Cloudy With a Chance... holds US top spot
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs holds US top spot
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Monday, 28, Sep 2009 11:15
By Lewis Bazley.
3D animation Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs has comfortably held the number one spot in the US box office charts despite a burst of new releases.
The Sony production, featuring voice work from Bill Hader and Anna Faris, took $24.6 million in its second weekend on release to hold off competition from Surrogates, Fame and Pandorum.
Disney sci-fi film Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis as an FBI agent investigating a murder in a seemingly perfect world where humans live remotely through robotic verrsions of themselves, made a disappointing debut of $15 million, despite its $80 million budget and significant marketing drive.
Fame, a remake of the 80s musical drama, opened in third while Matt Damon-starring corporate comedy The Informant! dropped to fourth position, with Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself following in fifth.
Sci-fi horror Pandorum made an underwhelming start in sixth with Love Happens, Jennifer's Body, 9 and Inglourious Basterds all falling three places.
The top ten films at the US box office are: (last week's position)
1 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (-)
2 Surrogates (-)
3 Fame (-)
4 The Informant! (2)
5 I Can Do Bad All By Myself (3)
6 Pandorum (-)
7 Love Happens (4)
8 Jennifer's Body (5)
9 9 (6)
10 Inglourious Basterds (7)