Source: Erik Voake/Getty Images for Adidas/Larry Busacca/PW18/Getty Images for / Getty Kylie Jenner Ties Jay-Z In Net Worth Who ever thought we’d see the day that Jay-Z had more in common with Kylie Jenner than he does with any other hip-hop artist? Forbes released their annual roundup of the top-earning celebs of the year and the results were a miniature shock, to say the least. The Hip Hop G.O.AT and the lip kit mogul babymama . This year’s list toppers are tied for the #5 spot on the list at a whopping $900 Million net worth . Damn, y’all must really love some lipstick out here. Anywho, as surprising as that figure is, these two are far from this year’s list toppers if you can believe it. Check out the rest of the list (there are ten names, but with two ties there’s technically only 8 slots this year): 1. George Lucas- $5.4 billion 2. Steven Spielberg – $3.7 billion 3. Oprah Winfrey – $2.8 billion 4. Michael Jordan – $1.7 billion 5. (tie) Kylie Jenner – $900 million / Jay-Z – $900 million 6. David Copperfield – $875 million 7. Diddy – $825 million 8. (tie) Tiger Woods – $800 million / James Patterson – $800 million What do you think of the list in full? Erik Voake/Getty Images for Adidas/Larry Busacca/PW18/Getty Images for / Getty
A decent weekend overall, Paranormal Activity 4 lead the pack though its debut came in rather slow compared to previous installments. Argo held strong in its second weekend, showing word-of-mouth is cementing its box office prowess, while Hotel Transylvania , Taken 2 and Alex Cross rounded out the top five at the weekend box office. 1. Paranormal Activity 4 Gross: $30.2 million Screens: 3,412 (PSA: $8,851) Week: 1 The latest installment of Paranormal Activity lead a robust box office weekend. Still, it debuted comparatively lower to last year’s Paranormal Activity 3 , which opened with over $52.5 million in 3,321 theaters and a $15,829 average. Paranormal Activity 2 bowed with just under $40.7 million its opening weekend in October of 2010, averaging $12,649. 2. Argo Gross: $16,625,000 (Cume: $43,191,489) Screens: 3,247 (PSA: $5,120) Week: 2 (Change: – 14.6%) Debuting second to Taken 2 last week, Ben Affleck’s Oscar-buzzed political thriller held strong adding just 15 more theaters in its second run, holding solidly in the number two position again. Word-of-mouth is clearly propelling the title as it continues its run. 3. Hotel Transylvania Gross: $13.5 million (Cume: $119 million) Screens: 3,384 (PSA: $3,989)a Week: 4 (Change: – 21.7%) One month into release, the animated title is holding strong. It placed fourth in its third weekend and managed to up one spot in its fourth weekend out. The title added nine theaters in its fourth run. Last weekend the title grossed $17.3 million. 4. Taken 2 Gross: $13.4 million (Cume: $105,971,000) Screens: 3,489 (PSA: $3,841) Week: 3 (Change: – 38%) The number one film when it debuted, it tumbled over 55% in its second weekend, but managed to stem the fall a bit in the current round. The pic lost 217 theaters compared to the previous weekend and dropped from 1st to 4th place. 5. Alex Cross Gross: $11.75 million Screens: 2,539 (PSA: $4,628) Week: 1 Word had given the title based on crime novel I Alex Cross by James Patterson reaching the $20 million mark in its debut. Its the lowest debut for a movie starring Tyler Perry and it compares to a $13.2 million debut for Alex Cross title Kiss the Girls at $13.2 million and $16.7 million for Along Came a Spider . 6. Sinister Gross: $9.03 million (Cume: $31,950,168) Screens: 2,542 (PSA: $3,552) Week: 2 (Change: – 49.9%) The title had a hefty nearly 50% fall from its initial run, but it should be noted that it also faced a new challenger in the form of Paranormal Activity 4 . 7. Here Comes The Boom Gross: $8.5 million (Cume: $23,224,328) Screens: 3,014 (PSA: $2,820) Week: 2 (Change: – 28.1%) The title placed seventh after debuting in fifth place and held at the same number of theaters. Its 28% drop shows some momentum. It averaged $3,981 in its bow. 8. Pitch Perfect Gross: $7,009,100 (Cume: $45,769,448) Screens: 2,660 (PSA: $2,635) Week: 4 (Change: – 24.4%) The title dropped two places from its third weekend sixth position, but its b.o. change of just under 25% was much less steep than its 37.6 per cent drop from its third weekend. The title lost 127 theaters from the previous week. 9. Frankenweenie Gross: $4,434,000 (Cume: $28,343,000) Screens: 2,362 (PSA: $1,877) Week: 3 (Change: – 37%) Tim Burton’s latest stop motion animation had only a slightly lower drop in its third weekend than last week. It lost 643 locations, after holding in 3,005 theaters in its first two weeks. Last weekend it averaged $2,348 and debuted with a rather weak $3,798. 10. Looper Gross: $4.2 million (Cume: $57,840,132) Screens: 2,223 (PSA: $1,889) Week: 4 (Change: – 32.3%) The drop in receipts was less than the previous weekend’s nearly 50% drop and the film’s second run drop of nearly 42%. Looper lost 382 theaters in its fourth weekend. [ Sources: Box Office Mojo , Rentrak ]
