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

1. Zombieland - $24,733,155
2. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs - $15,809,039
3. Toy Story / Toy Story 2 (3D) - $12,491,789
4. Surrogates - $7,241,054
5. The Invention Of Lying - $7,027,472
6. Whip It - $4,650,812
7. Fame - $4,626,952
8. Capitalism: A Love Story - $4,447,378
9. The Informant! - $3,689,235
10. Love Happens - $2,749,025
11. Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - $2,599,720
12. Pandorum - $1,979,061

Overall, the US Box Office was up 10.9% on last weekend's gross.

The US Box Office picked up steam again after a lousy September, earning around $92M over the first weekend of October and saw the emergence of three new films and a clever re-release in to the Top 12.

Taking out top spot is the horror-comedy ZOMBIELAND which managed an impressive $24.7M over the weekend. Horror comedies have been a bit hit and miss recently, but this new film puts that to rest, particularly as its budget was a small $23M, putting this in to the black after its opening three days. The film has been extremely well received by audiences, with many critics praising its good comedic moments, so look for ZOMBIELAND to hang around in the Top 12 for a while.

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS is still going strong, earning $15.8M in its third weekend of release, taking its cumulative total to $81.5M while losing only 36% of its audience. The film did cost $100M to make but will look to recoup this in the coming week or two.

Disney and Pixar made an excellent marketing move for TOY STORY 3 with the re-release in 3D of the first two films in a back-to-back feature. TOY STORY and TOY STORY 2 combined to make $12.4M over the weekend, which is quite good given they are re-releases. For Disney, this is a huge win as aside from the revenue the two films generated thanks to the inflated ticket prices of 3D films, they also served as a big commercial for the next entry in the series which is due next year.

The Bruce Willis sci-fi/actioner SURROGATES meanders along in fourth place with a not so stunning $7.2M in its second weekend. It lost 51.4% of its audience and has only earned a paltry $26.2M against an $80M budget.

The other two new entries in to the Top 12 are the Drew Barrymore directed WHIP IT and Michael Moore's latest offerring CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY. Both earned similar totals at $4.6M and $4.4M respectively. WHIP IT was well received by audiences and only cost $15M to make which could see it turn a profit. The same can be said for Michael Moore who may not have as big a winner with this new documentary on the global financial crisis but given his low cost approach, the film should turn a profit.

The Top 12 at the US Box Office took in a total of $92,044,692 for the whole of the weekend 2-4 October 2009.