That's Massive, Sweetie
Her last two albums may have flopped, but at least she has a hit movie on her hands!
And, she can thank
Janet Jackson stars in the writer/director's new film, Why Did I Get Married?, which opened at #1 in the U.S. box office this past weekend with $21.5 million.
What makes this debut particularly noteworthy is that the film premiered on only 2,011 screens.
Big blockbusters and films that open that big usually show on twice or three times as many screens!
Why Did I Get Married? took in twice as much as the film that came in #2 this past weekend, The Game Plan.
Check out the rest of this past weekend's Top 10….after the jump.
1 Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married $21,500,000
2 The Game Plan $11,506,000
3 Michael Clayton $11,010,000
4 We Own the Night $11,000,000
5 The Heartbreak Kid $7,425,000
6 Elizabeth: The Golden Age $6,183,000
7 The Kingdom $4,566,000
8 Across the Universe $4,000,000
9 Resident Evil: Extinction $2,650,000
10 The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising $2,150,000
She's Everywhere!
J. Lo Debuts Low
LOVE HER!!!!! CONGRATS!
She's still on top! Just ask Jermaine!
I'm not going to read all of these comments but I don't know how this became a thing about race. There are tons of trashy films about both white and black people. You have shit from the likes of Britney Spears and Eminem and there is shitty stuff from Black singers and actors as well. Big deal. In case you didn't know there are millions of both ghetto black and trailer trash white people in this country. Deal with it y'all and stop trying to make this about race and insult someone else. I love how the black and white people on this page act like their race puts out better shit than the other. All ya'll are trash!
Well, it's the only "black" movie out there, so of course it's going to do well against the other films. I wouldn't give too much credit to Janet, though. I saw the movie and two of the other female actresses stole that movie from her. Perry's movies usually suck (I hated the Medea films), but I went to see this one because of Jill Scott, and surprisingly, the film was pretty good.
quit copying thesuperficial with this after the jump talk
#105,107 You sound like a fucking idiot!!! Who do you think you are stereotyping people that way. Judging a person's color by the way that they speak when all stupid, narrow-minded people of all races and statures use foul agressive language. Believe I have heard such words from all types of people, so unless you have a sixth sense, are a god or something, stops pre-judging people. You should hear the hard, agresive way me and my buddies talk and we all live in teh most boring suburb in the country, ass hole.
113, Thank you. Ignorant people are ignorant people regardless of their color. And fools will always create a situation even where none exists, to bitch and fight about. I wish they would all just go to hell and stay there. Oh, and by the way fools, Game Plan by the Rock was also a hit movie for two weeks in a roll, without you idiots trying to throw race into the occasion.
Great movie Janet stared in! This week I plan to see "We Own the Nights" heard from many that is great movie too! I'm so happy for Janet, she earned this. She paid for her Super Bowl mistake and I think her next album will be hot, I'm looking forward to that, I think it is coming out sometime after Mariah Carey drops her next cd which the buzz is already good!!
I love Paula Abdul's art!
IT WAS SUCH A GOOD MOVIE!!! I'M NOT REALLY A TYLER PERRY FAN BUT IT WAS SOOOO GOOD WITH LOTS OF DRAMA! AND FUNNY AS HELL….JANET JACKSON DID A GREAT JOB BTW
Crakkkas cannot stand to see Black people supporting each other and things. They prefer us to kiss their wet dog smelling asses, and support them. Crakkkas get threatened when they see Black people loving each other and sticking together.
Read the pathetic comments made by these pale crakkkas.
White peopel are a sad sad race. They are insecure by nature even with all the money and power nt he world. Look at em. can't stand to see someone else do better than them. They truly have a deep rooted jealousy, fear and insecurity against us Black people. And i see why
WE ARE THE FUKIN BOMB!
Had this movie been about crackheads and thugs they wouldbe praising it. But we didn't include thier ugly pale asses nor did Black people act like ignoramouses, therefore this movie is "shit" in thier eyes.
Typical CRAKKKAS.
Perez is simply a dispository for Racists. With every black star ya got something nasty and racial to spew. This is a HATE SITE. See Ya! I'm done. You'all can spew your hateful shit to someone else. I'm done with this crap and will not patronize any business that supports this shit. This site was fun but you and your staff must get-off on this racist hateful shit….Have fun Haters!
