Weekend Box Office: Meatballs Takes It Again

It’s clear, audiences loves them some meatballs… and hamburgers, hot dogs, pancakes, jello and anything else artery clogging. Apparently if you want a film to go number one and stay there make a funny animation about something people love. Up already played the animal card, so not Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs plays with food! It even beat out Bruce Willis in an action film and a bunch of teenagers dancing around.

Check out the numbers below…

1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | LW 1 | Weekend Gross $24,600,000 | Average Per Theater $7,887 | Total Gross $60,036,000 | Production Budget $100 | Week 2
2. Surrogates | New | Weekend Gross $15,000,000 | Average Per Theater $5,083 | Total Gross $15,000,000 | Production Budget $80 | Week 1
3. Fame (2009) | New | Weekend Gross $10,033,000 | Average Per Theater $3,241 | Total Gross $10,033,000 | Production Budget $18 | Week 1
4. The Informant! | LW 2 | Weekend Gross $6,915,000 | Average Per Theater $2,760 | Total Gross $20,992,000 | Production Budget $22 | Week 2
5. Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself | LW 3 | Weekend Gross $4,750,000 | Average Per Theater $2,241 | Total Gross $44,543,000 | Week 3
6. Pandorum | New | Weekend Gross $4,408,000 | Average Per Theater $1,759 | Total Gross $4,408,000 | Production Budget $40 | Week 1
7. Love Happens | LW 4 | Weekend Gross $4,327,000 | Average Per Theater $2,280 | Total Gross $14,728,000 | Production Budget $18 | Week 2
8. Jennifer’s Body | LW 5 | Weekend Gross $3,500,000 | Average Per Theater $1,278 | Total Gross $12,306,000 | Production Budget $16 | Week 2
9. 9 | LW 6 | Weekend Gross $2,832,000 | Average Per Theater $1,399 | Total Gross $27,101,000 | Production Budget $30 | Week 3
10. Inglourious Basterds | LW 7 | Weekend Gross $2,722,000 | Average Per Theater $1,389 | Total Gross $114,460,000 | Production Budget $70 | Week 6

Which film did you pay to see this week?