| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 | $21,192,323 | $16,535,465 | 78% | $4,656,858 | 22% | 4,046 | 3 | Summit Entertainment | - | false |
| 2 | The Muppets | $13,488,843 | $11,082,755 | 82.2% | $2,406,088 | 17.8% | 3,440 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Hugo | $9,800,934 | $7,557,709 | 77.1% | $2,243,225 | 22.9% | 1,840 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Arthur Christmas | $8,948,361 | $7,401,736 | 82.7% | $1,546,625 | 17.3% | 3,376 | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 5 | Happy Feet Two | $7,314,925 | $5,919,390 | 80.9% | $1,395,535 | 19.1% | 3,536 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | Jack and Jill | $6,633,806 | $5,356,973 | 80.8% | $1,276,833 | 19.2% | 3,049 | 4 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 7 | The Descendants | $6,363,093 | $5,200,000 | - | - | - | 574 | 4 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | true |
| 8 | Immortals | $6,213,220 | $4,464,889 | 71.9% | $1,748,331 | 28.1% | 2,627 | 4 | Relativity Media | - | false |
| 9 | Tower Heist | $5,118,700 | $3,953,925 | 77.2% | $1,164,775 | 22.8% | 2,404 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Puss in Boots | $3,773,074 | $3,042,241 | 80.6% | $730,833 | 19.4% | 2,750 | 6 | DreamWorks | - | false |
| 11 | J. Edgar | $3,311,617 | $2,308,411 | 69.7% | $1,003,206 | 30.3% | 1,985 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | My Week with Marilyn | $1,656,633 | $1,179,545 | 71.2% | $477,088 | 28.8% | 244 | 3 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 13 | A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas | $1,411,492 | $985,378 | 69.8% | $426,114 | 30.2% | 710 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | Moneyball | $809,265 | $570,147 | 70.4% | $239,118 | 29.6% | 1,004 | 11 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 15 | In Time | $763,479 | $575,000 | - | - | - | 421 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | true |
| 16 | The Ides of March | $741,515 | $515,897 | 69.6% | $225,618 | 30.4% | 1,016 | 9 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 17 | Shame | $498,086 | $361,000 | - | - | - | 10 | 1 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | true |
| 18 | Melancholia | $409,302 | $270,335 | 66% | $138,967 | 34% | 129 | 4 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Dolphin Tale | $399,317 | $315,278 | 79% | $84,039 | 21% | 410 | 11 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 20 | Like Crazy | $364,707 | $257,767 | 70.7% | $106,940 | 29.3% | 152 | 6 | Paramount Vantage | - | false |
| 21 | Midnight in Paris | $359,459 | $241,434 | 67.2% | $118,025 | 32.8% | 305 | 29 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 22 | Courageous | $316,653 | $212,898 | 67.2% | $103,755 | 32.8% | 265 | 10 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 23 | The Artist | $303,021 | $211,265 | 69.7% | $91,756 | 30.3% | 6 | 2 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 24 | Margin Call | $299,631 | $215,436 | 71.9% | $84,195 | 28.1% | 151 | 7 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 25 | The Skin I Live In | $278,890 | $156,767 | 56.2% | $122,123 | 43.8% | 116 | 8 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 26 | The Way 2010 Re-release | $267,923 | $178,076 | 66.5% | $89,847 | 33.5% | 160 | 9 | Producers Distribution Agency (PDA) | - | false |
| 27 | The Help | $257,600 | $175,552 | 68.2% | $82,048 | 31.8% | 262 | 18 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 28 | Real Steel | $237,547 | $183,228 | 77.1% | $54,319 | 22.9% | 253 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 29 | Desi Boyz | $209,082 | $170,511 | 81.6% | $38,571 | 18.4% | 103 | 2 | Eros Worldwide | - | false |
| 30 | 50/50 | $194,949 | $132,180 | 67.8% | $62,769 | 32.2% | 196 | 10 | Summit Entertainment | - | false |
| 31 | Footloose 2011 Re-release | $183,861 | $142,667 | 77.6% | $41,194 | 22.4% | 309 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 32 | Paranormal Activity 3 | $174,791 | $130,883 | 74.9% | $43,908 | 25.1% | 255 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 33 | The Three Musketeers | $165,707 | $118,889 | 71.8% | $46,818 | 28.2% | 208 | 7 | Summit Entertainment | - | false |
