| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Mama | $35,787,440 | $28,402,310 | 79.4% | $7,385,130 | 20.6% | 2,647 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Zero Dark Thirty | $21,759,090 | $15,797,612 | 72.6% | $5,961,478 | 27.4% | 2,946 | 6 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 3 | Silver Linings Playbook | $15,505,357 | $10,752,836 | 69.4% | $4,752,521 | 30.6% | 2,523 | 10 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 4 | Gangster Squad | $12,336,807 | $8,640,540 | 70% | $3,696,267 | 30% | 3,103 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Broken City | $11,269,989 | $8,268,908 | 73.4% | $3,001,081 | 26.6% | 2,620 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | Django Unchained | $11,171,091 | $7,755,800 | 69.4% | $3,415,291 | 30.6% | 2,516 | 5 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 7 | Les Misérables | $10,767,130 | $7,491,995 | 69.6% | $3,275,135 | 30.4% | 2,579 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | A Haunted House | $10,582,802 | $8,170,023 | 77.2% | $2,412,779 | 22.8% | 2,160 | 2 | Open Road Films (II) | - | false |
| 9 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | $8,948,729 | $6,176,941 | 69% | $2,771,788 | 31% | 2,323 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | The Last Stand | $8,533,945 | $6,281,433 | 73.6% | $2,252,512 | 26.4% | 2,913 | 1 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 11 | Lincoln | $8,051,755 | $5,475,263 | 68% | $2,576,492 | 32% | 2,174 | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Parental Guidance | $6,317,659 | $4,252,418 | 67.3% | $2,065,241 | 32.7% | 2,337 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | Life of Pi | $5,003,055 | $3,351,625 | 67% | $1,651,430 | 33% | 1,256 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | The Impossible | $3,645,190 | $2,476,238 | 67.9% | $1,168,952 | 32.1% | 886 | 5 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 15 | Argo | $3,234,873 | $2,262,947 | 70% | $971,926 | 30% | 756 | 15 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 16 | Jack Reacher | $3,175,760 | $2,237,947 | 70.5% | $937,813 | 29.5% | 1,707 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | This Is 40 | $2,722,790 | $2,032,805 | 74.7% | $689,985 | 25.3% | 1,232 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Wreck-It Ralph | $2,245,457 | $1,302,474 | 58% | $942,983 | 42% | 1,312 | 12 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Texas Chainsaw | $1,664,769 | $1,269,949 | 76.3% | $394,820 | 23.7% | 1,474 | 3 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 20 | Skyfall | $1,365,813 | $969,241 | 71% | $396,572 | 29% | 507 | 11 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 21 | Monsters, Inc. 2012 3D Release | $1,162,514 | $752,545 | 64.7% | $409,969 | 35.3% | 565 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 22 | Rise of the Guardians | $905,166 | $560,742 | 62% | $344,424 | 38% | 474 | 10 | DreamWorks | - | false |
| 23 | The Guilt Trip | $878,870 | $605,194 | 68.9% | $273,676 | 31.1% | 642 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 24 | Hyde Park on Hudson | $612,836 | $419,693 | 68.5% | $193,143 | 31.5% | 194 | 7 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 25 | Amour | $562,213 | $373,586 | 66.4% | $188,627 | 33.6% | 36 | 6 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 26 | Hotel Transylvania | $549,596 | $364,343 | 66.3% | $185,253 | 33.7% | 237 | 17 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 27 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 | $474,932 | $333,772 | 70.3% | $141,160 | 29.7% | 306 | 10 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 28 | Quartet | $468,752 | $304,263 | 64.9% | $164,489 | 35.1% | 32 | 2 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 29 | Flight | $433,286 | $286,602 | 66.2% | $146,684 | 33.8% | 300 | 12 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 30 | Rust and Bone | $343,436 | $223,765 | 65.2% | $119,671 | 34.8% | 168 | 9 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 31 | Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away | $332,910 | $214,958 | 64.6% | $117,952 | 35.4% | 265 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 32 | Red Dawn | $314,348 | $215,052 | 68.4% | $99,296 | 31.6% | 249 | 10 | FilmDistrict | - | false |
