Box Office report 3/21-3/28

[Gary Floyd]

1 1 Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who 20th Century Fox Distribution $25,100,000 $86,470,000 2 3961

 

2 - Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns Lionsgate $20,010,000 $20,010,000 1 2006

 

3 - Shutter 20th Century Fox $10,700,000 $10,700,000 1 2753

 

4 - Drillbit Taylor Paramount Pictures $10,200,000 $10,200,000 1 3056

 

5 2 10,000 B.C. Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $8,660,000 $76,100,000 3 3454

 

6 3 Never Back Down Summit Entertainment, LLC $4,861,000 $16,824,000 2 2729

 

7 4 College Road Trip Buena Vista Pictures Distribution $4,630,000 $32,005,000 3 2575

 

8 6 The Bank Job Lionsgate $4,100,000 $19,430,000 3 1613

 

9 5 Vantage Point Sony Pictures Releasing $3,800,000 $65,300,000 5 2124

 

10 - Under The Same Moon Fox Searchlight Pictures, The Weinstein Company $2,602,000 $3,329,000

1 266

 

11 7 Doomsday Universal Pictures Distribution $2,180,000 $8,907,000 2 1938

 

12 9 The Other Boleyn Girl Sony Pictures Releasing, Focus Features $2,000,000 $22,515,000 4 1188

 

[Red Baron]

78 million 10,000 BC made? People are suckers.

[2GOLD]

The Grandma is back in Meet the Browns, I'll have to go see it.

And isn't this like the 700th Tyler Perry movie to be released in the last two years? It seems like every month now there is a "Tyler Perry's" something being released with zero promotion but still raking in between 15-20 million.

[King Kamala]

78 million 10,000 BC made? People are suckers.

 

But.... wooly mammoths and shit!

[Exslade ZX]

The Grandma is back in Meet the Browns, I'll have to go see it.

And isn't this like the 700th Tyler Perry movie to be released in the last two years? It seems like every month now there is a "Tyler Perry's" something being released with zero promotion but still raking in between 15-20 million.

Because the plays/DVDs were promotion enough themselves. And there were quite a few of them, hence the ability to transfer them into movies, at such a fast rate. Although I don't think there's that many more left. Like 2 or 3 maybe.

 

Although I assume he's still making plays as well. Which would make the movie cycle endless.

[Craig Th]

Do his movie have all the same characters?

[LivingLegendGaryColeman]

Do his movie have all the same characters?

 

I've seen like one and a half Tyler Perry movies and I think the only recurring character is Madea (the Grandma). She is the voice of reason for this large family, so she ties into all the stories. The movies aren't bad from what I've seen, they just fluctuate a lot. Like one minute, it is very serious, soap opera like and then the next minute Madea is chasing people around with blunt objects going crazy.

[Ravenbomb]

I think the big black "lady" is in most of them.

[Red Baron]

I think the big black "lady" is in most of them.

 

Eddie Murphy?

[RavishingRickRudo]

Martin Lawrence?

[Youth N Asia]

never even saw an ad for Meet the Browns. Tyler Perry is a money machine

[King Kamala]

Odd potentially mildly offensive question I had in my mind this weekend, what do you think there are more of; white people who like Tyler Perry movies or black people who like Judd Apatow movies?

[RonL21]

I just think it's black people go out to see a Tyler Perry movie with a few white people mixed in.

I'd say out of all that money, about 80-90 Percent came from black people. Like when I went to see Knocked up at a packed

theater me and my two friends were the only black people there. That's probably what it was like.

That and he manages to get The established black actors in supporting roles and tries to establish new ones with the lead role

[RonL21]

Perry is branching out a little though. He's playing the Starfleet Academy Commander in the new Star Trek movie

[Red Baron]

Perry is branching out a little though. He's playing the Starfleet Academy Commander in the new Star Trek movie

 

Does he wear a red shirt?

[fazzle]

At this point, I'm thinking "Tyler Perry's Gigli" could have a good $15 million opening weekend.

[jimmy no nose]

It didn't come close to making enough money to crack any of these lists, but also this week Adam Carolla's movie The Hammer did something like $5500/screen on 20 screens its opening week, so they're looking at getting it out to the indy-type theaters in a few more cities next week. The movie is a lot better than I expected it to be, so it's nice to see it do alright.

[RedJed]

Never even heard about that film, whats the premise?

[jimmy no nose]

Carolla plays a 40 year old construction worker/boxing instructor who gets a chance to spar with the champion. He lands a big shot and a trainer convinces him to make one final run at the Olympics. It's not that different a concept from a lot of movies, but it's done a lot better than most. Carolla has legit boxing skills from his days as an actual boxing trainer, there's a decent little romantic story line mixed in, and it's got a lot of Adam's favorite rant topics included. It's reviewed fairly well and most of the critics are surprised at how well Adam carries the movie.