Weekend Domestic Box Office December 2, 2011
| Rank | Prev | Title | Daily Gross | Weekly Change |
Theaters | Theater Average |
Total Gross | Days in Release | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (1) | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | $16,535,465 | -60% | 4,046 | $4,087 | $246,926,409 | 17 | |
| 2 | (2) | The Muppets | $11,082,755 | -62% | 3,440 | $3,222 | $56,357,170 | 12 | |
| 3 | (5) | Hugo | $7,557,709 | -33% | 1,840 | $4,107 | $25,121,185 | 12 | |
| 4 | (4) | Arthur Christmas | $7,401,736 | -39% | 3,376 | $2,192 | $25,343,487 | 12 | |
| 5 | (3) | Happy Feet Two | $5,919,390 | -56% | 3,536 | $1,674 | $51,704,566 | 17 | |
| 6 | (6) | Jack and Jill | $5,356,973 | -46% | 3,049 | $1,757 | $64,165,454 | 24 | |
| 7 | (9) | The Descendants | $4,789,741 | -35% | 574 | $8,344 | $17,677,071 | 19 | |
| 8 | (7) | Immortals | $4,464,889 | -50% | 2,627 | $1,700 | $75,659,174 | 24 | |
| 9 | (10) | Tower Heist | $3,953,925 | -45% | 2,404 | $1,645 | $70,598,755 | 31 | |
| 10 | (8) | Puss in Boots | $3,042,241 | -59% | 2,750 | $1,106 | $139,514,442 | 38 | |
| 11 | (11) | J. Edgar | $2,308,411 | -54% | 1,985 | $1,163 | $32,569,492 | 26 | |
| 12 | (12) | My Week with Marilyn | $1,179,545 | -33% | 244 | $4,834 | $3,860,751 | 12 | |
| 13 | (13) | A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas | $985,378 | -38% | 710 | $1,388 | $33,085,345 | 31 | |
| 14 | (22) | Moneyball | $570,147 | +100% | 1,004 | $568 | $73,787,485 | 73 | |
| 15 | (14) | In Time | $555,102 | -28% | 421 | $1,319 | $35,850,495 | 38 | |
| 16 | (24) | The Ides of March | $515,897 | +103% | 1,016 | $508 | $40,123,590 | 59 | |
| 17 | (new) | Shame | $349,519 | 10 | $34,952 | $349,519 | 3 | ||
| 18 | (31) | Dolphin Tale | $315,278 | +70% | 410 | $769 | $70,714,876 | 73 | |
| 19 | (18) | Melancholia | $270,335 | -18% | 129 | $2,096 | $1,601,918 | 24 | |
| 20 | (16) | Like Crazy | $257,767 | -39% | 152 | $1,696 | $2,874,373 | 38 | |
| 21 | (43) | Midnight in Paris | $241,434 | +310% | 305 | $792 | $55,944,592 | 199 | |
| 22 | (20) | Margin Call | $215,438 | -27% | 151 | $1,427 | $4,684,755 | 45 | |
| 23 | (27) | Courageous | $212,898 | +2% | 265 | $803 | $33,036,124 | 66 | |
| 24 | (29) | The Artist | $211,265 | +3% | 6 | $35,211 | $501,624 | 10 | |
| 25 | (17) | Real Steel | $183,228 | -45% | 253 | $724 | $83,425,009 | 59 | |
| 26 | (28) | The Way | $178,076 | -13% | 160 | $1,113 | $3,623,724 | 59 | |
| 27 | (19) | The Help | $175,552 | -44% | 262 | $670 | $169,036,252 | 117 | |
| 28 | (15) | Desi Boyz | $170,511 | -76% | 103 | $1,655 | $984,679 | 10 | |
| 29 | (32) | The Skin I Live In | $156,767 | -15% | 116 | $1,351 | $2,649,733 | 52 | |
| 30 | (21) | Footloose | $142,667 | -51% | 309 | $462 | $51,031,234 | 52 | |
| 31 | (30) | 50/50 | $132,180 | -33% | 196 | $674 | $34,760,171 | 66 | |
| 32 | (25) | The Smurfs | $131,777 | -45% | 327 | $403 | $142,500,164 | 129 | |
