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While known by most for directing and starring in his productions, Tyler Perry has stepped out of his comfort zone to appear in the occasional film, including a widely panned book adaptation that's become a streaming hit 13 years later. Perry's Alex Cross, based on one of the best thriller novels ever, is a fast-rising entry on the Starz charts.

Per Flix Patrol, Alex Cross is one of Starz' top most popular movies in the U.S. The adaptation ranks 4th on the Starz chart, missing out on a podium that includes two Perry productions: the stage play adaptation of Why Did I Get Married? and his 2010 film, Why Did I Get Married Too?...

Tyler Perry may not be the most consistent director in terms of critical reception, but he has had an incredibly impressive rate of production. A multi-hyphenate talent who has served as producer, writer, director, and actor — and sometimes all on the same project — he has an impressive filmography that mostly includes comedies.

Perry is best known for his work on the Madea franchise. This began with the character's appearance in The Diary of A Mad Black Woman, a 2005 film that Perry wrote and acted in. Most recently, that franchise continued with the 2025 Netflix release Madea's Destination Wedding.

Perry's output has been even more prominent in the last few years because of his deal with Netflix. The streamer formed this multi-year partnership with Perry in October 2023, which would allow Perry to produce multiple movies for the streamer.

This deal has been pretty successful for the creator. His movie Straw, which came out this year,...

Tyler Perry is asking, “Why did I get married again?”

To clarify, the movie mogul isn’t actually wed, but he’s finished the script for the long-awaited third movie in the “Why Did I Get Married?” franchise, which has been rumored to continue in recent years.

On Wednesday, Perry posted the cover page of the “table draft” version of the script for the movie, seemingly titled “Why Did I Get Married Again?” with the caption “I’m just gonna sit this right here!” He also conspicuously tagged the franchise’s main cast: Tasha Smith, Sharon Leal, Michael Jai White, Lamman Rucker, Jill Scott and Janet Jackson. Perry also stars as one of the eight college friends who wrestle with challenges in their marriage during their annual reunion.

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Tubi’s lineup for November 2024 offers a diverse and exciting selection of content across genres, ensuring there’s something for everyone. With Tubi Originals like the heartwarming comedy “The Engagement Dress” (November 10) and the festive yet spicy “Hot Girl Winter” (November 24), holiday cheer takes a fresh twist. The thrillers keep the tension high, including the chilling ghost story “Still Here” (November 9) and the stormy suspense of “The Last Exit” (November 16). For documentary enthusiasts, “Behind The Crime: Self Defense or Slaughter” (November 15) and “Fresh Meat 2: Killing Dahmer” (November 22) dive into intense real-life investigations. Families can look forward to the magical fun of “Family Ornaments” (November 17), while anime fans can enjoy “Bunny Drop” on November 5. Classic action films like “Die Hard”, “Mad Max: Fury Road” (November 9), and “San Andreas” (November 22) return for adrenaline junkies, and horror lovers will appreciate the creepy lineup of “Annabelle: Creation”, “The Thing (1982)”, and more. Whether it’s nostalgic art-house classics,...

Exclusive: Iag has signed actor, director, and producer Tasha Smith for representation in all areas.

Most recently helming two episodes of both Taylor Sheridan’s Mayor of Kingstown and Peacock’s Fresh Prince reboot Bel-Air, Smith is also known for exec producing Starz’s hit series Bmf alongside 50 Cent.

50 isn’t the only Iag client with whom she has a strong connection. She’s also directed and produced with notables including Mary J. Blige, Russell Hornsby, Terrence Howard, Lil Meech and Da’Vinchi, to name a few.

Last seen starring opposite Michelle Buteau on Netflix comedy series Survival of the Thickest, Smith prior to that appeared in Why Did I Get Married? and its sequel Why Did I Get Married, Too?, reprising her role from the films in Tyler Perry’s spin-off series For Better or Worse on OWN, for which she earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series.

A stuntman from 2018's Black Panther and three of his children have died after a car crash.

As reported by TMZ, Taraja Ramsess, whose credits include the Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster along with Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, was the victim of a fatal accident on Halloween night. Ramsess and his five kids were riding in the stuntman's pickup truck when he collided with a tractor-trailer getting off an exit ramp on a DeKalb County Interstate. Ramsess, 41, died on the scene alongside two of his daughters, aged 13 and 8 weeks old. Additionally, Ramsess' mother Akili confirmed on Instagram that his 10-year-old son passed away following being on life support. "Kisasi Adebayo joins his father Taraja and sisters Sundari and Fujibo on their journey," Akili said. "May God bless all their souls. You all will be missed."