| 34 | A Dangerous Method | $165,686 | $119,574 | 72.2% | $46,112 | 27.8% | 4 | 3 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 35 | The Smurfs | $164,207 | $131,777 | 80.2% | $32,430 | 19.8% | 327 | 19 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 36 | Martha Marcy May Marlene | $129,359 | $91,343 | 70.6% | $38,016 | 29.4% | 84 | 7 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 37 | Abduction | $122,850 | $94,514 | 76.9% | $28,336 | 23.1% | 151 | 11 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 38 | Born to Be Wild | $113,657 | $64,295 | 56.6% | $49,362 | 43.4% | 49 | 35 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 39 | Anonymous | $107,867 | $71,883 | 66.6% | $35,984 | 33.4% | 105 | 6 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 40 | Pastorela | $105,700 | $82,175 | 77.7% | $23,525 | 22.3% | 55 | 1 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 41 | Contagion | $98,612 | $71,007 | 72% | $27,605 | 28% | 155 | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 42 | The Polar Express 2011 IMAX Release | $94,372 | $72,013 | 76.3% | $22,359 | 23.7% | 24 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 43 | Drive | $91,238 | $60,515 | 66.3% | $30,723 | 33.7% | 86 | 12 | FilmDistrict | - | false |
| 44 | Hubble | $76,809 | $33,858 | 44.1% | $42,951 | 55.9% | 17 | 90 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 45 | Take Shelter | $60,535 | $42,379 | 70% | $18,156 | 30% | 54 | 10 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 46 | The Rum Diary | $60,202 | $38,110 | 63.3% | $22,092 | 36.7% | 63 | 6 | FilmDistrict | - | false |
| 47 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $59,455 | $43,435 | 73.1% | $16,020 | 26.9% | 84 | 18 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 48 | The Lion King 2011 3D Release | $49,052 | $36,687 | 74.8% | $12,365 | 25.2% | 53 | 12 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 49 | Le Havre | $33,697 | $21,618 | 64.2% | $12,079 | 35.8% | 19 | 7 | Janus Films | - | false |
| 50 | Eames: The Architect & The Painter | $31,267 | $20,639 | 66% | $10,628 | 34% | 12 | 4 | First Run | - | false |
| 51 | The Women on the 6th Floor | $29,146 | $19,473 | 66.8% | $9,673 | 33.2% | 11 | 9 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 52 | Kinyarwanda | $26,289 | $21,097 | 80.2% | $5,192 | 19.8% | 9 | 1 | - | - | false |
| 53 | Under the Sea 3D | $23,897 | $14,185 | 59.4% | $9,712 | 40.6% | 7 | 147 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 54 | Into the Abyss | $23,244 | $14,494 | 62.4% | $8,750 | 37.6% | 21 | 4 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 55 | Space Station 3D | $21,285 | $8,808 | 41.4% | $12,477 | 58.6% | 4 | 503 | IMAX | - | false |
| 56 | Tomboy | $20,823 | $13,710 | 65.8% | $7,113 | 34.2% | 5 | 4 | Dada Films | - | false |
| 57 | Answers to Nothing | $20,438 | $14,262 | 69.8% | $6,176 | 30.2% | 21 | 1 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 58 | The Guard | $18,461 | $13,074 | 70.8% | $5,387 | 29.2% | 17 | 19 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 59 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | $17,229 | $10,525 | 61.1% | $6,704 | 38.9% | 15 | 7 | Submarine Deluxe | - | false |
| 60 | Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within | $15,482 | $9,760 | 63% | $5,722 | 37% | 6 | 4 | Variance Films | - | false |
| 61 | Sleeping Beauty | $15,093 | $9,207 | 61% | $5,886 | 39% | 2 | 1 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 62 | Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche | $12,907 | $9,007 | 69.8% | $3,900 | 30.2% | 3 | 2 | - | - | false |
| 63 | The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby | $12,246 | $8,278 | 67.6% | $3,968 | 32.4% | 4 | 11 | First Run | - | false |
| 64 | Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World | $10,732 | $8,910 | 83% | $1,822 | 17% | 31 | 16 | Dimension Films | - | false |
| 65 | Khodorkovsky | $10,691 | $6,110 | 57.2% | $4,581 | 42.8% | 1 | 2 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 66 | Sea Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World | $10,576 | $6,341 | 60% | $4,235 | 40% | 9 | 80 | 3D Entertainment | - | false |
| 67 | Outrage | $10,123 | $6,518 | 64.4% | $3,605 | 35.6% | 2 | 1 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 68 | Cars 2 | $9,828 | $7,686 | 78.2% | $2,142 | 21.8% | 40 | 24 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 69 | Young Goethe in Love | $8,836 | $5,717 | 64.7% | $3,119 | 35.3% | 5 | 5 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 70 | Sigur Rós: Inni | $8,571 | $5,774 | 67.4% | $2,797 | 32.6% | 4 | 6 | Cinema Purgatorio | - | false |
| 71 | Galapagos | $8,371 | $3,376 | 40.3% | $4,995 | 59.7% | 1 | 632 | IMAX | - | false |
| 72 | Circumstance | $7,930 | $3,960 | 49.9% | $3,970 | 50.1% | 1 | 15 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 73 | Mozart's Sister | $7,467 | $6,215 | 83.2% | $1,252 | 16.8% | 12 | 16 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 74 | Blackthorn | $6,955 | $5,504 | 79.1% | $1,451 | 20.9% | 6 | 9 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 75 | Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness | $6,746 | $4,997 | 74.1% | $1,749 | 25.9% | 5 | 22 | International Film Circuit | - | false |
| 76 | The Mill and the Cross | $6,497 | $5,678 | 87.4% | $819 | 12.6% | 7 | 13 | Kino Lorber Studio Classics | - | false |
| 77 | Revenge of the Electric Car | $5,930 | $2,545 | 42.9% | $3,385 | 57.1% | 3 | 7 | Area 23a | - | false |