With Tyler Perry gradually segueing toward non-drag leading man status with Good Deeds and the upcoming James Patterson thriller Alex Cross , his latest appearance as the sassy, wisdom-dispensing matriarch of the title in Madea’s Witness Protection has an aura of fatigued reluctance to it, as does the film itself. Perry mentioned to Movieline that while he planned to keep with the character as long as there was demand from audiences, he “would be pretty good with passing it on,” and certainly in her franchise’s seventh installment Mabel Simmons, better known as Madea, seems ready to do the same, unable to summon the usual levels of outrageousness as she once again plays magical mender of other people’s problems. In this case, those people are the Needleman family, who are forced to leave New York after George Needleman (Eugene Levy) gets set up as the fall guy after discovering his company has been operating on a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme that’s resulted in the ripping off of multiple charities. The mafia is also somehow involved, and the case for whatever reason has to be tried in Atlanta — all contortions needed to land five wealthy white people in the house Madea shares with her brother Joe (Perry) after her nephew Brian (also Perry), who’s prosecuting the case, offers her $4,000 a month to keep them as part of a temporary witness protection arrangement. By the time the film arrives at this setup — which it does laboriously, forcing Levy to struggle to carry the action for a good while by sputtering and acting flustered — you know exactly the type of humor that’s in store. The film dutifully works the cultural/class differences between the Simmonses and the Needlemans, with Madea referring to the morning routine of wife Kate (Denise Richards) as “yoda” instead of yoga and Kate bemusedly looking over the butter-heavy Southern breakfast Madea prepares and observing, “It’s a lot of carbs.” George’s senile mother Barbara (Doris Roberts) turns out to have had a past with Joe, a storyline that largely exists to allow Joe to explore the oblivious George’s possible biracial heritage by asking him if he can swim, if he likes soul music and whether he prefers a “butt” or a “booty.” But most of the scenarios Madea’s Witness Protection sets up don’t actually come to much of a punchline. Brian talks about how Madea’s “packing,” which makes her a good choice to protect the Needlemans, but there’s no armed stand-off between her and mafia goons or anyone else. Madea rips into Brian for how impossible it’ll be for her to hide white people in her all-black neighborhood, but we hardly see them step outside, much less struggle to fit in. And after setting up teenage daughter Cindy (Danielle Campbell) as a massively sulky, entitled brat, the film preps us for a rewarding Madea smackdown that, when it comes, is practically mild. I, frankly, was hoping for at least some hair-pulling. Scenes run loose and long in the film, up to and including the should-be climax in which Madea gets on a plane for the first time and travels to New York with George and neighborhood boy Jake (Romeo Miller), who invested his father’s church’s mortgage money with George’s company. The trip turns out to have only been included to allow us to see Madea navigate airport security and nervously order a lot of drinks on the flight — neither of which is a memorable spectacle — allowing the film to end on such an anticlimactic note the cast comes across as in a hurry to move on to future gigs. As is, apparently, Perry, whose entertainment empire continues to impress in its scale, but who also seems ready to hang up the giant dress and grey wig and move on to something — anything — new. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Tyler Perry and Matthew Fox feel the pain in the first trailer for the James Patterson adaptation. By Josh Wigler Tyler Perry in “Alex Cross” Photo: Don’t cross Alex Cross. Do cross the “Alex Cross” trailer. Tyler Perry makes his debut as James Patterson’s iconic detective and forensic psychologist in the first official trailer for “Alex Cross,” which premiered exclusively on Amazon Tuesday (June 26). Previously played by Morgan Freeman in “Kiss the Girls” and “Along Came a Spider,” Cross gets a younger makeover in the Perry-starring flick, as well as an impossibly ripped homicidal-maniac nemesis in the form of “Lost” veteran Matthew Fox. The trailer is all kinds of bonkers, with Fox shouting out sadistic one-liners and threatening women like it’s his job (in this case, it actually is) and Perry doing everything he can to hold it together while going up against one of the most ruthless psychopaths this side of Madea. Keep reading for five key scenes from the trailer! Tyler Perry’s Alex Cross If there’s one word to describe Perry’s take on the sharp-minded detective, it’s “smooth.” The trailer introduces us to a cool and composed Alex sipping drinks with his wife; she needs some convincing to leave Detroit and join Cross on his next assignment. His proposed method of getting her to come with him? “The National Guard and a drink.” You had me at “the”! He Had to Go Back Fox wholeheartedly embraces his inner Heath-Joker in the “Alex Cross” trailer, playing Michael “The Butcher” Sullivan, a killer who is “fascinated by pain.” Cross determines that Sullivan is “ex-military, special forces, judging by his tactics.” He’s also an Ultimate Fighting Champion, if you can believe it, and has a thing for Doctor Cross’ very pretty wife. It’s an unusual new shade for the actor most commonly associated with good guys Jack Shephard and Charlie Salinger, but it’ll be a fascinating transformation — or train wreck — to behold. Feel the Burns Just don’t get too distracted by Fox’s villainy. Also starring in “Alex Cross” is “Saving Private Ryan” and “Entourage” actor Edward Burns as Cross’ partner, Tommy Kane. It’s weird seeing Burns in a third-tier role at best; as a writer and director by trade, he tends to be somewhat choosy with his acting roles. (Ignore that “27 Dresses” credit.) So I’m calling it now: Burns is the real bad guy pulling Fox’s strings. Then again, I incorrectly called Jeremy Renner as the secret “Mission: Impossible” villain and Jared Harris as a red herring for the real Moriarty in the last “Sherlock Holmes” movie, so take my predictions with a half-cup serving of salt. Matthew Fox and the Chocolate Factory Watch at around the two-minute mark as Fox gets his high-tech Augustus Gloop on. If you need further reasons to see “Alex Cross” when it hits theaters this October, I don’t know what to tell you. To Hell and Back Again “He won’t stop. I’ve seen his face. I’ve heard his voice,” Perry’s Cross warns his wife of Fox’s killer. “I will meet his soul at the gates of Hell before I let him take a person that I love!” If there’s a better alternate ending to “Lost” or the “Madea” films than Tyler Perry and Matthew Fox battling to the death for Satan’s amusement, I haven’t heard of it. The trailer’s action-packed finale is, in a word, surreal, every bit as oddly enjoyable as the promise of Perry versus Fox sounds on paper. This demonic battle of the ages cannot come soon enough. Tell us what you think of the “Alex Cross” trailer in the comments below! Check out everything we’ve got on “Alex Cross.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Photos Key Moments From The ‘Alex Cross’ Trailer
Tyler Perry and Matthew Fox feel the pain in the first trailer for the James Patterson adaptation. By Josh Wigler Tyler Perry in “Alex Cross” Photo: Don’t cross Alex Cross. Do cross the “Alex Cross” trailer. Tyler Perry makes his debut as James Patterson’s iconic detective and forensic psychologist in the first official trailer for “Alex Cross,” which premiered exclusively on Amazon Tuesday (June 26). Previously played by Morgan Freeman in “Kiss the Girls” and “Along Came a Spider,” Cross gets a younger makeover in the Perry-starring flick, as well as an impossibly ripped homicidal-maniac nemesis in the form of “Lost” veteran Matthew Fox. The trailer is all kinds of bonkers, with Fox shouting out sadistic one-liners and threatening women like it’s his job (in this case, it actually is) and Perry doing everything he can to hold it together while going up against one of the most ruthless psychopaths this side of Madea. Keep reading for five key scenes from the trailer! Tyler Perry’s Alex Cross If there’s one word to describe Perry’s take on the sharp-minded detective, it’s “smooth.” The trailer introduces us to a cool and composed Alex sipping drinks with his wife; she needs some convincing to leave Detroit and join Cross on his next assignment. His proposed method of getting her to come with him? “The National Guard and a drink.” You had me at “the”! He Had to Go Back Fox wholeheartedly embraces his inner Heath-Joker in the “Alex Cross” trailer, playing Michael “The Butcher” Sullivan, a killer who is “fascinated by pain.” Cross determines that Sullivan is “ex-military, special forces, judging by his tactics.” He’s also an Ultimate Fighting Champion, if you can believe it, and has a thing for Doctor Cross’ very pretty wife. It’s an unusual new shade for the actor most commonly associated with good guys Jack Shephard and Charlie Salinger, but it’ll be a fascinating transformation — or train wreck — to behold. Feel the Burns Just don’t get too distracted by Fox’s villainy. Also starring in “Alex Cross” is “Saving Private Ryan” and “Entourage” actor Edward Burns as Cross’ partner, Tommy Kane. It’s weird seeing Burns in a third-tier role at best; as a writer and director by trade, he tends to be somewhat choosy with his acting roles. (Ignore that “27 Dresses” credit.) So I’m calling it now: Burns is the real bad guy pulling Fox’s strings. Then again, I incorrectly called Jeremy Renner as the secret “Mission: Impossible” villain and Jared Harris as a red herring for the real Moriarty in the last “Sherlock Holmes” movie, so take my predictions with a half-cup serving of salt. Matthew Fox and the Chocolate Factory Watch at around the two-minute mark as Fox gets his high-tech Augustus Gloop on. If you need further reasons to see “Alex Cross” when it hits theaters this October, I don’t know what to tell you. To Hell and Back Again “He won’t stop. I’ve seen his face. I’ve heard his voice,” Perry’s Cross warns his wife of Fox’s killer. “I will meet his soul at the gates of Hell before I let him take a person that I love!” If there’s a better alternate ending to “Lost” or the “Madea” films than Tyler Perry and Matthew Fox battling to the death for Satan’s amusement, I haven’t heard of it. The trailer’s action-packed finale is, in a word, surreal, every bit as oddly enjoyable as the promise of Perry versus Fox sounds on paper. This demonic battle of the ages cannot come soon enough. Tell us what you think of the “Alex Cross” trailer in the comments below! Check out everything we’ve got on “Alex Cross.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Photos Key Moments From The ‘Alex Cross’ Trailer
