Madea’s Big Happy Family

Weekend Box Office – TED Takes R-Rated Comedy Title with $54.1 Million; MAGIC MIKE Second with $39.1 Million

by Nicole Pedersen Posted: July 1st, 2012 at 8:56 am

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The theory that audiences would wait for the tentpole movies of July before opening their wallets went down in flames this weekend as two all-original movies (R-rated ones at that) delivered stellar openings. Ted and Magic Mike bested Brave by taking first and second place: nearly doubling their pre-weekend projections and giving box office watchers a lot more to consider than the imminent arrival of The Amazing Spider-Man.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Ted	$54,100,000	$54.1
2	Magic Mike	$39,155,000	$39.1
3	Brave	$34,000,000	$131.6
4	Madea’s Witness Protection	$26,350,000	$26.3
5	Madagascar 3	$11,815,000	$180
6	A Lincoln: Vampire Hunter	$6,000,000	$29
7	Prometheus	$4,925,000	$118.2
8	Moonrise Kingdom	$4,872,000	$18.4
9	Snow White & the Huntsman	$4,405,000	$145.6
10	People Like Us	$4,300,000	$4.3

Weekend Box Office – FAST FIVE Drives Off with $83.6 Million to Become Highest April Debut of All-Time

by Nicole Pedersen Posted: May 1st, 2011 at 9:47 am

After driving off with $33.2 million on Friday, a record debut for April, Universal’s Fast Five went on to an incredible weekend estimate of $83.6 million from 3,644 locations. And, as on Friday, that was also good enough to break all kinds of records.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Fast Five	$83,600,000	$83.6
2	Rio	$14,400,000	$103.6
3	Madea’s Big Happy Family	$10,050,000	$41
4	Water for Elephants	$9,125,000	$32.2
5	Prom	$5,000,000	$5
6	Hoodwinked Too!	$4,100,000	$4.1
7	Soul Surfer	$3,300,000	$33.7
8	Insidious	$2,680,000	$43.3
9	Hop	$2,550,000	$105.2
10	Source Code	$2,530,000	$48.9

Weekend Box Office – RIO Takes Top Perch with $26.8 Million; MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY a Close Second with $25.8 Million

by Nicole Pedersen Posted: April 24th, 2011 at 9:50 am

On Easter weekend the animated hit Rio managed to hold on to its number one perch for a second weekend in a row with an estimated $26.8 million. The padding between Fox’s birds and the Tyler Perry’s bawd was pretty slim, however. In second place Madea’s Big Happy Family was right behind Rio with an estimated $25.8 million.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Rio	$26,800,000	$81.3
2	Madea’s Big Happy Family	$25,800,000	$25.8
3	Water for Elephants	$17,500,000	$17.5
4	Hop	$12,500,000	$100.5
5	Scream 4	$7,100,000	$31.1
6	African Cats	$6,400,000	$6.4
7	Soul Surfer	$5,600,000	$28.6
8	Insidious	$5,380,000	$44.1
9	Hanna	$5,275,000	$31.7
10	Soul Surfer	$5,060,000	$44.6

Friday Box Office – RIO Still Flying High with $10.7 Million; MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY a Close Second

by Nicole Pedersen Posted: April 23rd, 2011 at 9:27 am

Hollywood is definitely going to have its second ‘up’ weekend in a row come Sunday. It’s another 2011 milestone! Credit that success to Fox’s Rio, whose Friday-to-Friday estimate of $10.7 million was slightly higher than its debut one week ago, and to Tyler Perry’s latest, Madea’s Big Happy Family, which was just behind Rio with a Friday estimate of $10.5 million from 2,288 locations. Madea is not expected to match Perry’s past Easter weekend debuts, which means that Rio will most likely see its second weekend at number one. Fox is back at number three with Water for Elephants. The adaptation of the bestselling novel debuted with an estimated $7 million from 2,817 locations and should come in line with projections which put it in the mid teens or slightly above for the Easter weekend. Finally, Disney Nature continued its tradition of Earth Day releases with African Cats. They didn’t score the huge debut they saw with Earth, but Cats was cunning enough to make it into Friday’s top five with an estimated $3.3 million from just 1,220 locations.

	Title	Friday	Total
1	Rio	$10,700,000	$65.2
2	Madea’s Big Happy Family	$10,500,000	$10.5
3	Water for Elephants	$7,000,000	$7
4	Hop	$4,200,000	$92.2
5	African Cats	$3,300,000	$3.3