| 33 | Here Comes the Boom | $298,109 | $198,237 | 66.5% | $99,872 | 33.5% | 209 | 15 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 34 | Anna Karenina | $253,295 | $164,220 | 64.8% | $89,075 | 35.2% | 117 | 10 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 35 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | $234,569 | $149,969 | 63.9% | $84,600 | 36.1% | 71 | 31 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 36 | Promised Land | $185,812 | $122,042 | 65.7% | $63,770 | 34.3% | 134 | 4 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 37 | Taken 2 | $146,855 | $105,395 | 71.8% | $41,460 | 28.2% | 156 | 16 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 38 | To the Arctic 3D | $128,798 | $73,623 | 57.2% | $55,175 | 42.8% | 52 | 40 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 39 | Luv | $119,142 | $83,194 | 69.8% | $35,948 | 30.2% | 45 | 1 | Indomina Releasing | - | false |
| 40 | Frankenweenie | $108,754 | $71,841 | 66.1% | $36,913 | 33.9% | 100 | 16 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 41 | Hitchcock | $108,605 | $68,735 | 63.3% | $39,870 | 36.7% | 122 | 9 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 42 | Hubble | $99,712 | $51,426 | 51.6% | $48,286 | 48.4% | 17 | 149 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 43 | Pitch Perfect | $96,865 | $69,365 | 71.6% | $27,500 | 28.4% | 125 | 17 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 44 | A Royal Affair | $78,545 | $49,334 | 62.8% | $29,211 | 37.2% | 38 | 11 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 45 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | $76,117 | $51,430 | 67.6% | $24,687 | 32.4% | 73 | 18 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 46 | Barbara | $74,125 | $47,647 | 64.3% | $26,478 | 35.7% | 23 | 5 | Adopt Films | - | false |
| 47 | The Sessions | $68,119 | $43,360 | 63.6% | $24,759 | 36.4% | 62 | 14 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 48 | Chasing Ice | $58,250 | $29,700 | 51% | $28,550 | 49% | 40 | 11 | Submarine Deluxe | - | false |
| 49 | Born to Be Wild | $55,974 | $32,379 | 57.8% | $23,595 | 42.2% | 30 | 94 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 50 | 56 Up | $49,811 | $32,035 | 64.3% | $17,776 | 35.7% | 6 | 3 | First Run | - | false |
| 51 | Searching for Sugar Man | $44,419 | $29,354 | 66.1% | $15,065 | 33.9% | 27 | 26 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 52 | Cloud Atlas | $44,414 | $29,838 | 67.2% | $14,576 | 32.8% | 58 | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 53 | Space Station 3D | $34,160 | $18,060 | 52.9% | $16,100 | 47.1% | 4 | 562 | IMAX | - | false |
| 54 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | $34,124 | $22,734 | 66.6% | $11,390 | 33.4% | 40 | 28 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 55 | A Late Quartet | $31,450 | $18,868 | 60% | $12,582 | 40% | 14 | 12 | Entertainment One | - | false |
| 56 | The Master | $30,810 | $17,426 | 56.6% | $13,384 | 43.4% | 14 | 19 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 57 | Playing for Keeps | $26,346 | $17,773 | 67.5% | $8,573 | 32.5% | 58 | 7 | FilmDistrict | - | false |
| 58 | Deep Sea | $25,668 | $14,666 | 57.1% | $11,002 | 42.9% | 4 | 360 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 59 | Holy Motors | $21,697 | $11,400 | 52.5% | $10,297 | 47.5% | 6 | 15 | Indomina Releasing | - | false |
| 60 | The House I Live In | $18,698 | $12,551 | 67.1% | $6,147 | 32.9% | 5 | 16 | Abramorama | - | false |
| 61 | The Rabbi's Cat | $16,412 | $10,333 | 63% | $6,079 | 37% | 6 | 7 | GKIDS | - | false |
| 62 | Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel | $13,555 | $8,293 | 61.2% | $5,262 | 38.8% | 7 | 18 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 63 | Somewhere Between | $12,457 | $6,108 | 49% | $6,349 | 51% | 3 | 22 | Long Shot Factory | - | false |
| 64 | West of Memphis | $12,058 | $7,962 | 66% | $4,096 | 34% | 9 | 5 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 65 | Not Fade Away | $11,982 | $6,937 | 57.9% | $5,045 | 42.1% | 56 | 5 | Paramount Vantage | - | false |
| 66 | The Central Park Five | $11,008 | - | - | - | - | 9 | 9 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 67 | Sister | $10,637 | $8,915 | 83.8% | $1,722 | 16.2% | 11 | 16 | Adopt Films | - | false |
| 68 | Killing Them Softly | $10,138 | $6,270 | 61.8% | $3,868 | 38.2% | 12 | 8 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 69 | Any Day Now | $9,436 | $5,203 | 55.1% | $4,233 | 44.9% | 8 | 6 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 70 | Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation | $9,119 | $5,530 | 60.6% | $3,589 | 39.4% | 1 | 1 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 71 | Burn | $8,200 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 27 | - | - | false |
| 72 | Clandestine Childhood | $8,137 | $8,137 | 100% | $0 | - | 2 | 1 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 73 | Under the Sea 3D | $7,503 | $5,648 | 75.3% | $1,855 | 24.7% | 5 | 206 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 74 | Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 1: Beginnings | $6,600 | $6,600 | 100% | $0 | - | 2 | 14 | Eleven Arts | - | false |
