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Bruce Hall: Tyler Perry prints another $22 million. What else is new? At this point, I'm not even getting on him for the quality of his material; it's largely jealousy. Like him or not, he's a writer, director, producer and playwright who commands the loyalty of a very devoted cross section of fans. And that's the only reason his movies aren't straight to cable fare, because he fills a niche that Hollywood otherwise ignores. And, he has the ear of the Mighty Oprah. I'm sure it doesn't suck to be Tyler Perry. I guess you don't need to be creatively gifted so much as you have to fill a need for enough people that you can make a tidy profit. I guess that makes Perry the Roger Corman of adult contemporary cinema.

Brett Ballard-Beach: Edwin rightly pointed out his very consistent $20+ million opening weekends over the last half decade (that number is rivaled only by Spielberg and Zemeckis, believe it or not, in the entirety of their careers). I would also says that it is a success because it allowed him to step out into a genre that he hadn't yet tapped (the erotic thriller, though I guess it depends on your definition of both those words) but kept the sermonizing and morality. In that sense, it is outside of his wheelhouse and audiences followed him as an auteur, where they did not follow him as an actor into Alex Cross.

Felix Quinonez Jr.: No matter how I feel about the quality of his work, I gotta give it to the guy. He gets people to the theaters. I'm sure it won't have great legs but it's a performance that will more than justify more Tyler Perry movies.

Max Braden: Once again, a movie I had no idea was opening scores big. He's tremendously consistent.

Kim Hollis: I mean, what more is there to say about Tyler Perry that we haven’t already said in a half-dozen or more Monday Morning Quarterbacks? Lionsgate has to love him. He’s more consistent than anything else they’ve got going at this point. They know he’s going to keep delivering profitable films on small budgets. I sort of wish he used this power to do a little bit more with regards to creativity, but I’m just in awe of the amount of work he does.

Kim Hollis: The Host, an adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's non-Twilight novel, earned $10.6 million this weekend. What do you think of this result?

Brett Ballard-Beach: It's dreadful - but only if one were thinking this was going to be another Twilight-ish breakout hit. Stephenie Meyer's name didn't add much if anything to the proceedings. As it stands, this wasn't expensive to make. By comparison, it was cheaper than Beautiful Creatures ($40 million vs. $60 million) and will gross more, but may not make back its budget via the states alone. I was all poised to claim this "director Andrew Niccol's biggest opening ever, en route to his highest grossing film ever!" but as it stands In Time still holds the former and may end up holding on to the latter. For better or worse, the man can't pull out a smash, even with the keys to the money vault handed to him. Between this and Tyler Perry's Temptation, it sounds like it was a great weekend for future camp cult classics in the making.

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