,626 | 29.6% | 1 | 4 | First Run | - | false |
| 83 | Home | $5,203 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Lorber Films | - | false |
| 84 | William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe | $4,932 | $4,932 | 100% | $0 | - | 3 | 3 | Arthouse Films | - | false |
| 85 | Amreeka | $4,876 | $3,299 | 67.7% | $1,577 | 32.3% | 6 | 13 | National Geographic Entertainment | - | false |
| 86 | 35 Shots of Rum | $4,280 | $4,280 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 12 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| 87 | Bronson | $4,255 | $2,445 | 57.5% | $1,810 | 42.5% | 4 | 8 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 88 | Killing Kasztner | $4,042 | $2,549 | 63.1% | $1,493 | 36.9% | 2 | 6 | Sky Island Films | - | false |
| 89 | The Missing Person | $4,018 | $2,735 | 68.1% | $1,283 | 31.9% | 3 | 2 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 90 | Collapse | $3,504 | $1,469 | 41.9% | $2,035 | 58.1% | 4 | 4 | Vitagraph Films | - | false |
| 91 | The Horse Boy | $3,440 | $1,267 | 36.8% | $2,173 | 63.2% | 2 | 10 | Zeitgeist Films | - | false |
| 92 | Gentlemen Broncos | $3,392 | $2,355 | 69.4% | $1,037 | 30.6% | 4 | 5 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 93 | Ong Bak 2 | $3,188 | $2,311 | 72.5% | $877 | 27.5% | 5 | 6 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 94 | Uncertainty | $3,179 | $2,431 | 76.5% | $748 | 23.5% | 1 | 3 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 95 | The Way We Get By | $3,166 | $2,366 | 74.7% | $800 | 25.3% | 4 | 20 | International Film Circuit | - | false |
| 96 | White on Rice | $2,983 | $2,107 | 70.6% | $876 | 29.4% | 2 | 12 | Variance Films | - | false |
| 97 | Mammoth | $2,793 | $1,743 | 62.4% | $1,050 | 37.6% | 1 | 2 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 98 | The Cove | $2,025 | $1,248 | 61.6% | $777 | 38.4% | 4 | 18 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 99 | The Baader Meinhof Complex | $1,969 | $1,969 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 15 | Vitagraph Films | - | false |
| 100 | Defamation | $1,918 | $1,137 | 59.3% | $781 | 40.7% | 3 | 2 | First Run | - | false |
| 101 | Le combat dans l'île | $1,781 | $1,290 | 72.4% | $491 | 27.6% | 1 | 25 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 102 | Trucker | $1,706 | $1,109 | 65% | $597 | 35% | 2 | 8 | Monterey Media | - | false |
| 103 | Crude | $1,404 | $507 | 36.1% | $897 | 63.9% | 2 | 13 | First Run | - | false |
| 104 | Home | $1,359 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 33 | Monterey Media | - | false |
| 105 | Departures | $1,314 | $945 | 71.9% | $369 | 28.1% | 2 | 27 | Regent Releasing | - | false |
| 106 | Lorna's Silence | $1,201 | $102 | 8.5% | $1,099 | 91.5% | 3 | 18 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 107 | The Beaches of Agnès | $794 | $804 | 101.3% | $-10 | - | 2 | 23 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| 108 | Seraphine | $703 | $396 | 56.3% | $307 | 43.7% | 2 | 26 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 109 | Big Fan | $644 | $232 | 36% | $412 | 64% | 1 | 14 | First Independent Pictures | - | false |
| 110 | Adventures of Power | $637 | $414 | 65% | $223 | 35% | 1 | 8 | Variance Films | - | false |
| 111 | Cloud 9 | $415 | $245 | 59% | $170 | 41% | 1 | 16 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 112 | Sex Positive | $400 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 25 | Regent Releasing | - | false |
| 113 | Beeswax | $181 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 17 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| 114 | Little Ashes | $129 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 30 | Regent Releasing | - | false |
| 115 | From Mexico with Love | $31 | $31 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 8 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 116 | Endgame | $24 | $24 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 4 | Monterey Media | - | false |
| - | Tokyo Sonata | - | - | - | - | - | - | 38 | Regent Releasing | - | false |
| - | Mystery Team | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| - | American Fork | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Monterey Media | - | false |
| - | The Headless Woman | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| - | The Song of Sparrows | - | - | - | - | - | - | 35 | Regent Releasing | - | false |
| - | We Live in Public | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | Abramorama | - | false |
| - | Whiteout | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love | - | - | - | - | - | - | 25 | Shadow Distribution | - | false |
