Tyler Perry’s Madea beats Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher at the box office. As we edge closer to the end of October and the start of the holiday movie season, it looked like there might be a tight battle at the box office between Tyler Perry and Tom Cruise, who presented two very different movies. Tom Cruise’s return to Lee Child’s military hero with Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (Paramount Pictures) did almost twice as much in Thursday previews as Tyler Perry’s Boo!