Weekend Domestic Box Office December 9, 2011
| Rank | Prev | Title | Daily Gross | Weekly Change |
Theaters | Theater Average |
Total Gross | Days in Release | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (new) | New Year’s Eve | $13,019,180 | 3,505 | $3,714 | $13,019,180 | 3 | ||
| 2 | (new) | The Sitter | $9,851,435 | 2,750 | $3,582 | $9,851,435 | 3 | ||
| 3 | (1) | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | $7,819,402 | -53% | 3,604 | $2,170 | $259,402,669 | 24 | |
| 4 | (2) | The Muppets | $6,978,870 | -37% | 3,328 | $2,097 | $65,742,128 | 19 | |
| 5 | (4) | Arthur Christmas | $6,510,486 | -12% | 3,272 | $1,990 | $33,400,598 | 19 | |
| 6 | (3) | Hugo | $6,050,309 | -20% | 2,608 | $2,320 | $33,414,719 | 19 | |
| 7 | (7) | The Descendants | $4,380,138 | -9% | 876 | $5,000 | $23,630,561 | 26 | |
| 8 | (5) | Happy Feet Two | $3,690,304 | -38% | 2,840 | $1,299 | $56,790,405 | 24 | |
| 9 | (6) | Jack and Jill | $3,085,098 | -42% | 2,787 | $1,107 | $68,527,385 | 31 | |
| 10 | (8) | Immortals | $2,461,227 | -45% | 2,299 | $1,071 | $79,868,732 | 31 | |
| 11 | (9) | Tower Heist | $2,358,655 | -40% | 2,069 | $1,140 | $74,122,185 | 38 | |
| 12 | (10) | Puss in Boots | $1,628,199 | -46% | 1,843 | $883 | $141,873,474 | 45 | |
| 13 | (11) | J. Edgar | $1,188,413 | -49% | 1,555 | $764 | $34,761,111 | 33 | |
| 14 | (12) | My Week with Marilyn | $780,822 | -34% | 244 | $3,200 | $5,118,661 | 19 | |
| 15 | (13) | A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas | $474,749 | -52% | 470 | $1,010 | $33,986,208 | 38 | |
| 16 | (15) | In Time | $347,020 | -37% | 354 | $980 | $36,405,892 | 45 | |
| 17 | (new) | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | $310,562 | 4 | $77,641 | $310,562 | 3 | ||
| 18 | (new) | $310,263 | 8 | $38,783 | $310,263 | 3 | |||
| 19 | (24) | The Artist | $295,361 | +40% | 16 | $18,460 | $888,741 | 17 | |
| 20 | (17) | Shame | $283,415 | -19% | 21 | $13,496 | $781,501 | 10 | |
| 21 | (18) | Dolphin Tale | $269,737 | -14% | 342 | $789 | $71,068,652 | 80 | |
| 22 | (19) | Melancholia | $230,558 | -15% | 145 | $1,590 | $1,971,443 | 31 | |
| 23 | (23) | Courageous | $193,760 | -9% | 191 | $1,014 | $33,333,639 | 73 | |
| 24 | (22) | Margin Call | $178,130 | -17% | 148 | $1,204 | $4,947,080 | 52 | |
| 25 | (20) | Like Crazy | $165,779 | -36% | 162 | $1,023 | $3,147,092 | 45 | |
| 26 | (14) | Moneyball | $150,309 | -74% | 208 | $723 | $74,176,912 | 80 | |
| 27 | (33) | Paranormal Activity 3 | $142,652 | +9% | 302 | $472 | $103,629,004 | 52 | |
| 28 | (25) | Real Steel | $131,872 | -28% | 206 | $640 | $83,611,200 | 66 | |
| 29 | (26) | The Way | $123,396 | -31% | 120 | $1,028 | $3,836,967 | 66 | |
| 30 | (16) | The Ides of March | $118,673 | -77% | 187 | $635 | $40,467,881 | 66 | |
| 31 | (21) | Midnight in Paris | $115,370 | -52% | 195 | $592 | $56,177,987 | 206 | |
| 32 | (40) | The Polar Express | $115,297 | +60% | 25 | $4,612 | $182,201,325 | 2,588 | |
| 33 | (29) | The Skin I Live In | $110,230 | -30% | 109 | $1,011 | $2,382,086 | 59 | |
| 34 | (27) | The Help | $106,325 | -39% | 212 | $502 | $169,224,625 | 124 | |
