*For some reason the Hollywood experts didn’t see it coming.
They thought either “The Hunger Games” would keep steamrolling the competition or “The Lucky Ones” would be the “lucky one” and end up as the new number one.
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Well, neither scenario happened because out the box “Think Like A Man” became the new leader of the pack and everyone else was eating its dust all weekend long.
According to the Hollywood Reporter: the ensemble comedy “scored one of the best openings in recent memory for an African-American themed film” in debuting at $33 million.
“Think Like a Man” — adapted from Steve Harvey’s best-selling advice book “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” — gets bragging rights to being the film to topple Liongate’s blockbuster The Hunger Games, which has now grossed $357 million domestically.
The film, whose cast includes Michael Ealy, Taraji P. Henson, Meagan Good, Regina Hall and Kevin Hart, is about four men whose love lives are disrupted when their partners begin using advice from Harvey’s book and received an A CinemaScore.
Think Like a Man, made for a modest $12 million to $13 million, follows the success of Screen Gems’ The Vow and Underworld Awakening earlier this year.
In terms of African-American themed films, Think Like a Man exceeded many of Tyler Perry’s recent films. Perry’s Good Deeds debuted to $15.6 million earlier this year, while last year’s Madea’s Big Happy Family opened to $25.1 million last year.
Read/learn more at The Hollywood Reporter.
Wait. You are happy you beat out a movie that has been out for three weeks?
I think the point they were trying to make is that a black movie opened with $33 M, despite Hollywood’s proclivity for labeling these projects as risky.
It just happens that a movie that’s been out for three weeks came in second. Really irrelevant to what Think Like a Man has accomplished.
How about the other movies in which this was also their opening week? What’s their excuse for not even beating the three weeks old Hunger Games?
Exactly he Hunger Games has been out for 3 weeks LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad for the success of the underdog.
Haaaaayil yeah!! Do dat shyt! With that other movie’s favored extra screenings/promotion?, it is STILL a MAJOR accomplishment to beat that movie, At ANYtime!!! The deck is ALWAYS stacked “against Black films so again….braaaaaavoooooo!!! Now let’s see if it gets the same “acknowledgement” that and ALL the “mainframe” (wink!) movies get…… NOT! But still?, “they got that money, daaaaaawg! (said like Tommy ‘on Martin!)
Sorry….(iPhone!) that should be ….”that ALL the “mainstream” (wink!) movies get! Etc…..
The Hunger Games has spent 5 weeks at number 1. It currently sits at number 19 for top grossing movies ever. The movie experts predicted that Think would gross 17 million and were shocked at 33 Million. Let the Hater’s hate the success of the underdog.
My daughter said the movie was very, very good and she really enjoyed it!!!
I am just glad another Africa American film did well and offered black thespians acting on the big screen and informing the Hollyweird bigwigs that Tyler Perry isn’t the only African American filmmaker that can tell the “black experience”, others can – only if it’s DONE correctly!!!
I think the “blind” can’t “see” that ALL “White”/mainstream” films are given a HELLA advantage over Bkack films….period!! They are awarded more screens therefore more screenings, which automatically reflect more revenue FOR those films! PLUS!??, they also STEAL FROM Black films by our Black azzes buying/asking for a ticket for the Black film?, & many times they’ll “give you” a ticket for the…”White”!! ANOTHER thang “the blind” evidently ….”canin’t see”. So ……again, ANYtime a Black film beats a White?, the shyt is a …”good day”! And besides!??, Black films beat White films when they BOTH are released..THE SAME WEEK, too! When you see a Black film ANYwhere neeeear the “top five” & you add the factors I’ve just mentioned…fewer screens/fewer screenings/LESS promotion! Justa a lil sumptin ELSE for…..”the bliiiiiiiiiind”. Wah wah wah waaaaaaah!