| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Chronicle | $27,867,267 | $22,004,098 | 79% | $5,863,169 | 21% | 2,907 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | The Woman in Black | $25,155,487 | $20,874,072 | 83% | $4,281,415 | 17% | 2,855 | 1 | CBS Films | - | false |
| 3 | The Grey | $12,485,731 | $9,300,999 | 74.5% | $3,184,732 | 25.5% | 3,208 | 2 | Open Road Films (II) | - | false |
| 4 | Big Miracle | $9,335,935 | $7,760,205 | 83.1% | $1,575,730 | 16.9% | 2,129 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Underworld: Awakening | $7,681,448 | $5,500,744 | 71.6% | $2,180,704 | 28.4% | 2,636 | 3 | Screen Gems | - | false |
| 6 | One for the Money | $6,960,718 | $5,206,279 | 74.8% | $1,754,439 | 25.2% | 2,737 | 2 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 7 | Red Tails | $6,339,928 | $4,735,595 | 74.7% | $1,604,333 | 25.3% | 2,347 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | The Descendants | $6,306,961 | $4,552,943 | 72.2% | $1,754,018 | 27.8% | 2,038 | 13 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Man on a Ledge | $5,905,436 | $4,351,036 | 73.7% | $1,554,400 | 26.3% | 2,998 | 2 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 10 | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | $5,066,213 | $3,802,367 | 75% | $1,263,846 | 25% | 2,505 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Contraband | $4,770,185 | $3,408,255 | 71.4% | $1,361,930 | 28.6% | 2,047 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Artist | $3,742,542 | $2,612,607 | 69.8% | $1,129,935 | 30.2% | 1,005 | 11 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 13 | Beauty and the Beast 2012 3D Release | $3,294,395 | $2,579,332 | 78.3% | $715,063 | 21.7% | 1,719 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Hugo | $3,037,780 | $2,272,390 | 74.8% | $765,390 | 25.2% | 1,030 | 12 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Iron Lady | $2,883,946 | $1,898,183 | 65.8% | $985,763 | 34.2% | 1,021 | 6 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 16 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | $2,309,939 | $1,702,914 | 73.7% | $607,025 | 26.3% | 1,077 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Joyful Noise | $1,895,285 | $1,459,230 | 77% | $436,055 | 23% | 1,350 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | Haywire | $1,730,105 | $1,202,767 | 69.5% | $527,338 | 30.5% | 1,251 | 3 | Relativity Media | - | false |
| 19 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | $1,439,324 | $1,022,358 | 71% | $416,966 | 29% | 668 | 8 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 20 | War Horse | $1,412,867 | $960,780 | 68% | $452,087 | 32% | 1,163 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 21 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | $1,385,180 | $1,026,005 | 74.1% | $359,175 | 25.9% | 857 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 22 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | $1,216,429 | $1,048,380 | 86.2% | $168,049 | 13.8% | 818 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 23 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | $932,877 | $670,429 | 71.9% | $262,448 | 28.1% | 302 | 9 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 24 | The Adventures of Tintin | $917,319 | $709,180 | 77.3% | $208,139 | 22.7% | 486 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 25 | We Bought a Zoo | $902,334 | $737,870 | 81.8% | $164,464 | 18.2% | 754 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 26 | Albert Nobbs | $721,636 | $490,762 | 68% | $230,874 | 32% | 151 | 2 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 27 | A Dangerous Method | $451,295 | $322,514 | 71.5% | $128,781 | 28.5% | 235 | 12 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 28 | Agneepath | $418,407 | $340,112 | 81.3% | $78,295 | 18.7% | 132 | 3 | Eros Worldwide | - | false |
| 29 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 | $393,179 | $279,755 | 71.2% | $113,424 | 28.8% | 296 | 12 | Summit Entertainment | - | false |
| 30 | My Week with Marilyn | $384,898 | $254,703 | 66.2% | $130,195 | 33.8% | 171 | 12 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 31 | A Separation | $378,149 | $280,258 | 74.1% | $97,891 | 25.9% | 40 | 6 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 32 | Happy Feet Two | $319,413 | $262,725 | 82.2% | $56,688 | 17.8% | 255 | 12 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 33 | Puss in Boots | $314,414 | $250,103 | 79.6% | $64,311 | 20.4% | 253 | 15 | DreamWorks | - | false |
