“Why did I put all my money into this? Is this going to work? God, do you hear me? Where are the people? I’m so scared. How will I pay these people? Why did I do this? I can’t pay my rent, they are going to repossess my car. The year was 1992, July 8th-12th. All these questions were crowding my mind. I was a 22-year old wannabe… but what I wanted to be I didn’t know.” Relax, Tyler Perry — you’ve spoken to Movieline! You’ve made it! All downhill from here. [TylerPerry.com]
The Trayvon Martin incident inspired Tyler Perry’s latest blog post, which is like whoa: “As I stepped out of the car another officer pulled up in front of my car. This officer was a black guy. He took one look at me and had that Oh No look on his face. He immediately took both officers to the back of my car and spoke to them in a hushed tone. After that, one of the officers stayed near his car while one came back, very apologetic. I said all of that to say this: do you see how quickly this could have turned for the worse?” Related: Why does Tyler Perry drive himself to the airport? So many questions. [TylerPerry.com]
“I’ll keep this short and sweet because it’s been a rough 12 days for me, with what would have been my mother’s 67th birthday one day and the awful news about Whitney the next. I can’t even think about it… we’ll talk about that some other time, but for now I just want to be sure you’re planning on going to the movie theaters to see Good Deeds this weekend.” [TylerPerry.com]
Full Story »It was almost 14 years ago when you bought the instrumental CD of “The Boy is Mine” at Sam Goody just so you could sing both parts in your bedroom, and Monica and Brandy’s voices are back together for a new single called “It All Belongs To Me” that will be on both of their new albums. It should’ve been called “The Check is Mine,” because this is not the shit I’ve been waiting 14 years for. Any song that name drops Facebook should be poked all the way to the bottom of the charts.
If I was listening to this boring mess in the car, I would’ve fallen asleep at the wheel, lost control and killed somebody. This sounds like it was written as the theme song for a Tyler Perry movie after the producers scraped their dimes together and realized they can’t afford the rights to “Irreplaceable.” I’m just going to use my imagination to pretend that I never heard this and that Monica and Brandy are still working on a follow-up to “The Boy is Mine” called “You Can Have That Bitch (The Dick Is Trash).“
via The Daily What
Earlier this month, Tyler Perry was crowned entertainment’s highest paid man. Upon hearing this news on last night’s Conan, a staffer decided to get a piece of that $130 million bufferoony paycheck with his own mouthy, Madea-style character, Grandma Deondra. Check out the video and stick around for more Buzz Break.
· See how much today’s movie stars — like Brad Pitt — make compared to yesterday’s movie stars like Marilyn Monroe! It’ll be fun, informative and a great conversation starter! [TheAwl]
· Start saving up — you might have to pay for your own 3-D glasses in the future. [EW]
· Breaking! Jonah Hill is not angry at The Lion King for beating Moneyball at the box office this weekend…but he doesn’t think you should be seeing 20-year-old movies. [MTV]
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Happy 42nd birthday, Tyler Perry! What better way to celebrate than by being named “entertainment’s highest paid man” by Forbes? And to everyone else, I am sorry to inform you that to earn said title, Tyler Perry banked $130 million between May 2010 and May 2011. Ahead, Movieline parses Perry’s windfall to give us some perspective on Madea’s moneyed maker.
· Tyler Perry’s 2008 to 2009 earnings, according to Forbes: $75 million
· Tyler Perry’s 2009 to 2010 earnings, according to Forbes: $112 million
· Tyler Perry’s 2010 to 2011 earnings, according to Forbes: $130 million
· Tyler Perry’s income growth percentage from 2010: 16%
· Average amount of money Tyler Perry banked monthly this year: $10.8 million
· Median U.S. household income in 2010: $50,221
· Number of U.S households Perry could have funded entirely in 2010: 2,589
· Amount of money Tyler Perry charges his fans to join his “online family:” $0
· Amount of money Tyler Perry charges his “online family” for a talking Madea keychain: $6
· Amount of money Tyler Perry charges his “online family” for a For Colored Girls soundtrack: $15
· Amount of money Tyler Perry charges his “online family” for a Madea’s Big Happy Family souvenir book: $10
· Number of feature films released by Perry in this twelve-month period: 2 (For Colored Girls and Madea’s Big Happy Family)
· Estimated budget for For Colored Girls: $21 million
· Rotten Tomatoes rating for For Colored Girls: 33 percent
· Total box office gross for For Colored Girls: $37.7 million
· Estimated budget for Madea’s Big Happy Family: $25 million
· Rotten Tomatoes rating for Madea’s Big Happy…
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Two black critics go long — like really long — about one of America’s most visionary and problematic filmmakers: “I think I finally get why Madea is so important to Perry, and why she might be harder to give up than Whitney’s crack: Tyler Perry is the victimized character in his films, and Madea is his personal superhero. She is what the therapist I go to for my own childhood traumas refers to as ‘a protector identity.’ In portraying this protector, Perry is saving himself.” File under must-read. [Odienator via @ebertchicago
Movieline’s favorite purveyor of black stereotypes, Tyler Perry, has secured himself a place in heaven this week by tackling his own real-life house of pain project. The prolific writer/director/playwright rebuilt and furnished a home for an 88-year-old woman who lost her Georgia house in a fire a week before Christmas. After hearing about the story, Perry vowed to reconstruct the dwelling for her and her seven grand- and great-grandchildren who live with her. Perry and the family celebrated the finished product with a ceremony today in Coweta County. Congratulations. [AP]