| 33 | (23) | Paranormal Activity 3 | $130,883 | -52% | 255 | $513 | $103,442,444 | 45 | |
| 34 | (34) | A Dangerous Method | $119,574 | -29% | 4 | $29,894 | $412,937 | 12 | |
| 35 | (26) | The Three Musketeers | $118,889 | -48% | 208 | $572 | $20,094,465 | 45 | |
| 36 | (36) | Abduction | $94,514 | -29% | 151 | $626 | $27,967,677 | 73 | |
| 37 | (33) | Martha Marcy May Marlene | $91,343 | -48% | 84 | $1,087 | $2,732,011 | 45 | |
| 38 | (new) | Pastorela | $82,175 | 55 | $1,494 | $82,175 | 3 | ||
| 39 | (37) | Monsieur Lazhar | $82,161 | -28% | 39 | $2,107 | $1,561,107 | 38 | |
| 40 | (44) | The Polar Express | $72,013 | +30% | 24 | $3,001 | $182,063,699 | 2,581 | |
| 41 | (42) | Anonymous | $71,883 | +4% | 105 | $685 | $4,395,456 | 38 | |
| 42 | (35) | Contagion | $71,007 | -54% | 155 | $458 | $75,566,379 | 87 | |
| 43 | (40) | Born to be Wild 3D | $64,295 | -28% | 49 | $1,312 | $14,564,383 | 241 | |
| 44 | (39) | Drive | $60,515 | -35% | 86 | $704 | $34,598,322 | 80 | |
| 45 | (41) | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $43,435 | -44% | 84 | $517 | $176,646,396 | 122 | |
| 46 | (46) | Take Shelter | $42,379 | -16% | 54 | $785 | $1,507,338 | 66 | |
| 47 | (45) | The Rum Diary | $38,110 | -30% | 63 | $605 | $13,018,899 | 38 | |
| 48 | (38) | The Lion King | $36,687 | -65% | 53 | $692 | $421,669,254 | 6,382 | |
| 49 | (47) | Hubble 3D | $27,132 | -40% | 17 | $1,596 | $29,916,683 | 626 | |
| 50 | (51) | Le Havre | $21,618 | -19% | 16 | $1,351 | $267,348 | 45 | |
| 51 | (56) | Eames: The Architect and the Painter | $20,639 | +13% | 12 | $1,720 | $85,798 | 17 | |
| 52 | (59) | The Women on the 6th Floor | $19,473 | +13% | 11 | $1,770 | $363,978 | 185 | |
| 53 | (-) | Cafe de flore | $16,915 | 6 | $2,819 | $1,574,881 | 73 | ||
| 54 | (55) | Into the Abyss | $14,494 | -24% | 21 | $690 | $175,184 | 24 | |
| 55 | (new) | Answers to Nothing | $14,262 | 21 | $679 | $14,262 | 3 | ||
| 56 | (57) | Tomboy | $13,710 | -24% | 5 | $2,742 | $54,250 | 17 | |
| 57 | (53) | The Guard | $13,074 | -34% | 17 | $769 | $5,297,639 | 129 | |
| 58 | (54) | Under the Sea 3D | $12,733 | -34% | 6 | $2,122 | $30,111,786 | 1,025 | |
| 59 | (52) | The Big Year | $11,466 | -54% | 25 | $459 | $7,179,504 | 52 | |
| 60 | (58) | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | $10,525 | -40% | 15 | $702 | $182,579 | 45 | |
| 61 | (67) | Elite Squad: The Enemy Within | $9,760 | +7% | 6 | $1,627 | $51,469 | 24 | |
| 62 | (new) | Sleeping Beauty | $9,207 | 2 | $4,604 | $9,207 | 3 | ||
| 63 | (63) | Crazy Wisdom | $9,007 | -13% | 2 | $4,504 | $26,001 | 10 | |
| 64 | (50) | Spy Kids: All the Time in the World | $8,910 | -67% | 31 | $287 | $38,528,666 | 108 | |
| 65 | (100) | The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby | $8,278 | +1,465% | 4 | $2,070 | $148,584 | 73 | |
| 66 | (49) | Cars 2 | $7,686 | -73% | 40 | $192 | $191,446,625 | 164 | |
