Below are the top 12 weekend final numbers from the North American box office:

1. District 9 - $37,354,308
2. G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra - $22,324,341
3. The Time Traveler's Wife - $18,623,171
4. Julie & Julia - $12,055,918
5. G-Force - $6,915,642
6. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard - $5,642,137
7. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - $5,141,072
8. The Ugly Truth - $4,448,232
9. Ponyo - $3,585,852
10. Funny People - $3,010,755
11. (500) Days Of Summer - $2,967,462
12. A Perfect Getaway - $2,860,100

Overall, the US Box Office was down 5.5% on last weekend's gross.

DISTRICT 9, one the most intelligent, adult and unique science-fiction films to come out in a long time was rewarded by the audience at the box office this weekend with a very strong $37M. Produced by Oscar-winner Peter Jackson and directed by first timer Neil Blomkamp, the film has earned accolades for its unique, original and intellectually engaging motifs, while still managing to satisfy in the action and thrills departments. The film looks like it cost three times more than its $30M production budget, and given the film is already in the black after three days of release, look for this to be one of the bigger winners for the year.

Last weekend's number one champ, G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA, slips only in to second place this weekend (it could have been worse given the poor reception it has received), losing 59% of its audience to earn an additional $22.3M. The film has yet to crack $100M and will struggle to earn back its $175M budget at the domestic box office. Word of mouth has hit this one hard, but not as hard as expected.

THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE had to settle for third place on opening this weekend, earning a decent $18.6M. The film cost $37M to make so it should have no problem recouping its budget, and the film has served as effective counter-programming to the more action and sci-fi driven films in the top two spots.

Two other films opened this weekend, neither of which did anything special and can be seen as disappointments. THE GOODS: LIVE HARD, SELL HARD and PONYO earned $5.6M and $3.5M respectively.

Of the returning films, most managed to continue doing decent business. Meryl Streep's latest gig in JULIE & JULIA managed another $12M this weekend, taking its total to $43M against a $40M budget. The guinea-pig feast from Jerry Bruckheimer G-FORCE earned $6.9M and is just about to cross $100M domestically. HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE earned another $5.1M over the weekend to take its domestical tally to $283M. And the critically and popularly bashed THE UGLY TRUTH managed to muster another $4.4M to take its total to a healthy $77M against a $38M budget. All the films in this batch have proved to be good winners relative to their production budgets.

The Top 12 at the US Box Office took in a total of $124,812,512 for the whole of the weekend 14-16 August 2009.