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Top 2012 Limited Release Movies at the Domestic Box Office
See also: Top 2012 Domestic
Other Domestic Cumulative records for Limited Release Movies: All Time Domestic Limited Release - All Time Inf. Adj. Limited Release - Top 2024 Domestic Limited Release - Top 2025 Domestic Limited Release
This chart contains the total domestic box office for the top 100 limited release movies released in 2012.
| ←Top 2011 Domestic Limited Release | Top 2013 Domestic Limited Release→ |
| Rank | Movie | Domestic Box Office |
Opening Weekend Theaters |
Max Theaters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | $46,383,639 | 27 | 1,298 |
| 2 | Moonrise Kingdom | $45,512,466 | 4 | 924 |
| 3 | 2016: Obama’s America | $33,349,941 | 1 | 2,017 |
| 4 | The Impossible | $19,019,882 | 15 | 886 |
| 5 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | $17,742,948 | 4 | 745 |
| 6 | To Rome with Love | $16,684,352 | 5 | 806 |
| 7 | The Master | $16,247,159 | 5 | 864 |
| 8 | Les Intouchables | $13,182,281 | 4 | 194 |
| 9 | Anna Karenina | $12,816,367 | 16 | 422 |
| 10 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | $12,795,746 | 4 | 318 |
| 11 | Bernie | $9,204,489 | 3 | 332 |
| 12 | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | $9,041,540 | 18 | 524 |
| 13 | Arbitrage | $7,919,574 | 197 | 256 |
| 14 | Friends with Kids | $7,251,073 | 369 | 640 |
| 15 | In Darkness | $6,994,218 | 3 | 52 |
| 16 | Amour | $6,738,954 | 3 | 333 |
| 17 | Hyde Park on Hudson | $6,376,145 | 4 | 246 |
| 18 | Hitchcock | $6,008,677 | 17 | 561 |
| 19 | The Sessions | $6,002,451 | 4 | 516 |
| 20 | Casa de mi Padre | $5,909,483 | 382 | 475 |
| 21 | October Baby | $5,355,847 | 390 | 398 |
| 22 | Jeff, Who Lives at Home | $4,269,426 | 254 | 513 |
| 23 | Goon | $4,164,911 | 258 | 262 |
| 24 | Serbuan maut | $4,105,123 | 14 | 881 |
| 25 | Safety Not Guaranteed | $4,010,957 | 9 | 182 |
| 26 | Searching for Sugar Man | $3,965,090 | 3 | 157 |
| 27 | Pina | $3,520,458 | 10 | 83 |
| 28 | Bully | $3,483,795 | 5 | 263 |
| 29 | Robot & Frank | $3,317,468 | 2 | 209 |
| 30 | Celeste and Jesse Forever | $3,103,407 | 4 | 586 |
| 31 | Jab Tak Hai Jaan | $3,047,539 | 160 | 164 |
| 32 | Barfi | $2,804,874 | 132 | 132 |
| 33 | Talaash | $2,706,375 | 172 | 172 |
| 34 | Samsara | $2,672,413 | 2 | 70 |
| 35 | Girl in Progress | $2,609,412 | 322 | 322 |
| 36 | Jiro Dreams of Sushi | $2,552,478 | 2 | 80 |
| 37 | Ruby Sparks | $2,540,106 | 13 | 261 |
| 38 | Omerta | $2,462,588 | 80 | 85 |
| 39 | The Queen of Versailles | $2,401,999 | 3 | 96 |
| 40 | Ek Tha Tiger | $2,347,774 | 118 | 119 |
| 41 | Sleepwalk With Me | $2,266,066 | 1 | 135 |
| 42 | De rouille et d’os | $2,061,449 | 2 | 168 |
| 43 | He'arat Shulayim | $2,007,451 | 2 | 101 |
| 44 | Crooked Arrows | $1,832,541 | 55 | 327 |
| 45 | Hysteria | $1,804,139 | 5 | 218 |
| 46 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | $1,738,692 | 2 | 80 |
| 47 | 2012 Oscar Shorts | $1,702,415 | 120 | 146 |
