“Dear John” dethroned reigning box office champ “Avatar,” blocking its bid for an eighth straight win. The over-achieving romantic drama’s wily counter-programming play scored an estimated $32.4 million in opening domestic boxoffice during Super Bowl weekend.
The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday February 7, 2010 include:
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Weekend Gross | Cume | Location |
| 1 | Dear John | Sony | $32,400,000 | $32,400,000 | 2969 |
| 2 | Avatar | 20th Century Fox | $23,600,000 | $630,093,323 | 3000 |
| 3 | From Paris With Love | Lionsgate | $8,120,000 | $8,120,000 | 2722 |
| 4 | Edge Of Darkness | Warner Bros. | $7,005,000 | $29,097,480 | 3066 |
| 5 | Tooth Fairy | 20th Century Fox | $6,500,000 | $34,332,973 | 3218 |
| 6 | When In Rome | Disney | $5,504,000 | $20,899,605 | 2456 |
| 7 | The Book Of Eli | Warner Bros. | $4,835,000 | $82,162,805 | 2820 |
| 8 | Crazy Heart | Fox Searchlight | $3,650,000 | $11,187,730 | 819 |
| 9 | Legion | Sony | $3,400,000 | $34,678,283 | 2339 |
| 10 | Sherlock Holmes | Warner Bros. | $2,630,000 | $201,579,296 | 1805 |
| 11 | The Blind Side | Warner Bros. | $2,600,000 | $241,626,369 | 1740 |
| 12 | Up In The Air | Paramount | $2,350,000 | $76,681,193 | 1547 |