Black Panther is on a Collision Course With One of the Most Powerful (and...

It’s the most spookiest time of the year, and you’ll find a smorgasbord of creepy content on the Hulu streaming service in October! Not only has the streamer secured recent theatrical releases like Cobweb and Slotherhouse for you, but Huluween is here again to make sure things go bump in the night.

Huluween highlights this year include the first season of Living for the Dead, which comes from the creators of Netflix’s popular Queer Eye. Join five queer ghost hunters – Alex Le May, Juju Bae, Ken Boggle, Logan Taylor and Roz Hernandez – as they travel to a range of the world’s most haunted locations in an attempt to help the living by healing the dead.

Hulu will also premiere Monster Inside: America’s Most Extreme Haunted House from director Andrew Renzi. The new documentary follows the story of “Navy Veteran turned master of horror” Russ McKamey. His home,...

A reboot of the classic 1980s TV series of the same name, 2021's well-cast Highway to Heaven is a Lifetime Original movie about Angela, an angel who comes to Earth to help people. Angela takes a job as a guidance counselor at a junior high school, but her guidance goes beyond the job description, as she seeks to help a distressed teen who has been causing trouble at school and drifting apart from his father ever since the loss of his mother. Angela is aided in her quest by the school’s principal, Bruce, but her unexplained angelic presence also invites suspicion.

The original Highway to Heaven series was created in 1984 by Michael Landon, who also played the angel. The show saw Landon’s angel John Smith travel across the country with retired police officer Mark Gordon (Victor French), assuming different jobs and helping troubled souls overcome their problems. The Highway to Heaven remake,...

Four “Hunger Games” movies are coming to Fox’s free streaming service Tubi beginning May 1. The games begin with one girl and one boy from each district trained in the art of survival and ultimately, battling to the death. Unless your character is played by Jennifer Lawrence, in which case, all bets are off.

Watch the trailer for “The Hunger Games”:

Also coming is the Tubi original comedy “Pastacolypse” on May 21. When a global ban on gluten destroys the life of billionaire celebrity chef Alfredo Manicotti, he leads a pasta uprising that threatens humanity. It’s up to his spoiled heiress daughter to save the world.

The true-crime story of Joseph DeAngelo arrives May 10. A devoted family man and police officer, DeAngelo was also the Golden State Killer. For 40 years, he raped and murdered women in California. “Evil Among Us: The Golden State Killer” reveals how a genetic match...

Cicely Tyson, the trailblazing actress died whose career spanned more than six decades, died Thursday afternoon, her manager Larry Thompson confirmed. She was 96.

From the start of her career, Tyson resolved to portray strong, positive, and realistic images of black women onscreen, and for many, she represented an enduring strength. Tyson received an Oscar nomination in 1973 for Martin Ritt’s drama Sounder (and was finally given an honorary Oscar in 2018), and became famous to a wider audience for her starring role in the 1974 TV movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,...

Emmy- and Tony-winning actress Cicely Tyson, who distinguished herself in theater, film and television, died on Thursday afternoon. She was 96.

“I have managed Miss Tyson’s career for over 40 years, and each year was a privilege and blessing,” her manager, Larry Thompson, said in a statement. “Cicely thought of her new memoir as a Christmas tree decorated with all the ornaments of her personal and professional life. Today she placed the last ornament, a Star, on top of the tree.”

Her memoir “Just As I Am” was published on Tuesday.

Tyson broke into movies with the 1959 Harry Belafonte film “Odds Against Tomorrow,” followed by “The Comedians,” “The Last Angry Man,” “A Man Called Adam” and “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.” Refusing to participate in the blaxploitation movies that became popular in the late ’60s, she waited until 1972 to return to the screen in the drama “Sounder,” which captured several...

Exclusive: The Spawn and Dark Knight actor has landed the lead role of James Baker, the DEA agent who faces off with Mickey Rourke’s villain in Asif Akbar’s The Commando.

Baker has Ptsd and returns home after a botched mission. He’s faced with protecting his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.

Koji Steven Sakai wrote the original screenplay from a story by Al Bravo, Akbar and Sakai as well. Elias Axume of Premiere Entertainment Group will be handling all world-wide sales and serving as producer. The Commando is a co-production with Al Bravo Films, Little Nalu Pictures and Avail Entertainment. Kimberly Hines will serve as EP. The movie shoots in New Mexico this month. Michael Jai White’s feature credits also include Black Dynamite, Why Did I Get Married Too?,...

