The new film from Tyler Perry is connecting strongly with viewers on Netflix. While the filmmaker has acted in movies he didn’t direct, such as Gone Girl and Alex Cross, Tyler Perry movies are very frequently also directed, written, and produced by him, including Why Did I Get Married? and The Family That Preys.

While he has made a number of prominent movies and television shows, his most well-known are probably the Madea movies, which follow the adventures of the тιтle character, the elderly Mabel “Madea” Earlene Simmons. The character originated in his stage play I Can Do Bad All by Myself, which was later adapted into a 2009 movie starring Taraji P. Henson.

After making waves on the stage, Madea made her film debut in 2005’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman, going on to appear in 12 other Tyler Perry movies, including Madea Goes to Jail, Madea’s Witness Protection, Boo! A Madea Halloween, and a new installment that debuted on Netflix in July.

Madea’s Destination Wedding Has Landed On A Major Streaming Chart

The New Installment Debuted On July 11

Madea’s Destination Wedding has made a splash during its Netflix debut. In addition to writing, producing, and directing the movie, Perry returns as Madea in a triple role that sees him also playing Joe and Brian Simmons. The movie follows Madea and her relatives traveling to an expensive family wedding in the Bahamas.

The Madea’s Destination Wedding cast also includes returning stars such as Cᴀssi Davis Patton, David Mann, Tamela Mann, Diamond White, and Taja V. Simpson, alongside newcomers Jermaine Harris (The Map of Tiny Perfect Things) and Xavier Smalls (Beauty in Black).

It earned a dismal 15% score on Rotten Tomatoes, aggregated from 13 reviews that see it tying with 2020’s A Fall from Grace as the fourth worst-reviewed movie directed by Tyler Perry.

Netflix has now calculated their global chart of the 10 most-watched English-language movies for the week of July 7 through July 13, during which Madea’s Destination Wedding debuted, on July 11. The movie premiered at No. 2 on the chart with 19.1 million distinct views accumulating a total of 33.1 million viewing hours.

Overall, it was in the Top 10 in 69 individual countries and No. 1 in 10, including the United States, Kenya, South Africa, Jamaica, and the Bahamas. Globally, it only fell behind the animated hit KPop Demon Hunters, which had 24.2 million views and 40.4 million viewing hours in its fourth week.

What This Means For Madea’s Destination Wedding

Its No. 2 Status Doesn’t Mean It Has Fallen Behind

It’s not entirely unprecedented for a Tyler Perry movie to debut at No. 2 on the Netflix global chart, as it has happened once before. Additionally, only two of six of his Netflix movies (2024’s Mea Culpa and 2025’s Straw) have debuted at No. 1 since the chart was first published in 2021.

Below, see a breakdown of how Tyler Perry’s Netflix movies since 2021 have performed on the global chart during their respective debut weeks:

While Madea’s Destination Wedding could not outstrip KPop Demon Hunters, even during that movie’s fourth week on the chart, the new Tyler Perry movie nevertheless had more viewers than every one of his Netflix movies in the past two years, except for the buzzy Taraji P. Henson drama Straw, which debuted just over a month before.

Source: Netflix & Rotten Tomatoes