Friday Box Office: ‘A Madea Family Funeral’ Comes to Life with $9.2 Million

Because movies are both strange and wonderful, this weekend’s box office is an incredibly tight race between the eleventh Madea film from Tyler Perry and an animated children’s starring a main character voiced by Jay Baruchel that’s only gotten increasingly and uncomfortably hotter over the years.

Lionsgate’s Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral snagged $9.2 million in its first Friday night, headed toward an above-expectations $25-26 million opening weekend.

This would put Family Funeral toward the upper half of the Madea openings—it wouldn’t touch Madea Goes to Jail‘s $41 …The post Friday Box Office: ‘A Madea Family Funeral’ Comes to Life with $9.2 Million appeared first on Collider.

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