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Liam Neeson’s latest action movie,”The Grey,” topped the box office this weekend, bringing in $20 million in its debut. The film led another good weekend at the box office, following a lackluster end of 2011. So far, 2012 revenues are running nearly 10 percent ahead of 2011 as moviegoing continues to pick up the pace.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, through January 29, 2012 are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
| 1 | Grey, The | Open Road | 20,000,000 | 20,000,000 | 3,185 | 6,279 |
| 2 | Underworld Awakening | Sony | 12,500,000 | 45,125,613 | 3,078 | 4,061 |
| 3 | One For The Money | Lionsgate | 11,750,000 | 11,750,000 | 2,737 | 4,293 |
| 4 | Red Tails | 20th Century Fox | 10,400,000 | 33,779,795 | 2,573 | 4,041 |
| 5 | Man On A Ledge | Summit Entertainment | 8,250,000 | 8,250,000 | 2,998 | 2,751 |
| 6 | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Warner Bros. | 7,145,000 | 21,106,254 | 2,630 | 2,716 |
| 7 | Descendants, The | Fox Searchlight | 6,550,000 | 58,848,014 | 2,001 | 3,273 |
| 8 | Contraband | Universal | 6,532,250 | 56,401,750 | 2,650 | 2,465 |
| 9 | Beauty And The Beast | Disney | 5,345,000 | 41,147,331 | 2,145 | 2,491 |
| 10 | Haywire | Relativity Media | 4,000,000 | 15,279,202 | 2,441 | 1,638 |
| 11 | Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol | Paramount | 3,550,000 | 202,641,325 | 1,654 | 2,146 |
| 12 | Artist, The | The Weinstein Company | 3,315,000 | 16,744,098 | 897 | 3,695 |
