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Moviegoers Devour 'Zombieland' With A Side Of 'Meatballs' In The Sunday Box Office Report

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1. "Zombieland" ($25 million)
2. "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" ($16.7 million)
3. "Toy Story" & "Toy Story 2" (3-D Double Feature) ($12.5 million)
4. "The Invention of Lying" ($7.35 million)
5. "Surrogates" ($7.34 million)

Based on yesterday's projections, the remainder of the box office weekend played out as many suspected it would. Unsurprisingly, the Woody Harrelson-starring "Zombieland" took the first place prize with $25 million, surpassing its $23.6 million budget in its first weekend in theaters. The creature-filled dark comedy, which also stars notable up-and-comers Jesse Eisenberg ("Adventureland"), Emma Stone ("Superbad") and Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine"), marks the sixth time a Sony film has opened in the number one spot this year.

Before that success, of course, was "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," which dropped to number two this weekend but is nonetheless a steady money maker for Sony. "Cloudy" ended the weekend with $16.7 million for a cumulative total of $82 million, which is a little short of Deadline Hollywood Daily's earlier prediction of $20 million. Still, Sony must be very happy with "Meatballs" as the film inches ever closer to recouping its $100 million budget.

Audiences are so enthralled by "Meatballs" that not even the 3-D rerelease of "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2" could top the Bill Hader-starring animated flick. The double feature return of Woody and Buzz Lightyear managed a third place finish with $12.5 million, likely because it competed with "Meatballs" for the same audience. In fact, it makes one wonder how "Meatballs" would have performed if the "Toy Story" double feature wasn't in theaters this weekend -- it likely would've taken the top spot for its third weekend in a row. Nonetheless, Sony has plenty to be happy about with its cornering of the top two box office positions.

Rounding out the top five were "The Invention of Lying" and "Surrogates" in fourth and fifth place respectively, with a negligible $6,000 difference between their final intakes. The weekend's other wide releases were Drew Barrymore's "Whip It" and Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story," which ended in sixth and seventh place respectively at $4.9 million each -- but given that "Capitalism" is playing in less than 1,000 theaters, Moore's result is much more impressive than Barrymore's directorial debut.

Indeed, consider this weekend another disappointment for the "Juno" gang, as Ellen Page's star power failed to pull "Whip It" into the top five, much like the Diablo Cody-penned "Jennifer's Body" failed to do significant business.

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