Feb 272012
Relativity Media’s real-life film of Navy SEALs “Act of Valor” easily won the weekend crown with a strong $24.7 million opening. The film led another weekend of growth for the box office with revenues up more than 25 percent from the previous year, although results are still some of the lowest figures in many years.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, through February 26, 2012, are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
| 1 | Act Of Valor | Relativity Media | 24,700,000 | 24,700,000 | 3,039 | 8,127 |
| 2 | Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds | Lionsgate | 16,000,000 | 16,000,000 | 2,132 | 7,504 |
| 3 | Journey 2: The Mysterious Island | Warner Bros. | 13,475,000 | 76,731,351 | 3,350 | 4,022 |
| 4 | Safe House | Universal | 11,368,700 | 98,065,260 | 3,052 | 3,725 |
| 5 | Vow, The | Sony | 10,000,000 | 103,007,343 | 3,038 | 3,291 |
| 6 | Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance | Sony | 8,800,000 | 37,832,082 | 3,174 | 2,772 |
| 7 | This Means War | 20th Century Fox | 8,500,000 | 33,570,636 | 3,189 | 2,665 |
| 8 | Wanderlust | Universal | 6,626,620 | 6,626,620 | 2,002 | 3,310 |
| 9 | Gone | Summit Entertainment | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 2,186 | 2,287 |
| 10 | Secret World Of Arrietty, The | Disney | 4,503,000 | 14,660,805 | 1,522 | 2,958 |
| 11 | Chronicle | 20th Century Fox | 3,705,000 | 58,004,927 | 1,797 | 2,061 |
| 12 | Star Wars: Episode I – Phantom Menace | 20th Century Fox | 3,100,000 | 40,369,630 | 1,618 | 1,915 |