| 75 | Let My People Go! | $5,785 | $3,594 | 62.1% | $2,191 | 37.9% | 3 | 2 | Zeitgeist Films | - | false |
| 76 | The Other Son | $5,749 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 13 | Cohen Media Group | - | false |
| 77 | The Waiting Room | $4,641 | $2,077 | 44.8% | $2,564 | 55.2% | 3 | 18 | International Film Circuit | - | false |
| 78 | Brief Reunion | $4,217 | $3,085 | 73.2% | $1,132 | 26.8% | 2 | 1 | Striped Entertainment | - | false |
| 79 | Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare | $3,653 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 16 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 80 | Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters | $3,378 | $1,512 | 44.8% | $1,866 | 55.2% | 2 | 12 | Zeitgeist Films | - | false |
| 81 | 5 Broken Cameras | $3,332 | $1,777 | 53.3% | $1,555 | 46.7% | 1 | 35 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 82 | Bless Me, Ultima | $3,171 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Arenas Entertainment | - | false |
| 83 | Bill W. | $2,575 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 36 | Page 124 Productions | - | false |
| 84 | Django | $2,539 | $1,181 | 46.5% | $1,358 | 53.5% | 6 | 5 | Rialto Pictures | - | false |
| 85 | Wagner & Me 2012 Re-release | $2,215 | $1,058 | 47.8% | $1,157 | 52.2% | 3 | 7 | First Run | - | false |
| 86 | Tchoupitoulas | $2,090 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 7 | Oscilloscope | - | false |
| 87 | Brooklyn Castle | $1,933 | $3,875 | 200.5% | $-1,942 | - | 3 | 14 | Producers Distribution Agency (PDA) | - | false |
| 88 | Deadfall | $1,869 | $1,322 | 70.7% | $547 | 29.3% | 2 | 7 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 89 | Dabangg 2 | $1,829 | $1,107 | 60.5% | $722 | 39.5% | 166 | 5 | Eros Worldwide | - | false |
| 90 | The Invisible War | $1,693 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 31 | Cinedigm Entertainment Group | - | false |
| 91 | Orchestra of Exiles | $1,640 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 13 | First Run | - | false |
| 92 | Officer Down | $1,463 | $1,061 | 72.5% | $402 | 27.5% | 1 | 1 | Anchor Bay Films | - | false |
| 93 | The Law in These Parts | $1,413 | $748 | 52.9% | $665 | 47.1% | 1 | 10 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| 94 | A Dark Truth | $1,369 | $424 | 31% | $945 | 69% | 1 | 3 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 95 | Struck by Lightning | $1,250 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | Tribeca Films | - | false |
| 96 | The Revisionaries | $900 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 16 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 97 | Galapagos | $576 | $344 | 59.7% | $232 | 40.3% | 1 | 691 | IMAX | - | false |
| 98 | The Bride Wore Black | $510 | $510 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 64 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 99 | California Solo | $399 | $294 | 73.7% | $105 | 26.3% | 1 | 8 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 100 | North Sea Texas 2012 Re-release | $332 | $75 | 22.6% | $257 | 77.4% | 1 | 12 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 101 | In Another Country | $259 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 11 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 102 | Neighboring Sounds | $156 | $32 | 20.5% | $124 | 79.5% | 1 | 22 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| 103 | Storage 24 | $72 | $72 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 1 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Starlet | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| - | My Worst Nightmare | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| - | Port of Shadows | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | Rialto Pictures | - | false |
| - | All Together | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| - | Detropia | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | Loki Films | - | false |
| - | Radio Unnameable | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| - | Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon | - | - | - | - | - | - | 383 | IMAX | - | false |
| - | Kumaré | - | - | - | - | - | - | 32 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| - | Beware of Mr. Baker | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | SnagFilms | - | false |
| - | Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film | - | - | - | - | - | - | 25 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| - | We Won't Grow Old Together | - | - | - | - | - | - | 33 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| - | The Man in the White Suit | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Rialto Pictures | - | false |