| 35 | (35) | The Three Musketeers | $86,234 | -27% | 168 | $513 | $20,227,517 | 52 | |
| 36 | (32) | The Smurfs | $81,564 | -38% | 181 | $451 | $142,614,158 | 136 | |
| 37 | (34) | A Dangerous Method | $76,936 | -36% | 4 | $19,234 | $535,985 | 19 | |
| 38 | (30) | Footloose | $70,026 | -51% | 201 | $348 | $51,142,454 | 59 | |
| 39 | (36) | Abduction | $68,213 | -28% | 131 | $521 | $28,064,226 | 80 | |
| 40 | (31) | 50/50 | $65,038 | -51% | 146 | $445 | $34,887,978 | 73 | |
| 41 | (43) | Born to be Wild 3D | $62,090 | -3% | 49 | $1,267 | $14,675,835 | 248 | |
| 42 | (37) | Martha Marcy May Marlene | $51,057 | -44% | 72 | $709 | $2,821,084 | 52 | |
| 43 | (44) | Drive | $48,452 | -20% | 70 | $692 | $34,677,497 | 87 | |
| 44 | (46) | Take Shelter | $47,721 | +13% | 63 | $757 | $1,573,215 | 73 | |
| 45 | (42) | Contagion | $44,759 | -37% | 111 | $403 | $75,638,743 | 94 | |
| 46 | (28) | Desi Boyz | $42,917 | -75% | 103 | $417 | $1,066,167 | 17 | |
| 47 | (50) | Le Havre | $38,210 | +77% | 23 | $1,661 | $317,638 | 52 | |
| 48 | (45) | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $35,670 | -18% | 61 | $585 | $176,698,086 | 129 | |
| 49 | (41) | Anonymous | $31,852 | -56% | 82 | $388 | $4,463,292 | 45 | |
| 50 | (38) | Pastorela | $30,870 | -62% | 44 | $702 | $136,570 | 10 | |
| 51 | (47) | The Rum Diary | $29,471 | -23% | 63 | $468 | $13,070,462 | 45 | |
| 52 | (48) | The Lion King | $26,683 | -27% | 38 | $702 | $421,708,302 | 6,389 | |
| 53 | (new) | $24,587 | 1 | $24,587 | $24,587 | 3 | |||
| 54 | (52) | The Women on the 6th Floor | $23,385 | +20% | 13 | $1,799 | $397,036 | 192 | |
| 55 | (49) | Hubble 3D | $22,776 | -16% | 18 | $1,265 | $29,988,039 | 633 | |
| 56 | (69) | Mozart’s Sister | $16,738 | +169% | 16 | $1,046 | $646,268 | 115 | |
| 57 | (51) | Eames: The Architect and the Painter | $15,942 | -23% | 11 | $1,449 | $112,368 | 24 | |
| 58 | (54) | Into the Abyss | $15,831 | +9% | 30 | $528 | $199,765 | 31 | |
| 59 | (87) | Tyrannosaur | $14,559 | +946% | 1 | $14,559 | $15,085 | 24 | |
| 60 | (58) | Under the Sea 3D | $12,746 | +0% | 9 | $1,416 | $30,184,362 | 1,032 | |
| 61 | (72) | Young Goethe in Love | $12,524 | +119% | 8 | $1,566 | $81,400 | 38 | |
| 62 | (new) | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | $12,358 | 9 | $1,373 | $12,358 | 3 | ||
| 63 | (61) | Elite Squad: The Enemy Within | $11,525 | +18% | 7 | $1,646 | $68,716 | 31 | |
| 64 | (56) | Tomboy | $11,517 | -16% | 9 | $1,280 | $72,880 | 24 | |
| 65 | (-) | Space Station | $10,595 | 2 | $5,298 | $84,596,558 | 3,524 | ||
| 66 | (57) | The Guard | $10,301 | -21% | 15 | $687 | $5,313,327 | 136 | |
| 67 | (59) | The Big Year | $8,715 | -24% | 25 | $349 | $7,192,238 | 59 | |
| 68 | (67) | Outrage | $8,131 | +25% | 7 | $1,162 | $18,254 | 10 | |
| 69 | (65) | The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby | $6,170 | -25% | 6 | $1,028 | $158,722 | 80 | |
| 70 | (62) | Sleeping Beauty | $5,944 | -35% | 4 | $1,486 | $21,037 | 10 | |
| 71 | (64) | Spy Kids: All the Time in the World | $5,888 | -34% | 23 | $256 | $38,536,376 | 115 | |
