LOS ANGELES – Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls” opened at No. 1 on the latest national DVD sales chart, beating a pair of other new releases that did better at the box office.

“Girls” ($38 million box office), which documents the struggles endured by women of color as expressed in a series of 20 poems, overshadowed “Life As We Know It” ($53 million) at No. 2 and “Paranormal Activity 2” ($85 million) at No. 3.