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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
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Warner Bros. Starring: Emma Watson Daniel Radcliffe Director: David Yates Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 146	142	HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2	PG-13		Warner Bros.	0	1092	45	n/a	n/a	0	$374,580,000
HORRIBLE BOSSES WARNER BROS. Starring: Colin Farrell Jason Bateman Director: Seth Gordon Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: R Three friends decide to murder their overbearing bosses with disastrous results. 117	113	HORRIBLE BOSSES	R		WARNER BROS.	0	755	46	n/a	n/a	0	$112,733,095
LARRY CROWNE UNIVERSAL Starring: Tom Hanks Julia Roberts Director: Tom Hanks Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 After losing his job, a middle-aged man reinvents himself by going back to college. 39	35	LARRY CROWNE	PG-13		UNIVERSAL	0	1035	47	n/a	n/a	0	$34,844,940
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
JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER RELATIVITY Starring: Heather Graham Jaleel White Director: John Schultz Genre: Kids/Family MPAA Rating: PG Third-grader Judy Moody sets out to have the most thrilling summer of her life. 30	39	JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER	PG		RELATIVITY	0	190	50	n/a	n/a	0	$14,816,388
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
KUNG FU PANDA 2 Paramount Starring: Jack Black Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson Genre: Animated MPAA Rating: PG 37	32	KUNG FU PANDA 2	PG		Paramount	0	250	52	n/a	n/a	0	$162,081,298
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS SONY CLASSICS Starring: Director: Genre: MPAA Rating: PG-13 17	19	MIDNIGHT IN PARIS	PG-13		SONY CLASSICS	0	471	53	n/a	n/a	0	$46,851,966
PRIEST Sony Starring: Paul Bettany Director: Scott Charles Stewart Genre: 3-D MPAA Rating: PG-13 A priest disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece. 66	67	PRIEST	PG-13		Sony	0	583	54	n/a	n/a	0	$28,713,577
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
JUMPING THE BROOM Sony Starring: Angela Bassett Paula Patton Director: Salim Akil Genre: MPAA Rating: PG-13 Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding. 34	29	JUMPING THE BROOM	PG-13		Sony	0	589	55	n/a	n/a	0	$35,907,300
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
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
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
BORN TO BE WILD WARNER BROS. Starring: Director: Genre: IMAX MPAA Rating: Since 1969, the animal orphanage at the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy continues to be home to countless animals that were orphaned, injured or needed special care. Many are successfully returned to the wild. 112	109	BORN TO BE WILD			WARNER BROS.	0	57	59	n/a	n/a	0	$4,816,649
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
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
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
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
INSIDIOUS FILM DISTRICT Starring: Rose Byrne Patrick Wilson Director: James Wan Genre: Horror MPAA Rating: PG-13 A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further. 127	123	INSIDIOUS	PG-13		FILM DISTRICT	0	762	60	n/a	n/a	0	$51,674,312
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
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
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
HOP Universal Starring: Russell Brand Director: Tim Hill Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: PG The Easter Bunny is accidentally hit by a car, and it's up to the offending driver to save Easter. 116	129	HOP	PG		Universal	0	459	60	n/a	n/a	0	$106,854,715
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES Fox Starring: Steve Zahn Rachael Harris Director: David Bowers Genre: Kids/Family MPAA Rating: PG 113	92	DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES	PG		Fox	0	311	61	n/a	n/a	0	$51,635,700
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
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
LIMITLESS Relativity Starring: Robert De Niro Abbie Cornish Director: Neil Burger Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating: PG-13 An intellectual slacker and former cocaine addict, now eking out a living as a copywriter for a small publishing house. Through a bizarre series of coincidences, Eddie finds himself in possession of MTD-48, a drug that has some curious effects. 28	27	LIMITLESS	PG-13		Relativity	0	298	62	n/a	n/a	0	$77,563,588
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
BATTLE: LOS ANGELES Sony Starring: Aaron Eckhart Bridget Moynahan Director: Jonathan Liebesman Genre: Action MPAA Rating: A Marine platoon faces off against an alien invasion in Los Angeles. 104	101	BATTLE: LOS ANGELES			Sony	0	225	63	n/a	n/a	0	$83,271,423
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
MARS NEEDS MOMS WALT DISNEY Starring: Seth Green Joan Cusack Director: Simon Wells Genre: 3-D MPAA Rating: PG A young boy named Milo gains a deeper appreciation for his mom after Martians come to Earth to take her away. 16	16	MARS NEEDS MOMS	PG		WALT DISNEY	0	27	63	n/a	n/a	0	$20,922,476
JANE EYRE FOCUS Starring: Mia Wasikowska Judi Dench Director: Cary Fukunaga Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret. 131	127	JANE EYRE	PG-13		FOCUS	0	248	63	n/a	n/a	0	$9,971,497
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
BEASTLY CBS Films Starring: Neil Patrick Harris Vanessa Hudgens Director: Daniel Barnz Genre: Fantasy MPAA Rating: PG-13 A modern-day take on the "Beauty and the Beast" tale where a New York teen is transformed into a hideous monster in order to find true love. 105	102	BEASTLY	PG-13		CBS Films	0	46	64	n/a	n/a	0	$27,854,896
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
I AM NUMBER FOUR Walt Disney Starring: Sharlto Copley Alex Pettyfer Director: D.J. Caruso Genre: Sci-Fi MPAA Rating: PG-13 Nine alien teens come to Earth after their planet is destroyed by an enemy species. But soon discover that their enemy is now after them on Earth. 120	116	I AM NUMBER FOUR	PG-13		Walt Disney	0	102	66	n/a	n/a	0	$54,808,297
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
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
JUST GO WITH IT SONY Starring: Adam Sandler Jennifer Aniston Director: Dennis Dugan Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: PG-13 A man enlists the help of a woman and her kids to land the woman of his dreams. 31	37	JUST GO WITH IT	PG-13		SONY	0	89	67	n/a	n/a	0	$103,028,109
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
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
BIUTIFUL ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS Starring: Javier Bardem Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R Academy Award winner Javier Bardem plays a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. The latest film from Academy Award nominee Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (BABEL, AMORES PERROS), BIUTIFUL won the award for Best Actor at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and is sure to be one of the most talked-about films of the year. 110	107	BIUTIFUL	R		ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS	0	11	69	n/a	n/a	0	$5,085,424
BARNEY'S VERSION SONY CLASSICS Starring: Paul Giamatti Dustin Hoffman Director: Richard J. Lewis Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky. 103	100	BARNEY'S VERSION	R		SONY CLASSICS	0	7	71	n/a	n/a	0	$7,470,660