| 72 | (70) | Khodorkovsky | $5,887 | -4% | 1 | $5,887 | $20,102 | 12 | |
| 73 | (74) | Blackthorn | $4,245 | -23% | 5 | $849 | $174,926 | 66 | |
| 74 | (68) | Sea Rex 3D | $4,233 | -33% | 9 | $470 | $4,420,291 | 563 | |
| 75 | (new) | My Piece of the Pie | $4,213 | 2 | $2,107 | $4,213 | 3 | ||
| 76 | (60) | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | $3,132 | -70% | 5 | $626 | $192,415 | 52 | |
| 77 | (63) | Crazy Wisdom | $3,109 | -65% | 2 | $1,555 | $33,010 | 17 | |
| 78 | (77) | Circumstance | $2,843 | -28% | 1 | $2,843 | $452,602 | 108 | |
| 79 | (82) | Revenge of the Electric Car | $2,791 | +10% | 3 | $930 | $149,136 | 52 | |
| 80 | (new) | I Melt with You | $2,729 | 2 | $1,365 | $2,729 | 3 | ||
| 81 | (-) | Project Nim | $2,657 | 2 | $1,329 | $410,077 | 157 | ||
| 82 | (new) | Knuckle | $2,647 | 3 | $882 | $2,647 | 3 | ||
| 83 | (91) | Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life | $2,351 | +131% | 6 | $392 | $230,311 | 103 | |
| 84 | (75) | Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness | $2,250 | -55% | 2 | $1,125 | $836,796 | 157 | |
| 85 | (81) | House of Pleasures | $2,120 | -23% | 3 | $707 | $14,904 | 17 | |
| 86 | (66) | Cars 2 | $2,108 | -73% | 15 | $141 | $191,450,875 | 171 | |
| 87 | (78) | The Other F Word | $2,051 | -43% | 2 | $1,026 | $53,214 | 38 | |
| 88 | (73) | The Mill and the Cross | $1,937 | -66% | 4 | $484 | $257,208 | 89 | |
| 89 | (86) | My Reincarnation | $1,851 | -3% | 2 | $926 | $33,491 | 45 | |
| 90 | (71) | Inni | $1,704 | -70% | 3 | $568 | $113,972 | 76 | |
| 91 | (-) | Garbo: The Spy | $1,580 | 2 | $790 | $16,010 | 24 | ||
| 92 | (92) | The Bride Wore Black | $1,445 | +42% | 2 | $723 | $15,991 | 15,875 | |
| 93 | (-) | Amigo | $1,201 | 1 | $1,201 | $174,365 | 115 | ||
| 94 | (94) | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $1,136 | +24% | 1 | $1,136 | $53,234,896 | 4,798 | |
| 95 | (96) | The Whale | $998 | +41% | 1 | $998 | $56,222 | 94 | |
| 96 | (95) | The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch | $956 | +14% | 2 | $478 | $7,621 | 24 | |
| 97 | (-) | Charlotte Rampling: The Look | $943 | 1 | $943 | $11,673 | 38 | ||
| 98 | (84) | Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain | $935 | -54% | 3 | $312 | $7,705,974 | 94 | |
| 99 | (55) | Answers to Nothing | $866 | -94% | 7 | $124 | $21,304 | 10 | |
| 100 | (-) | Summer | $796 | 1 | $796 | $37,455 | 186 | ||
| 101 | (89) | Higher Ground | $720 | -43% | 5 | $144 | $835,315 | 108 | |
| 102 | (85) | El Bulli: Cooking in Progress | $690 | -64% | 1 | $690 | $190,530 | 138 | |
| 103 | (101) | Restless | $685 | +3,706% | 3 | $228 | $162,753 | 87 | |
| 104 | (90) | Paul Goodman Changed My Life | $617 | -44% | 2 | $309 | $24,266 | 54 | |
| 105 | (98) | Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | $488 | +76% | 1 | $488 | $18,089 | 145 | |
| 106 | (88) | Hell and Back Again | $401 | -69% | 1 | $401 | $34,292 | 68 | |
| 107 | (-) | The Future | $219 | 1 | $219 | $568,509 | 136 | ||
| 108 | (99) | Rapt | $85 | -59% | 1 | $85 | $45,669 | 159 | |
