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The widely-praised Bond movie opened in top spot last month, but had been kept in the runner-up spot for the last three weeks by the last film in the "Twilight" franchise.
Second place, with $10.4 million, went to "Rise of the Guardians," the latest animated offering from DreamWorks featuring Jack Frost and a band of fairytale characters ganging up to save the world from the Boogeyman.
"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2," the fifth and final installment of the wildly popular vampire series, was bumped down to third, taking in $9.2 million.
"Lincoln" -- starring Daniel Day-Lewis as 16th US president Abraham Lincoln -- came a close fourth with $8.9 million.
Parked in fifth place was "Life of Pi," a 3D fantasy by Oscar-winning director Ang Lee based on a Booker prize-winning novel about an Indian boy adrift on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger in the Pacific. It garnered $8.3 million.
"Playing for Keeps" -- a romantic comedy starring Scottish heartthrob Gerard Butler, as well as Jessica Biel, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Uma Thurman -- entered in sixth place, with $5.8 million.
"Wreck-It Ralph," the animated Disney film about a video game villain aspiring to be a hero, took the seventh spot, earning $4.9 million.
And "Red Dawn" -- a new take on a 1984 movie about a group of teenagers who look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers -- held steady in eighth place. It brought in just under $4.2 million.
"Flight," in which Denzel Washington stars as a hero pilot battling alcohol and drug problems, came in ninth, with $3.1 million.
Rounding out the top 10 was Brad Pitt's "Killing Them Softly," which slipped back from last week's seventh place. It took in $2.8 million.
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Second place, with $10.4 million, went to "Rise of the Guardians," the latest animated offering from DreamWorks featuring Jack Frost and a band of fairytale characters ganging up to save the world from the Boogeyman.
"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2," the fifth and final installment of the wildly popular vampire series, was bumped down to third, taking in $9.2 million.
"Lincoln" -- starring Daniel Day-Lewis as 16th US president Abraham Lincoln -- came a close fourth with $8.9 million.
Parked in fifth place was "Life of Pi," a 3D fantasy by Oscar-winning director Ang Lee based on a Booker prize-winning novel about an Indian boy adrift on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger in the Pacific. It garnered $8.3 million.
"Playing for Keeps" -- a romantic comedy starring Scottish heartthrob Gerard Butler, as well as Jessica Biel, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Uma Thurman -- entered in sixth place, with $5.8 million.
"Wreck-It Ralph," the animated Disney film about a video game villain aspiring to be a hero, took the seventh spot, earning $4.9 million.
And "Red Dawn" -- a new take on a 1984 movie about a group of teenagers who look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers -- held steady in eighth place. It brought in just under $4.2 million.
"Flight," in which Denzel Washington stars as a hero pilot battling alcohol and drug problems, came in ninth, with $3.1 million.
Rounding out the top 10 was Brad Pitt's "Killing Them Softly," which slipped back from last week's seventh place. It took in $2.8 million.
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