Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry's latest e-mail message to fans explains his attraction to the film "Precious," which he is executive producing along with Oprah Winfrey.

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" won the top award at the Toronto International Film Festival Saturday, giving the Oprah Winfrey/Tyler Perry produced film a huge leg up for the forthcoming Oscar season.

Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry met with reporters at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend to promote their new project "Precious," which had a premiere screening at the annual event.

I Can Do Bad All by Myself is the sixth Tyler Perry play to be adapted to the big screen. Much like his previous productions, this faith-based message movie was crafted with an African-American audience in mind, between all the down-home humor and earnest moralizing around universal them...

Tyler Perry will adapt the 1975 play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf" for a feature film to be released by Lionsgate, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Perry will write, direct and produce. The film will be the first project for 34th Street Films, Perry's new production company, which is housed at Lionsgate.

TBS has announced that Tyler Perry will host a one-hour special on the network to promote his new film "I Can Do Bad All By Myself," which hits theaters on Sept. 11.

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Tyler Perry called Q100's The Bert Show in Atlanta Friday morning to discuss his thoughts on Michael Jackson's passing and to urge fans and the media to give the Jackson family "respect and room to grieve."

In a recent TV interview with Ed Gordon, Spike Lee blasted fellow director Tyler Perry, comparing his TV shows to Amos n' Andy and other demeaning programs from less-enlightened times.

 CA I am a huge basketball fan, and when I watch the games on TNT, I see these two ads for these two shows (Tyler Perry's "Meet the Browns" and "House of Payne") and I am scratching my head. … We got a black president and we going back to Mantan Moreland ...

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On this weekend's "Our World with Black Enterprise," director Spike Lee sits down with host Ed Gordon for a no holds barred interview rife with the artist's trademark frankness.

The woman accused of stalking filmmaker Tyler Perry was indicted on Wednesday by a Fulton County grand jury in Atlanta, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

What big real estate venture is next for filmmaker Tyler Perry after a sprawling villa estate and the historic Tyler Perry Studios? Apparently, his own island.

Tyler Perry has been pretty vocal about his bittersweet relationship with Madea, the pistol-toting grandma character he created and portrays on both the stage and the big screen to much financial success.

Now that Madea has left her rather large mark on the stage and big screen, the next step for creator Tyler Perry is to bring the gun-toting grandma to life in her own cartoon series.