After a four-year hiatus from melodrama, Tyler Perry has returned with one of his most rousing pictures yet, Acrimony, which lands somewhere between Douglas Sirk and Tommy Wiseau. Perry’s career has swung between the broad comedy of the Madea adventures to more serious dramas like his best pictures, Daddy’s Little Girl and the Family That Preys. Then there are the films that fall squarely in-between his two operating modes: Why Did I Get Married Too? and Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, which offer a morality tale with no time for subtext. While Sirk’s pictures offered a broad, on-the-nose surface morality tale, he specialized in subversive mise-en-scene, subtly pushing the boundaries of good taste. With Perry, what you see is exactly what you get and those expecting restraint and subtext ought to look really anywhere else. About 30 minutes in when leading lady Melinda Gayle (Taraji P. Henson...

Toronto -- The legal bill at Lionsgate for trench warfare with Carl Icahn is putting big dents in the mini-studio's bottom line.

Lionsgate on Monday posted a first quarter loss of $64.1 million to June 30, against a year-earlier profit of $36.3 million.

The reversal was due in part to $7.3 million in "corporate defense costs related to shareholder activist activities."

With Icahn looking to oust the company's top management and board of directors, Vancouver-based Lionsgate recorded $23.3 million in additional stock-based compensation caused by change of control provisions in senior executive contracts.

And Lionsgate piled on $71.2 million in additional theatrical marketing costs during the first quarter to release three wide releases, Tyler Perry's "Why Did I Get Married Too?," "Killers" and "Kick-Ass," against one wide release during the same period of 2010, "Crank 2."

Lionsgate's release of "Killers," which stars Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl, also disappointed at the boxoffice.

Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer...

Weekend Box Office

1) How to Train Your Dragon - $20 million

2) Kick-Ass - $19.7 million

3) Date Night - $17.3 million

4) Death At A Funeral - $17 million

5) Clash of the Titans - $15.7 million

6) The Last Song -$5.8 million

7) Why Did I Get Married Too? - $4.1 million

8) Hot Tub Time Machine - $3.54 million

9) Alice in Wonderland - $3.5 million

10) The Bounty Hunter - $3.2 million

There were big surprises at the box office this weekend as How to Train Your Dragon fought it's way back to the top spot on the charts after four weeks. The film, which stars Gerard Butler, Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jonah Hill and Kristen Wiig, debuted at number one four weeks ago and had fallen all the way back to the fourth spot before climbing it's way back to number three last week. The film added 182 theaters for a total of 3,825 and earned an average of $5,229 per theater...

Action remake Clash Of The Titans has conquered the competition at the U.S. box office, debuting at number one with $61.4 million (£38.4 million) in earnings at the weekend (02-04Apr10).

The blockbuster, starring Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes, has made a total of $64.1 million (£40.1 million) in the U.S. including preview screenings on Thursday night.

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? was runner-up with $30.2 million (£18.9 million) in ticket sales - marking a triumph for singer/actress Janet Jackson, who went to work on the comedy just a day after her brother, the late Michael Jackson, was laid to rest in June.

Meanwhile, animated adventure How to Train Your Dragon slipped from the top spot to three with $29.2 million (£18.3 million), and now boasts a 10-day total of $92.3 million (£57.7 million).

Miley Cyrus' new drama The Last Song debuted at number four with $16.2 million (£10.1 million), while Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland slipped from two to five with nearly $8.3 million (£5.2 million) in earnings. Burton's whimsical collaboration with Johnny Depp now boasts a five-week total of nearly $309.8 million (£193 million).

It was a record Easter weekend at the box office thanks to robust performances by Clash of the Titans, Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too, and the animated How to Train Your Dragon, which held on well its second weekend in theaters. All told, the three films combined helped lead the box office higher than last year's frame, when Fast and Furious opened to $70.9 million. (Last year at this time was not Easter weekend.) Clash of the Titans earned $61.4 million for the three-days, putting its total cume, including Thursday's midnight showings, at  an estimated $64 million (per-screen average...

Yes, the reviews swung between decent to tepid, and straight on down to loathsome and the sloppy, post-production 3D conversion, every seemed to agree, made it worse, but neither of those could stop Clash Of The Titans from storming the box office and pillaging $61.4 million from moviegoers across the ocean.Tyler Perry, a filmmaker whose work goes largely unnoticed over here, scored yet another resounding win with his latest relationship drama, Why Did I Get Married Too? (it’s the awkwardly titled sequel to Why Did I Get Married, in case you were wondering), taking second place with $30.1 million. Not bad for a film that cost $20 million to make. Those two shoved DreamWorks’ How To Train Your Dragon down to third place, where it made $29 million in its second weekend.Fourth went to what must have seemed like a dream combination (Miley Cyrus and Nicholas Sparks), with the tween favourite...

