How to Make Cash: Fill the Sky with “Meatballs”

A banner weekend for new movies! All the four new releases were in the top five, with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs easily coming in at No. 1 with $30.1 million. Kid movies are just super hot these days, plus Meatballs had excellent word of mouth. It’s a hilarious and very sweet movie.

Here is the top five at the box office this weekend:

1. NEW! Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Sony) – $30.1 mil; 3,119 theaters; $9,651 PT
2. NEW! The Informant! (Warner Bros.) $10.5 mil; 2,505 theaters; $4,210 PT
3. Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself (Lionsgate) – $10 mil; 2,255 theaters; $4,461PT $37.9 mil cume
4. NEW! Love Happens (Universal) – $8.4 mil; 1,898 theaters; $4,455 PT
5. NEW! Jennifer’s Body (Fox) – $6.8 mil; 2,702 theaters; $2,517 PT

I’m surprised Jennifer’s Body came in fifth. Perhaps the backlash around Megan Fox’s negative comments about Transformers‘ director Michael Bay may have contributed, but it’s clear she isn’t as invincible as one might think.

And apparently, Inglourious Basterds – which came in seventh place this weekend with $3.6 mil, bringing its grand total to $109.9 million – is director Quentin Tarantino’s highest grossing film of all time, beating Pulp Fiction. Good for you, Quentin.

This coming weekend has three new releases: Fame, a 21st -century update of the ’80s dance flick that spawned a TV series and endless dreams of dancing on top of cars on a crowded city street; Pandorum, another horror/thriller set in space; and Surrogates, a sci-fi murder mystery starring Bruce Willis. I’m guessing Surrogates will win, just cause everyone still likes Bruce Willis. And the ad campaigns have been kinda freaky, with pictures of half model/half machines. Here’s the trailer: