| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | $58,753,622 | $39,637,079 | 67.5% | $19,116,543 | 32.5% | 3,703 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | $36,940,187 | $23,244,744 | 62.9% | $13,695,443 | 37.1% | 3,726 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | $31,836,461 | $12,785,204 | 40.2% | $19,051,257 | 59.8% | 3,448 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | New Year's Eve | $11,931,441 | $7,310,413 | 61.3% | $4,621,028 | 38.7% | 3,051 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | $8,376,473 | - | - | - | - | 2,914 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 6 | The Adventures of Tintin | $8,008,023 | - | - | - | - | 3,087 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Sitter | $7,166,896 | $4,608,681 | 64.3% | $2,558,215 | 35.7% | 2,473 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 | $6,671,820 | $4,197,893 | 62.9% | $2,473,927 | 37.1% | 1,822 | 5 | Summit Entertainment | - | false |
| 9 | Arthur Christmas | $6,520,657 | $3,554,286 | 54.5% | $2,966,371 | 45.5% | 2,105 | 5 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 10 | Hugo | $6,179,408 | $3,707,848 | 60% | $2,471,560 | 40% | 1,487 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Muppets | $6,082,880 | $3,520,926 | 57.9% | $2,561,954 | 42.1% | 1,859 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Young Adult | $4,969,524 | $3,403,159 | 68.5% | $1,566,365 | 31.5% | 986 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Descendants | $4,914,000 | $3,268,357 | 66.5% | $1,645,643 | 33.5% | 835 | 6 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Happy Feet Two | $1,800,098 | $1,077,329 | 59.8% | $722,769 | 40.2% | 760 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Jack and Jill | $1,781,922 | $1,228,843 | 69% | $553,079 | 31% | 677 | 6 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 16 | Tower Heist | $1,225,200 | $901,025 | 73.5% | $324,175 | 26.5% | 418 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Immortals | $1,205,617 | $851,371 | 70.6% | $354,246 | 29.4% | 1,216 | 6 | Relativity Media | - | false |
| 18 | Puss in Boots | $941,004 | $465,209 | 49.4% | $475,795 | 50.6% | 757 | 8 | DreamWorks | - | false |
| 19 | My Week with Marilyn | $923,451 | $591,385 | 64% | $332,066 | 36% | 244 | 5 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 20 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | $678,811 | $456,777 | 67.3% | $222,034 | 32.7% | 16 | 2 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 21 | J. Edgar | $579,867 | $386,494 | 66.6% | $193,373 | 33.4% | 455 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 22 | Shame | $483,376 | $307,254 | 63.6% | $176,122 | 36.4% | 50 | 3 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 23 | We Bought a Zoo | $458,486 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 24 | The Artist | $458,277 | $287,367 | 62.7% | $170,910 | 37.3% | 17 | 4 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 25 | Dolphin Tale | $373,388 | $193,092 | 51.7% | $180,296 | 48.3% | 250 | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 26 | A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas | $296,169 | $175,064 | 59.1% | $121,105 | 40.9% | 245 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 27 | In Time | $253,668 | $163,354 | 64.4% | $90,314 | 35.6% | 273 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 28 | A Dangerous Method | $227,225 | $150,855 | 66.4% | $76,370 | 33.6% | 17 | 5 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 29 | Melancholia | $225,688 | $133,914 | 59.3% | $91,774 | 40.7% | 131 | 6 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 30 | Footloose 2011 Re-release | $225,592 | $123,746 | 54.8% | $101,846 | 45.2% | 253 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 31 | The Polar Express 2011 IMAX Release | $213,597 | $108,303 | 50.7% | $105,294 | 49.3% | 22 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 32 | Courageous | $181,969 | $102,879 | 56.5% | $79,090 | 43.5% | 187 | 12 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 33 | Real Steel | $168,915 | $80,352 | 47.6% | $88,563 | 52.4% | 155 | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 34 | Paranormal Activity 3 | $156,137 | $91,616 | 58.7% | $64,521 | 41.3% | 206 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 35 | Moneyball | $149,609 | $75,535 | 50.5% | $74,074 | 49.5% | 242 | 13 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 36 | Margin Call | $148,930 | $98,178 | 65.9% | $50,752 | 34.1% | 121 | 9 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 37 | Carnage | $117,655 | $79,795 | 67.8% | $37,860 | 32.2% | 5 | 1 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 38 | The Help | $117,126 | $72,053 | 61.5% | $45,073 | 38.5% | 156 | 20 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 39 | The Way 2010 Re-release | $116,404 | $79,295 | 68.1% | $37,109 | 31.9% | 93 | 11 | Producers Distribution Agency (PDA) | - | false |
