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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
THE WOMAN IN BLACK CBS FILMS Starring: Daniel Radcliffe Janet McTeer Director: James Watkins Genre: MPAA Rating: PG-13 A young lawyer travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals. 53	52	THE WOMAN IN BLACK	PG-13		CBS FILMS	0	1727	16	n/a	n/a	0	$50,000,000
CHRONICLE FOX Starring: Michael B. Jordan Alex Russell Director: Josh Trank Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 Three friends who gain superpowers from a mysterious substance turn on one another when personal problems arise. 81	77	CHRONICLE	PG-13		FOX	0	1797	16	n/a	n/a	0	$58,004,927
DOLPHIN TALE Warner Bros. Starring: Morgan Freeman Ashley Judd Director: Charles Martin Smith Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG Based on true events "Dolphin Tale" is a family film about Winter, a young dolphin who loses her tail in a crab trap and Sawyer, the introverted, 11-year old boy who befriends her. 114	111	DOLPHIN TALE	PG		Warner Bros.	0	1838	35	n/a	n/a	0	$67,007,000
PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS SONY Starring: Hugh Grant Salma Hayek Director: Peter Lord Genre: MPAA Rating: PG Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. 10	6	PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS	PG	1.16%	SONY	-1239	1840	4	$1,578,632	$858	-51	$25,490,136
PUSS IN BOOTS Paramount Starring: Salma Hayek Antonio Banderas Director: Chris Miller Genre: Animated MPAA Rating: PG The sword fighting cat (and one-time nemesis of Shrek) peels off on his own adventure. 68	69	PUSS IN BOOTS	PG		Paramount	0	1843	30	n/a	n/a	0	$141,900,000
WARRIOR LIONSGATE Starring: Nick Nolte Tom Hardy Director: Gavin O Connor Genre: Action MPAA Rating: PG-13 An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan returns to his hometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father, a recovered alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. 76	58	WARRIOR	PG-13		LIONSGATE	0	1883	37	n/a	n/a	0	$9,912,300
THE RAVEN RELATIVITY Starring: John Cusack Alice Eve Director: James McTeigue Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating: R When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's works, a young Baltimore detective joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality. 49	11	THE RAVEN	R		RELATIVITY	0	1888	4	n/a	n/a	-100	$14,644,928
JACK AND JILL SONY Starring: Adam Sandler Katie Holmes Director: Dennis Dugan Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: PG A family man is forced to deal with his twin sister from the Bronx comes to Los Angeles for a visit -- then won't leave. 130	126	JACK AND JILL	PG		SONY	0	1910	28	n/a	n/a	0	$70,506,629
COLOMBIANA SONY Starring: Zoe Saldana Michael Vartan Director: Olivier Megaton Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating: PG-13 A young woman, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. 85	81	COLOMBIANA	PG-13		SONY	0	1933	39	n/a	n/a	0	$33,347,000
DRIVE Film District Starring: Ryan Gosling Carey Mulligan Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Genre: Indie MPAA Rating: R Based on the James Sallis novel, is about a Hollywood stuntman (Gosling) who moonlights as a getaway driver in Los Angeles' criminal underworld. Having fallen in love with a beautiful neighbor (Mulligan), he agrees to help her ex-con husband and becomes embroiled in a heist gone terribly wrong. 136	133	DRIVE	R		Film District	0	1974	36	n/a	n/a	0	$27,050,799
J. EDGAR WARNER BROS. Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio Naomi Watts Director: Clint Eastwood Genre: Biography MPAA Rating: R As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life. November 9th - Limited November 11th - WIDE 129	125	J. EDGAR	R		WARNER BROS.	0	1985	28	n/a	n/a	0	$32,661,000
WANDERLUST UNIVERSAL Starring: Jennifer Aniston Paul Rudd Director: David Wain Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: R Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston star in WANDERLUST , a comedy from director David Wain ( Role Models ) and producer Judd Apatow ( Knocked Up ) about a Manhattan couple who leaves the pace and pressures of the city and joins a freewheeling community where the only rule is to be who you are. Now if they could only figure out who that is... 58	56	WANDERLUST	R		UNIVERSAL	0	2002	13	n/a	n/a	0	$12,394,565
THE LUCKY ONE WARNER BROS. Starring: Zac Efron Taylor Schilling Director: Scott Hicks Genre: MPAA Rating: PG-13 A Marine travels to North Carolina after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war. 9	5	THE LUCKY ONE	PG-13	1.31%	WARNER BROS.	-834	2005	5	$1,778,453	$887	-56	$56,934,628
BAD TEACHER SONY Starring: Cameron Diaz Justin Timberlake Director: Jake Kasdan Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: R A comedy centered around a foul-mouthed, junior high teacher who, after being dumped by her sugar daddy, begins to woo a colleague -- a move that pits her against a well-loved teacher. 102	99	BAD TEACHER	R		SONY	0	2034	48	n/a	n/a	0	$97,069,309
CONTRABAND UNIVERSAL Starring: Mark Wahlberg Giovanni Ribisi Director: Baltasar Kormákur Genre: MPAA Rating: R To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills. 89	85	CONTRABAND	R		UNIVERSAL	0	2047	19	n/a	n/a	0	$59,750,000
