Tyler Perry and Tom Cruise win big at the box office
Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween and the Tom Cruise-led sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back are the clear box office winners in a strong weekend that saw moviegoers spread the love around.
Boo! is on top with ease. Perry's latest holiday-themed comedy earned an estimated $27.6 million at the domestic box office, two weekends before Halloween.
That's the fourth-largest opening for Tyler Perry-branded features to date, after Why Did I Get Married Too? ($29.3 million), Madea's Family Reunion ($30 million) and Madea Goes to Jail ($41 million). Even factoring out his Star Trek and Gone Girl appearances, the cumulative lifetime gross of Perry's films is fast-approaching a $1 billion.
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Cruise also doesn't have much to be unhappy about. The Reacher sequel's estimated $23 million opening is a significant improvement on the original's $15.2 million late-December start in 2012.
In one weekend, Never Go Back has already picked up more than one-quarter of the first movie's $80.1 million lifetime gross. That's a great start, and the 14th-biggest to date for Cruise-led features.
Even horror sequel Ouija: Origin of Evil is a success, despite opening at #3 with an estimated $14.1 million -- almost $5 million less than its 2014 predecessor. After just one weekend, the Halloween horror flick -- which is said to be budgeted at $9 million -- is already in the black.
The #3 position may switch once the final weekend numbers are released on Monday, with Ben Affleck's The Accountant dogging Ouija with an estimated $14 million. In fact, the unrounded estimates for the two movies are just $30,000 apart; this is anyone's race.
The Girl on the Train brings up the rear of the weekend's top five, with an estimated $7.3 million. It's far enough ahead of #6 placeholder Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children -- which has an estimated $6 million -- that it's unlikely to move once the numbers are final.
It's been a healthy $58.9 million three-week run for The Girl on the Train, especially with another $45.1 million from foreign ticket sales. A Halloween week bounce is a lingering possibility for this R-rated thriller.
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