Box Office (Sep 11-13) | Tyler Perry still doing what Tyler Perry does

**bartleby** · 09-12-2009, 03:36 AM

Early Friday Estimates

1. Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (Lionsgate) - $8.6 million
2. 9 (Focus) - $3.3 million
3. Inglourious Basterds (Weinstein) - $2 million
4. All About Steve (Fox) - $1.9 million
5. White Out (Warner Bros.) - $1.9 million
6. Sorority Row (Summit) - $1.8 million

**silverboy** · 09-12-2009, 05:07 AM

I think it may be his best reviewed movie, and the best reviewed movie of the weekend.

**DaveCummings** · 09-12-2009, 05:27 AM

I never understood why Tyler Perry has been perceived as popular.

**Chuuie** · 09-12-2009, 05:35 AM

when i screened it with my friend (thats just how good of a friend i am... watching that crap for moral support), i just said to myself that i was originally a play, and when i watched it, imagining it onstage, the mealodrama and bad dialogue and over-the-top exposition werent so bad... its just like Perry did not do a damn thing when adapting it to the screen... and theatre DOES need adaption to the screen... its why the people in enchanted were so silly, they were stage actors doing state-style acting on cameras... i guess Perry never saw how silly it was.. >.<

**Adrian B AWESOME** · 09-12-2009, 05:37 AM

I didn't even know a new Tyler Perry comedy came out. His audience is certainly devoted.

**bartleby** · 09-12-2009, 05:53 AM

Originally Posted by DaveCummings

I never understood why Tyler Perry has been perceived as popular.

You don't understand why he's perceived as popular, or you don't understand why he's popular?

**Tom Burgos** · 09-12-2009, 06:02 AM

I certainly thought that Sorority Row would open higher (not # 1) but at least behind Tyler Perry's latest opus. Even Whiteout did better than SR, (but barely)...

I don't know if I remember correctly, but didn't Kate Beckinsale's career start in good films?

**Adrian B AWESOME** · 09-12-2009, 07:12 AM

In awesome news, Inglorious Basterds will break 100 mil this weekend, and, probably during the week, pass Pulp Fiction as Tarantino's biggest box office grab domestically (still about 30 million off of Pulp Fiction worldwide).

However, it obviously won't be near as profitable, as Basterds had an estimated 70 million dollar price tag compared to Fiction's 8 million.

**DaveCummings** · 09-12-2009, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by bartleby

You don't understand why he's perceived as popular, or you don't understand why he's popular?

Both

**bartleby** · 09-12-2009, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by DaveCummings

Both

It can't possibly be both. If you question why he's popular, then you've acknowledge that he's popular, which means that there's no reason for you to question why he would be perceived as popular.