Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry has taken to his official Web site to offer raw details of being beaten, abused and molested as a child.
"I'm tired of holding this in. I don't know what to do with it anymore, so, I've decided to give some of it away," the actor/director/writer said.
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Perry, who has discussed his rough childhood in the past, said that turning 40 and working on the film Precious (about an abused teenage girl) prompted him to go into further detail.
"[The movie] hit me so hard, I sat there in tears realizing that ...
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I Can Do Bad All By Myself
Tyler Perry's latest movie, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, grossed $24 million to take the top spot at the weekend box office, according to Hollywood.com.
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Of the eight films Perry has made in the past five years, five have debuted at No. 1. I Can Do Bad is Perry's third largest opening after ...
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Tyler Perry
Networks' spring presentations to advertisers are scripted affairs. At TNT and TBS' announcements last week, known as "upfronts," stars major and minor walked onstage in a hall filled with advertising executives to deliver carefully worded talks about their shows. Almost all read from prompters.
Until Tyler Perry took the stage.
The playwright, filmmaker and actor spoke with no notes about his two series on TBS: House of Payne and Meet the Browns.
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Halle Berry, Tyler Perry
Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry and director/writer/actor Tyler Perry have been selected to host the 40th NAACP Image Awards in February.
Berry, who won an Academy Award for her role in Monster's Ball, and Perry, whose credits include Diary of a Mad Black Woman and TBS' House of Payne, are both former Image Award winners.
The ceremony ...
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Tyler Perry began as a humble playwright, but thanks to his insane work ethic, seemingly never-ending creative inspiration and knowing people in the right places (Oprah!), he's catapulted himself to mega-producer in both film and television. Erin Fox sat down with Perry to discuss his writing process, his new movie The Family That Preys and why he wanted to tackle television with The House of Payne. He definitely left us wondering, does he ever sleep?
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Tyler Perry by Eric Charbonneau/WireImage.com
Tyler Perry is striking while the iron's hot. The actor is adding to his successful House of Payne track record with a spin-off based on the characters of his popular play and hit movie Meet the Browns.David Mann, who starred as Leroy Brown in Perry's hit film and appeared in several episodes of House of Payne, will star in the series that picks up after Brown inherits a rundown house from his deceased dad. TBS has ordered 10 episodes of Meet the Browns, and Perry is once again keeping busy serving as the executive producer, director and occasional writer. "Tyler Perry is an extraordinary talent who has turned House of Payne into a record-breaking hit," said Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks. "We’re thrilled at having the chance to repeat that success with Leroy Brown, a character already proven to be a big hit with audiences." — Gina DiNunno
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Tyler Perry as Medea courtesy Lions Gate
This Madea doesn't rest. Tyler Perry will create, write and executive-produce a series of half-hours presenting his Mabel "Madea" Simmons alter ego as an animated truth-teller. The untitled project ("Tyler Perry's Untitled Project"?) would wind up on a network, on DVD, or both.Perry's objective is to take Madea, whose frank ways were born in a stage play before being fashioned into a series of box-office hits (the next of which hits theaters next month), and make her more kid-friendly. "I wanted to do something more appropriate, and this seems to be it," he tells the Reporter.
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Tyler "Madea" Perry has been tapped to play the man (I presume the man, anyway) in charge of Starfleet Academy in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek prequel.... Elisabeth Hasselbeck returns to The View on Monday, with her newborn son in tow. Oops, did I spoil the "surprise guest"?.... "Torn" crooner Natalie Imbruglia, having "simply grown apart" from her husband of four years, Silverchair singer Daniel Johns, has split from him.... Barney & Friends marks 20 years of gangly kids lip-synching badly with the direct-to-DVD special Celebrating Around the World, streeting Jan. 29. Have I mentioned that I take a certain pride in having never exposed my sons to the purple dino? — Matt Mitovich
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Tyler Perry, House of Payne
Madea fans rejoice! Tyler Perry's buxom alter ego returns for a second appearance tonight on House of Payne (tonight at 10 pm/ET, TBS), giving "her" nemesis, Curtis "Pops" Payne, a less-than-silent night in this parody of A Christmas Carol. Pops taps into his inner Ebenezer Scrooge when Ella cancels their trip to Maui in order to stay home with CJ's kids, who are spending their first holiday without their mom. But leave it to Madea, as the attitudinal angel of Christmas past, present and future, to bring Pops back around to the true spirit of the season.
"[His first thought is] that he's died and gone to hell," says LeVan Davis, who plays Pops. "Pops can't stand anybody who challenges his authority, and Madea challenges everybody's authority." Perry, who directs the episode, isn't so demanding. "He's too eager for your input
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Though the film's producers are not officially confirming the buzz, Reuters is reporting that 20-year-old Jessie Cave has bested some 7,000 up-and-comers to land the role of Ron Weasley's girlfriend, Lavender Brown, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The full cast is due to be announced shortly.... Lionsgate has acquired the rights to Tyler Perry's next two films, The Family That Preys Together and Madea Goes to Jail.... Crossing Jordan alum Kathryn Hahn has been cast in the comedy The Goods: The Don Ready Story, starring Jeremy Piven as a used-car liquidator.
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