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EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Perry has brought on former BET Networks and Paramount Pictures executive Robert A. Boyd II as Chief Operating Officer of his Tyler Perry Studios. In the newly created role, Boyd will work with Perry to oversee both studio operations and production for TPS. "As the studio has grown over the last few…

At the second annual BlumFest today, producers Tyler Perry and Jason Blum announced their first feature production together, the thriller entitled Help. Alan McElroy (Star Trek: Discovery, Wrong Turn) is set to write and direct Help. Cameras will roll in Atlanta next year at the Tyler Perry Studios. Tyler Perry and…

Move along. Please disperse. Nothing to see here — just an approaching comet that will destroy Planet Earth. Here’s the first teaser for Don’t Look Up, Adam McKay’s satirical feature for Netflix starring Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio as a pair of low-level astronomers who go on a giant media tour to warn…

After the midseason finale of Tyler Perry’s Sistas wraps Wednesday, fans will be able to keep the party going with an hourlong special. BET revealed today that The Tyler Perry Show: The Sistas After-Show Edition will air at 10 p.m. August 18. The show will give viewers exclusive access to the behind-the-scenes of…

Tyler Perry and T.D. Jakes got the go-ahead from local authorities Thursday to purchase over 130 acres in Atlanta including a proposed expansion of Tyler Perry Studios for an entertainment district with theaters, retail shops and restaurants. Perry will acquire 37 acres adjacent to Tyler Perry Studios, adding to the…

Madea is back. Tyler Perry is taking his iconic femme senior character who has grossed over $1 billion at the box office to Netflix with a 12th movie, A Madea Homecoming. A 2022 drop date is planned. Perry will direct and write with Will Areu and Mark Swinton producing. EPs are Perry and Michelle Sneed. No plot…

Just like he did at the 2019 BET Awards and the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards, Tyler Perry delivered another rousing speech, this time at the 2021 Oscars on Sunday. "I would hope that we would refuse hate," Perry said during his powerful address while receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in one of the…

Upon receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 93rd Oscars on Sunday, Tyler Perry denounced hate and called for unity amid social division. “I refuse to hate someone because they are Mexican, Black or White, or because they are a police officer, I refuse to hate someone because they are Asian,” the…

EXCLUSIVE: American Skin is coming to BET+ next week. The Nate Parker directed, penned and starring drama will debut on the ViacomCBS-owned streaming service on April 15, I have learned. This move online for American Skin comes after a lucrative Vertical Entertainment distributed run for the Spike Lee executive…

After starting off on stage and then moving to the big screen, Tyler Perry’s Madea is now headed to television. Showtime is developing Mabel, a drama series created by Perry and Tim Palen. The high-profile project, which has received a multiple-script order, tracks the origin story of the larger-than-life Madea…

Production powerhouse Tyler Perry has landed on the Forbes billionaires list for the first time, with $1 billion. The prolific filmmaker behind the Madea franchise, The Have and the Have Nots and Netflix’s recently announced A Jazzman's Blues is billionaire No. 2,677. Other TV series from Tyler Perry Studios in…

Tyler Perry was one of the first producers to come up with a comprehensive plan to safely restart TV production in April 2020, just several weeks into the pandemic-related Hollywood shutdown. He got filming up and running by mid-July, employing a quarantine bubble model, in which cast and crew are sequestered on the…