Week Domestic Box Office December 2, 2011
| Rank | Prev | Title | Gross | Weekly Change |
Theaters | Theater Average |
Total Gross | Days in Release | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (1) | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | $21,192,323 | -59% | 4,046 | $5,238 | $251,583,267 | 21 | |
| 2 | (2) | The Muppets | $13,488,843 | -59% | 3,440 | $3,921 | $58,763,258 | 16 | |
| 3 | (5) | Hugo | $9,800,934 | -28% | 1,840 | $5,327 | $27,364,410 | 16 | |
| 4 | (4) | Arthur Christmas | $8,948,361 | -35% | 3,376 | $2,651 | $26,890,112 | 16 | |
| 5 | (3) | Happy Feet Two | $7,314,925 | -53% | 3,536 | $2,069 | $53,100,101 | 21 | |
| 6 | (6) | Jack and Jill | $6,633,806 | -43% | 3,049 | $2,176 | $65,442,287 | 28 | |
| 7 | (8) | The Descendants | $6,363,093 | -32% | 574 | $11,086 | $19,250,423 | 23 | |
| 8 | (7) | Immortals | $6,213,220 | -45% | 2,627 | $2,365 | $77,407,505 | 28 | |
| 9 | (9) | Tower Heist | $5,118,700 | -41% | 2,404 | $2,129 | $71,763,530 | 35 | |
| 10 | (10) | Puss in Boots | $3,773,074 | -56% | 2,750 | $1,372 | $140,245,275 | 42 | |
| 11 | (11) | J. Edgar | $3,311,617 | -48% | 1,985 | $1,668 | $33,572,698 | 30 | |
| 12 | (12) | My Week with Marilyn | $1,656,633 | -30% | 244 | $6,789 | $4,337,839 | 16 | |
| 13 | (13) | A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas | $1,411,492 | -34% | 710 | $1,988 | $33,511,459 | 35 | |
| 14 | (21) | Moneyball | $809,265 | +133% | 1,004 | $806 | $74,026,603 | 77 | |
| 15 | (14) | In Time | $763,479 | -25% | 421 | $1,813 | $36,058,872 | 42 | |
| 16 | (24) | The Ides of March | $741,515 | +132% | 1,016 | $730 | $40,349,208 | 63 | |
| 17 | (new) | Shame | $498,086 | 10 | $49,809 | $498,086 | 7 | ||
| 18 | (17) | Melancholia | $409,302 | -11% | 129 | $3,173 | $1,740,885 | 28 | |
| 19 | (34) | Dolphin Tale | $399,317 | +80% | 410 | $974 | $70,798,915 | 77 | |
| 20 | (16) | Like Crazy | $364,707 | -35% | 152 | $2,399 | $2,981,313 | 42 | |
| 21 | (45) | Midnight in Paris | $359,459 | +363% | 305 | $1,179 | $56,062,617 | 203 | |
| 22 | (29) | Courageous | $316,653 | +16% | 265 | $1,195 | $33,139,879 | 70 | |
| 23 | (26) | The Artist | $303,021 | +4% | 6 | $50,504 | $593,380 | 14 | |
| 24 | (19) | Margin Call | $299,633 | -24% | 151 | $1,984 | $4,768,950 | 49 | |
| 25 | (28) | The Way | $267,923 | -3% | 160 | $1,675 | $3,713,571 | 63 | |
| 26 | (18) | The Help | $257,600 | -38% | 262 | $983 | $169,118,300 | 121 | |
| 27 | (20) | Real Steel | $237,547 | -39% | 253 | $939 | $83,479,328 | 63 | |
| 28 | (15) | Desi Boyz | $209,082 | -74% | 103 | $2,030 | $1,023,250 | 14 | |
| 29 | (30) | 50/50 | $194,949 | -28% | 196 | $995 | $34,822,940 | 70 | |
| 30 | (22) | Footloose | $183,861 | -46% | 309 | $595 | $51,072,428 | 56 | |
| 31 | (23) | Paranormal Activity 3 | $174,791 | -49% | 255 | $685 | $103,486,352 | 49 | |
