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Second place, with $10.5 million, went to "Rise of the Guardians," the latest animated offering from DreamWorks, featuring Jack Frost.
After three weeks at number one, "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 $9.1 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 heart-throb Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Uma Thurman, entered in sixth place, with $6 million.
"Wreck-It Ralph" -- the animated Disney film about a video game villain aspiring to be a hero -- took seventh spot, garnering $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 eight place. It brought in just under $4.3 million.
Denzel Washington vehicle "Flight," in which he stars as a hero pilot who is 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 $2.7 million.
Final figures are due out Monday.
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After three weeks at number one, "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 $9.1 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 heart-throb Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Uma Thurman, entered in sixth place, with $6 million.
"Wreck-It Ralph" -- the animated Disney film about a video game villain aspiring to be a hero -- took seventh spot, garnering $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 eight place. It brought in just under $4.3 million.
Denzel Washington vehicle "Flight," in which he stars as a hero pilot who is 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 $2.7 million.
Final figures are due out Monday.
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