THE ONLY REASON Janet Jackson's music videos dont get played on MTV and Justin Timberlekes videos do get played on MTV is because MTV is racist!!
Just like Kanye said "MTV doesn't like Black people"…or was that George Bush??
THE ONLY REASON Janet Jackson's music videos dont get played on MTV and Justin Timberlekes videos do get played on MTV is because MTV is racist!!
Just like Kanye said "MTV doesn't like Black people"…or was that George Bush???
I love how all his movie's are called "Tyler Perry's [whatever the fuck]" What an egomaniac. I can't believe Oprah promotes his suck-ass movies. Who goes to see this shit anyway?
I'm sorry Perez, but no movie has ever premiered on three times as many screens. There is no movie in the history of cinema to premiere on 6,000 screens. In fact, the record is about 4,400.
124 Shut the fuck up you stupid TROLL! Everybody knows that exactly what you are bitch!!!
Face the facts its has always been a black and white issue. Racism exists on all levels of society. I wish this were not the case but it is. Racism will exist until the end of time. I applaud anyone that tries to break the cycle.
"What makes this debut particularly noteworthy is that the film premiered on only 2,011 screens.
Big blockbusters and films that open that big usually show on twice or three times as many screens!"
No film has ever opened on 6,000 screens. The highest number of screens a film has ever opened to was just over 4,300 (Pirates: At World's End).
NICE ONE JANET!!!
GO JANET!!!!
YOU ROCK!!!!!!
No this film will not win an Oscar, but it was very entertaining! Sometimes people just want to be entertained.
Girlfriend, with all the dinero you have, you'd think maybe you should do something about the horrific crow's feet??? She looks like Paula Abdul in this picture, is she taking prozac too????
"Big blockbusters and films that open that big usually show on twice or three times as many screens!"
Imagine how dangerous Perez would be if he ever knew what the fuck he was talking about. How can you live in Tinseltown and get that wrong?
That's because every dumb ass stereotypical black person in the country went….and thats why Tyler Perry made it
Some of you people are just sad and pathetic chauvinistic pigs. For the bigots who are saying that this movie is shit because of its mostly black cast, or that Tyler Perry is another arrogant "black man" or any other comment that shows antipathy towards African Americans, I actually feel sorry for you. For the double standard bigots who are stooping low to a level of racism by believing in eugenic ideology by saying white people have small penises, are jealous, etc…, I really feel sorry for you.
It's really pathetic how some of you come on these comment sections in order to entice some sort of racial debate. Some of you really need to seek professional help immediately. If you were really content with your life, you wouldn't resort to racism, sexism, name calling, and being massively ignorant bigots.
On the contrary, wouldn't be nice if we had a movie with a diverse cast do extremely well? I'm talking about having Hispanic, Latino/a, African American, White, Native American, South Pacific, Asian, Asian-Indian, Middle Eastern, etc.. etc… But kudos to Tyler Perry for his success!
This movie was really good. Why do some people have to bring race into it? There is no need for that. Prejudice people are the lowest forms of society in my book. Even with all the hateful comments regarding someones racial background….I love all of you all. I will continue to pray for everyone.
Re: Carlos – grow up and stop being a hater
YAY.. Go Janet!!!!!!!!
She's beautiful!!!
GO GIRL!!!!!! Nobody can stop the Jacksons!!
WHAT ON EARTH IS WITH THOSE HAIR ROOTS!? SO TRASHY. SO ROUGH. SO PUKE-INDUCING.
Re: Brett Connors –
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for saying what the rest of us are thinking!!!!!!!!!!!
Janet succeds as a actress b/c for some reason on the screen she comes across as a normal woman not a jackson freak. On the screen she has a script that tells her what to do. She talks and acts normal. When she is in her singer personna she is stiff and unapproachable. She is beautiful on the screen. Her music is no longer fresh and she is more comfortable as a actress than the bullshit of being a singer.
Janet has definitely rocked that movie - ya'll should watch it.
Eww bad pic bitch looks beat!
The movie was great. Congrats Janet.
seriously…i dont even have to see that movie to know its garbage. i saw we own the night…now thats a fucking movie. with amazingly talented actors. this isnt about race, although, of course its gonna open at number 1, black movies come out like what, once a year? so alllllllll the black people rush to go see it when they do….
tyler is gay and janet can not act… ask anyone on the set. WHY is he famous? WHY do people go to his films? Why do minorities support crap (blacks, gays, hispanics, they all make crap popular… very sad). His films suck, oh, and so does he… lol
And you are stupid. so shut your freakin trap moron.
