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Tyler Perry's Latest film scores Top Spot. By
Jarrod Sarafin
September 13, 2009
Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself
© Lionsgate
Once upon a time in the realm of Hollywood, New Line used to be nicknamed “The House that Freddy Built” due to the success of a certain iconic villain by Wes Craven. Obviously, the Nightmare franchise couldn’t save that studio from eventually folding back into Time Warner’s more successful enterprise, Warner Bros., but if Lionsgate were to have the same type of nickname, Tyler Perry would go somewhere within it.
Perhaps, something along the lines “The House that Tyler Perry and Jigsaw Made Pimp.”
Despite the fact that Lionsgate tries to do well with other action franchises like Crank, The Punisher, The Gamer and a smattering of horror productions, the brand names that continue being the studio’s consistent bread earners are still the same. Check out Lionsgate’s Top 10 Films. What do you see? With the exception of one horror film and one Michael Moore documentary, you’ll see the same two brand names taking control of the list. And this latest box office report is further evidence of that fact. While Lionsgate’s The Gamer is already down in the 10th place spot in only its second weekend of release, the latest Tyler Perry entry is enjoying the top spot a week later with an $8 million lead on the action film after only three days.
The mega producer and studio unleashed their latest release, Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself, against three new genre releases this weekend and found itself outperforming everyone by quite a large margin. With the film launching into 2,255 theaters this weekend the film took in $24.0 million as a result. The 7th All-Time September Opening tally has the production averaging a respectable $10,656 per showing across the country.
Landing in 2nd place is Focus Features’ 9. The Shane Acker animation, based on his short film, was given an early Wednesday release but still found no momentum moving into the weekend. With only 1,661 theaters to its distribution, the production took in $10.8 million over the weekend and $15.2 million over the 5-day period. With a per-showing average of $6,536 it seems clear that audiences wanted to see this film but for some reason that only Focus executives know about, they made it difficult for audiences. Next time they should probably put some thoughts into giving their films a more respectable theatrical distribution.
The Weinstein Company continues to roll steadily forward with their latest Quentin Tarantino pic Inglourious Basterds. The successful WWII production grabbed the 3rd place spot in its fourth weekend of release by taking in another $6.5 million. The latest numbers has its domestic tally at $104.3 million. The latest foreign numbers are not yet in but it has grossed $83.8 million to date on international markets to make for a worldwide cume of $188.1 million. Budget is listed at $70 mil.
20th Century Fox’s comedy, All About Steve, dropped a spot to 4th place after pulling in another $5.8 million in its second weekend of release. The film now has a domestic tally of $21.8 million after ten days of release.
Slipping down to 5th place from the previous weekend’s victory is The Final Destination. Despite the 55% drop in its third weekend report, the film is still a success story for Warner Bros. and New line. The 3D film was produced for a budget of only $40 mil and has accumulated $58.2 million in its first 17 days of release. The horror release also has another $32.5 million from international markets to make for a worldwide gross of $90.7 million.
To check out how Sorority Row and Whiteout did in their respective debuts, check out the scores down below.
| Rank | Movie | Weekend | Theaters | Average | Total | Budget |
| 1 | Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself | $24.0 mil | 2,255 | $10,656 | $24.0 mil | ---- |
| 2 | 9 | $10.8 mil | 1,661 | $6,536 | $15.2 mil | ---- |
| 3 | Inglourious Basterds | $6.5 mil | 3,215 | $2,036 | $104.3 mil | $70 |
| 4 | All About Steve | $5.8 mil | 2,265 | $2,561 | $21.8 mil | ---- |
| 5 | The Final Destination | $5.5 mil | 2,732 | $2,013 | $58.2 mil | $40 |
| 6 | Sorority Row | $5.2 mil | 2,665 | $1,977 | $5.2 mil | ---- |
| 7 | Whiteout | $5.1 mil | 2,745 | $1,858 | $5.1 mil | ---- |
| 8 | District 9 | $3.6 mil | 2,560 | $1,406 | $108.5 mil | $30 |
| 9 | Julie & Julia | $3.3 | 2,342 | $1,409 | $85.3 mil | $40 |
| 10 | Gamer | $3.1 mil | 2,502 | $1,259 | $16.1 mil | ---- |
Next weekend sees the launching of four wide releases. Three of those have a shot for the top spot with Sony’s animation, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, having the best shot with the highest amount of theaters, a PG rating and a runtime of only 1 hr. 21 minutes.
Also being released is Matt Damon’s latest drama The Informant and Megan Fox’s horror-comedy, Jennifer’s Body.
Friday September 18, 2009 Releases:
Wide
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (3,000)
Jennifer’s Body (2,500)
The Informant (2,400+)
Love Happens (1,800+)
Limited
Paris
Burning Plain
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I saw The Final Destination and I have a final destination for it, the garbage. I only watched the 2 before it, because I liked the way they engineered the victims deaths, but all they did was change the setting and rehash the old ones. Death must really like electricity because every scene had some sort of short in it. The best scenes in the whole movie were the first death and the last one. My all time favorite death scene in the FD movies was in the first movie when the girl gets hit by a bus. It was just so sudden and random. It was a holy shit moment.