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Oprah Winfrey And Tyler Perry Dress The Part For OWN Promo: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 4, 2013 @ 5:01pm PDTTags: Oprah Winfrey, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, Tyler Perry

For those that ever wondered what would happen if Tyler Perry‘s Madea came upon Oprah Winfrey‘s Color Purple character Sofia while driving down a country road — well, this is your lucky day. OWN unveiled this promo for Perry’s two new series during today’s upfront in NY. It begins airing on the network tonight, and features Madea asking Sofia how to find the network. “Girl child, it ain’t safe in a world of cable channels”, Sofia says. A pair of Perry series — drama The Haves And Have Nots and comedy Love Thy Neighbor — will have their series premieres on the network May 28 and May 29, respectively. Check it out:

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Related: Discovery Shows Off Star Power At Upfront Presentation

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OWN Sets Launch Plans For Tyler Perry Series, Orders 2 New Unscripted Shows

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 4, 2013 @ 7:00am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Love Thy Neighbor, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, The Haves And The Have Nots, Tyler Perry
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The May 28-29 debuts of Tyler Perry‘s new original scripted series for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will be preceded by an Oprah’s Next Chapter episode May 26 featuring a Winfrey interview with Perry. It will be immediately followed by Tyler Perry Comes To OWN: Behind The Scenes, a special about the making of the two series, drama The Haves And The Have Nots and comedy Love Thy Neighbor. The Haves And Have Nots premieres May 28 at 9 PM, while Love Thy Neighbor launches May 29 at 9 PM with two back-to-back episodes.

Additionally, OWN has greenlighted two new unscripted series: Millionaire Mama’s Boy, about the dynamic relationship between WNBA star Pamela McGee and her NBA star son JaVale, and Houston Beauty, about the world of a Texas beauty school. Here are the network’s descriptions: Read More »

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OWN Picks Up Tyler Perry’s Sitcom ‘For Better Or Worse’, Orders Third Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 20, 2013 @ 1:06pm PSTTags: Oprah Winfrey, OWN, Tyler Perry
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OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is quickly becoming the Oprah Winfrey & Tyler Perry Network. OWN has picked up Perry’s sitcom For Better Or Worse, ordering a third season of originals and acquiring the show’s existing … Read More »

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OWN Is “Moving In The Right Direction”, Discovery Chief Says

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday February 14, 2013 @ 6:45am PSTTags: Discovery Communications, Oprah Winfrey, OWN, Tyler Perry

Ratings at the channel, a joint venture with Oprah Winfrey, are “ahead of where we thought we’d be,” Discovery CEO David Zaslav told analysts this morning. The audience was up in all 12 months of 2012, and was … Read More »

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John Schneider Among Actors Cast In Tyler Perry’s Two OWN Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 6:15pm PSTTags: OWN, Tyler Perry
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John SchneiderEXCLUSIVE: The Dukes Of Hazzard and Smallville alum John Schneider is set to star in Tyler Perry’s drama series for OWN, The Haves And The Have Nots, while six actors, including Jonathan Chase and Palmer Williams, have been cast in Perry’s comedy series for the cable network, Love Thy Neighbor. Both shows, written, directed and Produced by Perry through his Tyler Perry Studios, are set to premiere at the end of May.

The Haves And The Have Nots follows the dynamics of the affluent Cryer family and the impoverished family of Hanna, their housekeeper, and the obstacles and secrets that exist within both families. Innovative-repped Schneider will play Jim Cryer, the Cryer family patriarch. Read More »

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Razzie Nominations: ‘Twilight’ Finale, Adam Sandler, Tyler Perry

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 9, 2013 @ 2:48am PSTTags: Adam Sandler, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Tyler Perry

Nominees for the 33rd Annual RAZZIE® Awards, satirizing the Worst Achievements in Film for 2012, include several Repeat Offenders, returning for more pie-in-the-face/light-hearted joshing in the one Tinsel Town trophy derby no one wants to win. Adam Sandler is back, following up his record-setting 2011 RAZZIE® “winner” JACK & JILL with an even more off-putting “family comedy,” THAT’S MY BOY. Focused on a scofflaw dad who fathered (then abandoned) a son with his 7th grade teacher, BOY amassed a total of 8 nominations, including Worst Picture and Worst Actor for Sandler himself – while also grossing about half what JACK & JILL did. But Sandler’s misfire was topped by the final chapter in a franchise which has reliably racked up RAZZIE® nominations year-after-year: TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (or as RAZZIE® Wags call it, TWILIGHT: S.B.D. #2).