Ouch for Clooney. He's supposed to be a huge movie star, but he can't get hit movies without Brad and Matt Damon.
Media made sensation?
I just got back from watching this movie and it was really good. Janet Jackson and Jill Scott were amazing in it. I didn't know Janet could yell like that.
Lol @ some people here saying that "nobody cares about Janet" in their comments. Who are you trying to convince? You can type that until your little fingers turn blue, the movie is still #1. You can try and think of pathetic excuses on why it did well, get a life. Sorry to tell you, but many of my Caucasians, Asians and all non-black friends have seen this movie as well. So its not just "African-Americans" (like black people aren't west Indian, Hispanic, etc as well?) Janet's fanbase is very diverse.
James, you haven't seen "Poetic Justice"? She was great in that movie.
Now that's massive Janet doin it big. Yall can say she flopped in albums which both went double platnium. But this movie was great tho. Haters yall can hate I mean yall promoting her and yall doing it for free.lol.
it's game plans 3rd week though
um nice article but her last 2 album did not flop. get it right slim!…
JAnet is a bad girl anyways. i mean really. and um nice article but her last 2 album did not flop. check ur facts…
Does anyone else think she looks like Paula Abdul in that pic? And that's not a good thing.
What haters. That ass Carlos said:
"Totally wrong info.
MOVIES THAT OPEN IN MORE THEN 2000 THEATHERS MAKE AT LEAST 15 MILLION DOLLARS, this movie isn’t a hit, this month is one of the weakest for the box office, just look at the rest of movies."
Really? Well guess what? "The Game Plan", "We Own the Night" and "Michael Clayton" opened in more theatres than Tyler Perry's movie and they ALL got SPANKED!!! What's more, only one movie that opened this weekend made over $15 million and it wasn't "The Game Plan", "We Own the Night", "Michael Clayton" or "Elizabeth." LOL So much for your ridiculous statement that if a movie opens in more than 2,000 theatres it is supposed to make more than 15 million. Deal with it!!! If Perry's movie had opened in more theatres, it would have made even more. What a bunch of ignorant racist jackasses some of you are.
i use to think tyler perry was overrated to…but this movie was great!….he put together a great group…not just janet…good for them!
Also, for all of you out there that think that black people are like friggin sheep and went to see this movie because it had a black cast…think again. Last year, Tyler Perry's movie "Daddy's little girls" opened to less than 5 million in its first weekend. This movie did well because it has a light subject matter with a fantastic cast, and yes, this is one of the few times when we can see characters that actually reflect our experience.
the movie was damn good. all tyler's movies have been good except for that reunion crap. i dont know why people hate on this man especially hollywood. the man's plays (theatre) gross millions - it makes $21 million a year and it sells out in 5 minutes. regardless of what hollywood think black people are the largest consumption group and they would go out in droves to support the movie. the movie was good and a success. congrats tyler
Re: Sane –
You're right! It was an excellent film regardless of race. The cinematography and cast were beautiful! But his editing was better.
Re: RJII –
You're right! He didn't open to as many screens as George Clooney and still doubled the Box Office.
Is it bad that when I first saw that picture, I thought it was Paula Abdul?
to all the black people on here who automatically assume that people are bashing this movie are 'racist', think again. i'm bashing it because a.) it's a stupid movie b.) janet jackson is a horrible actress, and c.) tyler perry makes pure crap. (i.e. medea and all that other horrible mess).
i'm not saying that because i'm a racist, i'm saying it because three other movies with better plots and more talented actors deserved that spot. it's just an example of how DUMB america is. they don't want to see movies with a thought provoking plot, they want to go and be mindless zombies and not think about anything for two hours.
that being said, tyler perry's movie didn't deserve to be number one. instead of supporting shit like this, why don't you support a black movie that can make the black culture proud like american gangster? c'mon, denzel washington is not only incredibly talented, but he makes incredible movies. but no one ever points that out. you're just quick to call us racist if we don't like one of your movies.
