<div><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Steven Soderbergh's dark comic tale "The Informant!" pulled in 3.7 million dollars in its fourth week on the silver screen.</p><p>Matt Damon stars in the film about a top FBI mole at a major multinational company seeking to end a worldwide price-fixing conspiracy.</p><p>Rounding out the top 10 was romantic comedy "Love Happens," with Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston earning 2.7 million during its seventh week.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=60526618&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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