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RANK	RLW	TITLE	RATING	TOP 12	STUDIO	SITE CHANGE	THEATRES	WK	F S S	3 DAY AVG	3 DAY CHG	TOTAL
BEGINNGERS FOCUS Starring: Ewan McGregor Christopher Plummer Director: Mike Mills Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover. 107	104	BEGINNGERS	R		FOCUS	0	157	51	n/a	n/a	0	$4,801,188
CASA DE MI PADRE LIONSGATE Starring: Director: Genre: MPAA Rating: R 95	46	CASA DE MI PADRE	R		LIONSGATE	0	475	10	n/a	n/a	0	$3,948,252
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN WEINSTEIN CO. Starring: Michelle Williams Kenneth Branagh Director: Simon Curtis Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl. 21	24	MY WEEK WITH MARILYN			WEINSTEIN CO.	0	244	26	n/a	n/a	0	$3,861,206
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN CBS Films Starring: Ewan McGregor Emily Blunt Director: Genre: MPAA Rating: PG-13 72	72	SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN	PG-13		CBS Films	0	483	11	n/a	n/a	0	$3,750,000
OF GODS AND MEN SONY CLASSICS Starring: Lambert Wilson Michael Lonsdale Director: Xavier Beauvois Genre: Foreign MPAA Rating: R A drama about Cistercian monks who stand up for their beliefs when confronted by fundamentalists. 18	44	OF GODS AND MEN	R		SONY CLASSICS	0	68	65	n/a	n/a	0	$3,682,195
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS IFC FILMS Starring: Director: Werner Herzog Genre: Documentary MPAA Rating: NR Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting. 79	94	CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS	NR		IFC FILMS	0	122	56	n/a	n/a	0	$3,253,767
OCTOBER BABY SAMUEL GOLDWYN Starring: Director: Genre: MPAA Rating: PG-13 20	25	OCTOBER BABY	PG-13		SAMUEL GOLDWYN	0	390	9	n/a	n/a	0	$1,718,427
GIRL IN PROGRESS LIONSGATE Starring: Eva Mendes Director: Patricia Riggen Genre: MPAA Rating: PG-13 As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school. 143	10	GIRL IN PROGRESS	PG-13		LIONSGATE	0	322	2	n/a	n/a	-100	$1,350,000
POTICHE MUSIC BOX Starring: Catherine Deneuve Gérard Depardieu Director: François Ozon Genre: Foreign MPAA Rating: R A housewife takes over her husband's umbrella business after his illness. 64	65	POTICHE	R		MUSIC BOX	0	59	61	n/a	n/a	0	$1,330,493
KILL THE IRISHMAN Anchor Bay Starring: Val Kilmer Christopher Walken Director: Jonathan Hensleigh Genre: Indie MPAA Rating: R The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's. 32	34	KILL THE IRISHMAN	R		Anchor Bay	0	13	63	n/a	n/a	0	$1,135,225
I AM PALADIN Starring: Director: Tom Shadyac Genre: Documentary MPAA Rating: NR 2/18 Portland, 3/11 LA, 3/18 New York Director Tom Shadyac speaks with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what's wrong with our world and how we can improve both it and the way we live in it. 119	115	I AM	NR		PALADIN	0	67	66	n/a	n/a	0	$1,107,280
BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK ZEITGEIST Starring: Director: Richard Press Genre: Documentary MPAA Rating: NR Chronicles a man who is obsessively interested in only one thing,the pictures he takes that document the way people dress. 109	106	BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK	NR		ZEITGEIST	0	24	62	n/a	n/a	0	$975,005
IN A BETTER WORLD SONY CLASSICS Starring: Ulrich Thomsen Mikael Persbrandt Director: Susanne Bier Genre: Foreign MPAA Rating: R A drama about a Holocaust survivor who meets his twin sister he thought died in the in the concentration camps. 124	120	IN A BETTER WORLD	R		SONY CLASSICS	0	51	60	n/a	n/a	0	$617,315
HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN MAGNOLIA PICTURES Starring: Rutger Hauer Gregory Smith Director: Jason Eisener Genre: Action MPAA Rating: A homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun. 132	130	HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN			MAGNOLIA PICTURES	0	3	55	n/a	n/a	0	$539,370
INCENDIES SONY CLASSICS Starring: Lubna Azabal Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin Director: Denis Villeneuve Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love. 126	122	INCENDIES	R		SONY CLASSICS	0	33	57	n/a	n/a	0	$380,450
MIRAL WEINSTEIN CO. Starring: Willem Dafoe Freida Pinto Director: Julian Schnabel Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: A chronicle of Hind Husseini's effort to establish an orphanage in Jerusalem after the 1948 partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel. 25	20	MIRAL			WEINSTEIN CO.	0	5	61	n/a	n/a	0	$371,352
MEEK'S CUTOFF OSCILLOSCOPE Starring: Bruce Greenwood Paul Dano Director: Kelly Reichardt Genre: Western MPAA Rating: Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions. 15	18	MEEK'S CUTOFF			OSCILLOSCOPE	0	30	59	n/a	n/a	0	$344,553
POETRY KINO Starring: Jeong-hie Yun Da-wit Lee Director: Chang-dong Lee Genre: Foreign MPAA Rating: NR From acclaimed South Korean director Lee Chang-dong, a masterful study of the subtle empowerment — and moral compass — of an indefatigable older woman. 46	64	POETRY	NR		KINO	0	5	67	n/a	n/a	0	$320,718
HESHER Wrekin Hill Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Natalie Portman Director: Spencer Susser Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R Hesher is a loner. He hates the world and everyone in it. He has long greasy hair and homemade tattoos. He is malnourished and smokes a lot of cigarettes. He likes fire and blowing things up. He lives in his van, until he meets TJ. 149	145	HESHER	R		Wrekin Hill	0	42	54	n/a	n/a	0	$126,046
