Most people expected Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail to win a soft weekend at the box office, but few expected it to make $41 million, have the best opening in Lionsgate history, and average more than $20 K per screen. That’s a lot of people who learned an important lesson about believing in yourself and Jesus and in the power of fatsuits and cross dressing. Hey, ever notice how all it takes is a thin sheen of Christianity to turn direct-to-DVD into blockbuster? I love to make fun of Hollywood for being hippie queers, but if they ever figure out how much money there is to be made in tacky bible-thumping I may finally go on that rape-crazy knife spree I’m always talking about.
In conclusion, I liked these movies better when they were about Ernest. (full top ten after the jump).
Other news worth noting:
Reigning champ “Friday the 13th” suffered one of the biggest drops ever, a stunning 81 percent, to finish in sixth place with $7.8 million. And this weekend’s other major new release, the cheerleader comedy “Fired Up!” (No. 9), grossed a weak-but-expected $6 million. [CNN]
[via EW]
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Taken deserves No. 1
If Hollywood was based on “deserves” there would be a lot of corpses.
I call bullshit on this being Lionsgate’s top-grossing film. This is the same studio that keeps Seltzer and Friedberg employed. Their execs wipe their asses with billion dollar bills.
If Lionsgate was smart, they’d release Madea Goes to a Shallow Grave and capture the I-Fucking-Hate-Tyler-Perry demographic.
i don’t know who tyler perry is. does he make clothes for grand mommies er that thing that looks like grand mommy? grand mommy? i see you!!!!!
I, for one, was very happy that TBS had a 24-hour marathon of House of Payne this weekend. Because I was running out of reasons to self-mutilate.
I love to make fun of Hollywood for being hippie queers, but if they ever figure out how much money there is to be made in tacky bible-thumping…
So, first Kirk Cameron’s internet porn-addicted rage-a-holic and now a black, female ex-con? Should called this Hire-proof.
I’ve been a tacky bible thumper for years now and I’m not any richer. Maybe people would buy more if the pages didn’t stick together.
even more disturbing than a cross-dressing unfunny black man cleaning up at the box office is the fact that people have paid money to see Paul blart: mall cop …….in fact this list upset me so much i lit a complete stranger on fire.
Banner pic caption: Definitive proof that a man who represents himself has a retard for a client.
“ever notice how all it takes is a thin sheen of Christianity to turn direct-to-DVD into blockbuster?”
Try saying that to Kirk Cameron. Actually, better not bother him. He’s out back venting sexual frustration by beating the shit out of a trashcan. You know, just until the Rapture whisks him away to heaven.
even more disturbing than a cross-dressing unfunny black man cleaning up at the box office
Wow. Passing up on an opportunity like this one? You must be new here.
In his next film, Tyler Perry will play identical twin sisters who each poke holes in their lovers condoms to get them to commit. Fall 2010: Tyler Perry’s The Parent Trap.
I find it deliciously ironic that his Madea character spouts about Jesus when Tyler Perry’s very existence proves to me that there is no God.
Try saying that to Kirk Cameron.
I would, but he’s too busy lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills out on his yacht. He grossed $34 million on a movie with a half million dollar budget. Probably the biggest success of the year outside of The Dark Knight.
Who says Obama wouldn’t bring change to the nation? who would have ever predicted this?