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In 2009, Tyler Perry was ranked by Forbes Magazine as the sixth highest-paid man
in Hollywood, and as-of July 2009, his films grossed nearly $400 million worldwide.
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Tyler Perry Studios [est. 10/2008] in Atlanta, GA
Tyler Perry entry at Wikipedia
Tyler Perry's credits [since 2001] at Internet Movie Database
browse Tyler Perry on DVD catalog at Amazon
Tyler Perry has received:
two B.E.T. Comedy Awards, 2005
a Black Movie Award for Best Script, 2005
five Black Reel Awards nominations, 2006-2008
five Image Awards nominations, 2007-2010
the Chairman's Award at the Image Awards, 2010
Plays & Movies of Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry's credits [since 2001] at Internet Movie Database
browse Tyler Perry on DVD catalog at Amazon
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 | Tyler Perry 4-Pack DVD Collection" DVD Box Set [2005]
LionsGate color DVD set [9/2005] 4 disks for $29.49 contains 4 feature-length filmed plays written by & starring Tyler Perry: "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" [2000], "Madea's Family Reunion" [2002], "Madea's Class Reunion" [2003], and "Meet The Browns" [2004]]; extras include Tyler Perry bio, commentary, photo galleries, trailers, bonus footage, blooper reel & deleted/alternate scenes |
 | "Tyler Perry 3-Pack DVD Collection" DVD Box Set [2006]
LionsGate color DVD set [9/2006] 3 disks for $31.99 contains 3 feature-length filmed plays written by & starring Tyler Perry: "Diary of A Mad Black Woman" [2001], "Why Did I Get Married?" [2004], and "Madea Goes To Jail" [2005]; extras include Madea quiz, blooper reel, trailers, featurettes |
 | "Tyler Perry: The Plays" DVD Box Set [2007]
LionsGate color DVD set [12/2007] 7 disks for $59.99 contains seven feature-length filmed plays written by & starring Tyler Perry: "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" [2000], "Diary of A Mad Black Woman" [2001], "Madea's Family Reunion" [2002], "Madea's Class Reunion" [2003], "Meet The Browns" [2004], "Why Did I Get Married?" [2004], and "Madea Goes To Jail" [2005]; extras include commentary, photo galleries, trailers, featurettes, bonus footage, blooper reel & deleted/alternate scenes |
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"I Know I've Been Changed" [stageplay 1998]
"I Can Do Bad All By Myself" [stageplay 1999]
"Diary of A Mad Black Woman" [stageplay 2001]
"Madea's Family Reunion" [stageplay 2001]
"Madea's Class Reunion" [stageplay 2003]
"Why Did I Get Married?" [stageplay 2004]
"Meet The Browns" [stageplay 20042005]
"Diary of A Mad Black Woman" [Feb 2005]
"Madea Goes To Jail" [stageplay 20052006]
"Tyler Perry's House of Payne" TV series [TBS 2006-2008] /tt0773264/
"What's Done In The Dark" [stageplay 20062007]
"Madea's Family Reunion" [2006]
"Daddy's Little Girls" [Feb 2007], starred Gabrielle Union and Idris
"Why Did I Get Married?" [Oct 2007]
"The Marriage Counselor" [stageplay 20082009]
"Meet The Browns" [March 2008] /tt1047494/
"The Family That Preys" [Sept 2008] /tt1142798/
"Laugh To Keep From Crying" [stageplay 2009]
"Madea Goes To Jail" [Feb 2009] /tt1142800/
"Meet The Browns" TV series [TBS 2009] /tt1319598/
"Precious" [co-producer 2009] /tt0929632/
http://www.amazon.com/Precious-Based-Novel-Push-Sapphire/dp/B002VECM4A/
"I Can Do Bad All By Myself" [Sept 2009] /tt1385912/
"Madea's Big Happy Family" [stageplay 2010]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1647476/
"Why Did I Get Married Too?" [April 2010] /tt1391137/
http://www.whydidigetmarriedtoomovie.com/
"For Colored Girls" [Lionsgate/34th Street Films Nov 2010]
 | Feature film set in Atlanta, with much of Ntozake Shange's poetry intact; the seven color names are dropped, and the 20 characters have regular names; Perry's direction is superb, and the performances in the soliloquies are astounding. Co-produced, written & directed by Tyler Perry; adapted from Ntozake Shange's 1974 stageplay; starring Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad & Whoopi Goldberg
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia official movie site |
 | "for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf: A Choreo-poem" [1975] by Ntozake Shange [1948-2018]
Scribner movie tie-in 8½x5½ pb [11/2010] for $7.20 Scribner 8½x5¾ hardcover [11/2010] for $15.64 Bantam Books mass pb [12/81] out of print/used Shameless Hussy Press hardcover illustrated by Wopo Hilip [1/75] out of print/used |
"Madea's Big Happy Family" [LionsGate April 2011]
 | Medea's niece Shirley learns that her cancer is back, and she wants to gather her three children and their families to tell them; but the baggage and infighting of the unhappy group carries the day until Medea & Aunt Bam intervene.