LE QUATTRO VOLTE LORBER FILMS Starring: Giuseppe Fuda Bruno Timpano Director: Michelangelo Frammartino Genre: Foreign MPAA Rating: NR Inspired by Pythagoras’s belief in four-fold transmigration — by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral — Michelangelo Frammartino’s wondrous docu-essay traces the cycle of life through the daily rituals of life in the southern Italian region of Calabria. 40	38	LE QUATTRO VOLTE	NR		LORBER FILMS	0	3	60	n/a	n/a	0	$101,235
HENRY'S CRIME MOVING PICTURES Starring: Keanu Reeves Vera Farmiga Director: Malcolm Venville Genre: Indie MPAA Rating: R Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing. 148	144	HENRY'S CRIME	R		MOVING PICTURES	0	2	59	n/a	n/a	0	$94,195
BLANK CITY INSURGENT Starring: Director: Celine Danhier Genre: Documentary MPAA Rating: NR During the punk rock stage in the late '70s, downtown New York experienced a wave of "Do it yourself" independent filmmaking. 111	108	BLANK CITY	NR		INSURGENT	0	3	59	n/a	n/a	0	$75,310
LAST NIGHT Tribeca Film Starring: Keira Knightley Sam Worthington Director: Massy Tadjedin Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R LAST NIGHT is a romantic drama that revolves around a married couple, played by Keira Knightley ("Atonement," "Pirates of the Caribbean") and Sam Worthington ("Terminator Salvation"), who are each tempted to stray, as the husband travels on a business trip with a desirable colleague (Eva Mendes - "Hitch") while the wife encounters her past love (Guillaume Canet - "Tell No One") at home. 43	36	LAST NIGHT	R		Tribeca Film	0	6	54	n/a	n/a	0	$67,636
CIRCO FIRST RUN FEATURES Starring: Director: Aaron Schock Genre: Documentary MPAA Rating: A hardscrabble traveling Mexican circus troupe has lived and performed on the road since the 19th Century, but will their art survive into the 21st? 82	78	CIRCO			FIRST RUN FEATURES	0	2	60	n/a	n/a	0	$50,015
ORGASM INC. FIRST RUN FEATURES Starring: Director: Elizabeth Canner Genre: Documentary MPAA Rating: NR Extraordinary behind-the-scenes access reveals a drug company's fevered race to develop the first FDA-approved Viagra for women - and offers a humorous but sobering look inside the cash-fueled pharmaceutical industry. 62	62	ORGASM INC.	NR		FIRST RUN FEATURES	0	1	67	n/a	n/a	0	$46,104
L'AMOUR FOU IFC FILMS Starring: Director: Pierre Thoretton Genre: Documentary MPAA Rating: NR A documentary on the relationship between fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent and his lover, Pierre Berge. 38	33	L'AMOUR FOU	NR		IFC FILMS	0	2	54	n/a	n/a	0	$37,250
INTO ETERNITY International Film Circuit inc. Starring: Timo Äikäs Carl Reinhold Bråkenhjelm Director: Michael Madsen Genre: Documentary MPAA Rating: NR Conceptual artist Michael Madsen’s film is a creepy, eerily elegant meditation on human folly, punctuated by philosophical and historical references, that asks: how do you keep 3,000 future generations from inadvertently opening this Pandora’s Box? 128	124	INTO ETERNITY	NR		International Film Circuit inc.	0	2	68	n/a	n/a	0	$34,298
LEBANON, PA TRULY INDIE Starring: Josh Hopkins Samantha Mathis Director: Ben Hickernell Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 Will (Josh Hopkins), a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ (Rachel Kitson), his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. 41	40	LEBANON, PA	PG-13		TRULY INDIE	0	6	54	n/a	n/a	0	$30,381
CEREMONY Magnolia Pictures Starring: Uma Thurman Lee Pace Director: Max Winkler Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: R A young guy crashes the wedding of the thirty-something woman he wants back. 80	93	CEREMONY	R		Magnolia Pictures	0	4	59	n/a	n/a	0	$21,666
OCTUBRE NEW YORKER Starring: Bruno Odar Gabriela Velásquez Director: Diego Vega Vidal, Daniel Vega Vidal Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. 19	43	OCTUBRE			NEW YORKER	0	1	63	n/a	n/a	0	$14,623
DUMBSTRUCK TRULY INDIE Starring: Director: Mark Goffman Genre: Documentary MPAA Rating: PG At the annual Vent Haven Convention in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, ventriloquism capital of the world, director Mark Goffman discovers five extraordinary characters straight out of a Christopher Guest mockumentary. But in this delightful, it's-all-true documentary, the characters are real, and so are the emotional attachments that they have with their "dummies." 137	134	DUMBSTRUCK	PG		TRULY INDIE	0	1	58	n/a	n/a	0	$9,434
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH KINO Starring: Ye Liu Yuanyuan Gao Director: Chuan Lu Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R In December 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army laid siege to the Chinese capital of Nanking, killing as many as 300,000 citizens during a six-week reign of terror, the details of which Japan and China dispute to this day. 83	79	CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH	R		KINO	0	1	54	n/a	n/a	0	$7,947
HEY BOO FIRST RUN FEATURES Starring: Director: Mary Murphy Genre: Documentary MPAA Rating: NR HEY, BOO explores the To Kill a Mockingbird phenomenon and unravels some of the mysteries surrounding Harper Lee, including why she never published again. 133	146	HEY BOO	NR		FIRST RUN FEATURES	0	3	54	n/a	n/a	0	$5,457