| Reporting movies: 108 | $75,233,610 | total box office | |||||||
| Rank | Title | Daily | Theaters | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Year’s Eve | $13,019,180 | 3,505 | $13,019,180 |
| 2 | The Sitter | $9,851,435 | 2,750 | $9,851,435 |
| 3 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | $7,819,402 | 3,604 | $259,402,669 |
| 4 | The Muppets | $6,978,870 | 3,328 | $65,742,128 |
| 5 | Arthur Christmas | $6,510,486 | 3,272 | $33,400,598 |
| 6 | Hugo | $6,050,309 | 2,608 | $33,414,719 |
| 7 | The Descendants | $4,380,138 | 876 | $23,630,561 |
| 8 | Happy Feet Two | $3,690,304 | 2,840 | $56,790,405 |
| 9 | Jack and Jill | $3,085,098 | 2,787 | $68,527,385 |
| 10 | Immortals | $2,461,227 | 2,299 | $79,868,732 |
| 11 | Tower Heist | $2,358,655 | 2,069 | $74,122,185 |
| 12 | Puss in Boots | $1,628,199 | 1,843 | $141,873,474 |
| 13 | J. Edgar | $1,188,413 | 1,555 | $34,761,111 |
| 14 | My Week with Marilyn | $780,822 | 244 | $5,118,661 |
| 15 | A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas | $474,749 | 470 | $33,986,208 |
| 16 | In Time | $347,020 | 354 | $36,405,892 |
| 17 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | $310,562 | 4 | $310,562 |
| 18 | $310,263 | 8 | $310,263 | |
| 19 | The Artist | $295,361 | 16 | $888,741 |
| 20 | Shame | $283,415 | 21 | $781,501 |
| 21 | Dolphin Tale | $269,737 | 342 | $71,068,652 |
| 22 | Melancholia | $230,558 | 145 | $1,971,443 |
| 23 | Courageous | $193,760 | 191 | $33,333,639 |
| 24 | Margin Call | $178,130 | 148 | $4,947,080 |
| 25 | Like Crazy | $165,779 | 162 | $3,147,092 |
| 26 | Moneyball | $150,309 | 208 | $74,176,912 |
| 27 | Paranormal Activity 3 | $142,652 | 302 | $103,629,004 |
| 28 | Real Steel | $131,872 | 206 | $83,611,200 |
| 29 | The Way | $123,396 | 120 | $3,836,967 |
| 30 | The Ides of March | $118,673 | 187 | $40,467,881 |
| 31 | Midnight in Paris | $115,370 | 195 | $56,177,987 |
| 32 | The Polar Express | $115,297 | 25 | $182,201,325 |
| 33 | The Skin I Live In | $110,230 | 109 | $2,382,086 |
| 34 | The Help | $106,325 | 212 | $169,224,625 |
| 35 | The Three Musketeers | $86,234 | 168 | $20,227,517 |
| 36 | The Smurfs | $81,564 | 181 | $142,614,158 |
| 37 | A Dangerous Method | $76,936 | 4 | $535,985 |
| 38 | Footloose | $70,026 | 201 | $51,142,454 |
| 39 | Abduction | $68,213 | 131 | $28,064,226 |
| 40 | 50/50 | $65,038 | 146 | $34,887,978 |
| 41 | Born to be Wild 3D | $62,090 | 49 | $14,675,835 |
| 42 | Martha Marcy May Marlene | $51,057 | 72 | $2,821,084 |
| 43 | Drive | $48,452 | 70 | $34,677,497 |
| 44 | Take Shelter | $47,721 | 63 | $1,573,215 |
| 45 | Contagion | $44,759 | 111 | $75,638,743 |
| 46 | Desi Boyz | $42,917 | 103 | $1,066,167 |
| 47 | Le Havre | $38,210 | 23 | $317,638 |
| 48 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $35,670 | 61 | $176,698,086 |
| 49 | Anonymous | $31,852 | 82 | $4,463,292 |
| 50 | Pastorela | $30,870 | 44 | $136,570 |
| 51 | The Rum Diary | $29,471 | 63 | $13,070,462 |
| 52 | The Lion King | $26,683 | 38 | $421,708,302 |
| 53 | $24,587 | 1 | $24,587 | |
