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Tongue-in-cheek comedy "Zombieland" took a bite out of the North American box office this weekend, munching its way to top spot in its first week of release, final figures showed Monday.
The gory, zombified world starring Woody Harrelson beat projections and crushed the two-week dominance of children's animated food-fest "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," which dropped to second place.
Director Ruben Fleischer's "Zombieland" earned 24.7 million dollars, while "Meatballs" served up another 15.8 million dollars, figures from tracking firm Exhibitor Relations said.
In third place was a re-release -- in 3-D format -- of the popular Pixar cartoons "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2", which took 12.5 million together. The films came ahead of the much-anticipated "Toy Story 3," due out next year.
Futuristic Bruce Willis action film "Surrogates" -- about people living their lives through sexy robot replicas of themselves -- took fourth place with 7.2 million dollars.
Fifth spot was taken by new release "The Invention of Lying", which stars British comedian Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner as a couple living in an alternative reality where nobody ever lies. The film took seven million dollars.
Drew Barrymore's directorial debut "Whip It" -- set in the world of all-female roller derbies with "Juno" star Ellen Page -- was sixth with 4.65 million dollars.
Barrymore's film edged "Fame" into seventh place with 4.62 million. Eighth spot was occupied by controversial documentarian Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story", with 4.44 million dollars.
Steven Soderbergh's dark comic tale "The Informant!" pulled in 3.7 million dollars in its fourth week on the silver screen.
Matt Damon stars in the film about a top FBI mole at a major multinational company seeking to end a worldwide price-fixing conspiracy.
Rounding out the top 10 was romantic comedy "Love Happens," with Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston earning 2.7 million during its seventh week.
