LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Surrogate motherhood comedy "Baby Mama" delivered the top draw of the North American box office at the weekend, according to final industry figures released on Monday.
The movie, which netted 17.4 million dollars in its debut weekend according to Exhibitor Relations, stars former Saturday Night Live comedians Tina Fey as a career woman who learns she is infertile and Amy Poehler as her madcap surrogate.
"Harold and Kumar Escape Guantanamo Bay," landed in the second spot with 14.9 million dollars in its first weekend.
The sequel to 2004 "Harry and Kumar go to White Castle," sees stoner buddies played by John Cho and Kal Penn landing in the notorious Guantanamo jail after being mistaken for terrorists on a plane.
"The Forbidden Kingdom," the first movie pairing of martial arts legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li, about a kung fu-obsessed US teenager who journeys to China for high-kicking hijinks, dropped to the third spot with 11.2 million dollars.
In fourth place with 11 million dollars was "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," billed as "the world's first romantic disaster comedy," starring British comedian Russell Brand.
"Nim's Island," a youth-oriented tropical adventure with Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin, retained fifth place with 4.54 million dollars.
Teen slasher flick "Prom Night," a remake of a 1980 horror film, earned 4.4 million dollars to take sixth spot, two weekends after it topped the charts.
In seventh place was gambling drama "21," another former box-office topper which raked in four million on its fifth week of release.
In eighth place with 3.6 million dollars was "88 Minutes," starring Oscar-winner Al Pacino as a college professor and part-time FBI psychiatrist hunting down a killer.
The animated "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" earned ninth place with takings of 2.5 million dollars in its eighth week out.
And opening up in 10th position with 2.3 million dollars was thriller "Deception," starring Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor as an accountant who joins a mysterious sex club where he becomes entangled in a woman's disappearance.
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