Variety reports the top movies, in terms of box office take, for the week of 10-16 August 2012. The latest installment in the formerly-Matt Damon-starring suspense series, The Bourne Legacy opened at the top of the charts. Comic election movie The Campaign opened at #2. The Dark Knight Rises slipped from #1 to #3, raising $28.2 million, for a four-week total of $398.8 million. Comedy Hope Springs opened at #4. Total Recall fell from #2 to #6, recalling $12.2 million, for a two-week total of $48.3 million. Ice Age: Continental Drift slipped from #4 to #7, melting $9.9 million, for a five-week total of $147.2 million. Ted slipped from #7 to #8, bearing up $4.9 million, for a seven-week total of $211.5 million. The Odd Life of Timothy Green, which opened on the 15th, still managed to wind up at #10 on the charts, growing $4.3 million.

The Watch fell from #5 to #11, defending $3.4 million, for a three-week total of $32.6 million. The Amazing Spider-Man slipped from #8 to #12, spinning up $3.3 million, for a six-week total of $256.7 million. Brave slipped from #9 to #13, earning $2.9 million, for an eight-week total of $228.3 million. Madagascar 3 held steady at #17, making $700 thousand, for a ten-week total of $212.0 million. The Hunger Games slipped from #20 to #23, fighting up $500 thousand, for a twenty-one-week total of $407.5 million. Men in Black 3 slipped from #22 to #24, neuralizing $500 thousand, for a twelve-week total of $177.5 million. Snow White and the Huntsman slipped from #24 to #25, charming up $400 thousand, for an eleven-week total of $154.5 million.

Falling out of the top 25 this week was:
The Avengers (last week’s #21) in its fifteenth week in release (box office total: $617.4 million)