| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Expendables 2 | $18,544,961 | $13,423,579 | 72.4% | $5,121,382 | 27.6% | 3,355 | 2 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 2 | The Bourne Legacy | $12,812,225 | $9,336,005 | 72.9% | $3,476,220 | 27.1% | 3,490 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | ParaNorman | $11,856,897 | $8,639,288 | 72.9% | $3,217,609 | 27.1% | 3,455 | 2 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 4 | The Campaign | $10,471,492 | $7,472,397 | 71.4% | $2,999,095 | 28.6% | 2,941 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | The Dark Knight Rises | $10,281,049 | $7,222,317 | 70.2% | $3,058,732 | 29.8% | 2,606 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | The Odd Life of Timothy Green | $9,922,868 | $7,122,552 | 71.8% | $2,800,316 | 28.2% | 2,598 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Premium Rush | $8,355,197 | $6,030,164 | 72.2% | $2,325,033 | 27.8% | 2,255 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 8 | Hope Springs | $8,275,043 | $5,725,107 | 69.2% | $2,549,936 | 30.8% | 2,402 | 4 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 9 | Hit and Run | $6,276,356 | $4,526,222 | 72.1% | $1,750,134 | 27.9% | 2,870 | 2 | Open Road Films (II) | - | false |
| 10 | Sparkle | $5,253,771 | $3,983,822 | 75.8% | $1,269,949 | 24.2% | 2,020 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Apparition | $3,618,859 | $2,841,488 | 78.5% | $777,371 | 21.5% | 810 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days | $3,129,988 | $2,245,917 | 71.8% | $884,071 | 28.2% | 1,547 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | 2016: Obama's America | $2,998,212 | $6,238,000 | - | - | - | 1,091 | 7 | Rocky Mountain Pictures | - | true |
| 14 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | $2,583,826 | $1,751,301 | 67.8% | $832,525 | 32.2% | 1,211 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | Total Recall | $2,456,288 | $1,760,436 | 71.7% | $695,852 | 28.3% | 1,326 | 4 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 16 | Lawless | $2,142,447 | - | - | - | - | 2,565 | 1 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 17 | Ted | $1,349,530 | $947,430 | 70.2% | $402,100 | 29.8% | 679 | 9 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | $826,188 | $605,801 | 73.3% | $220,387 | 26.7% | 374 | 12 | DreamWorks | - | false |
| 19 | Brave | $801,911 | $516,772 | 64.4% | $285,139 | 35.6% | 452 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 20 | The Amazing Spider-Man | $736,120 | $491,890 | 66.8% | $244,230 | 33.2% | 368 | 9 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 21 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | $693,346 | $463,125 | 66.8% | $230,221 | 33.2% | 232 | 10 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 22 | Step Up Revolution | $672,909 | $493,908 | 73.4% | $179,001 | 26.6% | 428 | 5 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 23 | Moonrise Kingdom | $593,300 | $401,929 | 67.7% | $191,371 | 32.3% | 332 | 14 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 24 | Singin' in the Rain 2012 Re-release | $587,211 | $587,211 | 100% | $0 | - | 561 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 25 | Thunderstruck | $587,211 | - | - | - | - | 250 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 26 | The Intouchables | $541,610 | $351,378 | 64.9% | $190,232 | 35.1% | 194 | 14 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 27 | Killer Joe | $464,430 | $199,000 | 42.8% | $265,430 | 57.2% | 60 | 5 | LD Entertainment | - | false |
| 28 | Ek Tha Tiger | $434,516 | $434,516 | 100% | $0 | - | 119 | 3 | Yash Raj Films | - | false |
