Sep 15 2008Coen Brothers Beat Women, Tyler Perry
On a weekend with four new wide releases, audiences saw each of them to varying degrees.
1. Burn After Reading - $19.4 million, the kind of mediocre results you'd expect from a country that hates reading but loves burning things.
2. Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys - A Tyler Perry-possessive $18 million.
3. Righteous Kill - $16.5 million, shaming all those people who said De Niro and Pacino couldn't fill up half to three-quarters of a theater anymore.
4. The Women - I knew this would be pretty big when I went to the theater and saw all those people in line dressed as women. ($10.1 million)
5. The House Bunny - How is this the only non-new release left in the top five? No one wants to see Bangkok Dangerous twice? ($4.3 million)
Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]
Reader Comments
1. Morono - September 15, 2008 12:18 PM
its a damn shame...
2. jana - September 15, 2008 1:01 PM
hey burning after reading is excellent
and first bitches
3. mtk - September 15, 2008 1:45 PM
Jana, you missed the boat apparently by nearly 45 minutes.
What's funny is how Bangkok Dangerous actually slipped from 1st to 8th place in its second week and wound up behind 2-month-old The Dark Knight.
4. Elmo - September 15, 2008 1:57 PM
Ooh, they beat up Tyler Perry! that makes up for beating the women
*get it? anyone?*
5. Medications - September 15, 2008 3:09 PM
I can't believe people go to see Tyler Perry movies. Black people are so predictable. I guess you gotta give it to Perry though, he knows how to cater to his audience and make money every time.
Actually I'll admit my friend and I snuck into one of them while we were waiting for some other movie to start, and it wasn't that bad actually. It was the one that had Stringer from The Wire in it.
6. Oscar - September 15, 2008 4:26 PM
Tyler Perry has a new movie?
7. Mr. Mason - September 15, 2008 5:11 PM
Rather than predictably react to #5's remark, I'll suggest that for maximum hilarity the headline should be relabled "Coen Brothers beat Women, Black People".
They want their suffrage? Then by God, they'll have it!
8. Lacrease - September 15, 2008 10:14 PM
'Burn After Reading' was the biggest opener for the brothers. With George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, and Tilda Swinton in the cast, the film average $7,320 from 2,651 theaters, BUT Tyler Perry's film played in less theaters and average more ($8,705). It just shows that if the film had played in the same amount of theaters, it would have been number one. Nevertheless, the total amount proves another solid opening for Perry. With Sanaa Lathan, Taraji P. Henson, Alfre Woodard, Cole Hauser, Kathy Bates, and Robin Givens in the cast, a hit was in the making.