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2

Warner Bros.

HORRIBLE BOSSES

WARNER BROS.

LARRY CROWNE

UNIVERSAL

BAD TEACHER

SONY

JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER

RELATIVITY

BEGINNGERS

FOCUS

KUNG FU PANDA 2

Paramount

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

SONY CLASSICS

PRIEST

Sony

HEY BOO

FIRST RUN FEATURES

HESHER

Wrekin Hill

L'AMOUR FOU

IFC FILMS

LAST NIGHT

Tribeca Film

LEBANON, PA

TRULY INDIE

CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH

KINO

HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN

MAGNOLIA PICTURES

JUMPING THE BROOM

Sony

CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

IFC FILMS

INCENDIES

SONY CLASSICS

DUMBSTRUCK

TRULY INDIE

BORN TO BE WILD

WARNER BROS.

CEREMONY

Magnolia Pictures

MEEK'S CUTOFF

OSCILLOSCOPE

BLANK CITY

INSURGENT

HENRY'S CRIME

MOVING PICTURES

INSIDIOUS

FILM DISTRICT

LE QUATTRO VOLTE

LORBER FILMS

CIRCO

FIRST RUN FEATURES

IN A BETTER WORLD

SONY CLASSICS

HOP

Universal

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES

Fox

MIRAL

WEINSTEIN CO.

POTICHE

MUSIC BOX

LIMITLESS

Relativity

BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK

ZEITGEIST

BATTLE: LOS ANGELES

Sony

KILL THE IRISHMAN

Anchor Bay

MARS NEEDS MOMS

WALT DISNEY

JANE EYRE

FOCUS

OCTUBRE

NEW YORKER