Clash of the Titans raked in an estimated $26.4 million on approximately 6,700 screens at 3,777 sites, but it wasn't the only busy movie on Good Friday: Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? pulled in an estimated $12.3 million on around 2,900 screens at 2,155 sites, while The Last Song collected an estimated $7.1 million on close to 3,300 screens at 2,673 sites.

Compared to 300, the massively-promoted Clash of the Titans's opening day fell short, considering its 3D and Good Friday boost. 300 nabbed $28.1 million on around 4,800 screens at 3,103 sites on its non-holiday first day (or the equivalent of nearly $32 million adjusted for ticket price inflation), and that led to a $70.9 million opening weekend. Clash played at 1,810 3D sites (the 3D share is unavailable at this time and will be reported Sunday), and Good Friday is generally the biggest day of any given Easter weekend (Saturday is normally the busiest of most weekends), suggesting Clash's weekend might not hit $60 million.

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? is a sequel, but you don't need to have watched 2007's Why Did I Get Married? to understand what's going on. In fact, you barely need to watch this one to understand what's going on. In accordance with his usual style, Perry spells things out very clearly: This character is Good, that one is Eeeee-vil, these events are Happy, these events are Sad. Picture three weeks of daytime soap opera episodes, crammed into two hours.

The premise is that four well-to-do Atlanta couples take a retreat once a year to evaluate their marriages and improve their relationships. Terry (Tyler Perry) and Dianne (Sharon Leal) are blissfully happy, with two little kids at home. Angela (Tasha Smith) and Marcus (Michael Jai White) fight constantly, probably because he's a serial cheater and she's a belligerent lush. Patricia (Janet Jackson), a bestselling self-help author,...

'Alice in Wonderland' falls to second place, as 'Hot Tub Time Machine' has lukewarm opening.

By Josh Wigler

"How To Train Your Dragon"

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The Box-Office Top Five

#1 "How to Train Your Dragon" ($43.3 million)

#2 "Alice in Wonderland" ($17.3 million)

#3 "Hot Tub Time Machine" ($13.7 million)

#4 "The Bounty Hunter" ($12.4 million)

#5 "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" ($10 million)

After three straight weekends at the top of the charts, Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" surrendered the box-office crown to DreamWorks' "How to Train Your Dragon," the new animated family film featuring the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler and Jonah Hill.

Despite topping "Wonderland" with a winning $43.3 million haul, "How to Train Your Dragon" still performed unimpressively given the 3-D film's $165 million production budget. Comparatively, "Alice in Wonderland" earned $116.1 million in its first weekend in theaters. This past weekend, "Wonderland" added an additional $17.3 million for a domestic total of $293 million.

How to Train Your Dragon flew into the box office and torched Alice Wonderland, replacing that mediocre 3D story with its own mediocre 3D story. Showing on over 4,000 screens and with 3D prices having gone through the roof ($13 just for a matinee here in Burbank), Httyd came in with $43.3 million. I know it's number one, but the number isn't as impressive as I thought it would be. A year ago Monsters vs. Aliens made $59 million with lower ticket prices. Will it stay on top two weeks in a row? Who knows.Alice fell to #2 with an estimated $17.3 million. No big deal for Disney. The movie has mopped up at the box office and now stands at $656 million worldwide dollars. A huge hit for the Mouse House. And it'll kill on Blu-Ray/DVD.Hot Tub Time Machine came in third with a disappointing $13.6 million. Why haven't you people gone to see this movie?...

Weekend Box Office

1) How to Train Your Dragon $43.3 million

2) Alice in Wonderland - $17.3 million

3) Hot Tub Time Machine - $13.6 million

4) The Bounty Hunter - $12.4 million

5) Diary of a Wimpy Kid - $10 million

6) She's Out Of My League - $3.5 million

7) The Green Zone - $3.3 million

8) Shutter Island - $3.1 million

9) Repo Men - $3.0 million

10) Our Family Wedding - $2.2 million

Dragons were all the rage this weekend at the box office as DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon took the number one spot in its opening weekend. The film, which is a re-imagining of the "Vikings vs. Dragons" legend and stars the voices of Gerard Butler, Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jonah Hill and Kristen Wiig burned the box office up by earning $43.3 million in its opening weekend. The movie opened in 4,055 theaters and made roughly $10,678 per screen however they'll have to keep that up for a few...

