Sony owns the box office weekend with 'Zombieland' and 'Meatballs'

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By Adnan Tezer Oct 6, 2009, 0:07 GMT

Sony dominated the competition this weekend as their zombie comedy "Zombieland" took in $25 million in its first weekend and their 3D cartoon "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" dropped to the second spot in its third weekend with $16.7 million. "Cloudy’s" domestic total now stands at $82.4 million.

According to Variety, Sony was able to match Warner Brothers as the only studios to surpass $1 billion in North American sales for the eighth consecutive year.

Disney's 3D double-feature release of "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2" was third over the weekend with $12.5 million.

The Warner Bros. comedy "The Invention of Lying," starring Ricky Gervais, came in fourth place with $7.4 million. It narrowly beat out the second week of Disney's "Surrogates," which grossed $7.3 million for a domestic total of $26.4 million.

Drew Barrymore's directing debut "Whip It" came in below expectations with $4.85 million in its opening weekend, tying it with Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story."

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