Co-produced, written & directed by & starring Tyler Perry; also starring Loretta Devine, Cassi Davis, Shannon Kane, Isaiah Mustafa, Natalie Desselle Reid, Rodney Perry, Tamela J. Mann, David Mann, Shad 'Bow Wow' Moss, Teyana Taylor & Lauren London
Lionsgate widescreen color Blu-ray [8/2011] for $20.99 Lionsgate widescreen color DVD [8/2011] for $17.49 full credits at IMDb official movie site |
"A Madea Christmas: The Play" video release
[LionsGate Nov 2011]
 | A family gathering at Cape Cod is saved by Medea's meddling.
Co-produced, written & directed by and starring Tyler Perry; also starring Zuri Craig, Chandra Currelley-Young, Cassi Davis, Tamar Davis, Tony Grant, Alexis Jones, Maurice Lauchner, Jeffery Lewis, Patrice Lovely, Cheryl Pepsii Riley & Shannon Williams LionsGate widescreen color Blu-ray [11/2011] for $15.99 LionsGate widescreen color DVD [11/2011] for $11.49 full credits at IMDb |
"For Better or Worse" TV series [T.B.S. Dec 2011]
Announced 4/2011: 'Dramedy' series based on Perry's Why Did I Get Married? films; starring Michael Jai White
{as television anchor Marcus} & Tasha Smith {salon owner Angela}, Cocoa Brown, Teka Brandon & Kent Faulcon;
added 2/2013: Oprah Winfrey Network bought the two-season series from T.B.S. for reruns, plus greenlighted
filming of a third season; the series is top favorite on cable of Afro-American households
latest info at IMDb
"Good Deeds" [LionsGate Feb 2012]
 | Romantic drama (melodrama, actually) set in San Francisco; principal filming in Atlanta began April 2011; a very successful business executive who is about to get married suddenly finds himself more interested in a down-on-her-luck single mother who works nights as a janitor than in his uptown fiance. Co-produced, written & directed by and starring Tyler Perry; also starring Thandie Newton, Gabrielle Union, Eddie Cibrian, Brian White, Jordenn Thompson & Phylicia Rashad DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb official movie site |
"Madeas Witness Protection" [LionsGate June 2012]
 | "Believe it or not, they know too much" When a New York City investment company goes belly up due to embezzling, an executive and his family are put in witness protection, and forced to move from a wealthy Connecticut neighborhood to Madeas home in the South. Co-produced, written & directed by & starring Tyler Perry; also starring Eugene Levy, Denise Richards, Romeo Miller, Doris Roberts, Devan Leos, Tom Arnold & Danielle Campbell
LionsGate widescreen color Blu-ray [10/2012] for $22.99 LionsGate widescreen color DVD [10/2012] for $17.95 full credits at IMDb official movie site |
trailers for "Madeas Witness Protection" at YouTube
4/2012 teaser trailer [1:12] 5/2012 full trailer [2:31] 6/2012 teaser trailer [1:01]
"Alex Cross" [Q.E.D./Summit Oct 2012 release]
third Alex Cross movie; loosely based on a novel by James Patterson; to be directed by Rob Cohen; draft script by
Patterson & Kerry Williamson, polish by Marc Moss; starring Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Edward Burns,
Jean Reno & John C. McGinley latest info at IMDb
Announced 10/2012: Oprah's network O.W.N. signed Tyler Perry to write, direct & exec-produce two new scripted series:
the drama "The Haves and The Have Nots", and the multicamera comedy "Love Thy Neighbor", set at Loves Diner.