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Hot Trailer: ‘Tyler Perry’s Temptation’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday December 21, 2012 @ 12:13pm PSTTags: Kim Kardashian, Lionsgate, Tyler Perry, Tyler Perry's Temptation

Lionsgate‘s latest Tyler Perry pic Tyler Perry’s Temptation, which he wrote and directed, stars Friday Night Lights alum Jurnee Smollett, Lance Gross, Vanessa Williams, Robbie Jones and Kim Kardashian in a drama about a married marriage counselor (Smollett) who falls into a relationship with a rich client … Read More »

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OWN Orders Drama & Comedy Series From Tyler Perry

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 13, 2012 @ 10:50am PSTTags: Oprah Winfrey, OWN, Tyler Perry
Nellie Andreeva

That didn’t take long — two months after Oprah Winfrey‘s OWN announced a multi-year exclusive deal with Tyler Perry for scripted shows, the network has greenlighted two series written, directed and produced by Perry from his production company Tyler Perry Studios. Perry’s agreement with OWN called for him to write, direct and exec produce two series for a mid-2013 launch. Now the shows have been identified, drama The Haves And The Have Nots and comedy Love Thy Neighbor, the network confirmed. This marks the first drama series for the prolific Perry, who stayed strictly on the sitcom side with his TBS series, all done with Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury: House Of Payne, Meet The Browns and For Better Or Worse. The Tyler Perry shows mark OWN’s first scripted offerings.

Related: Tyler Perry Is Great For OWN: Analyst Read More »

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Tyler Perry Is Great For OWN, And No Big Loss For TBS And Lionsgate: Analyst

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday December 10, 2012 @ 8:21am PSTTags: Lionsgate, OWN, TBS, Tyler Perry

Cowen and Co analyst Doug Creutz makes a plausible case, although not completely persuasive one, for his prediction this morning that Tyler Perry’s decision to make OWN his TV platform will work out for everybody. Creutz acknowledges that details haven’t been announced for the two new scripted series that Perry will introduce in mid-2013 on Oprah Winfrey’s joint venture with Discovery. Also, ”we’re not sure Perry’s sitcoms are a great match for Oprah’s aspirational female-targeted brand,” Creutz says. Still, he forecasts that the entertainer’s deal “could potentially bring a meaningful ratings boost to OWN, helping that network climb to profitability in FY13.” Discovery CEO David Zaslav has already promised the Street that OWN will at least break even. Indeed, Creutz says that Perry could increase the prime time audience at OWN by 10% or more even with smaller ratings than he generates at TBS. Read More »

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Discovery CEO Says OWN Will Become Less “Teachy And Preachy” With Tyler Perry

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday November 6, 2012 @ 7:23am PSTTags: David Zaslav, Oprah Winfrey, OWN, Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry’s exclusive TV production deal with OWN shouldn’t turn the self-improvement channel into just another general entertainment network, Discovery CEO David Zaslav told analysts this morning. “This is something Oprah really wants,” he says. “We were … Read More »

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‘Paranormal Activity 4′ Opens With $30M For $56.5M Global Weekend; Tyler Perry As ‘Alex Cross’ Low $12M; Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’ Holds

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday October 21, 2012 @ 6:44am PDTTags: Alex Cross, Box Office, Paramount Pictures, Paranormal Activity 4, Tyler Perry

SUNDAY AM, 4TH UPDATE: (Top Ten below) This is another good weekend as domestic box office turns the corner on the holiday grosses – $125M total moviegoing, or +12% more than last year. Paramount‘s R-rated hit Halloween franchise … Read More »

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Tyler Perry And James Patterson Finalizing Alex Cross Film Sequel With QED: Exclusive

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday October 17, 2012 @ 7:10pm PDTTags: James Patterson, QED International, Tyler Perry

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that the deal coming together will turn bestselling author James Patterson’s crime novel Double Cross into a 2nd movie starring Tyler Perry as the famous Washington DC crimefighter/psychologist. Perry’s first turn as Alex Cross opens this Friday from QED. … Read More »

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Oprah’ OWN And Tyler Perry In Deal For Scripted Series: Exclusive & Multi-Year

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 1, 2012 @ 9:03am PDTTags: Oprah Winfrey, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, Tyler Perry
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Tyler Perry and Oprah WinfreyLong-time friends (and the two richest African Americans in showbiz) Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry are now forging a business partnership. OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has inked an exclusive multi-year deal with Perry. Under the pact, he will executive produce, write and direct two new scripted series for a mid-2013 premiere on OWN, marking the network’s first foray into scripted programming. “I have been looking forward to the day when we would be in the position to enter the world of scripted television. That day has come,” said Oprah Winfrey, OWN’s CEO. “We are all energized by the opportunity to collaborate with Tyler who has a proven track record for producing highly successful cable series.” Read More »

