Proving once again the power of appealing to Christian moviegoers, Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself finished at the top of the U.S. box office during its opening weekend.

Tyler Perry’s films are produced outside of Hollywood, without big-studio marketing, but his ability to appeal to African-Americans and Christians makes him a very successful filmmaker.

Despite this and countless other examples, however, Hollywood’s major studios continue to put out numerous politically and culturally charged films that offend the great majority of their audience and don’t draw appreciable numbers of moviegoers. As Perry and others show, politically biased Hollywood is throwing away huge amounts of money that’s just waiting for better-natured filmmakers to pick up.

USA Today provides further details on the weekend’s movie attendance here.

–S. T. Karnick