Meet the Fockers has a starry line-up

The movie, which stars Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand, took $28.5m (�15.2m), making a total of 204.3m (�109m).

Michael Keaton thriller White Noise was second with $24m (�12.8m) despite negative reviews.

Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator came third with $7.6m (�4m) and a total of $42.9m (�22.8m).

Children's adventure Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, starring Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep, fell two places to fourth position with $7.4m (�3.9m).

US/ CANADA BOX OFFICE 1. Meet The Fockers 2. White Noise 3. The Aviator 4. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 5. Fat Albert 6. Ocean's Twelve 7. National Treasure 8. Spanglish 9. The Phantom of the Opera 10. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Source: Exhibitor Relations

It is also the ninth Jim Carrey film to hit the $100m (�53.2m) mark, according to Exhibitor Relations.

And Fat Albert, a live-action adaptation of Bill Cosby's TV cartoon, fell one place to number five, with takings over the three days beginning on Friday of $5m (�2.6m).

Ocean's Twelve took sixth place in the US chart with $5.4m (�2.8m), but it led the non-US chart at the weekend, according to Hollywood Reporter, with an estimated $17.7m (�9.4m) and total takings of $137m (�73m).

The Incredibles took $300m (�160m) outside the US, while Meet the Fockers topped box office charts in Australia and Mexico with non-US takings of $19.35m (�10.2m).