| 32 | (25) | The Three Musketeers | $165,707 | -44% | 208 | $797 | $20,141,283 | 49 | |
| 33 | (33) | A Dangerous Method | $165,686 | -29% | 4 | $41,422 | $459,049 | 16 | |
| 34 | (27) | The Smurfs | $164,207 | -42% | 327 | $502 | $142,532,594 | 133 | |
| 35 | (32) | Martha Marcy May Marlene | $129,359 | -46% | 84 | $1,540 | $2,770,027 | 49 | |
| 36 | (37) | Abduction | $122,850 | -25% | 151 | $814 | $27,996,013 | 77 | |
| 37 | (39) | Born to be Wild 3D | $113,657 | -17% | 49 | $2,320 | $14,613,745 | 245 | |
| 38 | (43) | Anonymous | $107,867 | +18% | 105 | $1,027 | $4,431,440 | 42 | |
| 39 | (new) | Pastorela | $105,700 | 55 | $1,922 | $105,700 | 7 | ||
| 40 | (35) | Contagion | $98,612 | -51% | 155 | $636 | $75,593,984 | 91 | |
| 0 | (-) | The Polar Express | $94,342 | +38% | 24 | $3,931 | $182,086,028 | 2,585 | |
| 42 | (40) | Drive | $91,238 | -30% | 86 | $1,061 | $34,629,045 | 84 | |
| 43 | (36) | Monsieur Lazhar | $82,161 | -53% | 39 | $2,107 | $1,561,107 | 42 | |
| 44 | (38) | Hubble 3D | $75,712 | -47% | 17 | $4,454 | $29,965,263 | 630 | |
| 45 | (55) | Under the Sea 3D | $72,563 | +144% | 6 | $12,094 | $30,171,616 | 1,029 | |
| 46 | (46) | Take Shelter | $60,535 | -15% | 54 | $1,121 | $1,525,494 | 70 | |
| 47 | (44) | The Rum Diary | $60,202 | -23% | 63 | $956 | $13,040,991 | 42 | |
| 48 | (42) | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $59,455 | -37% | 84 | $708 | $176,662,416 | 126 | |
| 49 | (41) | The Lion King | $49,052 | -61% | 53 | $926 | $421,681,619 | 6,386 | |
| 50 | (50) | Le Havre | $33,280 | -5% | 19 | $1,752 | $279,428 | 49 | |
| 51 | (54) | Eames: The Architect and the Painter | $31,267 | +3% | 12 | $2,606 | $96,426 | 21 | |
| 52 | (59) | The Women on the 6th Floor | $29,146 | +15% | 11 | $2,650 | $373,651 | 189 | |
| 53 | (53) | Into the Abyss | $23,244 | -24% | 21 | $1,107 | $183,934 | 28 | |
| 54 | (58) | Tomboy | $20,823 | -22% | 5 | $4,165 | $61,363 | 21 | |
| 55 | (new) | Answers to Nothing | $20,438 | 21 | $973 | $20,438 | 7 | ||
| 56 | (48) | The Guard | $18,461 | -61% | 17 | $1,086 | $5,303,026 | 133 | |
| 57 | (57) | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | $16,051 | -41% | 15 | $1,070 | $189,283 | 49 | |
| 58 | (64) | Elite Squad: The Enemy Within | $15,491 | +14% | 6 | $2,582 | $57,191 | 28 | |
| 59 | (52) | The Big Year | $15,485 | -52% | 25 | $619 | $7,183,523 | 56 | |
| 60 | (new) | Sleeping Beauty | $15,093 | 2 | $7,547 | $15,093 | 7 | ||
| 61 | (61) | Crazy Wisdom | $12,907 | -24% | 3 | $4,302 | $29,901 | 14 | |
| 62 | (93) | The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby | $12,246 | +1,559% | 4 | $3,062 | $152,552 | 77 | |
| 63 | (56) | Spy Kids: All the Time in the World | $10,732 | -64% | 31 | $346 | $38,530,488 | 112 | |
