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The children's animated food-fest "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" topped the North American box office for the second weekend running, according to preliminary industry figures Sunday.
The book-inspired film tells the tale of an island rained on by junk food and took 24.6 million dollars in its second week at cinemas, bringing its total to just over 60 million dollars, said box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
The film's animated heroes kept the top spot by fending off the invincible avatars of Hollywood action man Bruce Willis, whose latest movie "Surrogates" netted 15 million dollars on its debut weekend.
Also in its first showing, "Fame," a rethinking of the 1980 Oscar-winning flick of the same name, took in just over 10 million dollars for the number three spot.
The movie, panned by critics as a lightweight reinvention, follows a group of actors, singers and dancers through the trials of a New York City arts-oriented high school.
Hollywood favorite Matt Damon, whose latest flick "The Informant!" came in second in its first week, slipped to number four in the box office to take 6.9 million dollars.
Damon plays an agribusiness whistleblower in the film, which was directed by Steven Soderbergh.
In fifth place was "Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself," directed, written and acted by Tyler Perry, who reprises his millions-earning "Madea" character, a rotund African-American matriarch.
The pistol-packing grandma fell in its third week to net 4.8 million dollars, and 44.5 million in total for its three weeks in cinemas.
Space-themed horror sci-fi flick "Pandorum" debuted in the sixth spot this weekend, netting 4.4 million dollars.
The movie, starring Dennis Quaid, tells the story of two crew members stranded on a spacecraft after waking from a deep sleep, only to realize they are not alone on their vessel.
Beleaguered romance "Love Happens," starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart, slipped from fourth to seventh in its second week, with a disappointing 4.3 million dollars in ticket sales.
At the eighth spot, "Jennifer's Body" stars film siren Megan Fox as a possessed and killing-obsessed cheerleader, a combination that was enough to earn 3.5 million dollars in its second weekend, and 12.3 million dollars in total.
Just behind was post-apocalyptic animated feature "9," which fell to ninth in its third week.
The Tim Burton-produced film tracks the adventures of an improbable gang of burlap-clad rag dolls who square off against machines in an attempt to save the world, or what is left of it. It earned 2.8 million dollars.
Slipping to the number 10 spot was Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic "Inglourious Basterds," about a group of Nazi-hunting Jewish commandos rampaging through occupied France.
It features Brad Pitt and, in a much-lauded performance, Austrian actor Christoph Waltz who plays a maniacal Nazi officer. The film took 2.7 million dollars in its sixth week, for a total of 114 million dollars.
