Weekend: ‘Burn After Reading’ $19.4M, ‘Tyler Perry’ $18M, ‘The Women’ $10M

COMMENTS (21)

• Um there’s a little word called ESTIMATES that’s particularly important to mention when we still have a full 24 hours of ticket takings to bring in.

  BTW, no-one outside the USA has the faintest idea who the hell Tyler Perry is.

  Comment by Zippy — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 3:10am PDT  Reply to this post

• Not bad at all openings. And before anyone gets a hair up their ass to comment, please just remember that, considering the moral, political, technological and financial landscape of our times that it’s a miracle ANY movie gets made, and for that we should be happy, especially if they’re shot and posted in the US. Okay, now SAG members may go back to eviscerating each other.

  Comment by Hooray for movies — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 7:39am PDT  Reply to this post

• Great for Burn After Reading I watched it and enjoyed it Especially BRAD’S part,hope it continues to get good word of Mouth.

  Comment by Sarah — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 8:07am PDT  Reply to this post

• >>BTW, no-one outside the USA has the faintest idea who the hell Tyler Perry is.<<

  Same can be said for many top “stars” in Hollywood. Most people overseas either have never heard of them (especially those in comedies) or else they simply don’t translate well overseas (like Bette Midler).

  Not quite sure why you feel obliged to take another swipe at Tyler Perry. Gotta keep the black man down huh?

  Comment by Francine Fishpaw — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 11:18am PDT  Reply to this post

• Hmm I wonder how Tyler Perry’s movie would have done, had they all started with the same amount of screens.

  Just a loud thought?

  Comment by Lacrease — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 11:39am PDT  Reply to this post

• I was invited to see Burn After Reading and/or The Women this weekend.

  I was looking forward to The Women until Annette Bening came out last week and said something about Sarah Palin.

  I don’t care what actors’ views are on politics, or anything, for that matter. They chase away 50% of their viewers when they stupidly speak up during a press tour.

  I just want them to act, to be actors, to melt into their roles so I can enjoy the entertainment of it.

  When they insist on pushing their personal views onto the public, they push box money away from the producers.

  Hollywood, isn’t it time to put in a clause in the contract to keep them quiet while on press tours?

  They are damaging your business and annoying whatever half of the country doesn’t agree with their politics (this cuts both ways).

  – a movie fan who skipped “The Women” because of Annette.

  Comment by Sick of Star's Politics — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 12:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “BTW, no-one outside the USA has the faintest idea who the hell Tyler Perry is.”

  And that’s relevant because . . . ?

  Comment by Reader — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 12:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• movies aside, I can’t believe people think this election ISN’T rigged…

  Comment by righteouskrill — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 12:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Well Mr. Sick of Star’s Politics, I don’t care what you have to say either!

  Comment by Annette Benning — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 3:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Nikki, who are the rightwing wackjobs you have writing in today?

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  Considering that Arnold Schwarzegger was an actor and a Republican…ditto Ronald Reagan…clearly Rethuglicans DO care about what actors think…but only those that have their pro-life/creationist/human rights-destroying views. Oh, and did I mention Chuck Norris and Jon Voight?

  Both sides have actors that talk about politics, but a person’s profession does not disqualify their views. The facts are what matters, no matter WHO has them. That’s why the Grand Old White Party hates the mainstream media and indicts them with charges of “liberal bias.” They just don’t like facts to interfere with a good, dumbed-down story.

  Re: Tyler Perry and the commenter who wrote, “Gotta keep the black man down huh?”; that’s just insane racist-mongering. Tyler Perry has his audience and good for him. Any studio would love to work with him. But to state that his films don’t play well overseas is just a fact…those stubborn things. It would be the same if it were a Pauly Shore or Rob Schneider film. Why make it about race?

  “Burn After Reading” was an excellent, quality film for thinking people. I’m sure Tyler Perry’s movie gave his audience the same satisfied feeling. Isn’t it a great, diverse country we live in?

  Comment by LiberalTruthSeeker — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 3:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Tyler Perry had the higher per-screen gross, so if he’d had the same number of theaters (he had about 600-700 less), then he’d probably be #1.

  Comment by Exec — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 3:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Maybe its just me, but I don’t understand George Clooney’s movie career. If you throw out the ensemble Ocean 11 and its two sequels, the only big mainstream hit with mass audience appeal Clooney was the star of was The Perfect Storm. I really like Clooney and still think his best work was as Dr Doug Ross on ER. He just dosen’t make movies that appeal to me, and continues to choice his parts like he was an actor living in the 60′s.

  Comment by entertainmenttodayandbeyond — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 4:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Actors who are smart keep their mouths shut about politics and other dicey subjects because they know they’re going to piss off a large percentage of the population that may never pay to see any of their projects again. And it’s the dumb ones (like Lindsay Lohan today who’s ranting and raving about Sarah Palin allegedly being a gay basher) that can’t shut up. Seriously, when some of the most stupid people in Hollywood (Lohan, Barr, Damon, Anderson) lash out at someone, it doesn’t exactly do their cause any good. In fact, the more that the liberal idiots bash and mock a war hero and a working mother, the lower down in the polls Obama will go. Obama ought to be ahead at this point but he’s trailing like a bad smell.

  Comment by Egg — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 4:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m going to guess that the person who made the snide remark about Tyler Perry is not conservative, because conservatives seem to not care what people outside America think about – well – anything.

  Right?

  Comment by TorontoTodd — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 4:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If Tyler Perry had 600 more theaters, they would probably be empty. He gets theaters where his audience is. He was hurt a little by having 3 other wide openers, so in locations where he usually would get 3 or 4 screens, he got 2.

  Comment by Zareh — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 4:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m just loving this “racist” conspiracy that Perry’s movie would have been number 1 if the Man hadn’t shown it in fewer theaters.

  Oh please. If you go by that logic, “There Will Be Blood” (which opened spectacularly in something like 4 theaters) would have been the biggest hit of 2007, considering its per-theater take.

  If the The Man wasn’t keeping P.T. Anderson down…

  Comment by not an Exec — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 5:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Nikki, what happened to The Women? Boohoo…

  Comment by Hulton — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 7:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “I’m just loving this “racist” conspiracy that Perry’s movie would have been number 1 if the Man hadn’t shown it in fewer theaters.”

  I don’t see any of these comments of which you speak. All I see are numerous comments slamming Perry because the Japanese supposedly don’t know who he is. Although, considering he’s in the new Star Trek flick, I think more people will know him next year when that comes out.

  At this point, Tyler Perry is shaping up to be another Woody Allen – writing and directing and acting in his own movies while doing the occasional money job for somebody else.

  I prefer people like that than whores like De Niro who hasn’t acted this century.

  Comment by Not Black But Not Ignorant Either — Sunday September 14, 2008 @ 7:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Glad to see Burn after Reading doing well, saw it yesterday and definitely one of my favorite movies so far this year.

  I think the numbers for all movies would likely have been even better if it wasn’t for the horrible weather in many parts of the country. When we went out yesterday, we couldn’t even get to the first theatre because there were roads closed, we had to go to a second one instead.

  Comment by milo — Monday September 15, 2008 @ 8:21am PDT  Reply to this post

• Tyler would have been #1 if Hurricane Ike did not take out the Houston market (Tyler country)

  Comment by Jack Freshkin — Tuesday September 16, 2008 @ 9:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Brad Pitt can be so funny, as long as he’s not taking himself too seriously… i would seem that this movie makes good use of his, habitual, spastic arm movements

  Comment by movie buff — Saturday September 20, 2008 @ 10:35am PDT  Reply to this post