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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 23 october 2017
A scary box office weekend for everyone but Tyler Perry

By LINDSEY BAHR the Brave” and the crime bution for Lionsgate.
AP Film Writer thriller “The Snowman.” The studio expects the film
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was Made for a reported $25 to hold well into next week-
a spooky weekend at the million, Perry’s film drew a end due to increased inter-
box office for nearly every- mostly older and female est because of Halloween,
one but Tyler Perry. audience, who gave it an but it will also face some
Perry’s comedy sequel A- CinemaScore. “Boo 2!” competition with the hor-
“Boo 2! A Madea Hallow- did a little less business than ror pic “Jigsaw.” But a slight
een” scared up a healthy the first film, which opened drop for a sequel hardly
$21.7 million in its first week- to $28.5 million just last year. compares to the catas-
end in theaters, but the wa- “Given that it’s a sequel, trophe of “Geostorm,” a
ters were rough for other its performance is at the long-delayed $120 million
new openers including the higher end of our expecta- disaster epic starring Ge-
disaster epic “Geostorm,” tions,” said David Spitz, who rard Butler that only man-
the firefighter drama “Only heads up domestic distri- aged to open to $13.3 mil-

This image released by
Lionsgate Entertainment
shows Tyler Perry as Madea in
“Tyler Perry’s Boo! 2 A Madea
Halloween.”
Associated Press
lion from North American
theaters.
A co-production between
Skydance Media and War-
ner Bros. Pictures, “Geos-
torm” marks the directorial
debut of “Independence
Day” producer Dean Dev-
lin. The film was shot back
in late 2014 and lousy test
screenings resulted in $15
million of reshoots, pushing
back the release over a
year and a half. But the re-
shoots didn’t seem to help
the final product, which
has been widely panned
by critics and shunned
overall by audiences.
Those who did turn out
gave it a B- CinemaScore.
At $38 million, the produc-
tion budget was more rea-
sonable than “Geostorm,”
however. But despite good
reviews, it opened be-
hind two holdovers — the
horror pic “Happy Death
Day” which landed in third
place with $9.4 million and
“Blade Runner 2049” which
took in $7.2 million in its third
weekend in theaters. Uni-
versal and Working Title’s
“The Snowman,” starring
Michael Fassbender and
based on the Jo Nesbo
book, also failed to make a
splash. The critically derid-
ed pic debuted in eighth
place with $3.4 million from
1,812 theaters. The direc-
tor, Thomas Alfredson has
been widely acknowledg-
ing the film’s shortcomings
and confusing plot in the
press, saying that they did
not have time to shoot
the entire script. Audi-
ences gave it a deathly D
CinemaScore.q