Tyler Perry’s ‘Boo! A Medea Halloween’ Is Tops At Box Office — Again!

Hollywood got a terrifying scare this weekend as the third installment in the ‘Da Vinci Code’ franchise — re-teaming director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks — bombed in its U.S. debut with $15 million. Yes, that’s right, Razzie Award winner Tyler Perry has beaten Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Ben Affleck at the box office. Boo! A Madea Halloween is on track to be Perry’s second highest grossing film (Madea’s Witness Protection,$65m). The end of Halloween and the onset of Fall blockbusters will likely prevent it from approaching the $90 million box office haul of Madea Goes to Jail (2009).

 

Movie-watchers figured Inferno would win the Halloween costume contest with a $20 million-$30 million opening. The Ron Howard directed pic starring two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks only pulled in $15 million. Yikes!

 

Boo! A Madea Halloween is on track to be Perry's second highest grossing film topping Madea’s Witness Protection box office total of $65 million.

Boo! A Madea Halloween is on track to be Perry’s second highest grossing film topping Madea’s Witness Protection box office total of $65 million.

Why is Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween is so well? Forbes magazine’s Scott Mendelson credits “the holiday bump, and the fact that the whole “horror comedy” angle is bringing it the uninitiated [and] younger and whiter [moviegoer] than a conventional Perry picture.” Mendelson concludes, “there is absolutely nothing like it in the marketplace right now, and that’s got to count for something.”

 

Inferno, like Jack Reacher, is doing solid business overseas, already earning an estimated $132.9 million since launching in numerous markets earlier this month. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back placing third,  declined 58 percent in its second weekend to $9.6 million for a disappointing 10-day domestic total of $39.7 million. Overseas, the sequel earned another $11.6 million from 46 markets for a foreign cumulative receipts of $54.2 million and global tally of $93.9 million. Never Go Back is failing miserably in China, where its 10-day total is only $8.7 million.

 

Rounding out the top five are Ben Affleck’s The Accountant and Universal and Blumhouse Productions’ prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil. The rest of the Top 12 are in the chart below:

 

# Title — Distributor Name — 3-Day Total  /  Cumlative Total
1 Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween — Lionsgate — $16,675,000 / $52,019,343
2 Inferno — Sony — $15,000,000 / $15,000,000
3 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back — Paramount — $9,550,000 / $39,679,177
4 The Accountant — Warner Bros. — $8,475,000 / $61,257,172
5 Ouija: Origin Of Evil — Universal — $7,067,440 / $24,636,065
6 The Girl On The Train —  Universal — $4,274,395 / $65,922,875
7 Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children — 20th Century Fox — $3,975,000 / $79,879,180
8 Keeping Up With The Joneses — 20th Century Fox — $3,375,000 / $10,779,313
9 Storks — Warner Bros. — $2,785,000 / $68,244,612
10 Ae Dil Hai Mushkil — Fox International Productions — $2,135,000 / $2,135,000
11 Deepwater Horizon — Lionsgate — $2,100,000 / $58,360,245
12 Kevin Hart: What Now? — Universal — $1,668,765 / $21,897,320

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