Box office Champ! Courtesy of DreamWorks Animation

The box office results for the weekend of March 26th-28th, has Dragons taking out Alice from the top spot.  Meanwhile, the Hot Tub was not enticing as many thought for moviegoers.  Here are the studio estimates (Click on title for review):

1.  How to Train Your Dragon ($43.3 million)

2.  Alice in Wonderland ($17.2 million)

3.  Hot Tub Time Machine ($13.6 million)

4.  The Bounty Hunter ($12.4 million)

5.  Diary of a Wimpy Kid ($9.9 million)

6.  She's Out of My League ($3.5 million)

7.  Green Zone ($3.3 million)

8.  Shutter Island ($3.1 million)

9.  Repo Men ($2.9 million)

10.  Avatar ($ 2.2 million)

Analysis

Alice in Wonderland had a strong hold on numero uno at the box office, and is nearing the milestone mark of $300 million.  Look for the flick to finish around $320 million during its theatrical run.  What blew this out of the top spot was the lauded 3-D animation How to Train Your Dragon.  The debut and the nearly perfect rating from critics everywhere,...

How To Train Your Dragon takes the top spot from Alice In Wonderland, while Hot Tub Time Machine earns solid numbers. It's the Us box office round-up...

For a lot of people, DreamWorks is kind of the also-ran when it comes to computer animation. There's Pixar, and if you can't get in there, you go to DreamWorks. In some ways, it's not fair to either company. Pixar has the dual strains of being both commercially successful and critically noteworthy, while DreamWorks has to labor under the strain of being commercially successful while being, in some ways, lighter in tone than Pixar. DreamWorks could get away with making Cars, but because Pixar made it, it's seen as a way to push toys on kids in a purely commercial venture.

The one trait the two companies share is that they know how to make a whole lot of money. DreamWorks' latest, How To Train Your Dragon,...

After March was dominated by 3D fantasy Alice in Wonderland, the April box office is likely to be more diverse, though it does kick off with another 3-D fantasy, Clash of the Titans. Last April saw a record gross of over $695 million, and, between some enticing new entries and March holdovers, this April aims to be busy as well.

April's highest profile release is the Clash of the Titans remake on Easter weekend, April 2. Originally scheduled for Mar. 26, Clash needed breathing room between it and How to Train Your Dragon after its last minute addition of 3D. Clash has been positioned as the must-see Spring action event, and its historical fantasy approach mirrors that of a past Spring success, 300. While hitting 300-level attendance may be a tall order, Clash has the best chance of any April release to top $200 million. April 2 also sees the debut of sequel Tyler Perry's...

Rumor has it, R 'n' B singer Keyshia Cole has been blasted by a judge for appearing to be illiterate. According to TMZ, a New Jersey judge has questioned Keyshia's literacy as she, in her written opinion, found the "Let It Go" singer's testimony was "confused and at times nonsensical."

Offering more details to the story, TMZ reported that when the judge asked Keyshia to read certain documents while testifying, the 28-year-old seemed so reluctant "that it appears at times that she was not literate." The site further noted that the judge realized the singer was literate when she managed to read documents.

Keyshia Cole appeared before the judge on Thursday, March 25 for the lawsuit stemming from her canceled gig in 2006. The mother of one was being sued by an event promoter who insisted the "Why Did I Get Married Too?" actress blew off her appearance after he paid her $15,000 up front.

Following the release of Janet Jackson's new song called "Nothing", fans might be wondering whether or not the 43-year-old singer has started to work on her new album. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Janet admitted she has returned to studio but was not making new music for her own effort.

"There was a time where I was actually in the studio and I was recording, but I'm not working on an album," she said. "There have been a lot of record labels that have asked me to sit down and talk with them, but I don't know if I want to do something completely independent, or go with a major."

The actress who soon will be seen reprising her "Why Did I Get Married?" role in its sequel "Why Did I Get Married Too?" also hasn't decided what kind of music she will make for her next treatment.

In a promotional gimmick to hype his upcoming Why Did I Get Married Too opening April 2nd (you know, the film that Tyler, straining with every fiber of his being, tries again to convincingly portray a straight married guy…), Lionsgate has announced that they are inviting black married couples this Saturday, Black Marriage Day (who knew there was such a thing????), March 27th, to renew their vows at a series of special “Let’s Get Married Again” celebrations in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. Participating couples are also eligible for a chance to win a 2nd honeymoon in the Bahamas, and even better, a chance to win Tyler Perry DVD Movie Packs!!!!! Hey wouldn’t that be grounds for a divorce?

Hey Tyler I’ve got a better idea to promote the film: How about actually for once letting the media and public see the film at an advance screening?...

