'Madea' Tops Box Office

Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion, a comic drama in which writer-director Perry stars in three roles, debuted No. 1 this weekend.

Other releases didn't have quite the same luck as Lionsgate Films' second gold mine, Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman being it's first. The Weinstein Co. animated tale Doogal, a fairy-tale with a voice cast including Whoopi Goldberg, Kylie Minogue and Jimmy Fallon, debuted at No. 8, while New Line's crime thriller Running Scared, starring Paul Walker as a mobster scrambling to recover a gun used in a cop murder, came in at No. 9.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters:1. Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion, $30.25 million.2. Eight Below, $15.7 million.3. The Pink Panther, $11.3 million.4. Date Movie, $9.2 million.5. Curious George, $7 million.6. Firewall, $6.3 million.7. Final Destination 3, $5.35 million.8. Doogal, $3.6 million.9. Running Scared, $3.1 million.10. Freedomland, $2.9 million.