Tyler Perry's Madea character beat Tom Cruise last weekend, and then beat Tom Hanks this weekend, to be the number one again at the box office in North America.

Lionsgate's "Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween" was on track to sell 16.7 million U.S. dollars in tickets in the United States and Canada from Friday evening to Sunday.

That was good enough to gross 52 million dollars in sales over 10 days, according to studio estimates gathered by comScore.

The latest Robert Langdon thriller starring Tom Hanks "Inferno" opened in second place with 15 million dollars at 3,576 locations. Based on Dan Brown's bestseller, the sequel to "The DaVinci Code" opened far below its predecessor, which opened 10 years ago with a whopping 77 million dollars debut.

Acting as a renowned Harvard professor of symbology in "Inferno," this Tom Hanks' film cost 75 million dollars in its budget, which was half that of "The Da Vinci Code" or "Angels and Demons," its two sequel predecessors.

Internationally, "Inferno" has a good result. In two weeks of overseas release, it has earned nearly 132.7 million dollars.

The Tom Cruise thriller "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" was in third place, at 9.6 million dollars this weekend and 39.7 million dollars over 10 days of release.

Rounding out the 10 most-popular movies this weekend were "The Accountant" (8.5 million dollars), "Ouija: Origin Of Evil" (7 million), "The Girl On The Train" (4.3 million), "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" (4 million), "Keeping Up With The Joneses" (3.4 million), "Storks" (2.9 million) and "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" (2.1 million).

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