Director Tyler Perry has thrown his hat in the Oscar ring with For Colored Girls. Based on Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking 1974 choreopoem, the film boasts a dazzling, multigenerational cast of black actresses: Janet Jackson, Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Tessa Thompson, Whoopi Goldberg, and Macy Gray.

Lionsgate’s ‘For Colored Girls’ opened in the No. 3 spot with an estimated $20.1 million box office. The Tyler Perry-helmed ensemble piece boasts an outstanding cast including Loretta Devine, Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Kimberly Elise, Phylicia Rashad and Thandie Newton, and is Perry’s first directorial effort not based on his own material. For Colored Girls […]

Nominees for the 17th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced today. Despite the praise for its cast, Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls failed to earn a nomination in the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture category. The film adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking 1974 choreopoem was also overlooked by The Golden […]

The soundtrack to Tyler Perry’s  ‘For Colored Girls’ will be released on November 2, but you can preview TODAY by streaming over at Atlantic Records.

For Colored Girls may be the first Tyler Perry movie to be nominated for an Oscar. At least that’s what he hopes.

2009 proved to be a fairly interesting year for black film in Hollywood. Push, an indie film directed by Lee Daniels about an obese illiterate teenager in Harlem quickly became a favorite on the film festival circuit. Based on the novel  by Sapphire the film was granted two fairy godparents: Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry. […]

Lauren London has joined the cast of Tyler Perry’s “Madea’s Big Happy Family.”