Below are the top 12 weekend final numbers from the North American box office:

1. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs - $30,304,648
2. The Informant! - $10,464,314
3. Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - $9,877,436
4. Love Happens - $8,057,010
5. Jennifer's Body - $6,868,397
6. 9 - $5,563,134
7. Inglourious Basterds - $3,818,142
8. All About Steve - $3,373,212
9. Sorority Row - $2,499,758
10. The Final Destination - $2,388,473
11. Whiteout - $2,131,043
12. Julie & Julia - $1,914,186

Overall, the US Box Office was up 14.5% on last weekend's gross.

After a few very sluggish weekends, the North American box office had a rebound of sorts this weekend with a slew of new, and oddball films entering the market place, with one in particularly achieving strong success.

The number one film for the weekend is the 3D computer animated film CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS, which managed a very good for September $30.3M over the weekend. The film has been well received by the public and critics alike, despite its oddball title, and it will need that good will to recoup its $100M production budget. The film arguably led the resurgence in box office this weekend, with new and returning films not generating anything special in dollar amounts.

Landing in second place is another strange film in THE INFORMANT!, the new Steven Soderbergh film starring Matt Damon. The ironic satire on corporate whistleblowing earned a decent $10.4M from the weekend. The film cost a tiny $22M to make so this is a good win for all involved, even though it will not be a huge blockbuster.

The other two new openers for the weekend did not have the same fate as the top 2 films. Fourth and fifth spot goes to two very different films in LOVE HAPPENS and JENNIFER'S BODY. The former, a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart failed to attract an audience with its $8M gross from the weekend, despite Aniston's consistent box office performance of the past, although the film only cost $18M (perhaps Aniston took a pay cut?). The latter is a horror film written by JUNO writer Diablo Cody and starring TRANSFORMERS babe Megan Fox. Although the premise is intriguing, and reports suggests that Fox is actually okay in this film, the audience did not show much love to the horror film which earned a tiny $6.8M from its first three days in the market place. Given Diablo Cody's body of work thus far, this is a major disappointment. It also does not bode well for Megan Fox who needs a film other than Transformers to help her career.

The Top 12 at the US Box Office took in a total of $87,259,753 for the whole of the weekend 18-20 September 2009.