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Careless Smoking Caused Fire At Tyler Perry’s Atlanta Studio Investigators Say

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 3:00pm PDTTags: Tyler Perry

The fire at Tyler Perry’s studio complex broke out Monday morning on the roof of a three-story building that was undergoing repairs. Atlanta Fire Rescue Capt. Marian McDaniel tells The Associated Press that investigators determined the cause was … Read More »

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Fire Hits Tyler Perry’s Atlanta Studio Again

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday August 27, 2012 @ 4:12pm PDTTags: Tyler Perry

A fire has erupted at Tyler Perry’s Atlanta studio for the second time in four months. The blaze broke out this morning on the roof of the three-story building that was undergoing repairs, the Atlanta Journal Constitution … Read More »

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Raunch Rules! R-Rated ‘Ted’ $52.5M And ‘Magic Mike’ $38M Weekends; ‘Tyler Perry’s Madea’ So-So; ‘People Like Us’ Stillborn

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday June 30, 2012 @ 11:58pm PDTTags: 'People Like Us', Channing Tatum, Hollywood box office, Magic Mike, Seth MacFarlane, Ted, Tyler Perry

 

June 29-July 1 Weekend Actuals

1. Ted (Universal) NEW [3,239 Theaters] R
Friday $20.6M, Saturday $17.9M, Sunday $16.0M, Weekend $54.4M

2. Magic Mike (Warner Bros) NEW [2,930 Theaters] R
Friday $19.4M, Saturday $11.4M, Sunday $8.4M, Weekend $39.1M

3. Brave 3D (Pixar/Disney) Week 2 [4,164 Theaters] PG
Friday $10.4M, Saturday $13.3M, Sunday $10.4M, Weekend $34.1M (-49%), Cume $131.8M

4. Madea’s Witness Protection (Tyler Perry/Lionsgate) NEW

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Hot Trailer: ‘Alex Cross’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday June 26, 2012 @ 10:08am PDTTags: Alex Cross, Matthew Fox, Summit Entertainment, Tyler Perry

Deadline’s readers have been split from the beginning about the casting of Summit Entertainment’s Alex Cross, based on the James Patterson detective novels. It certainly is a jolt to see Tyler Perry and even Lost‘s Matthew Fox in dramatic-action tough-guy modes in this trailer, so it will … Read More »

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Fire Erupts At Tyler Perry Studios In Atlanta

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday May 1, 2012 @ 9:31pm PDTTags: Tyler Perry

UPDATE: Firefighters contained the blaze to one building in the center of the 30-acre Southwest Atlanta complex owned by the TV/film maker Tyler Perry (who was there) and are investigating the cause. No injuries were … Read More »

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Obama Campaign Lists Hollywood Bundlers

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday April 20, 2012 @ 3:47pm PDTTags: Barack Obama, George Clooney, Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Tyler Perry

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Harvey Weinstein, Tyler Perry and Eva Longoria have helped raise some very big bucks for Barack Obama in 2012. Obama Hollywood DonorsThe President’s re-election campaign voluntarily released a list today of its big bundler donors for the first quarter of the year – it includes a number of Hollywood names. Unsurprisingly, Weinstein and Katzenberg were in the top bracket of those who pulled together millions in donations from relatives, friends and business associates for the Obama campaign. The Oscar-winning producer and the DreamWorks CEO both raised more than $500,000 for the incumbent. Tyler Perry, who held two recent Atlanta fundraisers for the President, shows up in $500,000+ category for the first time. Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos, producer Colleen Bell and HBO’s James Costos bundled more than half a million for Obama. Comcast EVP David Cohen and his wife Rhonda as well Mai Lassiter, wife of Hitch producer James Lassiter, former DreamWorks corporate communications boss and Katzenberg political advisor Andy Spahn and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour were also in the top bundler bracket. Desperate Housewives’ Eva Longoria, another longtime supporter of the President, Warner Bros.’ Josh Berger and Jamie Lynton, wife of SONY CEO Michael Lynton, raised between $200,000 and $500,000 each. Lynton himself, WME’s Ari Emanuel, Kelly Meyer, wife of Universal Studios President Ron Meyer, Rebecca Carter, wife of Lady Gaga’s manager Troy Carter, and entertainment lawyer Joe Calabrese were among those in the $100,000 to $200,000 bracket. Former News Corp President Peter Chernin, Treme actor Wendell Pierce, HBO co-president Richard Plepler and talent manager Eric Ortner were in the $50,000 to $100,000 category. Read More »

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