| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Zero Dark Thirty | $32,863,950 | $24,438,936 | 74.4% | $8,425,014 | 25.6% | 2,937 | 5 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 2 | Gangster Squad | $23,110,060 | $17,070,347 | 73.9% | $6,039,713 | 26.1% | 3,103 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | A Haunted House | $21,613,179 | $18,101,682 | 83.8% | $3,511,497 | 16.2% | 2,160 | 1 | Open Road Films (II) | - | false |
| 4 | Django Unchained | $15,784,613 | $11,040,485 | 69.9% | $4,744,128 | 30.1% | 3,012 | 4 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 5 | Les Misérables | $13,479,300 | $9,644,465 | 71.6% | $3,834,835 | 28.4% | 2,927 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | $11,945,554 | $9,168,431 | 76.8% | $2,777,123 | 23.2% | 3,012 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Lincoln | $8,871,019 | $6,335,193 | 71.4% | $2,535,826 | 28.6% | 2,027 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Silver Linings Playbook | $7,653,565 | $5,018,527 | 65.6% | $2,635,038 | 34.4% | 810 | 9 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 9 | Parental Guidance | $7,474,850 | $6,088,838 | 81.5% | $1,386,012 | 18.5% | 2,957 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Texas Chainsaw | $6,591,198 | $5,279,245 | 80.1% | $1,311,953 | 19.9% | 2,659 | 2 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 11 | Jack Reacher | $6,369,003 | $4,820,255 | 75.7% | $1,548,748 | 24.3% | 2,707 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | This Is 40 | $5,812,045 | $4,373,225 | 75.2% | $1,438,820 | 24.8% | 2,320 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Life of Pi | $3,741,153 | $2,704,574 | 72.3% | $1,036,579 | 27.7% | 757 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | The Impossible | $3,402,476 | $2,531,117 | 74.4% | $871,359 | 25.6% | 808 | 4 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 15 | The Guilt Trip | $2,529,687 | $1,901,160 | 75.2% | $628,527 | 24.8% | 1,606 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Argo | $2,116,570 | $1,255,259 | 59.3% | $861,311 | 40.7% | 621 | 14 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 17 | Skyfall | $2,093,861 | $1,555,802 | 74.3% | $538,059 | 25.7% | 823 | 10 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 18 | Monsters, Inc. 2012 3D Release | $2,071,029 | $1,717,305 | 82.9% | $353,724 | 17.1% | 1,127 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Promised Land | $1,807,385 | $1,274,909 | 70.5% | $532,476 | 29.5% | 1,647 | 3 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 20 | Rise of the Guardians | $1,251,270 | $1,065,307 | 85.1% | $185,963 | 14.9% | 905 | 9 | DreamWorks | - | false |
| 21 | Hyde Park on Hudson | $851,729 | $602,532 | 70.7% | $249,197 | 29.3% | 246 | 6 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 22 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 | $850,445 | $648,131 | 76.2% | $202,314 | 23.8% | 542 | 9 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 23 | Wreck-It Ralph | $785,531 | $657,842 | 83.7% | $127,689 | 16.3% | 476 | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 24 | Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away | $639,088 | $461,069 | 72.1% | $178,019 | 27.9% | 430 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 25 | Hotel Transylvania | $431,564 | $355,041 | 82.3% | $76,523 | 17.7% | 252 | 16 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 26 | Amour | $390,419 | $257,072 | 65.8% | $133,347 | 34.2% | 15 | 5 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 27 | Anna Karenina | $351,732 | $230,537 | 65.5% | $121,195 | 34.5% | 144 | 9 | Focus Features | - | false |
| 28 | Rust and Bone | $280,374 | $187,138 | 66.8% | $93,236 | 33.2% | 79 | 8 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 29 | Here Comes the Boom | $268,618 | $212,226 | 79% | $56,392 | 21% | 228 | 14 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 30 | Flight | $210,794 | $148,057 | 70.2% | $62,737 | 29.8% | 150 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 31 | Taken 2 | $194,911 | $146,398 | 75.1% | $48,513 | 24.9% | 190 | 15 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 32 | Hitchcock | $145,759 | $94,331 | 64.7% | $51,428 | 35.3% | 127 | 8 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 33 | Red Dawn | $145,132 | $108,033 | 74.4% | $37,099 | 25.6% | 225 | 9 | FilmDistrict | - | false |