| 29 | Celeste & Jesse Forever | $415,236 | $288,901 | 69.6% | $126,335 | 30.4% | 115 | 4 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 30 | Robot & Frank | $396,936 | $284,105 | 71.6% | $112,831 | 28.4% | 46 | 2 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 31 | Magic Mike | $374,762 | $228,442 | 61% | $146,320 | 39% | 355 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 32 | Men in Black³ | $328,175 | $239,554 | 73% | $88,621 | 27% | 232 | 14 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 33 | The Watch | $299,523 | $230,558 | 77% | $68,965 | 23% | 250 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 34 | To Rome with Love | $292,462 | $194,542 | 66.5% | $97,920 | 33.5% | 221 | 10 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 35 | The Queen of Versailles | $289,855 | $191,192 | 66% | $98,663 | 34% | 85 | 6 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 36 | To the Arctic 3D | $253,461 | $135,729 | 53.6% | $117,732 | 46.4% | 52 | 19 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 37 | Ruby Sparks | $238,244 | $163,534 | 68.6% | $74,710 | 31.4% | 119 | 6 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 38 | The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure | $225,588 | - | - | - | - | 2,160 | 1 | Kenn Viselman Presents | - | false |
| 39 | Cosmopolis | $223,268 | $154,529 | 69.2% | $68,739 | 30.8% | 63 | 2 | Entertainment One | - | false |
| 40 | Snow White and the Huntsman | $215,395 | $155,255 | 72.1% | $60,140 | 27.9% | 194 | 13 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 41 | Searching for Sugar Man | $179,359 | $121,211 | 67.6% | $58,148 | 32.4% | 29 | 5 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 42 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | $166,972 | $92,812 | 55.6% | $74,160 | 44.4% | 106 | 17 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 43 | The Avengers | $164,782 | $115,335 | 70% | $49,447 | 30% | 123 | 17 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 44 | Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi | $155,758 | $119,743 | 76.9% | $36,015 | 23.1% | 54 | 1 | Eros Worldwide | - | false |
| 45 | The Hunger Games | $154,149 | $114,851 | 74.5% | $39,298 | 25.5% | 189 | 23 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 46 | Two Days in New York | $138,202 | $95,442 | 69.1% | $42,760 | 30.9% | 41 | 3 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 47 | Samsara | $117,703 | $76,222 | 64.8% | $41,481 | 35.2% | 2 | 1 | Oscilloscope | - | false |
| 48 | Farewell, My Queen | $117,114 | $79,856 | 68.2% | $37,258 | 31.8% | 64 | 7 | Cohen Media Group | - | false |
| 49 | The Imposter | $113,350 | $80,391 | 70.9% | $32,959 | 29.1% | 24 | 7 | Indomina Releasing | - | false |
| 50 | Nitro Circus: The Movie | $104,099 | $75,038 | 72.1% | $29,061 | 27.9% | 81 | 4 | Arc Entertainment | - | false |
| 51 | Red Hook Summer | $103,506 | $79,944 | 77.2% | $23,562 | 22.8% | 29 | 3 | Variance Films | - | false |
| 52 | Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough | $91,431 | - | - | - | - | 18 | 47 | National Geographic Entertainment | - | false |
| 53 | Prometheus | $90,718 | $58,041 | 64% | $32,677 | 36% | 91 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 54 | Sleepwalk with Me | $89,216 | $68,801 | 77.1% | $20,415 | 22.9% | 1 | 1 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 55 | Born to Be Wild | $88,978 | $47,208 | 53.1% | $41,770 | 46.9% | 33 | 73 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 56 | Madea's Witness Protection | $75,856 | $60,096 | 79.2% | $15,760 | 20.8% | 106 | 9 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 57 | Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | $75,002 | $52,719 | 70.3% | $22,283 | 29.7% | 75 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 58 | Safety Not Guaranteed | $73,462 | $47,809 | 65.1% | $25,653 | 34.9% | 54 | 12 | FilmDistrict | - | false |
| 59 | Savages | $71,950 | $25,740 | 35.8% | $46,210 | 64.2% | 117 | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 60 | Hubble | $71,387 | $34,473 | 48.3% | $36,914 | 51.7% | 12 | 128 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 61 | Compliance | $68,112 | $44,749 | 65.7% | $23,363 | 34.3% | 11 | 2 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 62 | Air Racers | $65,260 | $52,349 | 80.2% | $12,911 | 19.8% | 10 | 21 | 3D Entertainment | - | false |
| 63 | Bernie | $59,723 | $45,125 | 75.6% | $14,598 | 24.4% | 52 | 18 | Millennium Entertainment | - | false |
