Tyler Perry, Geoffrey Fletcher, Gayle King, Oprah Winfrey Photo: Governors Ball 2010

Tyler Perry, Geoffrey Fletcher, Gayle King, Oprah Winfrey
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by Anna Robinson | March 8, 2010   
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Tyler Perry at the 2010 Oscar Ceremony

Playwright-turned-producer-director-actor and sometimes on-screen-drag-queen Tyler Perry (above in Madea Goes to Jail) will be a presenter at the 2010 Academy Awards. This will be Perry’s first appearance on the show.
Tyler Perry wrote, produced and starred in the Darren Grant-directed the sleeper hit Diary of a Mad Black Woman in 2005. (I haven’t watched the movie, so I don’t know whether or not Perry played the mad black female diarist.) Perry’s subsequent film credits include Madea’s Family Reunion, Madea Goes to Jail, Daddy’s Little Girls, Why Did I Get Married?, Meet the Browns, The Family That Preys and I Can Do Bad All by Myself. 
Why Did I Get Married Too? is scheduled to be released [...]

by Anna Robinson | February 28, 2010   
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I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF Tops Box Office

Taraji P. Henson, Mary J. Blige, Adam Rodriguez in Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself. Photo: Quantrell Colbert.

Tyler Perry’s latest family comedy-drama, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, found its way to the top of the North American box office this weekend with $24 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates.
I Can Do Bad All By Myself got off to a strong start Friday and maintained its dominance at No. 1, scoring a solid average of $10,656 per theater at 2,255 locations. Starring Taraji P. Henson, the film follows the spiritual transformation of a troubled nightclub singer.

At a distant No. 2, Shane Acker’s animated adventure 9 collected $10.8 [...]

by Franck Tabouring | September 13, 2009   
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