Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Warner Bros. and Participant Media’s viral pandemic thriller “Contagion” successfully infiltrated the domestic box office with a $23.1 million debut, easily winning the weekend race.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, September 11, 2011, are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
| 1 | Contagion | Warner Bros. | 23,135,000 | 23,135,000 | 3,222 | 7,180 |
| 2 | Help, The | Disney | 8,691,000 | 137,092,658 | 2,935 | 2,961 |
| 3 | Warrior | Lionsgate | 5,607,000 | 5,607,000 | 1,869 | 3,000 |
| 4 | Debt, The | Focus Features | 4,904,650 | 21,992,607 | 1,876 | 2,614 |
| 5 | Colombiana | Sony | 4,000,000 | 29,778,706 | 2,354 | 1,699 |
| 6 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 20th Century Fox | 3,875,000 | 167,835,831 | 2,887 | 1,342 |
| 7 | Shark Night 3D | Relativity Media | 3,533,000 | 14,797,179 | 2,848 | 1,240 |
| 8 | Apollo 18 | The Weinstein Company | 2,913,000 | 15,000,954 | 3,330 | 874 |
| 9 | Our Idiot Brother | The Weinstein Company | 2,761,000 | 21,420,009 | 2,396 | 1,152 |
| 10 | Spy Kids: All The Time In The World | The Weinstein Company | 2,506,000 | 34,227,586 | 2,544 | 985 |
| 11 | Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark | FilmDistrict | 2,260,768 | 21,094,526 | 2,251 | 1,004 |
| 12 | Crazy, Stupid, Love | Warner Bros. | 2,180,000 | 78,429,061 | 1,310 | 1,664 |