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL Paramount Starring: Tom Cruise Jeremy Renner Director: Brad Bird Genre: Action MPAA Rating: The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name. 23	22	MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL			Paramount		0	22	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE FOX SEARCHLIGHT Starring: Elizabeth Olsen John Hawkes Director: T. Sean Durkin Genre: Indie MPAA Rating: R Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult. 14	17	MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE	R		FOX SEARCHLIGHT		0	31	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
MARGIN CALL ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS Starring: Kevin Spacey Paul Bettany Director: J.C. Chandor Genre: Indie MPAA Rating: R A thriller that revolves around the key people at a investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis. 13	15	MARGIN CALL	R		ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS		0	31	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
LIFE, ABOVE ALL SONY CLASSICS Starring: Khomotso Manyaka Keaobaka Makanyane Director: Oliver Schmitz Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa. 42	28	LIFE, ABOVE ALL	PG-13		SONY CLASSICS		0	45	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
A DANGEROUS METHOD SONY CLASSICS Starring: Keira Knightley Viggo Mortensen Director: David Cronenberg Genre: Indie MPAA Rating: R A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis. 97	76	A DANGEROUS METHOD	R		SONY CLASSICS		0	26	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
W.E. WEINSTEIN CO. Starring: Abbie Cornish Oscar Isaac Director: Madonna Genre: Romantic MPAA Rating: A two-tiered romantic drama focusing on the affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard. 57	55	W.E.			WEINSTEIN CO.		0	24	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
DAMSELS IN DISTRESS SONY CLASSICS Starring: Adam Brody Greta Gerwig Director: Whit Stillman Genre: Indie MPAA Rating: PG-13 Distress is a comedy about a trio of beautiful girls as they set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). 94	90	DAMSELS IN DISTRESS	PG-13		SONY CLASSICS		0	7	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
KNUCKLEHEAD SAMUEL GOLDWYN Starring: Mark Feuerstein Melora Hardin Director: Michael W. Watkins Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: PG-13 After con artist Eddie Sullivan (Feuerstein) incurs a large debt with a local criminal ringleader, he creates a get-rich-quick scheme and enlists a sweet gentle giant named Walter (Wight) as his unwitting accomplice. 36	31	KNUCKLEHEAD	PG-13		SAMUEL GOLDWYN		0	17	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
KING OF THE ELVES Walt Disney Starring: Director: Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker Genre: Animated MPAA Rating: 35	30	KING OF THE ELVES			Walt Disney		0	6	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
PREMIUM RUSH SONY Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Jamie Chung Director: David Koepp Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating: A fast paced action story about a New York City bike messenger who is pursued by a dirty cop. 65	66	PREMIUM RUSH			SONY		0	19	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
CORIOLANUS WEINSTEIN CO. Starring: Jessica Chastain Gerard Butler Director: Ralph Fiennes Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating: R A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city. 90	86	CORIOLANUS	R		WEINSTEIN CO.		0	19	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
CONTRABAND UNIVERSAL Starring: Kate Beckinsale Mark Whalberg Director: Baltasar Kormakur Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating: 88	84	CONTRABAND			UNIVERSAL		0	10	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
EVERYBODY LOVES WHALES UNIVERSAL Starring: Drew Barrymore John Krasinski Director: Ken Kwapis Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: Based on the inspiring true story that captured the hearts of people across the world, the rescue adventure EVERYBODY LOVES WHALES tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter (John Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Drew Barrymore) who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle. 138	135	EVERYBODY LOVES WHALES			UNIVERSAL		0	19	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
CARNAGE SONY CLASSICS Starring: Jodie Foster Kate Winslet Director: Roman Polanski Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R Tells the story of two sets of parents who decide to have a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a schoolyard brawl. 96	110	CARNAGE	R		SONY CLASSICS		0	23	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS Sony Starring: Director: Peter Lord Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: A hapless band of pirates compete for the Pirate of the Year award. 63	63	PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS			Sony		0	7	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
CLASH OF THE TITANS 2 WARNER BROS. Starring: Sam Worthington Gemma Apterton Director: Jonathan Liebesman Genre: 3-D MPAA Rating: 84	80	CLASH OF THE TITANS 2			WARNER BROS.		0	9	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
A SEPARATION SONY CLASSICS Starring: Peyman Moaadi Leila Hatami Director: Asghar Farhadi Genre: Foreign MPAA Rating: PG-13 A couple has to make a decision to leave Iran to better the life of their child or to stay and take care of a parent suffering from Alzheimers; however, the couple's marriage may end in divorce. 98	95	A SEPARATION	PG-13		SONY CLASSICS		0	21	n/a	n/a	0	n/a

