Looks like Oprah's OWN Network is moving forward quickly with that recent multi-year development deal with Tyler Perry - according to Deadline, Perry is set to write, direct, and executive produce two shows for the network, a comedy and a drama, to air in mid-2013. Both projects are pretty archetypically Perry: The comedy, Love Thy Neighbor, is set in a diner where "the menu serves up good food, great laughs, valuable life lessons, and a whole lot of love for its zany neighbors," while the drama, The Haves and the Have Nots, follows an upper class family, and the poverty-stricken family of their housekeeper. [Read More]

The structure of a large building at filmmaker Tyler Perry's studio is fine after part of it caught fire, sending flames into the night sky, authorities said. There were no reports of injuries from the blaze that began shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday and burned through the building's exterior surface, Atlanta Fire Capt. Jolyon Bundrige said. "It was all in flames," Dorothy Ware, who lives in a high-rise apartment next door to the studio complex, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [Watch Video]

Tyler Perry hit up Chelsea Lately this week to promote his new film, Good Deeds.  While there, he discussed how meeting a homeless lady helped change his life as well as helped Chelsea figure out the right pronunciation of Madea.  

Chelsea also seized the opportunity to grill Tyler on the controversy surrounding him choosing Kim Kardashian to star in The Marriage Counselor. Enjoy.

Film Director Tyler Perry has done quite well for himself being that he managed to turn his playwrights into #1 movie productions, created Tyler Perry Studios, and the list goes on and on.

All of those things didn’t happen overnight but you too can learn his secret to success. Earlier this week, Perry posted a video blog that gave a lot of inquiring minds an answer to the million dollar question, How did you make it? [Read More]

Tyler Perry claims that all African-American casts are "becoming extinct," in a lengthy rant about the lack of support of new movie Red Tails.

The highest-earning man in entertainment has penned an open letter in which he addresses the black community in movies, and slams those who say Black movies have lost popularity. [Read More]

Jamie Foxx and Tyler Perry are being sued for $1 million each by Shamont Lyle Sapp who claims that the two stole a movie idea from him.

The pair are starring as lady bank robbers - alongside Martin Lawrence - who are all characters taken from their previous films. [Read More]

The first trailer for multi-hyphenate demagogue Tyler Perry's Good Deeds has arrived, and as predicted, the man's name is all over it.

Writer, director, actor, craft services. If you've gone too long without your Tyler Perry fix, we have what ails you in the clip above. Good Deeds hits theaters everywhere February 24th. Enjoy.

(Get your mind out the gutter!) Now that Kim Kardashian has won the television with Keeping Up with Kardashians, what's an opportunistic modern woman to do? Make movies, of course!

A few Kim's fans may remember her brief foray into film (no, no that one...), but by critic's measures 2008's Disaster Movie and 2009's Deep in the Valley were both comedic flops. [Read More]