| 34 | Pitch Perfect | $129,285 | $101,665 | 78.6% | $27,620 | 21.4% | 154 | 16 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 35 | Cloud Atlas | $109,813 | $73,416 | 66.9% | $36,397 | 33.1% | 162 | 12 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 36 | Frankenweenie | $107,358 | $85,534 | 79.7% | $21,824 | 20.3% | 127 | 15 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 37 | To the Arctic 3D | $97,932 | $69,280 | 70.7% | $28,652 | 29.3% | 52 | 39 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 38 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | $93,170 | $66,712 | 71.6% | $26,458 | 28.4% | 100 | 17 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 39 | The Sessions | $86,787 | $57,556 | 66.3% | $29,231 | 33.7% | 54 | 13 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 40 | End of Watch | $81,915 | $61,545 | 75.1% | $20,370 | 24.9% | 111 | 17 | Open Road Films (II) | - | false |
| 41 | Hubble | $76,922 | $37,867 | 49.2% | $39,055 | 50.8% | 16 | 148 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 42 | Chasing Ice | $75,911 | $44,800 | 59% | $31,111 | 41% | 43 | 10 | Submarine Deluxe | - | false |
| 43 | Barbara | $75,907 | $53,085 | 69.9% | $22,822 | 30.1% | 20 | 4 | Adopt Films | - | false |
| 44 | Quartet | $72,077 | $47,122 | 65.4% | $24,955 | 34.6% | 2 | 1 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 45 | Not Fade Away | $65,023 | $40,721 | 62.6% | $24,302 | 37.4% | 177 | 4 | Paramount Vantage | - | false |
| 46 | A Late Quartet | $47,805 | $30,517 | 63.8% | $17,288 | 36.2% | 17 | 11 | Entertainment One | - | false |
| 47 | Playing for Keeps | $46,091 | $32,467 | 70.4% | $13,624 | 29.6% | 107 | 6 | FilmDistrict | - | false |
| 48 | The Master | $40,209 | $22,141 | 55.1% | $18,068 | 44.9% | 16 | 18 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 49 | Searching for Sugar Man | $37,438 | $26,121 | 69.8% | $11,317 | 30.2% | 22 | 25 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 50 | Born to Be Wild | $37,112 | $24,015 | 64.7% | $13,097 | 35.3% | 30 | 93 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 51 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | $34,954 | $28,572 | 81.7% | $6,382 | 18.3% | 48 | 27 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 52 | Space Station 3D | $32,188 | $13,230 | 41.1% | $18,958 | 58.9% | 2 | 561 | IMAX | - | false |
| 53 | A Royal Affair | $29,990 | $12,606 | 42% | $17,384 | 58% | 29 | 10 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 54 | Holy Motors | $29,463 | $16,800 | 57% | $12,663 | 43% | 13 | 14 | Indomina Releasing | - | false |
| 55 | Killing Them Softly | $27,675 | $18,529 | 67% | $9,146 | 33% | 31 | 7 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 56 | 56 Up | $25,050 | $17,659 | 70.5% | $7,391 | 29.5% | 2 | 2 | First Run | - | false |
| 57 | Burn | $24,160 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 26 | - | - | false |
| 58 | Finding Nemo 2012 3D Release | $23,600 | $19,209 | 81.4% | $4,391 | 18.6% | 22 | 18 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 59 | The Other Son | $21,816 | $11,111 | 50.9% | $10,705 | 49.1% | 8 | 12 | Cohen Media Group | - | false |
| 60 | The Central Park Five | $19,481 | - | - | - | - | 14 | 8 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 61 | Robot & Frank | $17,697 | $13,048 | 73.7% | $4,649 | 26.3% | 26 | 22 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 62 | Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 1: Beginnings | $17,396 | $13,880 | 79.8% | $3,516 | 20.2% | 5 | 13 | Eleven Arts | - | false |
| 63 | Struck by Lightning | $17,138 | $12,940 | 75.5% | $4,198 | 24.5% | 1 | 1 | Tribeca Films | - | false |
| 64 | Deep Sea | $16,874 | $11,039 | 65.4% | $5,835 | 34.6% | 3 | 359 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 65 | Sister | $15,498 | $11,464 | 74% | $4,034 | 26% | 14 | 15 | Adopt Films | - | false |
| 66 | Any Day Now | $14,801 | $8,906 | 60.2% | $5,895 | 39.8% | 17 | 5 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 67 | The Intouchables | $13,361 | $8,045 | 60.2% | $5,316 | 39.8% | 12 | 34 | The Weinstein Company | - | false |
| 68 | Chasing Mavericks | $13,150 | $13,150 | 100% | $0 | - | 23 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 69 | Somewhere Between | $10,525 | $6,162 | 58.6% | $4,363 | 41.4% | 1 | 21 | Long Shot Factory | - | false |
| 70 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | $9,836 | $6,338 | 64.4% | $3,498 | 35.6% | 4 | 30 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 71 | Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel | $9,811 | $6,191 | 63.1% | $3,620 | 36.9% | 7 | 17 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 72 | The Odd Life of Timothy Green | $7,417 | $5,992 | 80.8% | $1,425 | 19.2% | 26 | 23 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 73 | Samsara | $6,457 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 21 | Oscilloscope | - | false |