| 67 | (new) | Outrage | $6,518 | 2 | $3,259 | $6,518 | 3 | ||
| 68 | (60) | Sea Rex 3D | $6,341 | -50% | 9 | $705 | $4,411,823 | 556 | |
| 69 | (62) | Mozart’s Sister | $6,215 | -43% | 10 | $622 | $628,278 | 108 | |
| 70 | (new) | Khodorkovsky | $6,110 | 1 | $6,110 | $9,634 | 5 | ||
| 71 | (68) | Inni | $5,774 | -18% | 7 | $825 | $109,469 | 69 | |
| 72 | (73) | Young Goethe in Love | $5,717 | +11% | 5 | $1,143 | $65,757 | 31 | |
| 73 | (78) | The Mill and the Cross | $5,678 | +51% | 6 | $946 | $254,452 | 82 | |
| 74 | (84) | Blackthorn | $5,504 | +150% | 6 | $917 | $169,230 | 59 | |
| 75 | (79) | Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness | $4,997 | +67% | 5 | $999 | $832,797 | 150 | |
| 76 | (48) | Rockstar | $4,608 | -87% | 112 | $41 | $985,912 | 24 | |
| 77 | (-) | Circumstance | $3,960 | 2 | $1,980 | $445,789 | 101 | ||
| 78 | (77) | The Other F Word | $3,604 | -7% | 2 | $1,802 | $49,412 | 31 | |
| 79 | (65) | Galapagos | $3,288 | -66% | 1 | $3,288 | $18,029,983 | 4,420 | |
| 80 | (64) | Sarah's Key | $2,956 | -71% | 7 | $422 | $7,691,700 | 136 | |
| 81 | (75) | House of Pleasures | $2,767 | -42% | 1 | $2,767 | $10,871 | 10 | |
| 82 | (72) | Revenge of the Electric Car | $2,545 | -52% | 2 | $1,273 | $142,960 | 45 | |
| 83 | (-) | America the Beautiful II: The Thin Commandments | $2,182 | 1 | $2,182 | $11,926 | 54 | ||
| 84 | (86) | Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain | $2,038 | -6% | 5 | $408 | $7,704,481 | 87 | |
| 85 | (69) | El Bulli: Cooking in Progress | $1,940 | -71% | 1 | $1,940 | $188,178 | 131 | |
| 86 | (85) | My Reincarnation | $1,902 | -12% | 1 | $1,902 | $30,797 | 38 | |
| 87 | (96) | Tyrannosaur | $1,392 | +73% | 3 | $464 | $13,454 | 17 | |
| 88 | (-) | Hell and Back Again | $1,300 | 1 | $1,300 | $32,460 | 61 | ||
| 89 | (94) | Higher Ground | $1,262 | +27% | 6 | $210 | $834,103 | 101 | |
| 90 | (-) | Paul Goodman Changed My Life | $1,099 | 1 | $1,099 | $23,209 | 47 | ||
| 91 | (-) | Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life | $1,017 | 3 | $339 | $227,835 | 96 | ||
| 92 | (-) | The Bride Wore Black | $1,016 | 1 | $1,016 | $14,446 | 15,868 | ||
| 93 | (88) | Granito: How to Nail a Dictator | $980 | -36% | 1 | $980 | $36,738 | 82 | |
| 94 | (-) | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $919 | 1 | $919 | $53,233,344 | 4,791 | ||
| 95 | (89) | The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch | $837 | -38% | 2 | $419 | $6,355 | 17 | |
| 96 | (70) | The Whale | $707 | -89% | 1 | $707 | $55,224 | 87 | |
| 97 | (-) | Thunder Soul | $279 | 1 | $279 | $143,986 | 73 | ||
| 98 | (81) | Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | $277 | -89% | 1 | $277 | $17,601 | 138 | |
| 99 | (101) | Rapt | $205 | -59% | 1 | $205 | $45,294 | 152 | |
| 100 | (91) | The Conquest | $118 | -91% | 1 | $118 | $39,163 | 24 | |
| 101 | (95) | Restless | $18 | -98% | 1 | $18 | $162,030 | 80 | |
