Tyler Perry does it again as he connects with his fan base and finishes #2 at the box office last weekend with 30.2 million and ticket sales. Clash of the Titans finished #1 with 61.4 million in box office sales with third place going to How to Train Your Dragon with 29.2 Million.
Studio research showed that 80% of the crowd was female, 75% was over 25, and 80% was African American. I was part of the 20% of men who saw the movie and found it quite entertaining and funny. I don’t know why I always sit next to the woman who loudly agrees with every sentence Tyler Perry relates to the African American experience, but after a while I was able to tune her out and found myself well involved in the movie myself. There were a couple of scenes that came across un-realistic, but overall the sequel didn’t disappoint loyal fans.
The director consistently brings his fan base out to theaters with a new offering twice a year and only last year’s Madea Goes to Jail debuted bigger with $41M. His past eight films have averaged a domestic gross of $53M while being produced for budgets of under $16M. For the month of April, Why Did I Get Married Too ranks as the seventh biggest opener ever and the largest for a film opening in less than 3,000 theaters. Next up for the movie mogul is directing a different writer’s story titled, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf featuring Jackson, Mariah Carey, and Whoopi Goldberg debuting over Martin Luther King weekend next January.