THE HUNGER GAMES LIONSGATE Starring: Jennifer Lawrence Liam Hemsworth Director: Gary Ross Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating: PG-13 A young girl joins a survival contest in order to save her community in a dystopian future. 7	4	THE HUNGER GAMES	PG-13	2.17%	LIONSGATE	-467	2064	9	$2,950,331	$1,429	-33	$391,581,441
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN PARAMOUNT Starring: Daniel Craig Jamie Bell Director: Steven Spielberg Genre: Kids/Family MPAA Rating: PG Tintin and his friends discover directions to a sunken ship commanded by Capt. Haddock's ancestor and go off on a treasure hunt. 75	61	THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN	PG		PARAMOUNT	0	2073	22	n/a	n/a	0	$67,705,000
FINAL DESTINATION 5 WARNER BROS. Starring: Director: Steven Quale Genre: Horror MPAA Rating: R Survivors of a suspension-bridge collapse learn there's no way you can cheat Death. 140	137	FINAL DESTINATION 5	R		WARNER BROS.	0	2085	41	n/a	n/a	0	$37,825,000
SILENT HOUSE OPEN ROAD Starring: Director: Genre: MPAA Rating: R 73	73	SILENT HOUSE	R		OPEN ROAD	0	2124	11	n/a	n/a	0	$10,576,000
TITANIC 3D PARAMOUNT Starring: Director: Genre: MPAA Rating: PG-13 55	53	TITANIC 3D	PG-13		PARAMOUNT	0	2125	7	n/a	n/a	0	$52,828,017
BIG MIRACLE UNIVERSAL Starring: Drew Barrymore John Krasinski Director: Ken Kwaqis Genre: MPAA Rating: PG In small town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his ex-girlfriend - a Greenpeace volunteer - on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. 108	105	BIG MIRACLE	PG		UNIVERSAL	0	2133	16	n/a	n/a	0	$13,196,665
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 3D WALT DISNEY Starring: Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise Genre: Animated MPAA Rating: G Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers herself instead and discovers her captor to be an enchanted prince. 106	103	BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 3D	G		WALT DISNEY	0	2145	19	n/a	n/a	0	$41,110,138
AMERICAN REUNION UNIVERSAL Starring: Director: Genre: MPAA Rating: R 101	98	AMERICAN REUNION	R		UNIVERSAL	0	2154	7	n/a	n/a	0	$53,568,665
DREAM HOUSE UNIVERSAL Starring: Daniel Craig Rachel Weisz Director: Jim Sheridan Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating: PG-13 Soon after moving into their seemingly idyllic new home, a family learns of a brutal crime committed against former residents of the dwelling. 135	132	DREAM HOUSE	PG-13		UNIVERSAL	0	2172	34	n/a	n/a	0	$18,428,000
THE THREE STOOGES FOX Starring: Benicio Del Toro Paul Giamatti Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: PG-13 51	50	THE THREE STOOGES	PG-13		FOX	0	2174	6	n/a	n/a	0	$39,636,682
THE VOW SONY Starring: Rachel McAdams Channing Tatum Director: Michael Sucsy Genre: Romantic MPAA Rating: PG-13 A newlywed couple recovers from a car accident that puts the wife in a coma. Waking up with with severe memory loss, her husband endeavors to win her heart again. 52	51	THE VOW	PG-13		SONY	0	2175	15	n/a	n/a	0	$121,138,255
GONE SUMMIT Starring: Amanda Seyfried Wes Bentley Director: Heitor Dhalia Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating: PG-13 When her sister disappears, Jill is convinced the serial killer who kidnapped her two years ago has returned, and she sets out to once again face her abductor. 144	140	GONE	PG-13		SUMMIT	0	2186	13	n/a	n/a	0	$8,997,977
COWBOYS & ALIENS UNIVERSAL Starring: Daniel Craig Olivia Wilde Director: Jon Favreau Genre: Fantasy MPAA Rating: PG-13 In Silver City, Arizona, Apache Indians and Western settlers must lay their differences aside when an alien spaceship crash lands in their city. 92	88	COWBOYS & ALIENS	PG-13		UNIVERSAL	0	2213	43	n/a	n/a	0	$89,918,775
DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK FILM DISTRICT Starring: Guy Pearce Katie Holmes Director: Troy Nixey Genre: Horror MPAA Rating: R A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own. 115	112	DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK	R		FILM DISTRICT	0	2251	39	n/a	n/a	0	$21,094,526
IMMORTALS Relativity Starring: Mickey Rourke John Hurt Director: Tarsem Singh Genre: Action MPAA Rating: R Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity. 123	119	IMMORTALS	R		Relativity	0	2299	28	n/a	n/a	0	$79,849,505
LOCKOUT FILM DISTRICT Starring: Peter Stormare Guy Pearce Director: Stephen St. Leger, James Mather Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating: PG-13 A man is wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. He's offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates. 27	26	LOCKOUT	PG-13		FILM DISTRICT	0	2335	13	n/a	n/a	0	$11,003,032
JOHN CARTER Walt Disney Starring: Mark Strong Willem Dafoe Director: Andrew Stanton Genre: Sci-Fi MPAA Rating: PG-13 Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, who is in desperate need of a savior. 150	128	JOHN CARTER	PG-13		Walt Disney	0	2397	11	n/a	n/a	0	$66,500,000
KILLER ELITE OPEN ROAD Starring: Jason Statham Robert DeNiro Director: Gary McKendry Genre: Action MPAA Rating: R When his mentor is taken captive, a retired member of Britain's Elite Special Air Service is forced into action. His mission: kill three assassins dispatched by their cunning leader. 33	13	KILLER ELITE	R		OPEN ROAD	0	2411	35	n/a	n/a	0	$21,575,000
HAYWIRE Relativity Starring: Gina Corano Ewan McGregor Director: Steven Soderbergh Genre: Action MPAA Rating: R A black ops super soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and set up during a mission. 147	143	HAYWIRE	R		Relativity	0	2441	18	n/a	n/a	0	$15,281,962
GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE Sony Starring: Nicolas Cage Ciarán Hinds Director: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine Genre: Action MPAA Rating: PG-13 As Johnny Blaze hides out in Eastern Europe, he is called upon to stop the devil, who is trying to take human form. 142	139	GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE	PG-13		Sony	0	2487	14	n/a	n/a	0	$44,881,000
I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT WEINSTEIN CO. Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker Pierce Brosnan Director: Douglas McGrath Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: A comedy centered on the life of Kate Reddy, a finance executive who is the breadwinner for her husband and two kids. 121	117	I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT			WEINSTEIN CO.	0	2490	36	n/a	n/a	0	$8,019,000
WRATH OF THE TITANS WARNER BROS. Starring: Sam Worthington Liam Neeson Director: Jonathan Liebesman Genre: MPAA Rating: PG-13 47	75	WRATH OF THE TITANS	PG-13		WARNER BROS.	0	2502	8	n/a	n/a	0	$77,136,000
EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE WARNER BROS. Starring: Tom Hanks Sandra Bullock Director: Stephen Daldry Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: A nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player, and pacifist searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks. 12/25/11 Limited 1/20/12 WIDE 139	136	EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE			WARNER BROS.	0	2505	21	n/a	n/a	0	$27,000,000
WAR HORSE WALT DISNEY Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch Emily Watson Director: Steven Spielberg Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend. 59	57	WAR HORSE	PG-13		WALT DISNEY	0	2525	21	n/a	n/a	0	$72,285,180
JOYFUL NOISE WARNER BROS. Starring: Dolly Parton Queen Latifah Director: Todd Graff Genre: Musical MPAA Rating: PG-13 Joyful Noise tells the story of an unlikely partnership between two strong-minded women who are forced to work together to save a small town Gospel Choir after budget cuts threaten to shut them down. Music is a very important component to the story. 29	41	JOYFUL NOISE	PG-13		WARNER BROS.	0	2735	19	n/a	n/a	0	$21,745,419
MIRROR MIRROR RELATIVITY Starring: Julia Roberts Lily Collins Director: TARSEM Genre: MPAA Rating: PG 24	21	MIRROR MIRROR	PG		RELATIVITY	0	2938	8	n/a	n/a	0	$55,205,753
MAN ON A LEDGE SUMMIT Starring: Jamie Bell Sam Worthington Director: Asger Leth Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating: PG-13 As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion... 26	14	MAN ON A LEDGE	PG-13		SUMMIT	0	2998	17	n/a	n/a	0	$15,000,000
THE DICTATOR PARAMOUNT Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen Director: Larry Charles Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: R The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed. 3	new	THE DICTATOR	R	12.85%	PARAMOUNT		3008	1	$17,435,092	$5,796	0	$24,476,173
CONAN THE BARBARIAN LIONSGATE Starring: Stephen Lang Jason Momoa Director: Marcus Nispel Genre: Action MPAA Rating: R After his father is brutally murdered and village destroyed, Conan ventures into an unforgiving world where he survives as a thief, pirate, and warrior. 86	82	CONAN THE BARBARIAN	R		LIONSGATE	0	3015	40	n/a	n/a	0	$16,575,575
DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX Universal Starring: Director: Genre: MPAA Rating: PG 134	131	DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX	PG		Universal	0	3264	12	n/a	n/a	0	$190,000,000
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING LIONSGATE Starring: Cameron Diaz Chris Rock Director: Kirk Jones Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: PG-13 A look at love through the eyes of five interconnected couples experiencing the thrills and surprises of having a baby, and ultimately coming to understand the universal truth that no matter what you plan for, life doesn't always deliver what's expected. 5	new	WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING	PG-13	7.77%	LIONSGATE		3476	1	$10,547,068	$3,034	0	$10,547,068
HAPPY FEET TWO Warner Bros. Starring: Matt Damon Brad Pitt Director: George Miller Genre: Animated MPAA Rating: G Mumble's son, Erik, is struggling to realize his talents in the Emperor Penguin world. Meanwhile, Mumble and his family and friends discover a new threat their home -- one that will take everyone working together to save them. 145	141	HAPPY FEET TWO	G		Warner Bros.	0	3536	27	n/a	n/a	0	$51,787,840
BATTLESHIP Universal Starring: Liam Neeson Alexander Skarsgård Director: Peter Berg Genre: Action MPAA Rating: PG-13 A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals. An adaptation based on the Hasbro board game. 2	new	BATTLESHIP	PG-13	18.82%	Universal		3690	1	$25,534,825	$6,920	0	$25,534,825
DARK SHADOWS WARNER BROS. Starring: Johnny Depp Michelle Pfeiffer Director: Tim burton Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: PG-13 An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection. 4	2	DARK SHADOWS	PG-13	9.27%	WARNER BROS.	0	3755	2	$12,583,338	$3,351	-56	$50,721,759
THE AVENGERS WALT DISNEY Starring: Samuel L. Jackson Robert Downey Jr. Director: Joss Whedon Genre: Action MPAA Rating: PG-13 Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. brings together a team of super humans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from Loki and his army. 1	1	THE AVENGERS	PG-13	41%	WALT DISNEY	-100	4249	3	$55,644,102	$13,096	-46	$457,665,517

