Friday, September 4, 2009 12:42 AM | From Latino Review
Tyler Perry and Lionsgate have to be laughing all the way to some bank I don't know about. When Diary Of A Mad Black Woman, made for $5.5 million dollars, grossed $50 million domestically, Lionsgate probably had champagne.That was the beginning of a beautiful relationship between Perry and the indie studio. Madea's Family Reunion grossed $65 million, Why Did I Get Married? pulled in $55, Meet The Browns dipped to $41.9 and The Family That Preys looked to be on the downside of the mountain with $37 million. But, earlier this year, Perry send Madea to Jail and raked in $90 million.Perry is a movie-making machine with another film coming out on September 11th, I Can Do Bad All By Myself and his 9th movie with Lionsgate, Why Did I Get Married Too sliding in on April 2nd, 2010.With that 2-film a year pattern, it's about time we heard what the other Tyler Perry/Lionsgate money-msker is going to be for the second half of 2010 and...it's not by Tyler Perry.Perry has signed on to write, direct and produce and adaptation of Ntozake Shange's award-winning 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. All I know about that play is that it's actually a poem, so I went where all semi-interested-but-strapped-for-time parties go for information: Wikipedia.Structurally, For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, referred collectively as a "choreopoem", performed through a cast of nameless women, each known only by a color: "Lady in Yellow", "Lady in Purple", etc.. The poems deal with love, abandonment, rape, and abortion. The performances of the seven actresses are focused on their specific stories; i.e., Lady in Blue's visceral account of a woman who chooses to have an abortion; and Lady in Red's tale of domestic violence.That don't sound to narrative, so I'm guessing Tyler Perry's script will be re-titled: "Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf?"Could it be a longer title?Source: Lionsgate
Taraji Is A Blooming Flower In New Tyler Perry Poster
Friday, June 12, 2009 12:35 PM | From Cinema Blend
Before she was an Oscar nominee and acting under the direction of David Fincher, Taraji P. Henson was in a Tyler Perry movie-- his most recent one, actually, The Family That Preys. And apparently Henson likes sticking with what she knows; she'll star in Perry's new film I Can Do Bad All By Myself, and is the central figure of the movie's new poster, which has debuted at MSN.
Though I Can Do Bad features Perry's signature grandma character Madea, ...
Mary J. Blige Sings For Tyler Perry
Friday, March 20, 2009 9:00 AM | From Cinema Blend
Given his skill at making hugely successful blockbusters and movies that millions of moviegoers love, it makes sense that Tyler Perry has been able to snag some increasingly high-profile talent for his movie. He's already bringing back Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson, who starred in The Family That Preys, and now singer Mary J. Blige is joining the cast of I Can Do Bad All By Myself.
The movie will be an adaptation of one of Perry's early stage plays. ...
The Dark Knight is Still #1 Blu-ray Release
Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:28 AM | From Worst Previews
Tyler Perry's "The Family That Preys" helped the franchise regain some of its momentum as the DVD release of the film shot to the top of the national home video sales chart its first week in stores.
Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 1/13
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:14 AM | From Cinematical
Appaloosa Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen are unlikely cowboys, Jeremy Irons is an even more unlikely villain, and Renée Zellweger is the least likely "proper widow" the Old West has ever seen. Appaloosa is a fitfully entertaining, post, post-modern Western; Eric D. described it well as "a buddy movie, a rough-and-tumble, no-girls-allowed, steak-and-potatoes romp that happens to be set in the Old West." The DVD includes an audio commentary by Harris (director/co-writer) and Robert Knott (co-writer/producer), four behind the scenes mini-features, and deleted scenes. Also on Blu-ray. Rent it.
Swing Vote Like Appaloosa, Swing Vote was pretty much ignored during its theatrical run, but deserves to find its audience on home video. Kevin Costner is in his everyman, blue collar mode here, which means the film is immensely likable and funny. He plays a small town loser, with a way too precocious daughter, who must cast the deciding vote in a presidential election. Of course it's contrived and silly and obvious and non-partisan, but I loved the election videos made by the suddenly too-eager-to-please candidates (Dennis Hopper and Kelsey Grammer). The DVD includes an audio commentary with Joshua Michael Stern (director/co-writer) and Jason Richman (co-writer), a "making of" mini-feature, deleted scenes, an extended scene, and a music video. Also on Blu-ray. Rent it.
Tokyo Gore Police For extreme horror fans only: everything your splatter-loving heart could desire. Buy it.
Friday, January 9, 2009 12:14 PM | From Cinematical
Among his other achievements, Tyler Perry can be credited for helping create room at the multiplex for Christian-themed, African-American-targeted melodramas. Just as Judd Apatow has made the R-rated comedy fashionable (and profitable) again, Perry has reminded distributors that there's a market for tame, moderately enjoyable message films.
Not Easily Broken is the latest movie to benefit from Perry's track record. Granted, its director, Bill Duke (also a recognizable actor), has been at this since before anyone knew who Perry was -- but I doubt Not Easily Broken would be opening on 800 screens if it weren't for the success of tonally similar films like Meet the Browns and The Family That Preys. The chief difference between Duke and Perry seems to be that while Perry's films idolize women and make most of the men out to be villains, Not Easily Broken looks at the current state of black American malehood and gently urges men to be better.
The title comes from a minister's assertion, in the wedding scene that opens the film, that while a regular marriage can be disrupted by worldly influences, a marriage that includes God as a third partner (not like THAT, you sickos) can withstand almost anything. That's eventually the main point of the movie, too, though it's supplemented by other good points that are less religious in nature.
Rant: Jesus Ruined Rock And Roll, And Now He Wants My Movies Too
Monday, October 6, 2008 4:20 AM | From Cinema Blend
First he ruined rock and roll, now he's out to ruin movies too. His names is Jesus Christ and after a successful career as a carpenter he's now out to change the world by taking over Hollywood. Don't worry, it'll never work.
Religiously themed movies have been bigger than ever recently, with micro-budgeted films like Tyler Perry's The Family that Preys and Kirk Cameron's Fireproof making significant box office inroads. Anti-religion films are doing pretty well too. Bill Maher's documentary ...