| 64 | (79) | Khodorkovsky | $10,690 | +203% | 1 | $10,690 | $14,215 | 9 | |
| 65 | (60) | Sea Rex 3D | $10,576 | -44% | 9 | $1,175 | $4,416,058 | 560 | |
| 66 | (new) | Outrage | $10,123 | 2 | $5,062 | $10,123 | 7 | ||
| 67 | (51) | Cars 2 | $9,828 | -70% | 40 | $246 | $191,448,767 | 168 | |
| 68 | (70) | Young Goethe in Love | $8,836 | +22% | 5 | $1,767 | $68,876 | 35 | |
| 69 | (67) | Inni | $8,572 | -24% | 7 | $1,225 | $112,267 | 73 | |
| 70 | (-) | Circumstance | $7,930 | 3 | $2,643 | $449,759 | 105 | ||
| 71 | (63) | Mozart’s Sister | $7,467 | -46% | 12 | $622 | $629,530 | 112 | |
| 72 | (80) | Blackthorn | $6,955 | +119% | 6 | $1,159 | $170,681 | 63 | |
| 73 | (74) | Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness | $6,746 | +20% | 5 | $1,349 | $834,546 | 154 | |
| 74 | (76) | The Mill and the Cross | $6,497 | +30% | 7 | $928 | $255,271 | 86 | |
| 75 | (69) | Revenge of the Electric Car | $5,582 | -28% | 3 | $1,861 | $146,345 | 49 | |
| 76 | (73) | The Other F Word | $5,187 | -19% | 2 | $2,594 | $51,163 | 35 | |
| 77 | (68) | House of Pleasures | $4,680 | -42% | 1 | $4,680 | $12,784 | 14 | |
| 78 | (62) | El Bulli: Cooking in Progress | $3,602 | -74% | 1 | $3,602 | $189,840 | 135 | |
| 79 | (81) | My Reincarnation | $2,745 | -9% | 1 | $2,745 | $31,640 | 42 | |
| 80 | (-) | Hell and Back Again | $2,731 | 1 | $2,731 | $33,891 | 65 | ||
| 81 | (-) | America the Beautiful II: The Thin Commandments | $2,622 | 1 | $2,622 | $12,366 | 58 | ||
| 82 | (82) | Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain | $2,596 | -2% | 5 | $519 | $7,705,039 | 91 | |
| 83 | (78) | Higher Ground | $1,754 | -54% | 6 | $292 | $834,595 | 105 | |
| 84 | (-) | Paul Goodman Changed My Life | $1,539 | 1 | $1,539 | $23,649 | 51 | ||
| 85 | (-) | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $1,335 | 1 | $1,335 | $53,233,760 | 4,795 | ||
| 86 | (85) | The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch | $1,147 | -34% | 2 | $574 | $6,665 | 21 | |
| 87 | (-) | Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life | $1,142 | 3 | $381 | $227,960 | 100 | ||
| 88 | (94) | The Bride Wore Black | $1,016 | +48% | 1 | $1,016 | $14,446 | 15,872 | |
| 89 | (-) | Littlerock | $1,003 | 1 | $1,003 | $16,498 | 119 | ||
| 90 | (88) | Amigo | $891 | -35% | 2 | $446 | $173,164 | 112 | |
| 91 | (71) | The Whale | $707 | -90% | 1 | $707 | $55,224 | 91 | |
| 92 | (89) | Rapt | $290 | -78% | 1 | $290 | $45,294 | 156 | |
| 93 | (77) | Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | $277 | -93% | 1 | $277 | $17,601 | 142 | |
| 94 | (-) | The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu | $273 | 1 | $273 | $24,789 | 91 | ||
| 95 | (84) | The Conquest | $118 | -94% | 1 | $118 | $39,163 | 28 | |
| 96 | (86) | Restless | $56 | -96% | 1 | $56 | $162,068 | 84 | |
