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Sony Pictures Animation’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs topped the North American box office for the second consecutive weekend with a solid $24.6 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Scoring an average of $7,887 per theater at 3,119 locations, the animated adventure brought its domestic total to $60 million after a little more than one week in release. The film is playing in both 3D and standard format.

At No. 2, Jonathan Mostow’s Surrogates debuted with $15 million, with an average of $5,083 per theater at 2,951 locations. In the film, Bruce Willis plays a cop investigating a murder in a world in which humans use "surrogates" to complete [...]

Toronto 2009: IndieWIRE’s Critics’ Poll

Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man (top); Joel and Ethan Coen (bottom)

Peter Knegt reports that an indieWIRE poll of "more than 25" film critics and bloggers (blogging film critics?) shows that the overwhelmingly favorite film screened at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival was Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man (not to be confused with Tom Ford’s A Single Man or the Michael Douglas vehicle Solitary Man), a black comedy about a suburbanite (Michael Stuhlbarg) whose life suddenly unravels after his wife asks for a divorce. A Serious Man hits US theaters on Oct. 2.

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man

The best performance was delivered by Colin Firth in A Single Man (not to be confused with either [...]

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS Tops Box Office

Sony Pictures Animation’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs stormed the North American box office this weekend with a solid $30.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Playing in both 3D and standard format, Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s animated adventure scored an average of $9,651 per theater at 3,119 locations. The film follows an inventor who faces the consequences of his latest invention: a device that converts water into food.

Debuting in second place with a decent three-day gross of $10.5 million was Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant!, which stars Matt Damon as an exec helping the FBI uncover his company’s price-fixing scheme. The film is showing [...]

Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel at TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN London Premiere

Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, Michael Bay
Images from the UK Premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on June 15 at Odeon Leicester Square in London.
Photos: Tim Whitby / 2009 Getty Images
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Josh Duhamel

Kate Walsh, Philip Taylor

Megan Fox, Ramon Rodriguez, Shia LaBeouf at TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN London Premiere

Megan Fox
Images from the UK Premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on June 15 at Odeon Leicester Square in London.
Photos: Tim Whitby / 2009 Getty Images
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Shia LaBeouf

Ramon Rodriguez

Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel at the London Premiere of TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf
Images from the UK Premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on June 15 at Odeon Leicester Square in London.
Photos: Tim Whitby / 2009 Getty Images
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Josh Duhamel

John Turturro

Danielle Lloyd

Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox at TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN Premiere

Photos: Kiyoshi Ota/ Getty Images for Paramount Pictures
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(Front L-R) Megan Fox, Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf, (Back L-R) Ramon Rodriguez, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Isabel Lucas

Shia LaBeouf

Josh Duhamel

Megan Fox

Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox

Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Michael Bay at TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN Premiere

Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Isabel Lucas, Ramon Rodriguez and Tyrese Gibson at the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen world premiere at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo on June 8.
Photos: Kiyoshi Ota/ Getty Images for Paramount Pictures
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Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf

Josh Duhamel

Megan Fox

Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Isabel Lucas at TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN Premiere

Photos: Kiyoshi Ota/ Getty Images for Paramount Pictures
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Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox

Isabel Lucas

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Michael Bay

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