Tyler Perry has his next movie, the sequel Why Did I Get Married Too?, coming out next week, but since the man feels the need to make at least two movies in most years, he’s already well into setting up his next one, and with some really big stars, too.

According to Black Voices, Perry used the occasion of the premiere of Why Did I Get Married Too? to announce that one of that movie’s stars, Janet Jackson, and also Mariah Carey have joined the cast of his next movie, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.

The large female ensemble movie based on the play by Ntozake Shange is set to begin shooting in NYC in June for a January 2011 release, and also in the cast will be Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine and Macy Gray.

See new clips including behind-the-scenes looks and interviews with Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson, Cicely Tyson, Sharon Leal, Richard T. Jones, Jill Scott, Lamman Rucker, Malik Yoba, Tasha Smith, Roger M. Bobb and producer Reuben Cannon. The Lionsgate release opens on April 2nd and is rated PG-13. Reuniting the same charismatic cast and characters from his hit comedy/drama, Why Did I Get Married, Tyler Perry brings us the next chapter in the lives of eight college friends struggling with the challenges of marital life in Why Did I Get Married Too. Gathered together in the Bahamas for their annual one-week reunion, four close couples eagerly reconnect, sharing news about their lives and relationships. But their intimate week in paradise is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of Sheila’s ex-husband, Mike, who hopes to break up her new marriage with Troy and win her back. The others soon realize they too...

Janet Jackson, Jill Scott and Tyler Perry had to put up with some unwelcome visitors while filming their new movie "Why Did I Get Married Too?" in the Bahamas - the actors were constantly harassed by huge black moths. Perry stars in and directs the sequel to 2007's "Why Did I Get Married?" and took the cast to the tropical location for two weeks of shooting.

But many of the actors were not prepared to deal with the local insects and struggled to escape the invasive moths - although Jackson was not one of them. The superstar singer/actress admits she grew quite fond of the moths, and even considered them "beautiful".

She says, "There were these huge, huge moths, but I thought they were beautiful. They were massive, like really big. They looked like huge black butterflies but everyone thought they looked like bats and they were hairy. The thing about them,...

Nicole "Coco" Austin attending the "Why Did I Get Married Too?" New York City premiere at the School of Visual Arts Theater.Photo copyright by Janet Mayer / PR Photos. Ice-t and Nicole "Coco" Austin attending the "Why Did I Get Married Too?" New York City premiere at the School of Visual Arts Theater.Photo copyright by Janet Mayer / PR Photos. Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson attending the "Why Did I Get Married Too?" New York City premiere at the School of Visual Arts Theater.Photo copyright by Janet Mayer / PR Photos. Jill Scott attending the "Why Did I Get Married Too?" New York City premiere at the School of Visual Arts Theater.Photo copyright by Janet Mayer / PR...

Janet Jackson, Jill Scott and Tyler Perry had to put up with some unwelcome visitors while filming their new movie Why Did I Get Married Too? in the Bahamas - the actors were constantly harassed by huge black moths.

Perry stars in and directs the sequel to 2007's Why Did I Get Married? and took the cast to the tropical location for two weeks of shooting.

But many of the actors were not prepared to deal with the local insects and struggled to escape the invasive moths - although Jackson was not one of them.

The superstar singer/actress admits she grew quite fond of the moths, and even considered them "beautiful".

She says, "There were these huge, huge moths, but I thought they were beautiful. They were massive, like really big. They looked like huge black butterflies but everyone thought they looked like bats and they were hairy. The thing about them, they're not afraid of people, of humans, so they'd land on your head, your shoulders, fly right by you, land on your face..."...

Director Tyler Perry has landed some big names for his next movie For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf - he's reportedly signed up superstars Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey.

The Madea Goes to Jail filmmaker took on the challenge of adapting Ntozake Shange's controversial 1975 play for the big screen last September after Whoopi Goldberg's planned Broadway revival fell victim to a lack of investors.

But Perry is forging ahead with the movie version of the play and will reunite with Jackson, who stars in his new movie Why Did I Get Married Too?, and Carey, who won critical acclaim for her role in Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire.

He has also landed Goldberg for his project, in addition to The Last King of Scotland star Kerry Washington and singer Macy Gray, according to bvonmovies.com.

Production is expected to begin in New York in June and released next year.

Janet Jackson says Tyler Perry, famed writer, director and her co-star in the new movie "Why Did I Get Married Too," was her rock after the tragic death of her beloved brother, Michael Jackson.

Miss Jackson tells "Extra's" A.J. Calloway that Tyler was "very protective," adding, "He was very supportive. Very much there for me with everything that was going on in my life."

