Friday saw a 60% decrease in box office revenue over the previous Friday.

1. The Blind Side - $6.8M
2. The Twilight Saga: New Moon - $5.2M
3. Brothers - $3.5M
4. Armored - $2.4M
5. Old Dogs - $2.06M
6. 2012 - $2M
7. A Christmas Carol (2009) - $1.9M
8. Ninja Assassin - $1.6M
9. Everybody's Fine - $1.3M
10. Planet 51 - $1M

The box office put in a far more subdued performance this Friday, although it still threw up one big surprise.

THE BLIND SIDE, after doing the unthinkable last week by increasing its audience over the previous week, now switches places with NEW MOON to take out top spot for Friday. Although down on last Friday, the estimated $6.8 million take of THE BLIND SIDE was enough to see it push past NEW MOON as the vampire flick loses audience fast. The Sandra Bullock football drama has proved to be an impressive winner for the ailing star who has had a stellar comeback this year when combined with her earlier film this year, THE PROPOSAL. As for NEW MOON, the mainstream audience have abandoned it rather quickly, and most of the fan girls have seen it, leaving its box office pace dwindling, although it is not hurting too much as its total gross is now $245 million.

A couple of new films entered the Top 10 on Friday, none of which made much impact on the box office. These included BROTHERS, ARMORED and EVERYBODY'S FINE.

Stay tuned for a more comprehensive wrap-up of the weekend box office in North America for 4th-6th December 2009.

The Top 10 at the North American box office took in an estimated total of $27.8 million for the whole of Friday 4th December 2009.