Despite the fact that the Jonas Brothers film, featuring the band on stage and off, took in $12.7 million, the second-biggest opening for a concert film behind 2008's "Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert," it did not top this weekend’s box office as it was beaten to the bush by “Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail,” which won its second weekend in a row with $16.5 million. Madea's total now stands at $64.9 million.

Feisty, the action granny Madea remained unstoppable at the box office. The two previous films centering on Perry's foul-mouthed character, 2005's "Diary of Mad Black Woman" and 2006's "Madea's Family Reunion," also debuted at Number 1, and they grossed more than $150 million total.

However Disney executives acknowledge that Jonas did not meet most expectations, but noted that the film still had the second-highest debut on record for a concert film, behind the Hannah Montana movie. The film is currently playing at 1,200-plus 3D equipped IMAX theaters.

"It really isn't fair to give this movie the same expectations as Hannah Montana," says Chuck Viane, Disney's head of distribution. "She was just coming off a concert tour and had a Disney show for three years running. The Jonas Brothers are still up and coming."

The film opened Friday, capping some heady weeks for the Grammy-nominated brothers. They actually performed at the White House for presidential daughters Malia and Sasha Obama last month.

Fox Searchlight's "Slumdog Millionaire" also made headlines, scoring the best Oscar bounce in more than a decade and coming in Number 3 for the weekend. Film grossed an estimated $12.2 million from 2,943 runs for a cume of $115.1 million. The three-day haul represented a 45 percent increase over last weekend's sales, thanks in part to a boost in the theater count by almost a third. British director Danny Boyle's film has its $115.1 million after 16 weekends.

The Liam Neeson thriller “Taken” was fourth with $10 million, bringing its total to $107.9 million. “He's Just Not That Into You” was fifth with $5.9 million, lifting its overall gross to $78.5 million.

All in all, the week's other new wide release, the video game adaptation "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" distributed by 20th Century Fox, opened at No. 8 with $4.6 million. But the studio said it was distributing the film for a fee on behalf of closely held producer Hyde Park, and was happy with the debut.

Overall ticket sales rose for the fourth consecutive weekend, and for the ninth time in 10 weekends. The populist offerings are providing recession-weary moviegoers with some modestly priced escapism, studio executives said.