Animation, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs | featured news

Seconds, anyone? Eating up $24.6 million worth of tickets, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" defied box office gravity by falling a minuscule 19 percent to win the top spot yet again.

Sony toon earns $5.6 million, 'Surrogates' collects $5 million -- Friday moviegoers enjoyed a second helping of Sony’s 3-D toon "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," spending an estimated $5.6 million at 3,119 locales.

The forecast was bright at the box-office for "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," which earned $30.1 million to lead this weekend's films.

Sony toon earns $8.1 million, 'The Informant' lands second -- With a smorgasbord of choices at the multiplex, including headliners by Jennifer Aniston, Matt Damon and Megan Fox; Friday moviegoers’ savored Sony’s 3-D toon "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," shelling out $8.1 million.