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The 2012 box office enjoyed another strong weekend as “Underworld: Awakening” and “Red Tails” beat expectations to bring in $25.4 million and $19.1 million, respectively. This continued the box office resurgence after a weak end to 2011.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, through January 22, 2012 are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
| 1 | Underworld Awakening | Sony | 25,400,000 | 25,400,000 | 3,078 | 8,252 |
| 2 | Red Tails | 20th Century Fox | 19,100,000 | 19,100,000 | 2,512 | 7,603 |
| 3 | Contraband | Universal | 12,240,550 | 46,138,470 | 2,870 | 4,265 |
| 4 | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Warner Bros. | 10,545,000 | 11,236,907 | 2,630 | 4,009 |
| 5 | Haywire | Relativity Media | 9,000,000 | 9,000,000 | 2,439 | 3,690 |
| 6 | Beauty And The Beast | Disney | 8,556,000 | 33,364,380 | 2,625 | 3,259 |
| 7 | Joyful Noise | Warner Bros. | 6,075,000 | 21,902,982 | 2,735 | 2,221 |
| 8 | Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol | Paramount | 5,540,000 | 197,349,187 | 2,519 | 2,199 |
| 9 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows | Warner Bros. | 4,805,000 | 178,611,229 | 2,485 | 1,933 |
| 10 | Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The | Sony | 3,750,000 | 94,775,068 | 1,907 | 1,966 |
| 11 | Iron Lady, The | The Weinstein Company | 3,707,000 | 12,608,679 | 1,076 | 3,445 |
| 12 | War Horse | Disney | 3,003,000 | 72,137,678 | 2,525 | 1,189 |
