Winter debut chills Perry

'Tyler Perrys Good Deeds' offered within the helmers second-least expensive opening-weekend domestic B.O. Tyler Perry's latest offering, "Good Deeds," fought within the late February debut weekend, a slot that's outdoors in the filmmaker's typical Easter time time weekend launchpad. The Lionsgate pic acquired $15.6 000 0000 in your area inside the Feb. 24-26 frame, the second-least expensive debut for your helmer and merely the fourth time among his films has opened up as much as under $20 million throughout its inaugural weekend. Perry's Madea photos are frequently his best: "Madea Visits Jail" bowed to north of $40 million last season, then 2006's "Madea's Family Reunion," getting a $Thirty Dollars million opening. Perry's dramas are often slated as fall releases, for instance 2010's "For Colored Women," which opened up as much as $19.5 million. Still, "Deeds" is definately not done. The pic, which toplines Perry, Thandie Newton and Gabrielle Union, saw the finest Friday-to-Saturday uptick connected having a Perry opening, up 25%. This can be a really important improvement due to the pic's solid "A" CinemaScore rating. Women rated the film finest in exit polls, that may also mean very good news, as femme auds frequently disassociate with opening weekend. Males gave the pic a b -- evaluation. Perry doesn't have extended to attend to prove themselves again. His next film, "The Marrige Counselor," launches Stateside about this summer time 27 via Lionsgate -- the director's first summer season opening. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com