Tyler Perry

By STV 6:55: Oprah Winfrey presents Best Original Screenplay to Tyler Perry for the dual achievement of Meet the Browns and The Family That Preys. Perry waits a few minutes for the standing ovation to abate, thanks the Academy, thanks God, peers over at Harvey Weinstein and makes a throat-cutti...

By Seth · Lionsgate was interested, especially since their Chief Drag Officer and one-man money-making -machine Tyler Perry loved Push. · February 4 — TWC files complaints in New York Supreme Court against Cinetic, Lionsgate and Smokewood.

By Kyle Buchanan s seen this movie, so let's give you our own perspective: yes, the film is harrowing, but it's also sometimes explosively funny, and it's adept at building and releasing tension at the right times. Also, with the weight of Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey, and The View (Sherri Shepherd has a smal...

By Seth In the meantime, he focuses on work. Perry's next offering is the tantalizingly titled Madea Goes to Jail—conjuring images of Mabel "Madea" Simmons in lockdown for illegal weapons possession, where she soon finds a toothbrush-shiv pressed to her larynx at the cafeteria pay phone by the...

By STV Dakota Fanning was one of five Secret Life of Bees performers to score an Image Awards nod, joining fellow Best Actress contender Latifah, Supporting Actress candidates Sophie Okonedo and Jennifer Hudson, and Supporting Actor nominee Nate Parker. Their film also made the running for B...

By STV · The View usurped The Hills as our favorite source of shrill, soul-debasing thrills. · We got to know — like really got to know — the Jonas Brothers, Courtenay Semel, Dustin Lance Black and Tyler Perry. In 2009, we resolve to finally meet our beloved Archie.

By STV · "You got no fuckin' idea what it's like to be number one. Every decision you make affects every facet of every other fucking thing." Who (allegedly) said it: Tony Soprano or disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich? · A court found that Tyler Perry is singly, solely responsible for the Madea...

By STV In keeping with this site's insatiable need to know, our ongoing questions about Tyler Perry — that Emperor of All Black Media who's most handsomely paid to wear a dress — got the best of us today as his new film The Family That Preys opens in theaters. Far more than our previous subjects of Def...

By STV Alas, it's 20 years too late for some moviegoers, whose Coen aversion will keep Burn and its high-octane ensemble around $16 million for the weekend. That might be enough to surpass the De Niro/Pacino miscarriage Righteous Kill for second place overall, but we don't think anybody will ov...

By STV We admit not devoting much thought to the sensation that is Tyler Perry's Madea franchise (Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea's Family Reunion, and this week's Meet the Browns among others) beyond the actor-writer-director's garish drag stylings and Lionsgate's savvy in attracting on...

trickery. Not only by her but also the things that were said about this movie in print were so awful. Several Hollywood trades didn't even mention that MARRIED was a contender for number one. They thought that the number one would be George Clooney's movie or Mark Walbrurg's movie. Tyler Perry

By Mark Reacting to the third number one opening posted by the producer/actor/director/playwright/media mogul behind Why Did I Get Married?, Lionsgate president Tom Ortenberg somewhat ominously warned all of Hollywood, "My strong hunch is that this is the last time anybody will underesti...