For the second weekend in a row the Sony Pictures Animation hit Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs reigns at the top of the box office. Making up about 24.6 million during this September weekend, the children’s book turned feature edged its way past the competition. Facing three first week opening films, the audiences agreed that they preferred mountains of raining ice cream over horror, music and robots.
Falling onto a hard second place is the Bruce Willis science fiction film Surrogates. Suffering from mixed reviews and a strange yet some what confusing alternative present plot, not everyone flocked to the screenings. Taking in only 15 million, the eighty million dollar budget film has a long way to go until it reaches its goal. The same does not go for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer remake of the 1980′s classic Fame. The modernized tale of a group of kids who go through a New York City school of performing arts took in 10 million, a reasonable profit for a low budget film.
The last of the newest releases is the science fiction thriller Pandorum which could not capture the attention of audiences when it brought in 4.4 million. The forty million dollar budget film, produced by Resident Evil series director Paul W.S. Anderson, failed to woo over critics and movie-goers alike.
Honorable mention goes to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds which continues breaking the popular director’s box office total for a single film. The World War II fictional tale has a total so far of 114.4 million and still going strong. Here’s the rest of the totals below:
Weekend Box Office (September 25-27)
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs ($24.6 Million)
- Surrogates ($15 Million)
- Fame ($10 Million)
- The Informant! ($6.9 Million)
- Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself ($4.7 Million)
- Pandorum ($4.4 Million)
- Love Happens ($4.3 Million)
- Jennifer’s Body ($3.5 Million)
- Shane Acker’s 9 ($2.8 Million)
- Inglourious Basterds ($2.7 Million)
The newest set of recent releases are the Drew Barrymore directed film Whip It, the horror comedy Zombieland, Ricky Gervais’ The Invention of Lying and the Coen brothers’ film A Serious Man.