BEGINNGERS

FOCUS

CASA DE MI PADRE

LIONSGATE

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN

WEINSTEIN CO.

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN

CBS Films

OF GODS AND MEN

SONY CLASSICS

CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

IFC FILMS

OCTOBER BABY

SAMUEL GOLDWYN

GIRL IN PROGRESS

LIONSGATE

POTICHE

MUSIC BOX

KILL THE IRISHMAN

Anchor Bay

I AM

PALADIN

BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK

ZEITGEIST

IN A BETTER WORLD

SONY CLASSICS

HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN

MAGNOLIA PICTURES

INCENDIES

SONY CLASSICS

MIRAL

WEINSTEIN CO.

MEEK'S CUTOFF

OSCILLOSCOPE

POETRY

KINO

HESHER

Wrekin Hill

LE QUATTRO VOLTE

LORBER FILMS

HENRY'S CRIME

MOVING PICTURES

BLANK CITY

INSURGENT

LAST NIGHT

Tribeca Film

CIRCO

FIRST RUN FEATURES

ORGASM INC.

FIRST RUN FEATURES

L'AMOUR FOU

IFC FILMS

INTO ETERNITY

International Film Circuit inc.

LEBANON, PA

TRULY INDIE

CEREMONY

Magnolia Pictures

OCTUBRE

NEW YORKER

DUMBSTRUCK

TRULY INDIE

CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH

KINO

HEY BOO

FIRST RUN FEATURES

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL

Paramount

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE

FOX SEARCHLIGHT

MARGIN CALL

ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS

LIFE, ABOVE ALL

SONY CLASSICS

A DANGEROUS METHOD

SONY CLASSICS

W.E.

WEINSTEIN CO.

DAMSELS IN DISTRESS

SONY CLASSICS