THE WOMAN IN BLACK

CBS FILMS

CHRONICLE

FOX

DOLPHIN TALE

Warner Bros.

PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS

SONY

PUSS IN BOOTS

Paramount

WARRIOR

LIONSGATE

THE RAVEN

RELATIVITY

JACK AND JILL

SONY

COLOMBIANA

SONY

DRIVE

Film District

J. EDGAR

WARNER BROS.

WANDERLUST

UNIVERSAL

THE LUCKY ONE

WARNER BROS.

BAD TEACHER

SONY

CONTRABAND

UNIVERSAL

THE HUNGER GAMES

LIONSGATE

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN

PARAMOUNT

FINAL DESTINATION 5

WARNER BROS.

SILENT HOUSE

OPEN ROAD

TITANIC 3D

PARAMOUNT

BIG MIRACLE

UNIVERSAL

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 3D

WALT DISNEY

AMERICAN REUNION

UNIVERSAL

DREAM HOUSE

UNIVERSAL

THE THREE STOOGES

FOX

THE VOW

SONY

GONE

SUMMIT

COWBOYS & ALIENS

UNIVERSAL

DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK

FILM DISTRICT

IMMORTALS

Relativity

LOCKOUT

FILM DISTRICT

JOHN CARTER

Walt Disney

KILLER ELITE

OPEN ROAD

HAYWIRE

Relativity

GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE

Sony

I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT

WEINSTEIN CO.

WRATH OF THE TITANS

WARNER BROS.

EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE

WARNER BROS.

WAR HORSE

WALT DISNEY

JOYFUL NOISE

WARNER BROS.