Tyler Perry, whose character Madea needs the best weight loss pills money can buy and pronto, sat just about alone and unchallenged atop the box office this past weekend. His new movie, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, sat alone atop the weekend box office last weekend with a healthy $23.4 million. But he was nearly alone.
Only the second-place movie, the animated family film 9, made it into that rare air visited by films that top at least $10.0 million in a weekend. 9 made $10.7 million in its opening bow. Below the top two spots, nothing was close.
Third place was taken up by Inglorious Bastards, the ultra-violent Quentin Tarrantino Jewish revenge on the Nazis flick, which took in a mere $6.1 million. That was followed by a trio of movies who raked in somewhere around $5 million each, while another just missed even that mark, earning $4.9 million.
The $5 million and change trio include All About Steve, The Final Destination and Sorority Row. Whiteout was the seventh-place flick that took home $4.9 million. These results are especially dismal for first-week bombs Sorority Row and Whiteout, both of which were expected to gain at least twice that amount.
The post-summer blahs have set in at the box office, and with a lineup of uninspiring movies set for this weekend, including Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, The Informant!, Jennifer’s Body and Love Happens, the break in the drought is not in sight for the coming weekend, either.
Personally, with all the 3D re-releases of old movies cluttering the box office, I don’t see much relief in sight until late November, though the weekend of October 23 shows some promise of a temporary perk-up. Time will tell.
