meatballs reign at us box office 《美食从天而降》统领北美票-凯发k8官网

¹ 3d comedy cloudy with a chance of meatballs has topped the north american box office in its opening weekend, taking $30.1m (£18.6m).

3d动画喜剧《美食从天而降》上映第一周以3.01千万的票房收入打入北美票房排行榜榜首。

cloudy with a chance of meatballs is based on a 1978 children's book

it easily beat the informant! - starring matt damon as a whistle blower with bipolar ² - which opened in second with $10.5m (£6.5m).

last week's number one, tyler perry's i can do bad all by myself, was in third place, taking $10m (£6.2m).

jennifer aniston romantic comedy love happens opened in fourth place.

the film, co-starring aaron eckhart, took $8.5m (£5.3m).

the top five was rounded out by ³ film jennifer's body - also on its opening weekend - with $6.8m (£4.2m).

the film, penned by diablo cody - the oscar-winning writer of juno writer, stars megan fox as a ⁴ rock fan.

cloudy with a chance of meatballs was adapted from a 1978 children's book of the same name by judi and ron barrett.

it tells the story of a town where the weather comes in the form of food and drink and features the voices of bruce campbell, james caan and mr t.

animated film 9 dropped to number six from last week's number two, taking $5.5m (£3.4m), while quentin tarantino's inglourious basterds slipped four places to number seven with $3.6m (£2.2m).

all about steve slipped from four to eight, sorority dropped three places to number nine and the final destination dropped five places to number 10.