Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 Remains the Top Draw

DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE RESULTS FOR WEEKEND OF DECEMBER 2

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 from Lionsgate remained the top pick at the U.S. weekend box office, but its advantage this weekend over No. 2 Skyfall from Sony was only $850,000. Tied for the number three spot was Lincoln from Disney and Rise of the Guardians from Paramount with $13.5 million each. Brad Pitt-starrer Killing Them Softly flopped at No. 7 with a paltry $6.8 million.

What follows are top-12 domestic weekend box office estimates listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, December 2, 2012 [in brackets: percent difference from last weekend's domestic gross, if available, and total domestic gross to-date]:

1. Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (Lionsgate): $17.4 million [down 60.1 percent; $254.6 million]

2. Skyfall (Sony): $16.6 million [down 53.4 percent; $245.6 million]

3. Rise of the Guardians (Paramount): $13.39 million [down 43.7 percent; $48.8 million]

4. Lincoln (Disney): $13.38 million [down 47.9 percent; $83.6 million]

5. Life of Pi (20th Century Fox): $12.1 million [down 45.9 percent; $48.5 million]

6. Wreck it Ralph (Disney): $6.9 million [down 58.1 percent; $158.2 million]

7. Killing Them Softly (The Weinstein Company): $6.8 million

8. Red Dawn (FilmDistrict): $6.5 million [down 54.5 percent; $31.3 million]

9. Flight (Paramount): $4.5 million [down 47.0 percent; $81.5 million]

10. The Collection (LD Entertainment): $3.1 million

11. Silver Linings Playbook (The Weinstein Company): $3.1 million [down 29.5 percent; $10.7 million]

12. Anna Karenina (Focus Features): $2.2 million [up 150.5 percent; $4.1 million]