Because Tyler Perry makes so much money off the African-American audience, Lionsgate is joining with Televisa with plans to similarly zone in on the Hispanic market. More than a fourth of US movie-goers are Hispanic, so the Hollywood studio has an aggressive scheme of 8-10 in-house Spanish and English language productions and foreign acquisitions per year. Read more »
I never thought I’d ever be anxious to spend twelve bucks on any film in which Tyler Perry held a producer’s credit, but I have to say that I’ve been really looking forward to seeing Precious, the Oprah/Perry vehicle about an overweight black teenager who gets impregnated by her father. But not everyone is as enthusiastic about the film as I am apparently, and one such person is the New York Press‘ Armond White who this week posted a scathing review of the film that did everything but insinuate that the film’s script was written by Lucifer himself. Read more »
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