| 64 | Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry | $55,824 | $34,695 | 62.2% | $21,129 | 37.8% | 37 | 5 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 65 | Under the Sea 3D | $54,003 | $25,631 | 47.5% | $28,372 | 52.5% | 6 | 185 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 66 | Sea Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World | $45,369 | $24,340 | 53.6% | $21,029 | 46.4% | 10 | 118 | 3D Entertainment | - | false |
| 67 | Katy Perry: Part of Me | $44,400 | $28,239 | 63.6% | $16,161 | 36.4% | 66 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 68 | Bill W. | $38,419 | - | - | - | - | 15 | 15 | Page 124 Productions | - | false |
| 69 | Little White Lies | $37,305 | $25,654 | 68.8% | $11,651 | 31.2% | 3 | 1 | MPI Media Group | - | false |
| 70 | Space Station 3D | $32,600 | $14,268 | 43.8% | $18,332 | 56.2% | 1 | 541 | IMAX | - | false |
| 71 | The Awakening | $28,159 | $20,000 | 71% | $8,159 | 29% | 31 | 2 | Cohen Media Group | - | false |
| 72 | Brother 2012 Re-release | $27,005 | $18,835 | 69.8% | $8,170 | 30.2% | 49 | 1 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 73 | The Well-Digger's Daughter | $24,900 | $18,538 | 74.4% | $6,362 | 25.6% | 11 | 6 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 74 | Beloved | $23,061 | $15,417 | 66.8% | $7,644 | 33.2% | 7 | 2 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 75 | Deep Sea | $22,637 | $14,610 | 64.5% | $8,027 | 35.5% | 2 | 339 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 76 | Neighboring Sounds | $19,795 | $12,666 | 64% | $7,129 | 36% | 2 | 1 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| 77 | Iron Sky | $17,159 | $4,682 | 27.3% | $12,477 | 72.7% | 2 | 6 | Entertainment One | - | false |
| 78 | Take This Waltz | $14,487 | $8,743 | 60.4% | $5,744 | 39.6% | 17 | 9 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 79 | Easy Money | $12,929 | $8,435 | 65.2% | $4,494 | 34.8% | 5 | 8 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 80 | Somewhere Between | $12,572 | $7,799 | 62% | $4,773 | 38% | 1 | 1 | Long Shot Factory | - | false |
| 81 | People Like Us | $12,249 | $9,263 | 75.6% | $2,986 | 24.4% | 23 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 82 | 360 | $11,144 | $7,445 | 66.8% | $3,699 | 33.2% | 12 | 4 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 83 | Chicken with Plums | $9,908 | $6,527 | 65.9% | $3,381 | 34.1% | 2 | 2 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 84 | Painted Skin: The Resurrection | $9,289 | $6,424 | 69.2% | $2,865 | 30.8% | 4 | 2 | Well Go USA Entertainment | - | false |
| 85 | Neil Young Journeys | $9,231 | $5,732 | 62.1% | $3,499 | 37.9% | 13 | 9 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 86 | Teddy Bear | $8,565 | $5,388 | 62.9% | $3,177 | 37.1% | 2 | 2 | Film Movement | - | false |
| 87 | Kumaré | $7,445 | $4,635 | 62.3% | $2,810 | 37.7% | 6 | 11 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 88 | Hysteria | $7,250 | $5,230 | 72.1% | $2,020 | 27.9% | 8 | 15 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 89 | A Cat in Paris | $6,731 | $5,124 | 76.1% | $1,607 | 23.9% | 6 | 13 | GKIDS | - | false |
| 90 | Total Recall 2012 Re-release | $5,511 | $5,511 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 3 | Rialto Pictures | - | false |
| 91 | Nobody Else But You | $5,396 | $3,846 | 71.3% | $1,550 | 28.7% | 2 | 16 | First Run | - | false |
| 92 | Unforgivable | $5,040 | $3,547 | 70.4% | $1,493 | 29.6% | 2 | 9 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 93 | Wild Horse, Wild Ride | $4,880 | $3,610 | 74% | $1,270 | 26% | 1 | 1 | Screen Media Films | - | false |
| 94 | Where Do We Go Now? | $4,244 | $2,460 | 58% | $1,784 | 42% | 6 | 16 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 95 | Meet the Fokkens | $4,243 | $2,682 | 63.2% | $1,561 | 36.8% | 1 | 4 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 96 | Klown 2012 Re-release | $4,173 | $1,528 | 36.6% | $2,645 | 63.4% | 3 | 5 | Drafthouse Films | - | false |
| 97 | Death by China | $3,676 | $3,286 | 89.4% | $390 | 10.6% | 1 | 2 | Area 23a | - | false |
