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

1. The Blind Side - $20,043,181
2. The Twilight Saga: New Moon - $15,427,628
3. Brothers - $9,578,848
4. A Christmas Carol (2009) - $7,763,244
5. Old Dogs - $6,892,265
6. 2012 - $6,771,665
7. Armored - $6,511,128
8. Ninja Assassin - $5,061,499
9. Planet 51 - $4,386,873
10. Everybody's Fine - $3,852,068
11. The Fantastic Mr. Fox - $2,918,331
12. Precious - $2,282,077

Overall, the US Box Office was down 48% on last weekend's gross.

The box office was bolstered mostly by the strong performance of returning films this weekend; new films had quieter openings overall.

The story of the weekend, as it was last weekend, is THE BLIND SIDE, which in its third weekend of release, shot in to first place with $20 million. Although the film was down 50% on last weekend's gross, this is a stellar achievement for a film that started in the shadow of a certain vampire flick and managed to go all the way to the top. The film has earned a strong $129 million against a $29 million budget.

Continuing to crash in second place is NEW MOON, which dropped another 64% to record another $15.4 million against its name. After reaching stratospheric heights only a fortnight ago, the vampire film has now lost most of its steam with most of the fans now having seen it. The film has now earned $255 million against a $50 million budget.

New openers for the weekend include BROTHERS, ARMORED and EVERYBODY'S FINE, which did not break double digits over the weekend. BROTHERS fared best with $9.5 million, but action flick ARMORED did not do so well landing in seventh spot with $6.5 million, while EVERYBODY'S FINE had to settle for a small $3.8 million.

One other film worth mentioning is A CHRISTMAS CAROL, the Robert Zemeckis motion capture animated film. The film has had great legs since it opened five weeks ago and managed to leap in to fourth spot this weekend with $7.7 million. It still has a way to go to recoup its $200 million budget with its $115 million tally so far but it should be helped by the impending Christmas season over the next month.

The Top 12 at the US Box Office took in a total of $91,437,807 for the whole of the weekend 4-6 December 2009.