| 34 | Pina | $290,061 | $190,976 | 65.8% | $99,085 | 34.2% | 39 | 7 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 35 | Jack and Jill | $254,025 | $200,598 | 79% | $53,427 | 21% | 222 | 13 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 36 | The Devil Inside | $212,905 | $155,031 | 72.8% | $57,874 | 27.2% | 303 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 37 | Shame | $160,653 | $103,789 | 64.6% | $56,864 | 35.4% | 64 | 10 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 38 | New Year's Eve | $156,218 | $109,415 | 70% | $46,803 | 30% | 222 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 39 | Born to Be Wild | $153,041 | $94,333 | 61.6% | $58,708 | 38.4% | 45 | 44 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 40 | The Muppets | $147,838 | $118,900 | 80.4% | $28,938 | 19.6% | 169 | 12 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 41 | The Sitter | $107,908 | $72,991 | 67.6% | $34,917 | 32.4% | 126 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 42 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | $95,796 | $65,529 | 68.4% | $30,267 | 31.6% | 13 | 9 | Oscilloscope | - | false |
| 43 | Carnage | $91,730 | $64,605 | 70.4% | $27,125 | 29.6% | 40 | 8 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 44 | Hubble | $73,215 | $32,716 | 44.7% | $40,499 | 55.3% | 21 | 99 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 45 | Coriolanus | $68,859 | $44,515 | 64.6% | $24,344 | 35.4% | 14 | 3 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 46 | W.E. | $64,147 | $47,074 | 73.4% | $17,073 | 26.6% | 4 | 1 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 47 | J. Edgar | $62,330 | $41,195 | 66.1% | $21,135 | 33.9% | 135 | 14 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 48 | The Innkeepers | $59,663 | $29,557 | 49.5% | $30,106 | 50.5% | 25 | 1 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 49 | Real Steel | $54,219 | $43,430 | 80.1% | $10,789 | 19.9% | 90 | 18 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 50 | Pariah | $48,002 | $34,970 | 72.8% | $13,032 | 27.2% | 19 | 7 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 51 | Immortals | $45,799 | $30,952 | 67.6% | $14,847 | 32.4% | 62 | 13 | Relativity Media | - | false |
| 52 | Sea Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World | $45,250 | $28,452 | 62.9% | $16,798 | 37.1% | 11 | 89 | 3D Entertainment | - | false |
| 53 | Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough | $44,104 | - | - | - | - | 11 | 18 | National Geographic Entertainment | - | false |
| 54 | Space Station 3D | $39,209 | $14,718 | 37.5% | $24,491 | 62.5% | 4 | 512 | IMAX | - | false |
| 55 | Midnight in Paris | $33,430 | $22,402 | 67% | $11,028 | 33% | 40 | 38 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 56 | Under the Sea 3D | $30,467 | $21,777 | 71.5% | $8,690 | 28.5% | 14 | 156 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 57 | Young Adult | $29,793 | $20,014 | 67.2% | $9,779 | 32.8% | 58 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 58 | In the Land of Blood and Honey | $29,357 | $20,956 | 71.4% | $8,401 | 28.6% | 7 | 7 | FilmDistrict | - | false |
| 59 | The Viral Factor | $27,642 | $19,412 | 70.2% | $8,230 | 29.8% | 7 | 3 | China Lion Film Distribution | - | false |
| 60 | The Darkest Hour | $26,399 | $19,554 | 74.1% | $6,845 | 25.9% | 39 | 7 | Summit Entertainment | - | false |
| 61 | Melancholia | $25,644 | $12,238 | 47.7% | $13,406 | 52.3% | 13 | 13 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 62 | The Help | $22,761 | $14,736 | 64.7% | $8,025 | 35.3% | 20 | 27 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 63 | The Women on the 6th Floor | $21,719 | $13,861 | 63.8% | $7,858 | 36.2% | 6 | 18 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 64 | In Darkness | $21,691 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 65 | Crazy Horse | $20,088 | $12,131 | 60.4% | $7,957 | 39.6% | 3 | 4 | Zipporah Films | - | false |
| 66 | Drive | $17,752 | $11,972 | 67.4% | $5,780 | 32.6% | 22 | 21 | FilmDistrict | - | false |
| 67 | Kill List | $15,090 | $9,838 | 65.2% | $5,252 | 34.8% | 2 | 1 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 68 | An Inconsistent Truth | $14,542 | $12,176 | 83.7% | $2,366 | 16.3% | 1 | 2 | Rocky Mountain Pictures | - | false |
| 69 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | $13,515 | $12,202 | 90.3% | $1,313 | 9.7% | 2 | 16 | Submarine Deluxe | - | false |
| 70 | El Bulli: Cooking in Progress | $13,308 | $9,399 | 70.6% | $3,909 | 29.4% | 4 | 29 | - | - | false |
| 71 | All's Well, Ends Well 2012 | $13,032 | $9,232 | 70.8% | $3,800 | 29.2% | 10 | 2 | China Lion Film Distribution | - | false |
| 72 | Carol Channing: Larger Than Life | $12,947 | $8,397 | 64.9% | $4,550 | 35.1% | 3 | 3 | Entertainment One | - | false |
| 73 | Vettai | $12,738 | $9,678 | 76% | $3,060 | 24% | 21 | 4 | UTV Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 74 | The Way 2010 Re-release | $11,995 | $7,557 | 63% | $4,438 | 37% | 11 | 18 | Producers Distribution Agency (PDA) | - | false |
| 75 | Declaration of War | $9,748 | $5,986 | 61.4% | $3,762 | 38.6% | 4 | 2 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 76 | The Pruitt-Igoe Myth | $9,527 | $5,069 | 53.2% | $4,458 | 46.8% | 2 | 3 | First Run | - | false |
| 77 | Dysfunctional Friends | $9,189 | $7,409 | 80.6% | $1,780 | 19.4% | 2 | 1 | Datari Turner Productions | - | false |