Freakin pathetic…I hear you. Didn't mean to lump everyone together. The bottom line is that many of his films do play into sterotypes. None of it is meant to be deep. This movie is a feel good movie of sorts and that's it. No one is saying that any Academy Awards should be given out.
She looks just like Michael with black skin- how scary.
as a completely straight female ha. i would do janet jackson in a heartbeat
Negroes always support their stars.
Well at least we know who a majority of Perezhilton readers are. A Bunch of Jelous Snooty WHITE FUCKERS. Geez. does it pain you that much to see an african american have success in america? Get over it, Janet is HUGELY SUCCESSFUL AND TALENTED. Get a life all you bastards and stop hating.
Perez is Kissing some Black ass.
You can always tell who is white on these pages. Just look for the jealous, racist, comment from an insecure person threatened by the success and money of blacks. Like YOU!!! Pathetic indeed.
Look at all the jealous white people………..hahahahaha
Look at all the jealous white people………. hahahahaha
Look at all the jealous white people ………..hahahahaha
Jealousy and envy
Jealousy and envy
jealousy and envy
Get used to it …………………..hahahahaha
Tyler Perry's movies always do well the first weekend cuz he has a following with black churches, which is why his movies tend to be preachy. The real test will be the 2nd weekend. That will determine whether the film will branch out beyond his core audience.
that's awesome.
Oh Yeah scar2…that's it!!! LOL That's why on Friday and Saturday nights here in NYC almost every theatre was sold out!!! What a bunch of crap!!!
It must suck to think like a racist.
Keep positive people and have a nice day!
Re: Martin –
Obviously you do, otherwise you wouldn't bother replying to anything that pertains to her.
Her supposedly being a has been still equates to much more than you will ever be anyway.
White people stop hatin' on your own kind. The whole Jackson clan belongs to you all. Michael is fully yalls. The Mexicans/Latinos have Janet…and the rest of them…nobody gives a fuck. Janet is a fake white ugly bitch..she can't sing, she can't act, and I wish losers would stop buying anything that she's a part of because yall really letting this dumb cunt believe she's got an iota of talent…wtf is that??????
Fact of the matter is, all you people are whining about the movie being #1 but even if it wasn't your precious little We Own The Night & George Clooneys film still would have gotten beaten.
Guess what, we have been force fed those types of movies consistently over the past year or 2; They are not a far cry from movies like The Departed, Breach,Fracture, any of the Bourne movies,etc,etc.
Surprise,surprise…………People actually like variety in the movies they see from time to time. In my opinion it isn't about race. It's about the fact that, for a change, there is a movie out that's not about war,politics,saving the world,or corruption and you all can't handle it because it forces you to expand your narrow minds beyond the same old crap.
More than half of you haven't even seen it, so to base your ignorance about it on some half assed excuses is beyond tired. Anybody that has been in a relationship would be pleased with Tyler's movie, no matter what their race is. Appearantly since you batch of loosers beat off and go to bed alone we'll just leave you to "Own the Night" and it still won't change the fact that your sorry ass movie didn't make it to #1.
Re: freaking pathetic. – We heard you George, no get out of here and STFU.
Tyler Perry movies are ENSEMBLE films. SHE did not score #1! The FILM is #1.
P.S. That bitch is looking LONG in the tooth! Ugh!
HAHA TAKE THAT WHITE PEOPLE!!!! DON'T H8TE!!
Congratulations, Janet, I was wrong. This really is the best Jackson family film since The Wiz. Who would have thought you'd beat out Resident Evil, and a bunch of other films most of which have been out for 4 months. And what a coincedence, $21.5 mil is exactly the amount it would take to make me see this film. Ok maybe I'd do it for an even 20. Janet really had us going with that "Janet is sexy" shit, for years, didn't she. Isn't it weird and ironic that the man who had a hand in ending that by revealing her nursing home-esque tit, Justin Timberlake, has built his career by emulating Janet's brother?
I'm sure NONE of the people on here hatin has seen the movie… its great and uplifting… a good look for Janet too!
I'm soo happy for Janet.. I love seeing her back on the big screen. can't wait for her new cd
TALENTLESS FUCKIN HASBEEN. DROP DEAD ALREADY WILL YOU.
Star magazine hinted at it this week and it is a Hollywood cover-up: JANET JACKSON IS GAY.
Tyler perry movies do not suck. You just cannot relate to them.so stop hating and be more optimistic!