How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World stays number 1 and Tyler Perry's 'Madea' franchise goes out on a high note.
topped the North American box office for a second week, but close on its tail was Tyler Perry's final instalment of theThe third instalment in the series grossed an estimated $30m this weekend according to Universal Pictures on Sunday, bringing its domestic total just shy of $100m. Worldwide, the DreamWorks Animation film has made over $375m. In China alone it opened in first place with $33.4m.
took second place at the domestic box office with an estimated $27m, a third best for the 15-year-old franchise. The films have never been all that popular with critics — this one splattered out with a 24 percent on Rotten Tomatoes — but audiences have never seemed to care. This time around the audience, which was 67 percent female and 78 percent over the age of 25, gave the film a solid A- CinemaScore.
"That character just resonates," said Comscore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian."These films are absolutely critic proof. The audience has spoken and they love Madea and they're saying goodbye.", starring Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz, opened in eighth place to a mediocre $4.6m.was just another newcomer released in 2019 that had a rough go in a slow marketplace," Dergarabedian said.
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