| 74 | Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters | $6,248 | $4,446 | 71.2% | $1,802 | 28.8% | 2 | 11 | Zeitgeist Films | - | false |
| 75 | Max and the Junkmen | $6,213 | $3,891 | 62.6% | $2,322 | 37.4% | 2 | 23 | Rialto Pictures | - | false |
| 76 | Tchoupitoulas | $6,151 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 6 | Oscilloscope | - | false |
| 77 | In Another Country | $5,202 | $3,524 | 67.7% | $1,678 | 32.3% | 5 | 10 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 78 | Dabangg 2 | $4,982 | $3,916 | 78.6% | $1,066 | 21.4% | 166 | 4 | Eros Worldwide | - | false |
| 79 | Under the Sea 3D | $4,772 | $3,788 | 79.4% | $984 | 20.6% | 3 | 205 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 80 | West of Memphis | $4,365 | $2,828 | 64.8% | $1,537 | 35.2% | 2 | 4 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 81 | Brave | $4,075 | $3,050 | 74.8% | $1,025 | 25.2% | 14 | 30 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 82 | Bless Me, Ultima | $3,615 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Arenas Entertainment | - | false |
| 83 | Let My People Go! | $3,489 | $2,236 | 64.1% | $1,253 | 35.9% | 1 | 1 | Zeitgeist Films | - | false |
| 84 | A Dark Truth | $3,388 | $1,897 | 56% | $1,491 | 44% | 3 | 2 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 85 | Brooklyn Castle | $2,997 | $2,183 | 72.8% | $814 | 27.2% | 2 | 13 | Producers Distribution Agency (PDA) | - | false |
| 86 | The House I Live In | $2,990 | $2,346 | 78.5% | $644 | 21.5% | 2 | 15 | Abramorama | - | false |
| 87 | Arbitrage | $2,680 | $1,389 | 51.8% | $1,291 | 48.2% | 4 | 18 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 88 | Table No. 21 | $2,615 | $1,854 | 70.9% | $761 | 29.1% | 23 | 2 | Eros Worldwide | - | false |
| 89 | High Tech, Low Life | $2,522 | $1,718 | 68.1% | $804 | 31.9% | 1 | 2 | Argot Pictures | - | false |
| 90 | California Solo | $2,082 | $1,566 | 75.2% | $516 | 24.8% | 1 | 7 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 91 | Only the Young | $1,860 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 6 | Oscilloscope | - | false |
| 92 | Wagner & Me 2012 Re-release | $1,640 | $1,640 | 100% | $0 | - | 2 | 6 | First Run | - | false |
| 93 | This Is Not a Film | $1,450 | $815 | 56.2% | $635 | 43.8% | 2 | 47 | Palisades Tartan | - | false |
| 94 | Detropia | $1,318 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 19 | Loki Films | - | false |
| 95 | Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare | $1,290 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 15 | Roadside Attractions | - | false |
| 96 | My Worst Nightmare | $1,235 | $828 | 67% | $407 | 33% | 1 | 13 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 97 | The Revisionaries | $1,180 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 15 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| 98 | Starlet | $889 | $889 | 100% | $0 | - | 3 | 10 | Music Box Films | - | false |
| 99 | The Waiting Room | $846 | $528 | 62.4% | $318 | 37.6% | 2 | 17 | International Film Circuit | - | false |
| 100 | Django | $367 | $367 | 100% | $0 | - | 2 | 4 | Rialto Pictures | - | false |
| 101 | The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez | $255 | $255 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 6 | Indican Pictures | - | false |
| 102 | Deadfall | $241 | $145 | 60.2% | $96 | 39.8% | 1 | 6 | Magnolia Pictures | - | false |
| 103 | Citadel | $176 | $110 | 62.5% | $66 | 37.5% | 1 | 10 | Cinedigm Entertainment Group | - | false |
| 104 | Galapagos | $89 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 690 | IMAX | - | false |
| - | Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola | - | - | - | - | - | 116 | 1 | FIP | - | false |
| - | A Man Vanishes 2012 Re-release | - | $1,021 | - | - | - | 1 | 10 | Icarus Films | - | false |
| - | Bill W. | - | - | - | - | - | - | 35 | Page 124 Productions | - | false |
| - | The Invisible War | - | - | - | - | - | - | 30 | Cinedigm Entertainment Group | - | false |
| - | North Sea Texas 2012 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| - | The Rabbi's Cat | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | GKIDS | - | false |
| - | Orchestra of Exiles | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | First Run | - | false |
| - | 5 Broken Cameras | - | - | - | - | - | - | 34 | Kino Lorber | - | false |
| - | The Law in These Parts | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| - | Neighboring Sounds | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | The Cinema Guild | - | false |
| - | The Bride Wore Black | - | - | - | - | - | - | 63 | The Film Desk | - | false |
