Columbia Pictures' and Sony Pictures Animation's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is inspired by the children's book. The film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain.

Bill Hader (star of Saturday Night Live and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian fame) will voice Flint Lockwood, a young inventor who dreams of creating something that will improve everyone's life. Anna Faris (The House Bunny) takes on the role of Sam Sparks, a weathergirl covering the phenomenon who hides her intelligence behind a perky exterior. James Caan plays Tim Lockwood, Flint's technophobic father. Andy Samberg plays Brent, the town bully who has plagued Flint since childhood. Bruce Campbell plays Mayor Shelbourne, who figures out that Flint's invention can put the town, and more importantly himself, on the map. Mr T plays the by-the-rules town cop Earl Devereaux. Neil Patrick Harris rounds out the cast as the voice of Steve, Flint's monkey.