Perry On Top

Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail topped Oscar weekend box office by a huge margin last weekend as the “monster of indy black comedy” swallowed first position hole with a total take of $41 million in its initial bow. No Kohler faucet were harmed in the making of that movie, either!

But the rest of the weekend box office was hurting as only two other films broke the $10 million barrier; children’s animated fantasy Coraline, as well as the thriller-action flick Taken, but with about $11 million coming in last weekend. Everything else was down, but most notable was the plunge taken by Friday the 13th, which dropped over 80 percent on bad word-of-mouth. The slasher rehash took in just under $8 million, falling all the way from first to sixth.

Worst initial bow of the weekend goes to Fired Up, which managed only $5.4 million.