The sudden death of the King of Pop came just...

The director/writer plans to adapt 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.'

By Jocelyn Vena

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Photo: Jason Merritt/ Getty Images

On April 2, Tyler Perry will probably make another big splash at the box office when "Why Did I Get Married Too?" opens nationwide. But the writer/director is already thinking about his next project, the film adaptation of Ntozake Shange's 1975 play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf."

In an interview with AOL's Black Voices blog, Perry shared that actresses being considered for the cast included Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine and Macy Gray. IMDb also has Halle Berry, Jill Scott and Oprah Winfrey attached to the flick.

Shange's 1975 work is based on a series of 20 poems, each of which is about a...

Tyler Perry has announced that Whoopi Goldberg plus singing stars Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey are joining his cast in "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf."

According to Black Voices, other names to join include Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine and another singer-actress, Macy Gray. The project will be the film adaptation of the Ntozake Shange poem-play featuring 20 African-American women speaking on the issues they face in modern society. It debuted in 1975 and made its way to Broadway in 1976.

Lensing starts in late June for what Perry estimates will be a winter 2010/2011 release. The announcement was made last night as the director-actor-producer promoted the premiere of "Why Did I Get Married Too?".

"Don't worry, Madea won't be in it," Perry told HitFix of the film late last year. 

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Say it ain’t so! A Shadow And Act post in defense of one Mr Tyler Perry? Well… sort of. Read on…

Browsing over reactions to yesterday’s casting news on Tyler Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, as well as renewed reactions to the project overall, not just on this blog, but all over the web – I noticed a trend of assumptions being made about the project that I’d like to address here – specifically about the nature of the adaptation, and its production/release schedule.

I’m no Tyler Perry fan, as long-time readers of this blog will know; but, it’s clear that the man is here to stay (at least while his movies are still profitable), and, I’ve long given up on fretting over him and his movies. Since he is almost...

Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson are set to collaborate, not for a music, but for a film feature. The two are going to star together in "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf", so filmmaker Tyler Perry said to Bv on Movies when he attended the New York premiere of his latest movie "Why Did I Get Married Too?".

Beside the two, Perry who will direct and write the upcoming movie, also announced other actors who have been cast in the movie. Those names are Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine and Macy Gray. Perry additionally has a role in this drama movie.

"Making a film of 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf' is a dream come true for me," Perry said about the project. "Ntozake Shange's play is a magnificent tribute...

"Extra" caught up with Janet Jackson, Gayle King and Tyler Perry at the NYC premiere of "Why Did I Get Married Too?"

With the future of Sandra Bullock's marriage still up in the air, stars offered their two cents on Hollywood's cheating epidemic.

"Once trust is violated you can't get it back. It's really difficult to trust again... That's the hardest part of it," said Perry.

Gayle King seemed to take the news about Sandra Bullock a little harder,...

Janet Jackson will forever be thankful to director Tyler Perry after he halted shooting on their new movie Why Did I Get Married Too? so she had time to grieve following the death of her brother Michael.

The singer/actress reprises her role as a psychotherapist in the sequel to 2007's Why Did I Get Married?, but production on the project ground to a halt last June when news of Michael Jackson's sudden passing hit the headlines.

Janet Jackson was left devastated and struggled to cope with the loss of her closest sibling - but she credits Perry with helping her overcome the tragic shock.

She tells People.com, "He actually stopped production and was there for me. (He was) constantly calling me, making sure I was Ok, making sure that there wasn't anything that I needed or my family needed.

"(He's) such a sweetheart, so giving and so loving."

Jackson refused to delay production on the movie anymore than she already had and declined Perry's offer to take a few weeks off to spend time with her relatives - and the director only allowed her back on the Bahamas set after being assured that she was in the right frame of mind to work.

He says, "Once I spoke to her and found out that she was at a place of strength and going to be with her family, I felt safe enough to know that she was going to be Ok."

Jackson recently admitted she channelled her anger at the King of Pop's death into one furious scene when she had to smash up furniture with a golf club, revealing, "You have to dig deep (for the role) but there was some stuff that was right there for me. Stuff that had just happened, with my brother passing..."

And Perry admits focusing her energy on her work probably helped Jackson return to normality: "I think that a lot of times, people are not able to release. They don't have a way to let go. And that's the great thing about having a film like this, where she got to do all of these crazy things. And I think all of (her) emotion is in the film, I really do."...

Janet Jackson says she is open to the idea of getting married again and that she's putting her relationship future in the hands of a higher power - or, in five years, she jokingly told Access Hollywood she might take director Tyler Perry's hand in marriage!

