{"id":17668,"date":"2012-10-25T15:38:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T19:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17668"},"modified":"2012-10-25T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T19:38:48","slug":"tyler-perrys-alex-cross-flops-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17668","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Perry\u2019s \u2018Alex Cross\u2019 Flops At The Box\u00a0Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tyler Perry\u2019s<\/strong> first foray into the mainstream action genre was a big disappointment at the box office last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Despite heavy promotion by <strong>Perry<\/strong> and Summit, the studio behind the film,<strong> Alex Cross<\/strong> opened in 5th place with just\u00a0 $11.8 million in its first weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the lowest-grossing debut of <strong>Perry\u2019s<\/strong> acting career.<\/p>\n<p>This number came in below both of <strong>Morgan Freeman\u2019s<\/strong> films as <strong>Alex Cross<\/strong>. <em>Kiss the Girls<\/em> (1997) opened with $13.2 million and <em>Along Came a Spider<\/em> (2001) made $16.7 in its debut. <strong>Tyler Perry\u2019s<\/strong> incarnation \u201cbrought out roughly half as many people on opening weekend as <em>Girls<\/em> did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to studio research, 60 percent of <strong>Alex Cross&#8217;<\/strong> audience was female, 68 percent was over 35 and 74 percent was African-American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Perry\u2019s first foray into the mainstream action genre was a big disappointment at the box office last weekend. Despite heavy promotion by Perry and Summit, the studio behind the film, Alex Cross opened in 5th place with just\u00a0 $11.8 million in its first weekend. This marks the lowest-grossing debut of Perry\u2019s acting career. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}