| Reporting movies: 96 | $104,246,293 | total box office | |||||||
| Rank | Title | Daily | Theaters | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | $21,192,323 | 4,046 | $251,583,267 |
| 2 | The Muppets | $13,488,843 | 3,440 | $58,763,258 |
| 3 | Hugo | $9,800,934 | 1,840 | $27,364,410 |
| 4 | Arthur Christmas | $8,948,361 | 3,376 | $26,890,112 |
| 5 | Happy Feet Two | $7,314,925 | 3,536 | $53,100,101 |
| 6 | Jack and Jill | $6,633,806 | 3,049 | $65,442,287 |
| 7 | The Descendants | $6,363,093 | 574 | $19,250,423 |
| 8 | Immortals | $6,213,220 | 2,627 | $77,407,505 |
| 9 | Tower Heist | $5,118,700 | 2,404 | $71,763,530 |
| 10 | Puss in Boots | $3,773,074 | 2,750 | $140,245,275 |
| 11 | J. Edgar | $3,311,617 | 1,985 | $33,572,698 |
| 12 | My Week with Marilyn | $1,656,633 | 244 | $4,337,839 |
| 13 | A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas | $1,411,492 | 710 | $33,511,459 |
| 14 | Moneyball | $809,265 | 1,004 | $74,026,603 |
| 15 | In Time | $763,479 | 421 | $36,058,872 |
| 16 | The Ides of March | $741,515 | 1,016 | $40,349,208 |
| 17 | Shame | $498,086 | 10 | $498,086 |
| 18 | Melancholia | $409,302 | 129 | $1,740,885 |
| 19 | Dolphin Tale | $399,317 | 410 | $70,798,915 |
| 20 | Like Crazy | $364,707 | 152 | $2,981,313 |
| 21 | Midnight in Paris | $359,459 | 305 | $56,062,617 |
| 22 | Courageous | $316,653 | 265 | $33,139,879 |
| 23 | The Artist | $303,021 | 6 | $593,380 |
| 24 | Margin Call | $299,633 | 151 | $4,768,950 |
| 25 | The Way | $267,923 | 160 | $3,713,571 |
| 26 | The Help | $257,600 | 262 | $169,118,300 |
| 27 | Real Steel | $237,547 | 253 | $83,479,328 |
| 28 | Desi Boyz | $209,082 | 103 | $1,023,250 |
| 29 | 50/50 | $194,949 | 196 | $34,822,940 |
| 30 | Footloose | $183,861 | 309 | $51,072,428 |
| 31 | Paranormal Activity 3 | $174,791 | 255 | $103,486,352 |
| 32 | The Three Musketeers | $165,707 | 208 | $20,141,283 |
| 33 | A Dangerous Method | $165,686 | 4 | $459,049 |
| 34 | The Smurfs | $164,207 | 327 | $142,532,594 |
| 35 | Martha Marcy May Marlene | $129,359 | 84 | $2,770,027 |
| 36 | Abduction | $122,850 | 151 | $27,996,013 |
| 37 | Born to be Wild 3D | $113,657 | 49 | $14,613,745 |
| 38 | Anonymous | $107,867 | 105 | $4,431,440 |
| 39 | Pastorela | $105,700 | 55 | $105,700 |
| 40 | Contagion | $98,612 | 155 | $75,593,984 |
| 0 | The Polar Express | $94,342 | 24 | $182,086,028 |
| 42 | Drive | $91,238 | 86 | $34,629,045 |
| 43 | Monsieur Lazhar | $82,161 | 39 | $1,561,107 |
| 44 | Hubble 3D | $75,712 | 17 | $29,965,263 |
| 45 | Under the Sea 3D | $72,563 | 6 | $30,171,616 |
| 46 | Take Shelter | $60,535 | 54 | $1,525,494 |
| 47 | The Rum Diary | $60,202 | 63 | $13,040,991 |
| 48 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $59,455 | 84 | $176,662,416 |
