10
The Box
Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
$3,158,368
$13,179,622
9
Law Abiding Citizen
Overture Films
$3,796,327
$67,190,452
8
Paranormal Activity
Paramount Pictures
$4,043,417
$103,690,184
7
Couples Retreat
Universal Pictures
$4,164,940
$102,045,330
6
The Fourth Kind
Universal Pictures
$4,605,365
$20,449,660
5
Michael Jackson's This Is It
Sony Pictures Releasing
Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI)
$5,078,920
$67,190,296
4
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Overture Films
$5,861,753
$23,038,050
3
Precious
Lionsgate Films
$5,874,628
$8,699,180
2
A Christmas Carol
Walt Disney Studios Distribution
$63,272,757
$22,308,913
1
2012
Sony Pictures Releasing
$65,237,614
"Nam Sibyllam quidem cumis ego ipse oculis meis
vidi in ampulla pender, et cum illi puere dicerent:
sibylla ti theleis; respondebat illa: apothnein thelo"
From T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"