Magic Lantern Video & Book StoreTyler Perry
| short profile |
|
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.
B I O
t e x t
h e r e
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 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
search Tyler Perry movie posters at Amazon
jump to NEW movies/plays, coming soon
 | 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 |
· ·
"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
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 |
"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
latest info at IMDb
"Good Deeds" [LionGate 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? release]
Announced 1/2012: When an 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
latest info at IMDb
first trailer [1:11] for "Madeas Witness Protection" 4/2012 at IMDb
"The Marriage Counselor" [LionsGate July 2012? release]
Announced 10/2011: co-produced, written & directed by Tyler Perry; based on one of
Perrys stage plays
latest info at IMDb
"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
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 is yet to be reported.
Announced 8/2011: LionsGate Entertainment Corp. is planning a new cable TV channel called Tyler TV,
anchored by Tyler Perry; no details then, no news items since.
Books by Tyler Perry
 |
"Don't Make A Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries On Love & Life" [2006 NY 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
Tyler Perry Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
top of page short profile plays & movies { recent }
works about Tyler Perry links
Online sales in association with 
top of this page back to Magic Lantern homepage
back to Magic Lantern's Afro-American Film Festival Pages