Madea Continues Her Reign of Terror as Queen of the Halloween Box Office
Just a few years ago the saying was “If it’s Halloween, it must be Saw.” This year if it’s Halloween, it must be Madea. Would you like to play a game, horror fans? What’s your favorite Madea movie?
Tyler Perry continued his reign as the new king (and queen) of Halloween as Boo! A Madea Halloween held on to the top of the box office this All Hallow’s Weekend. Per Box Office Mojo, Boo! hauled in an impressive $16.6 million. That’s only a 41% drop from its $28 million opening weekend. Turns out this time the “A” Cinemascore viewers polled gave Perry’s newest Madea movie translated into big bucks.
Like Michael Myers at the Academy Awards, Madea continued turning the Halloween season into a bloodbath for some aging A-list movie stars. After carving up Tom Cruise last weekend, her reign of terror claimed Tom Hanks’ head this weekend. Inferno, the Da Vinci Code threequel with Hanks returning as a crime-solving symbologist trying to prevent an ancient plague from being unleashed, fell into its own personal Dante’s Inferno with a paltry $15-million, second place opening weekend. That allowed Tyler Perry to claim Ron Howard’s beautiful mind as another trophy for his shelf.
Next weekend Doctor Strange will work some cross-dimensional magic to finally wrestle the box office away from the raunchy moralizing that is Tyler Perry’s cross-dressing Mademon. If Marvel can’t stop Madea, nothing can.
Hey, I got an idea for a Tyler Perry Marvel movie. We’ll combine Perry’s iconic character with Marvel’s #1 swamp monster and create “Madea-Thing.” Whoever doesn’t know Jesus burns at the touch of Madea-Thing. I’d watch. You’d watch. The “Giant-Size Madea-Thing” comics would sell like hotcakes.
Meanwhile, the only theatrically-released horror flick out there, Ouija: Origin of Evil, dropped 50% in its second weekend, down to 5th place with an estimated $7 million. That brings its total domestic box office up to $24 million. Not bad for a low-budget prequel to a movie few people actually seemed to like – just not Madea money.
Here’s a crazy idea…Maybe next year Hollywood will actually release actual horror movies in the month of October. Horror movies people actually want to see. What a novel idea.
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