BY: Denver Sean
Published 10 years ago
Tyler Perry has managed to beat out Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Ben Affleck to top the box office charts for the second weekend in a row.
‘Boo! A Madea Halloween’ came in at No. 1 this week with $16.7 million in sales knocking out Hanks’ and Ron Howard’s new Dan Brown adaption, ‘Inferno’ — the third installment of the ‘Da Vinci Code’ franchise.
via Variety:
“Inferno,” the latest big screen tour through Dan Brown’s historical conspiracy theories, flamed out at the weekend box office, earning a frosty $15 million. That’s a fraction of the $46.2 million that “Angels & Demons,” the previous film version of Brown’s novels, earned when it debuted in 2009, and it pales in relation to “The Da Vinci Code’s” $77.1 million opening way back in 2006.
“This was a serious meltdown,” said Jeff Bock, box office analyst with Exhibitor Relations. “It shows how fickle audiences can be. When studios release a sequel they don’t want, they just turn their shoulder.”
“Inferno” couldn’t muster a strong enough debut to capture the top spot on the domestic box office chart. Lionsgate’s “Boo! A Madea Halloween” nabbed first place for the second consecutive weekend, picking up $16.7 million to bring its stateside total to $52 million. The Tyler Perry comedy’s victory is an upset. Heading into the weekend, “Inferno” was expected to kick off to north of $20 million — a figure that easily would have secured it a first place finish.
Congrats to Tyler & co.