| 78 | The Greatest Miracle | $5,632 | $4,102 | 72.8% | $1,530 | 27.2% | 2 | 8 | - | - | false |
| 79 | Rockstar | $5,393 | $4,608 | 85.4% | $785 | 14.6% | 112 | 4 | Eros Worldwide | - | false |
| 80 | The Other F Word | $5,355 | $3,604 | 67.3% | $1,751 | 32.7% | 2 | 5 | Oscilloscope | - | false |
| 81 | House of Tolerance | $4,680 | $2,767 | 59.1% | $1,913 | 40.9% | 1 | 2 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 82 | Sarah's Key | $4,443 | $2,956 | 66.5% | $1,487 | 33.5% | 7 | 20 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 83 | El Bulli: Cooking in Progress | $3,602 | $1,940 | 53.9% | $1,662 | 46.1% | 1 | 20 | - | - | false |
| 84 | My Reincarnation | $2,745 | $1,902 | 69.3% | $843 | 30.7% | 1 | 6 | Long Shot Factory | - | false |
| 85 | Hell and Back Again | $2,731 | $1,300 | 47.6% | $1,431 | 52.4% | 1 | 10 | Docurama Films | - | false |
| 86 | America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments | $2,622 | $2,182 | 83.2% | $440 | 16.8% | 1 | 8 | Rogers & Cowan/PMK | - | false |
| 87 | Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain | $2,596 | $2,038 | 78.5% | $558 | 21.5% | 5 | 13 | Codeblack Entertainment | - | false |
| 88 | Tyrannosaur | $2,497 | $1,392 | 55.8% | $1,105 | 44.2% | 3 | 3 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 89 | The Interrupters | $2,165 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 19 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| 90 | Higher Ground 2011 Re-release | $1,754 | $1,262 | 72% | $492 | 28% | 6 | 15 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 91 | Granito | $1,560 | $980 | 62.8% | $580 | 37.2% | 1 | 13 | International Film Circuit | - | false |
| 92 | Paul Goodman Changed My Life | $1,539 | $1,099 | 71.4% | $440 | 28.6% | 1 | 8 | Zeitgeist Films | - | false |
| 93 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $1,335 | $919 | 68.8% | $416 | 31.2% | 1 | 685 | IMAX | - | false |
| 94 | The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch 2011 Re-release | $1,147 | $837 | 73% | $310 | 27% | 2 | 3 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 95 | Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life | $1,142 | $1,017 | 89% | $125 | 11% | 3 | 15 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 96 | The Bride Wore Black | $1,116 | $1,016 | 91% | $100 | 9% | 1 | 5 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 97 | Littlerock | $1,003 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 17 | Variance Films | - | false |
| 98 | Amigo | $891 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 16 | Variance Films | - | false |
| 99 | The Whale | $707 | $707 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 13 | Paladin | - | false |
| 100 | Rapt 2011 Re-release | $495 | $205 | 41.4% | $290 | 58.6% | 1 | 23 | Lorber Films | - | false |
| 101 | Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon | $473 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 324 | IMAX | - | false |
| 102 | Thunder Soul | $279 | $279 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 11 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 103 | Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | $277 | $277 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 21 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 104 | The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu | $273 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 13 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| 105 | London River 2011 Re-release | $270 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Cinéma Libre | - | false |
| 106 | Film socialisme | $129 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 27 | Lorber Films | - | false |
| 107 | The Conquest | $118 | $118 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 4 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 108 | Restless | $56 | $18 | 32.1% | $38 | 67.9% | 1 | 12 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| - | I Am Singh | - | - | - | - | - | 54 | 1 | Reliance Big Pictures | - | false |
| - | Project Nim | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 22 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| - | The Green Ray 2011 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 27 | The Film Desk | - | false |
| - | The Future | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| - | London Boulevard | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | IFC Films | - | false |
| - | The Big Year | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Weekend | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | IFC Films | - | false |
| - | Garbo: The Spy 2011 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | First Run | - | false |
| - | Farmageddon | - | - | - | - | - | - | 25 | - | - | false |
| - | The Look | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