| Reporting movies: 101 | $81,128,818 | total box office | |||||||
| Rank | Title | Daily | Theaters | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | $16,535,465 | 4,046 | $246,926,409 |
| 2 | The Muppets | $11,082,755 | 3,440 | $56,357,170 |
| 3 | Hugo | $7,557,709 | 1,840 | $25,121,185 |
| 4 | Arthur Christmas | $7,401,736 | 3,376 | $25,343,487 |
| 5 | Happy Feet Two | $5,919,390 | 3,536 | $51,704,566 |
| 6 | Jack and Jill | $5,356,973 | 3,049 | $64,165,454 |
| 7 | The Descendants | $4,789,741 | 574 | $17,677,071 |
| 8 | Immortals | $4,464,889 | 2,627 | $75,659,174 |
| 9 | Tower Heist | $3,953,925 | 2,404 | $70,598,755 |
| 10 | Puss in Boots | $3,042,241 | 2,750 | $139,514,442 |
| 11 | J. Edgar | $2,308,411 | 1,985 | $32,569,492 |
| 12 | My Week with Marilyn | $1,179,545 | 244 | $3,860,751 |
| 13 | A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas | $985,378 | 710 | $33,085,345 |
| 14 | Moneyball | $570,147 | 1,004 | $73,787,485 |
| 15 | In Time | $555,102 | 421 | $35,850,495 |
| 16 | The Ides of March | $515,897 | 1,016 | $40,123,590 |
| 17 | Shame | $349,519 | 10 | $349,519 |
| 18 | Dolphin Tale | $315,278 | 410 | $70,714,876 |
| 19 | Melancholia | $270,335 | 129 | $1,601,918 |
| 20 | Like Crazy | $257,767 | 152 | $2,874,373 |
| 21 | Midnight in Paris | $241,434 | 305 | $55,944,592 |
| 22 | Margin Call | $215,438 | 151 | $4,684,755 |
| 23 | Courageous | $212,898 | 265 | $33,036,124 |
| 24 | The Artist | $211,265 | 6 | $501,624 |
| 25 | Real Steel | $183,228 | 253 | $83,425,009 |
| 26 | The Way | $178,076 | 160 | $3,623,724 |
| 27 | The Help | $175,552 | 262 | $169,036,252 |
| 28 | Desi Boyz | $170,511 | 103 | $984,679 |
| 29 | The Skin I Live In | $156,767 | 116 | $2,649,733 |
| 30 | Footloose | $142,667 | 309 | $51,031,234 |
| 31 | 50/50 | $132,180 | 196 | $34,760,171 |
| 32 | The Smurfs | $131,777 | 327 | $142,500,164 |
| 33 | Paranormal Activity 3 | $130,883 | 255 | $103,442,444 |
| 34 | A Dangerous Method | $119,574 | 4 | $412,937 |
| 35 | The Three Musketeers | $118,889 | 208 | $20,094,465 |
| 36 | Abduction | $94,514 | 151 | $27,967,677 |
| 37 | Martha Marcy May Marlene | $91,343 | 84 | $2,732,011 |
| 38 | Pastorela | $82,175 | 55 | $82,175 |
| 39 | Monsieur Lazhar | $82,161 | 39 | $1,561,107 |
| 40 | The Polar Express | $72,013 | 24 | $182,063,699 |
| 41 | Anonymous | $71,883 | 105 | $4,395,456 |
| 42 | Contagion | $71,007 | 155 | $75,566,379 |
| 43 | Born to be Wild 3D | $64,295 | 49 | $14,564,383 |
| 44 | Drive | $60,515 | 86 | $34,598,322 |
| 45 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $43,435 | 84 | $176,646,396 |
| 46 | Take Shelter | $42,379 | 54 | $1,507,338 |
| 47 | The Rum Diary | $38,110 | 63 | $13,018,899 |
| 48 | The Lion King | $36,687 | 53 | $421,669,254 |
| 49 | Hubble 3D | $27,132 | 17 | $29,916,683 |
| 50 | Le Havre | $21,618 | 16 | $267,348 |