| 98 | Side by Side | $3,620 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | Tribeca Films | - | false |
| 99 | The Magic of Belle Isle | $3,558 | $2,356 | 66.2% | $1,202 | 33.8% | 7 | 8 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 100 | The Day I Saw Your Heart 2012 Re-release | $3,546 | $2,810 | 79.2% | $736 | 20.8% | 1 | 1 | Film Movement | - | false |
| 101 | The Invisible War | $3,299 | $2,097 | 63.6% | $1,202 | 36.4% | 4 | 10 | Cinedigm Entertainment Group | - | false |
| 102 | Monsieur Lazhar | $3,149 | $1,833 | 58.2% | $1,316 | 41.8% | 3 | 20 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 103 | You've Been Trumped | $2,814 | $795 | 28.2% | $2,019 | 71.8% | 5 | 4 | International Film Circuit | - | false |
| 104 | The Day | $2,724 | - | - | - | - | 12 | 1 | Anchor Bay Films | - | false |
| 105 | Ballplayer: Pelotero | $2,670 | $1,777 | 66.6% | $893 | 33.4% | 2 | 7 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 106 | Little Birds | $2,340 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Millennium Entertainment | - | false |
| 107 | Free Men | $2,292 | $1,587 | 69.2% | $705 | 30.8% | 1 | 24 | Film Movement | - | false |
| 108 | Grand Illusion | $2,204 | $722 | 32.8% | $1,482 | 67.2% | 1 | 16 | Rialto Pictures | - | false |
| 109 | The Ambassador | $1,781 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Drafthouse Films | - | false |
| 110 | Supercapitalist | $1,738 | $1,657 | 95.3% | $81 | 4.7% | 1 | 3 | Truly Indie | - | false |
| 111 | Alps | $1,699 | $312 | 18.4% | $1,387 | 81.6% | 2 | 7 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 112 | Oslo, August 31st | $1,467 | $888 | 60.5% | $579 | 39.5% | 1 | 14 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 113 | Celine and Julie Go Boating | $1,417 | $1,417 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 17 | New Yorker Films | - | false |
| 114 | The Extraordinary Voyage | $1,341 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 29 | Flicker Alley | - | false |
| 115 | Elena | $1,286 | $1,286 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 16 | Zeitgeist Films | - | false |
| 116 | Turn Me On, Dammit! | $1,169 | $936 | 80.1% | $233 | 19.9% | 1 | 22 | New Yorker Films | - | false |
| 117 | Union Square | $1,012 | $758 | 74.9% | $254 | 25.1% | 2 | 7 | Dada Films | - | false |
| 118 | Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present | $958 | $830 | 86.6% | $128 | 13.4% | 3 | 12 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 119 | The Deep Blue Sea | $937 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 23 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 120 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $929 | $678 | 73% | $251 | 27% | 1 | 723 | IMAX | - | false |
| 121 | Pink Ribbons, Inc. | $917 | $165 | 18% | $752 | 82% | 4 | 13 | First Run | - | false |
| 122 | The Green Ray 2011 Re-release | $853 | $853 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 65 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 123 | General Education | $824 | $282 | 34.2% | $542 | 65.8% | 2 | 1 | Pelican House Productions | - | false |
| 124 | Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai | $808 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 6 | Tribeca Films | - | false |
| 125 | 5 Broken Cameras | $640 | $361 | 56.4% | $279 | 43.6% | 1 | 14 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 126 | OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie | $625 | $339 | 54.2% | $286 | 45.8% | 1 | 14 | Fisher Klingenstein Films | - | false |
| 127 | The Color Wheel | $417 | $238 | 57.1% | $179 | 42.9% | 1 | 15 | Cinema Conservancy | - | false |
| 128 | This Is Not a Film | $368 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 27 | Palisades Tartan | - | false |
| - | A Lonely Place for Dying | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Humble Magi | - | false |
| - | The Day He Arrives | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| - | Your Sister's Sister | - | $11,237 | - | - | - | - | 11 | IFC Films | - | false |
| - | Hit So Hard | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | Variance Films | - | false |