| 54 | The Women on the 6th Floor | $23,385 | 13 | $397,036 |
| 55 | Hubble 3D | $22,776 | 18 | $29,988,039 |
| 56 | Mozart’s Sister | $16,738 | 16 | $646,268 |
| 57 | Eames: The Architect and the Painter | $15,942 | 11 | $112,368 |
| 58 | Into the Abyss | $15,831 | 30 | $199,765 |
| 59 | Tyrannosaur | $14,559 | 1 | $15,085 |
| 60 | Under the Sea 3D | $12,746 | 9 | $30,184,362 |
| 61 | Young Goethe in Love | $12,524 | 8 | $81,400 |
| 62 | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | $12,358 | 9 | $12,358 |
| 63 | Elite Squad: The Enemy Within | $11,525 | 7 | $68,716 |
| 64 | Tomboy | $11,517 | 9 | $72,880 |
| 65 | Space Station | $10,595 | 2 | $84,596,558 |
| 66 | The Guard | $10,301 | 15 | $5,313,327 |
| 67 | The Big Year | $8,715 | 25 | $7,192,238 |
| 68 | Outrage | $8,131 | 7 | $18,254 |
| 69 | The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby | $6,170 | 6 | $158,722 |
| 70 | Sleeping Beauty | $5,944 | 4 | $21,037 |
| 71 | Spy Kids: All the Time in the World | $5,888 | 23 | $38,536,376 |
| 72 | Khodorkovsky | $5,887 | 1 | $20,102 |
| 73 | Blackthorn | $4,245 | 5 | $174,926 |
| 74 | Sea Rex 3D | $4,233 | 9 | $4,420,291 |
| 75 | My Piece of the Pie | $4,213 | 2 | $4,213 |
| 76 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | $3,132 | 5 | $192,415 |
| 77 | Crazy Wisdom | $3,109 | 2 | $33,010 |
| 78 | Circumstance | $2,843 | 1 | $452,602 |
| 79 | Revenge of the Electric Car | $2,791 | 3 | $149,136 |
| 80 | I Melt with You | $2,729 | 2 | $2,729 |
| 81 | Project Nim | $2,657 | 2 | $410,077 |
| 82 | Knuckle | $2,647 | 3 | $2,647 |
| 83 | Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life | $2,351 | 6 | $230,311 |
| 84 | Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness | $2,250 | 2 | $836,796 |
| 85 | House of Pleasures | $2,120 | 3 | $14,904 |
| 86 | Cars 2 | $2,108 | 15 | $191,450,875 |
| 87 | The Other F Word | $2,051 | 2 | $53,214 |
| 88 | The Mill and the Cross | $1,937 | 4 | $257,208 |
| 89 | My Reincarnation | $1,851 | 2 | $33,491 |
| 90 | Inni | $1,704 | 3 | $113,972 |
| 91 | Garbo: The Spy | $1,580 | 2 | $16,010 |
| 92 | The Bride Wore Black | $1,445 | 2 | $15,991 |
| 93 | Amigo | $1,201 | 1 | $174,365 |
| 94 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $1,136 | 1 | $53,234,896 |
| 95 | The Whale | $998 | 1 | $56,222 |
| 96 | The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch | $956 | 2 | $7,621 |
| 97 | Charlotte Rampling: The Look | $943 | 1 | $11,673 |
| 98 | Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain | $935 | 3 | $7,705,974 |
| 99 | Answers to Nothing | $866 | 7 | $21,304 |
| 100 | Summer | $796 | 1 | $37,455 |
| 101 | Higher Ground | $720 | 5 | $835,315 |
| 102 | El Bulli: Cooking in Progress | $690 | 1 | $190,530 |
| 103 | Restless | $685 | 3 | $162,753 |
| 104 | Paul Goodman Changed My Life | $617 | 2 | $24,266 |
| 105 | Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | $488 | 1 | $18,089 |
| 106 | Hell and Back Again | $401 | 1 | $34,292 |
| 107 | The Future | $219 | 1 | $568,509 |
| 108 | Rapt | $85 | 1 | $45,669 |
| Reporting: 108 | $75,233,610 | total | ||