| 40 | Born to Be Wild | $114,281 | $57,088 | 50% | $57,193 | 50% | 49 | 37 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 41 | Like Crazy | $98,691 | $57,513 | 58.3% | $41,178 | 41.7% | 100 | 8 | Paramount Vantage | - | false |
| 42 | Hubble | $87,741 | $36,447 | 41.5% | $51,294 | 58.5% | 20 | 92 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 43 | The Skin I Live In | $86,345 | $51,798 | 60% | $34,547 | 40% | 71 | 10 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 44 | The Three Musketeers | $84,799 | $50,210 | 59.2% | $34,589 | 40.8% | 123 | 9 | Summit Entertainment | - | false |
| 45 | Midnight in Paris | $83,150 | $53,678 | 64.6% | $29,472 | 35.4% | 116 | 31 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 46 | The Ides of March | $80,898 | $45,589 | 56.4% | $35,309 | 43.6% | 141 | 11 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 47 | 50/50 | $73,521 | $37,370 | 50.8% | $36,151 | 49.2% | 111 | 12 | Summit Entertainment | - | false |
| 48 | Drive | $70,919 | $41,947 | 59.2% | $28,972 | 40.8% | 56 | 14 | FilmDistrict | - | false |
| 49 | The Greatest Miracle | $58,883 | $37,652 | 63.9% | $21,231 | 36.1% | 36 | 10 | - | - | false |
| 50 | Don 2 | $58,134 | - | - | - | - | 59 | 1 | Reliance Big Pictures | - | false |
| 51 | Take Shelter | $47,562 | $27,608 | 58% | $19,954 | 42% | 58 | 12 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 52 | The Lion King 2011 3D Release | $43,291 | $23,694 | 54.7% | $19,597 | 45.3% | 32 | 14 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 53 | Space Station 3D | $38,694 | $12,851 | 33.2% | $25,843 | 66.8% | 3 | 505 | IMAX | - | false |
| 54 | Martha Marcy May Marlene | $34,620 | $21,602 | 62.4% | $13,018 | 37.6% | 39 | 9 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 55 | Under the Sea 3D | $27,810 | $9,190 | 33% | $18,620 | 67% | 8 | 149 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 56 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | $27,780 | $13,903 | 50% | $13,877 | 50% | 8 | 9 | Submarine Deluxe | - | false |
| 57 | The Women on the 6th Floor | $27,711 | $18,684 | 67.4% | $9,027 | 32.6% | 12 | 11 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 58 | The Rum Diary | $22,202 | $12,429 | 56% | $9,773 | 44% | 30 | 8 | FilmDistrict | - | false |
| 59 | Tomboy | $16,287 | $9,881 | 60.7% | $6,406 | 39.3% | 9 | 6 | Dada Films | - | false |
| 60 | Mozart's Sister | $15,453 | $9,421 | 61% | $6,032 | 39% | 11 | 18 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 61 | Sea Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World | $15,121 | $9,800 | 64.8% | $5,321 | 35.2% | 9 | 82 | 3D Entertainment | - | false |
| 62 | Pastorela | $15,026 | $10,616 | 70.6% | $4,410 | 29.4% | 19 | 3 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 63 | Young Goethe in Love | $12,288 | $7,298 | 59.4% | $4,990 | 40.6% | 8 | 7 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 64 | Eames: The Architect & The Painter | $11,274 | $5,614 | 49.8% | $5,660 | 50.2% | 6 | 6 | First Run | - | false |
| 65 | Galapagos | $10,978 | $5,486 | 50% | $5,492 | 50% | 1 | 634 | IMAX | - | false |
| 66 | Into the Abyss | $10,676 | $6,389 | 59.8% | $4,287 | 40.2% | 17 | 6 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 67 | The Guard | $10,165 | $6,341 | 62.4% | $3,824 | 37.6% | 12 | 21 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 68 | Cook County | $9,727 | $7,579 | 77.9% | $2,148 | 22.1% | 5 | 1 | Hannover House | - | false |
| 69 | The Interrupters | $9,545 | $6,282 | 65.8% | $3,263 | 34.2% | 3 | 21 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| 70 | Sleeping Beauty | $7,916 | $4,529 | 57.2% | $3,387 | 42.8% | 4 | 3 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 71 | Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within | $7,437 | $5,014 | 67.4% | $2,423 | 32.6% | 7 | 6 | Variance Films | - | false |
| 72 | Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche | $6,694 | $6,381 | 95.3% | $313 | 4.7% | 1 | 4 | - | - | false |
| 73 | Blackthorn | $6,074 | $4,535 | 74.7% | $1,539 | 25.3% | 9 | 11 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 74 | Outrage | $4,968 | $3,082 | 62% | $1,886 | 38% | 7 | 3 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 75 | El Bulli: Cooking in Progress | $4,521 | $1,628 | 36% | $2,893 | 64% | 2 | 22 | - | - | false |
