With no new wide releases this weekend, the box office turned in the second worst performance of 2011. The weekend was also down from last year by 4 percent to 7 percent. With such poor results, “Twilight” remained in the top spot, while “The Muppets” easily kept the second spot.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, December 4, 2011 are as follows:
Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
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1 | Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, The | Summit Entertainment | 16,900,000 | 247,290,944 | 4,046 | 4,176 |
2 | Muppets, The | Disney | 11,200,000 | 56,137,000 | 3,440 | 3,255 |
3 | Hugo | Paramount | 7,625,000 | 25,188,476 | 1,840 | 4,144 |
4 | Arthur Christmas | Sony | 7,350,000 | 25,291,751 | 3,376 | 2,177 |
5 | Happy Feet 2 | Warner Bros. | 6,000,000 | 51,785,176 | 3,536 | 1,696 |
6 | Jack And Jill | Sony | 5,500,000 | 64,308,481 | 3,049 | 1,803 |
7 | Descendants, The | Fox Searchlight | 5,200,000 | 18,087,330 | 574 | 9,059 |
8 | Immortals | Relativity Media | 4,394,000 | 75,588,285 | 2,627 | 1,672 |
9 | Tower Heist | Universal | 4,134,880 | 70,779,710 | 2,404 | 1,720 |
10 | Puss In Boots | Paramount | 3,050,000 | 139,522,201 | 2,750 | 1,109 |
11 | J. Edgar | Warner Bros. | 2,400,000 | 32,661,081 | 1,985 | 1,209 |
12 | My Week With Marilyn | The Weinstein Company | 1,180,000 | 3,861,206 | 244 | 4,836 |