"Temptation: Confessions of A Marriage Counselor"
[LionsGate March 2013? release]
Announced 10/2011: co-produced, written & directed by Tyler Perry; based on
his stage play "The Marriage Counselor"
latest info at IMDb
"A Madea Christmas" [LionsGate Nov 2013? release]
 | Medea is persuaded to help a friend pay a surprise visit to her daughter in a small town.
Produced, written & directed by and starring Tyler Perry; also starring Chad Michael Murray, Kathy Najimy, Larry the Cable Guy, Eric Lively, Lisa Whelchel, Tika Sumpter, Jonathan Chase, Lisa M. Barfield, Michael H. Cole & Noah Urrea DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb |
"Single Moms Club" [LionsGate May 2014? release]
Announced 11/2012: A group of single mothers from varying backgrounds are brought together via an incident at the school their children attend,
leading to the creation of a support group that helps all of them overcome personal obstacles; co-produced, written, directed by & starring Tyler Perry;
William Levy & Wendi McLendon-Covey are signed latest info at IMDb
'Donald Trump Calls Madea'
on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
[Universal/NBC-TV Oct 2016]
 | Split-screen skit with Jimmy Fallon as Donald Trump and Tyler Perry as Madea
watch full 10/2016 skit [3:44] online at YouTube |
"Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween" [LionsGate Oct 2017] 
  | Madea, Bam, Joe, and Hattie venture to a haunted campground where teenagers are staging a party, and the group must run for their lives when monsters, goblins, and the boogeyman are unleashed. Co-produced, written & directed by and starring Tyler Perry; also starring Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely, Brock O'Hurn, Lexy Panterra, Diamond White, Inanna Sarkis, Yousef Erakat, Taja V. Simpson, Mike Tornabene, J.C. Caylen, Andre Hall, Chandra Currelley-Young, Tito Ortiz, Emily Hinkler, Hannah Stocking, De'Zheana Lattimore, Lexston Bearss, Wil Gonzalez, Bradley Martyn, Akende Munalula, Elizabeth Hinkler, Earl David Jones, Jared Sawyer Jr., Kyrell Cooke, Dondrey Moore, Christianee Porter
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb official movie site movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailers online at YouTube: 7/2017 trailer #1 [1:03] 8/2017 teaser #2 [2:19] |
Tyler Perry's Empire
Tyler Perry Studios [est. 10/2008] in southwest Atlanta, Georgia
The 200,000 square-foot movie studio complex includes production office buildings, five sound stages, and a 400-seat theater.
On 1 May 2012, the facility suffered a four-alarm fire; the extent of damage has yet to be reported.
LionsGate Entertainment Corp. announced in August 2011 plans for a new cable TV channel called Tyler TV, anchored by
Tyler Perry; no details then, no news items since. {Given Perry's late 2012 deal with Oprah Winfrey's channel, the LionsGate deal is dead.}
Books by Tyler Perry
 | "Don't Make A Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries On Love & Life" [2006 New York Times bestseller] by Tyler Perry Riverhead Trade 8¼x5¾ pb [2/2007] for $8.85 Thorndike Press hardcover [4/2006] out of print/used Penguin audio CD read by Tyler Perry [2/2007] for $13.57 |
Works About Tyler Perry
 | "60 Minutes: Tyler Perry" [aired Oct 2009] 11-minute segment hosted by Byron Pitts; featuring Tyler Perry & Oprah Winfrey C.B.S. DVD-R [11/2009] for $17.95 full credits at IMDb |
Links
official Tyler Perry website
Tyler Perry Studios [est. 10/2008] in Atlanta, GA
Tyler Perry entry at Wikipedia
Tyler Perry's credits [since 2001] at Internet Movie Database
browse Tyler Perry on DVD at Amazon
search Tyler Perry movie posters at Amazon
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