| 76 | My Reincarnation | $4,407 | $3,121 | 70.8% | $1,286 | 29.2% | 3 | 8 | Long Shot Factory | - | false |
| 77 | The Mill and the Cross | $4,394 | $1,045 | 23.8% | $3,349 | 76.2% | 6 | 15 | Kino Lorber Studio Classics | - | false |
| 78 | The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby | $4,282 | $3,410 | 79.6% | $872 | 20.4% | 3 | 13 | First Run | - | false |
| 79 | Amigo | $4,102 | $3,489 | 85.1% | $613 | 14.9% | 3 | 18 | Variance Films | - | false |
| 80 | Khodorkovsky | $3,997 | $1,759 | 44% | $2,238 | 56% | 1 | 4 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 81 | Addiction Incorporated | $3,826 | $1,629 | 42.6% | $2,197 | 57.4% | 1 | 2 | Variance Films | - | false |
| 82 | London River 2011 Re-release | $3,614 | $2,600 | 71.9% | $1,014 | 28.1% | 2 | 3 | Cinéma Libre | - | false |
| 83 | Rid of Me | $2,733 | $1,660 | 60.7% | $1,073 | 39.3% | 1 | 5 | Submarine Deluxe | - | false |
| 84 | The Bride Wore Black | $2,644 | $1,412 | 53.4% | $1,232 | 46.6% | 1 | 7 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 85 | Jane's Journey | $2,577 | $982 | 38.1% | $1,595 | 61.9% | 1 | 14 | First Run | - | false |
| 86 | The Conquest | $1,967 | $1,276 | 64.9% | $691 | 35.1% | 1 | 6 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 87 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $1,925 | $1,298 | 67.4% | $627 | 32.6% | 1 | 687 | IMAX | - | false |
| 88 | American Teacher | $1,858 | $994 | 53.5% | $864 | 46.5% | 2 | 12 | First Run | - | false |
| 89 | Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness | $1,647 | $789 | 47.9% | $858 | 52.1% | 2 | 24 | International Film Circuit | - | false |
| 90 | The Whale | $1,480 | $1,028 | 69.5% | $452 | 30.5% | 1 | 15 | Paladin | - | false |
| 91 | Higher Ground 2011 Re-release | $1,460 | $847 | 58% | $613 | 42% | 3 | 17 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 92 | Kinyarwanda | $1,327 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | false |
| 93 | The Look | $1,152 | $645 | 56% | $507 | 44% | 1 | 7 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 94 | I Melt with You | $1,088 | $670 | 61.6% | $418 | 38.4% | 2 | 2 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 95 | King of Devil's Island | $960 | $554 | 57.7% | $406 | 42.3% | 1 | 5 | Film Movement | - | false |
| 96 | Revenge of the Electric Car | $943 | $470 | 49.8% | $473 | 50.2% | 1 | 9 | Area 23a | - | false |
| 97 | Littlerock | $811 | $581 | 71.6% | $230 | 28.4% | 1 | 19 | Variance Films | - | false |
| 98 | Sigur Rós: Inni | $572 | $572 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 8 | Cinema Purgatorio | - | false |
| 99 | 3 | $468 | $288 | 61.5% | $180 | 38.5% | 2 | 14 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 100 | American: The Bill Hicks Story | $452 | $432 | 95.6% | $20 | 4.4% | 1 | 37 | Variance Films | - | false |
| 101 | The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu | $430 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 15 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 102 | Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon | $358 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 326 | IMAX | - | false |
| 103 | My Joy | $352 | $352 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 12 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 104 | The Green Ray 2011 Re-release | $349 | $349 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 29 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 105 | Restless | $265 | $141 | 53.2% | $124 | 46.8% | 1 | 14 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 106 | Answers to Nothing | $157 | $157 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 3 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 107 | Paul Goodman Changed My Life | $138 | $17 | 12.3% | $121 | 87.7% | 1 | 10 | Zeitgeist Films | - | false |
| 108 | Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | $80 | $80 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 23 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| - | Tyrannosaur | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| - | Oka! | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Dada Films | - | false |
| - | The Worst Movie Ever! | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | Driving With Our Eyes Shut | - | false |
| - | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Mississippi Mermaid | - | - | - | - | - | - | 128 | The Film Desk | - | false |