| 51 | Eames: The Architect and the Painter | $20,639 | 12 | $85,798 |
| 52 | The Women on the 6th Floor | $19,473 | 11 | $363,978 |
| 53 | Cafe de flore | $16,915 | 6 | $1,574,881 |
| 54 | Into the Abyss | $14,494 | 21 | $175,184 |
| 55 | Answers to Nothing | $14,262 | 21 | $14,262 |
| 56 | Tomboy | $13,710 | 5 | $54,250 |
| 57 | The Guard | $13,074 | 17 | $5,297,639 |
| 58 | Under the Sea 3D | $12,733 | 6 | $30,111,786 |
| 59 | The Big Year | $11,466 | 25 | $7,179,504 |
| 60 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | $10,525 | 15 | $182,579 |
| 61 | Elite Squad: The Enemy Within | $9,760 | 6 | $51,469 |
| 62 | Sleeping Beauty | $9,207 | 2 | $9,207 |
| 63 | Crazy Wisdom | $9,007 | 2 | $26,001 |
| 64 | Spy Kids: All the Time in the World | $8,910 | 31 | $38,528,666 |
| 65 | The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby | $8,278 | 4 | $148,584 |
| 66 | Cars 2 | $7,686 | 40 | $191,446,625 |
| 67 | Outrage | $6,518 | 2 | $6,518 |
| 68 | Sea Rex 3D | $6,341 | 9 | $4,411,823 |
| 69 | Mozart’s Sister | $6,215 | 10 | $628,278 |
| 70 | Khodorkovsky | $6,110 | 1 | $9,634 |
| 71 | Inni | $5,774 | 7 | $109,469 |
| 72 | Young Goethe in Love | $5,717 | 5 | $65,757 |
| 73 | The Mill and the Cross | $5,678 | 6 | $254,452 |
| 74 | Blackthorn | $5,504 | 6 | $169,230 |
| 75 | Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness | $4,997 | 5 | $832,797 |
| 76 | Rockstar | $4,608 | 112 | $985,912 |
| 77 | Circumstance | $3,960 | 2 | $445,789 |
| 78 | The Other F Word | $3,604 | 2 | $49,412 |
| 79 | Galapagos | $3,288 | 1 | $18,029,983 |
| 80 | Sarah's Key | $2,956 | 7 | $7,691,700 |
| 81 | House of Pleasures | $2,767 | 1 | $10,871 |
| 82 | Revenge of the Electric Car | $2,545 | 2 | $142,960 |
| 83 | America the Beautiful II: The Thin Commandments | $2,182 | 1 | $11,926 |
| 84 | Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain | $2,038 | 5 | $7,704,481 |
| 85 | El Bulli: Cooking in Progress | $1,940 | 1 | $188,178 |
| 86 | My Reincarnation | $1,902 | 1 | $30,797 |
| 87 | Tyrannosaur | $1,392 | 3 | $13,454 |
| 88 | Hell and Back Again | $1,300 | 1 | $32,460 |
| 89 | Higher Ground | $1,262 | 6 | $834,103 |
| 90 | Paul Goodman Changed My Life | $1,099 | 1 | $23,209 |
| 91 | Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life | $1,017 | 3 | $227,835 |
| 92 | The Bride Wore Black | $1,016 | 1 | $14,446 |
| 93 | Granito: How to Nail a Dictator | $980 | 1 | $36,738 |
| 94 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $919 | 1 | $53,233,344 |
| 95 | The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch | $837 | 2 | $6,355 |
| 96 | The Whale | $707 | 1 | $55,224 |
| 97 | Thunder Soul | $279 | 1 | $143,986 |
| 98 | Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | $277 | 1 | $17,601 |
| 99 | Rapt | $205 | 1 | $45,294 |
| 100 | The Conquest | $118 | 1 | $39,163 |
| 101 | Restless | $18 | 1 | $162,030 |
| Reporting: 101 | $81,128,818 | total | ||