Sideshow: 'Meatballs' stays at No. 1

Movie audiences just love a whimsical weather forecast. Or, at least, they preferred it over the weekend to robo-crime and striving teens.

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs dished up $24.6 million in gate receipts to remain No. 1 at the box office for a second straight weekend.

That lifted the hefty helping for Sony's animated tale to $60 million after 10 days in theaters, according to studio estimates released yesterday.

Surrogates, a big-budget sci-fi thriller starring Bruce Willis about the murder of couch potatoes living vicariously through robotic avatars, debuted at No. 2 with $15 million.

Fame, a remake of the '80s song and dance fest about students at a performing-arts high school in New York, opened in third place with $10 million.

The performance of Surrogates, from Disney's Touchstone Pictures, disappointed the suits. "Unfortunately, I don't think this was a great moviegoing weekend, for whatever reason," said Chuck Viane, head of distribution for Disney. "I'm disappointed we're not No. 1, but very happy we beat the other films we opened against."

Viane was right: It wasn't a great weekend for Hollywood. The domestic gross of $100.5 million was down 4.5 percent from the same weekend last year.

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs lost little of its spice after a week as its receipts dropped only 19 percent from a $30.3 million opening weekend. Revenue for many films fall 50 percent or more in their second weekends.

Michael Moore's documentary Capitalism: A Love Story did well in limited release, taking in $240,000 over the weekend in just four theaters and raising its total to $306,586 since premiering Wednesday. It expands nationwide Friday.

Justin Guarini weds

Doylestown's own Justin Guarini, runner-up on American Idol, married sweetheart Reina Capodici on Saturday night in his hometown, reports People.com.

Guarini, 30, and his 27-year-old bride both attended Central Bucks East High School. His new mother-in-law, Karen Capodici, was his English teacher at Lenape Middle School.

"I traveled all over the world, and I found the love of my life at home," Guarini said when he and Reina got engaged late last year.

People.com described the ceremony as "intimate," adding that the couple wrote their own vows and that Reina's daughter, Lola, 4, spoke during the ceremony.

Hanging around for Julia

Young boys have shinnied up trees and their elders have crowded rooftops in the Indian village of Mirzapur to catch sight of Julia Roberts, who is in town filming her new movie Eat, Pray, Love.

Stick-wielding cops and private guards kept the throng away from the Academy Award-winning actress as she walked around the movie set. Black screens hid the set from prying TV crews and paparazzi.

In the film, Roberts plays an American woman who leaves behind a troubled marriage and sets out on a journey of self-discovery.

India's media have given the Pretty Woman star saturation coverage since she and her three children arrived in the country nearly 10 days ago.

The movie, a Brad Pitt production, is directed by Ryan Murphy. It also stars Oscar-winner Javier Bardem.