| 48 | Your Sister's Sister | $1,597,486 | 13 | 101 |
| 49 | A Late Quartet | $1,561,577 | 9 | 100 |
| 50 | En kongelig affære | $1,546,761 | 7 | 56 |
| 51 | Marley | $1,413,480 | 42 | 73 |
| 52 | Le gamin au vélo | $1,389,524 | 3 | 86 |
| 53 | Les adieux à la reine | $1,329,660 | 4 | 64 |
| 54 | Woman Thou Art Loosed On the 7th Day | $1,301,562 | 102 | 106 |
| 55 | Killer Joe | $1,291,645 | 3 | 73 |
| 56 | Bol Bachchan | $1,257,892 | 98 | 98 |
| 57 | For a Good Time, Call | $1,251,749 | 23 | 107 |
| 58 | Take This Waltz | $1,239,692 | 30 | 69 |
| 59 | Le fils de l’autre | $1,220,807 | 41 | 53 |
| 60 | Hodejegerne | $1,200,010 | 4 | 60 |
| 61 | Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu | $1,155,545 | 111 | 111 |
| 62 | The Deep Blue Sea | $1,126,027 | 31 | 56 |
| 63 | Cocktail | $1,027,121 | 96 | 96 |
| 64 | Damsels in Distress | $1,007,535 | 4 | 205 |
| 65 | Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel | $1,004,821 | 3 | 27 |
| 66 | Rampart | $969,239 | 5 | 106 |
| 67 | First Position | $908,235 | 5 | 58 |
| 68 | The Imposter | $901,954 | 1 | 31 |
| 69 | Darling Companion | $793,352 | 4 | 64 |
| 70 | Thin Ice | $789,752 | 53 | 53 |
| 71 | Coriolanus | $749,641 | 9 | 21 |
| 72 | Cosmopolis | $743,636 | 3 | 65 |
| 73 | Unconditional | $741,381 | 312 | 312 |
| 74 | The Paperboy | $677,200 | 11 | 76 |
| 75 | Teri Meri Kahaani | $671,442 | 94 | 94 |
| 76 | Holy Motors | $641,054 | 2 | 29 |
| 77 | 2 Days in New York | $633,210 | 2 | 42 |
| 78 | Not Fade Away | $610,792 | 3 | 565 |
| 79 | Heroine | $598,668 | 114 | 114 |
| 80 | Blue Like Jazz | $595,018 | 136 | 136 |
| 81 | W.E. | $582,075 | 4 | 24 |
| 82 | Undefeated | $561,054 | 5 | 21 |
| 83 | Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding | $542,762 | 31 | 76 |
| 84 | Being Flynn | $540,152 | 4 | 88 |
| 85 | Et maintenant, on va où? | $531,813 | 3 | 37 |
| 86 | Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry | $489,074 | 5 | 39 |
| 87 | Habemus Papam | $486,902 | 3 | 27 |
| 88 | The Flat | $471,842 | 2 | 26 |
| 89 | Inch'Allah | $460,384 | 22 | 22 |
| 90 | Bachelorette | $446,770 | 47 | 60 |
| 91 | Seeking Justice | $411,746 | 231 | 231 |
| 92 | Sound of My Voice | $408,015 | 5 | 48 |
| 93 | Detropia | $390,024 | 1 | 24 |
| 94 | Smashed | $375,981 | 4 | 50 |
| 95 | Piranha 3DD | $370,904 | 86 | 86 |
| 96 | The Oranges | $364,875 | 110 | 110 |
| 97 | Branded | $353,513 | 307 | 307 |
| 98 | Red Hook Summer | $338,803 | 4 | 41 |
| 99 | Student of the Year | $326,508 | 106 | 106 |
| 100 | The Central Park Five | $325,653 | 3 | 22 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
Note: the records on this page only consider movies that were initially released in less than 600 theaters and did not have any expansion of more than 1,000 theaters in one week. We only consider movies that were released in 1995 or later, and do not consider movies that only had an IMAX release.
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.