Keith Nivan Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 So what's up with Tyler Perry?For some time now I've been seeing "Tyler Perry" and processing it like this:"Walk This Way (Tyler-Perry) 3:40"But apparently "Tyler Perry" is something / someone different.What am I missing?"K" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 "What am I missing?"Perhaps the fact that Tyler Perry seems to like dressing in drag in his movies way too much.....and he likely has more money than Joe P. and Stephen T. combined! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhawkpat Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 Tyler Perry is a producer of the very successful "Madea" movie series. While I'm not a big fan of his "Madea" role, I do enjoy his two tv series "House Of Payne" and "Meet The Browns" and I'm a huge fan of some of his movies like "Daddy's Little Girls", "Meet The Browns" (VERY different from the tv series and I've probably watched twenty times) and "Why Did I get Married?". Perry often uses many of the same actors in his movies, but also gets the occassional star like Angela Bassett or Janet Jackson, too.He also produced the controversial movie "Precious", that starred Mo'Nique, Mariah Carey, Paula Patton, and introduced the world to Gabrielle Sidibe. While Mariah and Mo'Nique deliver very powerful performances in the movie, it's a very tough movie to watch, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 In all seriousness, Perry has had 5-6 movies open at #1 at the box office, and most of the 9-10 films he's made have grossed anywhere from $50M to $75-80M, after being made for relative peanuts. While he's probably the most successful African-American filmmaker in the world, he's pretty much unknown to a large segment of the population in this country, and is virtually unknown outside of the US. IMO, he's a much better businessman than filmmaker, having earned between $100-150M last year alone, via all of his tv shows, films, plays, screenplays, writings, etc.His films are primarily family-oriented fare, although he's been crticized by other Black filmmakers as perpetuating negative racial stereotypes, and they're generally lambasted by the critics ("Precious" aside, which he co-produced)....and I'm sure Perry worries about that, all the way to the bank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missm Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Keith, please check out this link to Tyler Perry's site. http://www.tylerperry.com/Take the tour of his studio, watch some out takes from his television shows. It's a pretty good site and should answer any questions you have about him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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