Baby Mama delivers top spot on US box office

LOS ANGELES - Surrogate motherhood comedy "Baby Mama" delivered the top draw of the North American box office at the weekend, followed by newcomer "Harold and Kumar Escape Guantanamo Bay," industry data showed Sunday.
Starring former Saturday Night Live comedians Tina Fey, as a health-food chain manager who wants to have a kid but learns she is infertile, and Amy Poehler, the surrogate mom, "Baby Mama" netted 18.3 million dollars, according to preliminary figures from Exhibitor Relations.
"Harold and Kumar Escape Guantanamo," 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. With 14.6 million dollars, it took the second box office spot.
"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 from to third spot on its second weekend, with 11.2 million dollar.
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 4.5 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 eight 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 2.4 million dollars.
And opening up in tenth position with 2.2 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.