Access Hollywood caught up with Janet and Tyler at the junket for "Why Did I Get Married Too?" on Tuesday morning, where Janet explained her approach to future trips down the aisle.

"If it's God's will," Janet told Access when asked if she would ever marry again.

"That's a nice way ...

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Ever since he decided to adapt the landmark 70s play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Tyler Perry has been talking up the "dream cast" he planned to bring on board. After all, the guy just finished teaming up with Oprah to promote Precious-- he has no problem getting powerful and famous black actresses on his side. Now, right before the premiere of his new movie Why Did I Get Married Too?, Perry is finally ready to announce some actual names. Black Voices is reporting that the expansive cast will include Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine and Macy Gray. Jackson, of course, is in the Why Did I Get Married Too? cast, Kimberly Elise was part of Diary of a Mad Black Woman, and Mariah Carey was surprisingly good in Precious. The others...

Janet Jackson joins Mariah Carey and Whoopi Goldberg for Colored Girls Filmmaker Tyler Perry has just announced several cast members for his upcoming film during the premiere of his latest film. Black Voices spoke with filmmaker Tyler Perry on the red carpet premiere for his new film Why Did I Get Married Too? and he revealed that Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, and Macy Gray will star in his new film For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.

Perry is adapting the film from the 1975 play of the same name by Ntozake Shange, which featured several nameless female characters who recited poems on various topics including love, rape and abortion.

The film was said to start shooting this June in New York City. Lionsgate has already set a January 14, 2011 release date for the film.

She’s always up to something, and last night (March 22) Janet Jackson was in the house for a special screening of her new film “Why Did I Get Married Too?” in New York City.

The “Control” songstress looked lovely as she arrived at the School of Visual Arts Theater sporting an all-black ensemble with black heels.

Having lost her brother Michael Jackson last June, Janet is finally opening up about her grieving process. She told press, "Everyone's different about it, I was different about it than the rest of my family.”

And “Why Did I Get Married Too?” director Tyler Perry said Janet really poured herself into the role after Michael died. "As people see the film, they will see that she put every bit of anger, every bit of frustration, every bit of hurt and pain, because there are seven stages of grief and I think she used every...

Janet Jackson hasn’t had the easiest time since that infamous “wardrobe malfunction” in 2004. In the five years since, she’s lost her brother, broken up with long-time boyfriend Jermaine Dupri (though not before he vomited on her in public), suffered vertigo on stage and left her last record label after only one (flop) album. With all the great music she’s given us, we’re glad to see her smiling away at the special screening for Why Did I Get Married Too? in NYC last night, joined by everyone from Jill Scott and the Rev. Al Sharpton to Ice-t and CoCo (yes, star/writer/producer/director Tyler Perry was there too). While the film is unlikely to top the box office when it’s released in April (a little flick called Clash Of The Titans comes out the same day), Perry’s track record suggests Jackson should have another hit on her hands.

Janet Jackson says film director Tyler Perry was a major source of support when her brother Michael died unexpectedly last June - repeatedly checking on her and even halting work on the movie they were making together. "He actually stopped production and was there for me," Jackson, 43, told People on Monday at the New York premiere of Perry's new film, Why Did I Get Married Too? "[He was] constantly calling me, making sure I was Ok, making sure that there wasn't anything that I needed or my family needed." He is "such a sweetheart," she added, "so giving and so loving." Perry,...

At Monday's Why Did I Get Married Too premiere, Tyler Perry reportedly came out with the actual cast of his screen adaptation of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. And it's decidedly lighter on star power than the "dream cast," with Mariah Carey, Whoopi Goldberg, Janet Jackson, Kerry Washington, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kimberly Elise and Macy Gray filling in spots where the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Beyonce Knowles and Alicia Keys were once rumored to be under consideration. It shoots this summer in New York, with an outside shot of being ignored by Perry come Oscar season 2011. [AOL Black Voices]...

At last night’s premiere for his latest film, ‘Why Did I Get Married Too?, Tyler Perry revealed his cast for his upcoming adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, and Black Voices was there to capture it all.

So, all the rumors and guesses as to which actresses (or non-actresses) will be selected to star in the film, can officially be squelched.

Without further ado… here’s your cast folks (part of it anyway): Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, and Macy Gray.

No Oprah Winfrey? When I last checked she was the only one who was a sure thing, according to both she and Tyler Perry. Also, no Beyonce, Halle Berry, Angela Bassett, or Thandie Newton as previously mentioned. Although, they could still very well be cast in peripheral roles.