<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $100 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $243 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a 2009 American computer - animated comic science fiction film loosely based on the 1978 children's book of the same name by Judi and Ron Barrett . It was produced by Sony Pictures Animation and released on September 18, 2009 . The film features the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Bruce Campbell, James Caan, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Andy Samberg, Mr. T, Benjamin Bratt, Neil Patrick Harris, Al Roker, Lauren Graham, and Will Forte . It was written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller . It earned $243 million worldwide on a budget of $100 million . A sequel, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, was released on September 27, 2013 . A television series based on the film with the same title premiered on February 20, 2017, on Cartoon Network . </P> <P> Flint Lockwood is a wannabe - scientist who lives in Swallow Falls, a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that has sardines as the base of its economy . Flint lives with Tim, his widowed technophobic father, and his pet monkey, Steve . Despite Flint's zealous enthusiasm, his inventions, including spray - on shoes, a remote controlled television, rat birds, hair - un-balder, and a flying car, all ended in failure . </P>

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