| 78 | The Flowers of War | $7,831 | $5,318 | 67.9% | $2,513 | 32.1% | 5 | 3 | Wrekin Hill Entertainment | - | false |
| 79 | The Skin I Live In | $6,842 | - | - | - | - | 10 | 17 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 80 | Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos | $6,744 | $1,322 | 19.6% | $5,422 | 80.4% | 3 | 3 | Eleven Arts | - | false |
| 81 | Addiction Incorporated | $4,981 | $3,311 | 66.5% | $1,670 | 33.5% | 4 | 9 | Variance Films | - | false |
| 82 | Deep Sea | $3,922 | $2,202 | 56.1% | $1,720 | 43.9% | 1 | 310 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 83 | The Conquest | $3,847 | $3,053 | 79.4% | $794 | 20.6% | 4 | 13 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 84 | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | $3,168 | $2,241 | 70.7% | $927 | 29.3% | 2 | 6 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| 85 | The Look | $3,036 | $1,968 | 64.8% | $1,068 | 35.2% | 2 | 14 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 86 | Perfect Sense | $2,959 | $1,567 | 53% | $1,392 | 47% | 1 | 1 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 87 | Young Goethe in Love | $2,736 | $1,952 | 71.4% | $784 | 28.6% | 3 | 14 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 88 | Windfall | $2,379 | $1,780 | 74.8% | $599 | 25.2% | 1 | 1 | First Run | - | false |
| 89 | Cook County | $2,250 | $2,250 | 100% | $0 | - | 3 | 8 | Hannover House | - | false |
| 90 | The City Dark | $2,237 | $1,121 | 50.1% | $1,116 | 49.9% | 2 | 4 | Argot Pictures | - | false |
| 91 | Take Shelter | $2,220 | $1,485 | 66.9% | $735 | 33.1% | 8 | 19 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 92 | Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche | $1,912 | $220 | 11.5% | $1,692 | 88.5% | 2 | 11 | - | - | false |
| 93 | The Interrupters | $1,879 | $1,770 | 94.2% | $109 | 5.8% | 1 | 28 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| 94 | The Mill and the Cross | $1,644 | $357 | 21.7% | $1,287 | 78.3% | 2 | 22 | Kino Lorber Studio Classics | - | false |
| 95 | King of Devil's Island | $1,385 | $936 | 67.6% | $449 | 32.4% | 2 | 12 | Film Movement | - | false |
| 96 | The Guard | $1,340 | $840 | 62.7% | $500 | 37.3% | 2 | 28 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 97 | Miss Minoes 2011 Re-release | $1,249 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 7 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 98 | The Miners' Hymns | $1,219 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Icarus Films | - | false |
| 99 | Granito | $1,188 | $954 | 80.3% | $234 | 19.7% | 3 | 22 | International Film Circuit | - | false |
| 100 | How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? 2012 Re-release | $1,155 | $799 | 69.2% | $356 | 30.8% | 2 | 3 | First Run | - | false |
| 101 | Sing Your Song | $1,086 | $577 | 53.1% | $509 | 46.9% | 2 | 4 | S2BN Films | - | false |
| 102 | Tyrannosaur | $977 | $662 | 67.8% | $315 | 32.2% | 2 | 12 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 103 | Margin Call | $902 | $902 | 100% | $0 | - | 2 | 16 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 104 | Galapagos | $811 | $12 | 1.5% | $799 | 98.5% | 1 | 641 | IMAX | - | false |
| 105 | The Devil, Probably | $773 | $773 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 4 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 106 | The Whale | $549 | $115 | 21% | $434 | 79% | 1 | 22 | Paladin | - | false |
| 107 | Tomboy | $424 | $424 | 100% | $0 | - | 3 | 13 | Dada Films | - | false |
| 108 | The Bride Wore Black | $391 | $391 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 14 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 109 | Hell and Back Again | $302 | $302 | 100% | $0 | - | 4 | 19 | Docurama Films | - | false |
| 110 | Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within | $271 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 13 | Variance Films | - | false |
| 111 | Jane's Journey | $242 | $242 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 21 | First Run | - | false |
| 112 | Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness | $194 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 31 | International Film Circuit | - | false |
| - | Domain 2012 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| - | Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Tribeca Films | - | false |
| - | My Reincarnation | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | Long Shot Factory | - | false |
| - | Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench | - | - | - | - | - | - | 66 | Variance Films | - | false |
| - | Prince of the Himalayas | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | - | - | false |
| - | Khodorkovsky | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| - | Paul Goodman Changed My Life | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | Zeitgeist Films | - | false |
