LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Four well-targeted films hit domestic multiplexes Friday, but the weekend forecast suggests prospects are sunniest for the 3D animated feature "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs."
Based on a popular children's book, Sony's "Meatballs" is rated PG and should appeal primarily to family moviegoers. An opening of $25 million-$30 million looks likely based on prerelease tracking surveys, though Sony executives stress that they will be pleased even with the lower end of that range.
"Meatballs" will play on a record 1,828 3D screens and a total of 3,118 theaters in the U.S. and Canada.
Elsewhere among the new releases, Fox's Megan Fox-toplined horror flick "Jennifer's Body" appears headed for a second-place bow in the low-teen millions.
Expect 18- to 25-year-olds to display the most fervent embrace of "Body," which Karyn Kusama ("Aeon Flux") directed from a screenplay by Diablo Cody ("Juno"). Support likely will be split evenly between males and females.
Though males will come to see Fox, the so-so early buzz on the movie will keep their numbers underwhelming. Females tend to find Fox off-putting, mitigating their enthusiasm for the film's male-mauling premise.
Warner Bros.' Matt Damon starrer "The Informant!" also seems a bit at war with itself commercially.
Cloudy With A Chance Of MeatballsCopyright © 2009 Columbia Pictures
The timeless tale has been adapted from Ron and Judi Barrett's book, which illustrates a world where giant pancakes and pasta fall from the sky as a scientist tries to solve world hunger. However, things go terribly wrong when excess amounts of food overload cities and towns.
 | September 18th, 2009 |
 | Chris Miller |
 | Chris Miller |
 | Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Bruce Campbell, Tracy Morgan |
 | Columbia Pictures |
 | Animation, Comedy |
 | cloudywithachanceofmeatballs.com |
 | PG brief mild language |
 | 1 hour 30 minutes |
The Informant!Copyright © 2009 Warner Bros Pictures
What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company's multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn't been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. Whitacre's ever-changing account frustrates the agents and threatens the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is the product of Whitacre's rambling imagination. The film is based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history.
| September 18th, 2009 |
| Steven Soderbergh |
| Scott Burns |
| Matt Damon, Joel McHale, Scott Bakula, Mike O'Malley, Andrew Daly, Adam Paul, Melanie Lynskey, Tom Wilson, Rick Overton, Tom Papa, Candy Clark |
| Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Drama |
| theInformantmovie.com |
| R language |
| 1 hour 48 minutes |
Love HappensCopyright © 2009 Universal Pictures
A romantic drama about a widower (Eckhart) whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru. On a business trip to Seattle, he falls for a woman (Aniston) who attends one of his seminars, only to learn that he hasn't yet truly confronted his wife's passing.
| September 18th, 2009 |
| Brandon Camp |
| Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson |
| Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart, Dan Fogler, Judy Greer, Martin Sheen, Joe Anderson, John Carroll Lynch |
| Universal Pictures |
| Drama |
| lovehappensmovie.com |
| PG-13 some language including sexual references |
| 1 hour 49 minutes |
Jennifer's BodyCopyright © 2009 20th Century Fox Pictures
When a gorgeous cheerleader is possessed by a demon and starts feeding off the boys in a small Minnesota farming town, her "plain Jane" best friend must kill her, then escape from a correctional facility to go after the Satan-worshipping rock band responsible for the horrible transformation.
| September 18th, 2009 |
| Karyn Kusama |
| Diablo Cody |
| Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, J.K. Simmons, Johnny Simmons, Kyle Gallner, Josh Emerson, Lance Henriksen, Diablo Cody |
| 20th Century Fox |
| Comedy, Horror, Thriller |
| jennifersbody.com |
| R sexuality, bloody violence, language and brief drug use |
| 1 hour 32 minutes |
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