| 49 | The Lion King | $49,052 | 53 | $421,681,619 |
| 50 | Le Havre | $33,280 | 19 | $279,428 |
| 51 | Eames: The Architect and the Painter | $31,267 | 12 | $96,426 |
| 52 | The Women on the 6th Floor | $29,146 | 11 | $373,651 |
| 53 | Into the Abyss | $23,244 | 21 | $183,934 |
| 54 | Tomboy | $20,823 | 5 | $61,363 |
| 55 | Answers to Nothing | $20,438 | 21 | $20,438 |
| 56 | The Guard | $18,461 | 17 | $5,303,026 |
| 57 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | $16,051 | 15 | $189,283 |
| 58 | Elite Squad: The Enemy Within | $15,491 | 6 | $57,191 |
| 59 | The Big Year | $15,485 | 25 | $7,183,523 |
| 60 | Sleeping Beauty | $15,093 | 2 | $15,093 |
| 61 | Crazy Wisdom | $12,907 | 3 | $29,901 |
| 62 | The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby | $12,246 | 4 | $152,552 |
| 63 | Spy Kids: All the Time in the World | $10,732 | 31 | $38,530,488 |
| 64 | Khodorkovsky | $10,690 | 1 | $14,215 |
| 65 | Sea Rex 3D | $10,576 | 9 | $4,416,058 |
| 66 | Outrage | $10,123 | 2 | $10,123 |
| 67 | Cars 2 | $9,828 | 40 | $191,448,767 |
| 68 | Young Goethe in Love | $8,836 | 5 | $68,876 |
| 69 | Inni | $8,572 | 7 | $112,267 |
| 70 | Circumstance | $7,930 | 3 | $449,759 |
| 71 | Mozart’s Sister | $7,467 | 12 | $629,530 |
| 72 | Blackthorn | $6,955 | 6 | $170,681 |
| 73 | Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness | $6,746 | 5 | $834,546 |
| 74 | The Mill and the Cross | $6,497 | 7 | $255,271 |
| 75 | Revenge of the Electric Car | $5,582 | 3 | $146,345 |
| 76 | The Other F Word | $5,187 | 2 | $51,163 |
| 77 | House of Pleasures | $4,680 | 1 | $12,784 |
| 78 | El Bulli: Cooking in Progress | $3,602 | 1 | $189,840 |
| 79 | My Reincarnation | $2,745 | 1 | $31,640 |
| 80 | Hell and Back Again | $2,731 | 1 | $33,891 |
| 81 | America the Beautiful II: The Thin Commandments | $2,622 | 1 | $12,366 |
| 82 | Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain | $2,596 | 5 | $7,705,039 |
| 83 | Higher Ground | $1,754 | 6 | $834,595 |
| 84 | Paul Goodman Changed My Life | $1,539 | 1 | $23,649 |
| 85 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $1,335 | 1 | $53,233,760 |
| 86 | The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch | $1,147 | 2 | $6,665 |
| 87 | Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life | $1,142 | 3 | $227,960 |
| 88 | The Bride Wore Black | $1,016 | 1 | $14,446 |
| 89 | Littlerock | $1,003 | 1 | $16,498 |
| 90 | Amigo | $891 | 2 | $173,164 |
| 91 | The Whale | $707 | 1 | $55,224 |
| 92 | Rapt | $290 | 1 | $45,294 |
| 93 | Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | $277 | 1 | $17,601 |
| 94 | The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu | $273 | 1 | $24,789 |
| 95 | The Conquest | $118 | 1 | $39,163 |
| 96 | Restless | $56 | 1 | $162,068 |
| Reporting: 96 | $104,246,293 | total | ||