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Box Office Weekend: Tyler Perry and Madea Debut on Top

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Tyler Perry’s latest eponymously titled film, Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween topped the box office weekend with $21.7 million during its first few days in theaters. This opening also marks the seventh “Madea” film to open over $20 million.

Finishing in a distant second-place, was the new disaster movie, Geostorm, which finished with $13.3 million as audiences and critics seemed content to look on the film as a disaster in and of itself. The horror film, Happy Death Day fell from first to third in its second week of release with $9.4 million this past weekend. Meanwhile, Blade Runner 2049 garnered only $7.2 million in its third week of release, raising its domestic haul to $74 million, while its brought in somewhere around $195 million internationally.

Elsewhere, Only the Brave debuted to decent reviews and a $6 million opening weekend. It remains to be seen whether word of mouth can give the film a firm hold on a spot in the top ten moving forward. Jackie Chan’s return to multiplexes, The Foreigner, managed $5.5 million in its second week of release, bring its two-week total to $22.8 million. This was good enough to movie it past It, which feel to seventh place in its seventh week of release with $3.5 million, bringing its domestic total to date to an impressive $320.2 million.

The other high-profile debut this week, The Snowman, delivered a paltry $3.4 million in its first week of release that doesn’t bode well for the film’s staying power given the dismal reviews its garnered so far. Closing out the top ten this week are the Tom Cruise-led American Made with $3.2 million (and a four-week total of $45.5 million) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle with $3.0 million (and a five-week total of $94.6 million). One can be considered a hit and one, not so much.

Weekend Box Office (October 20th – October 22nd)
  1. Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween…$21.7 Million
  2. Geostorm …$13.3 Million
  3. Happy Death Day…$9.4 Million
  4. Blade Runner 2049…$7.2 Million
  5. Only the Brave…$6.0 Million
  6. The Foreigner…$5.5 Million
  7. It…$3.5 Million
  8. The Snowman…$3.4 Million
  9. American Made…$3.2 Million
  10. Kingsman: The Golden Circle…$3.0 Million

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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