![]() ![]() Maybe they should have called it Tyler Perry’s Alex Cross. The movie did about half as well as movies with Perry’s name in the title, which tend to open at around $24 million. But while Tyler Perry is a proven box office draw when he plays a gun-toting grandma, it’s not clear that Madea fans want to see Perry solving gruesome crimes, or that genre fans want to see the playwright/moralist as a hard-boiled sleuth. James Patterson’s serial-killer thrillers had the makings of a lucrative franchise when Morgan Freeman played Cross more than a decade ago in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. So by the franchise’s own lofty standards, this weekend’s opening seems an anemic disappointment.Īlso opening at the low end of expectations was Alex Cross, which took in an estimated $11.8 million to debut in fifth place. ![]() Instead, it offered up the smallest debut since the first installment. Still, PA4 was expected to open in the upper 40s. Granted, no one expected this year’s version to top that the reviews haven’t been kind, and there’s some competition this year from the similar Sinister (which held on very well from last week, with another estimated $9.0 million, for a two-weekend total of $32.0 million). Having supplanted Saw as the franchise that reliably brings fans to theaters like clockwork every Halloween, the annual found-footage frightfest had been seeing bigger and bigger openings every year, culminating with the $52.6 million debut of PA3last October. How can this be the loser when it opened at Number One and scared up an estimated $30.2 million? Because the Paranormal Activity franchise is supposed to be one of the few sure things in Hollywood. LOSER OF THE WEEK: Paranormal Activity 4. ![]()
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