Tyler Perry Sets ‘Jazzman’s Blues’ As Next Film At Netflix; Taps Joshua Boone And Solea Pfeiffer To Star

EXCLUSIVE: American Skin is coming to BET+ next week.

Tyler Perry officially hung up the iconic character's gray wig and colorful housecoats after the 2019 film, but he's not quite done with her yet.

After starting off on stage and then moving to the big screen, Tyler Perry’s Madea is now headed to television.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterTyler Perry is developing a drama prequel series about the early life of his iconic character Madea for Showtime, Variety has learned.Showtime has ordered multiple scripts for the projects, which is titled “Mabel.” Per the official description of the project, long before she was the force of nature known as Madea she was a smart, fierce, irresistible, dangerous, crazy 20-something black woman named Mabel Simmons.

Tyler Perry is doing all he can to help his production crew and staff get vaccinated. The 51-year-old media mogul set up a vaccination site at his Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Ga.

Haley Bosselman editorThe third season of “Tyler Perry’s Sistas” will premiere on June 9, BET announced Tuesday.The one-hour drama will pick up right where the Season 2 finale left off, in the aftermath of Gary (Chido Nwokocha) being shot. The show follows a group of single Black women as they navigate love, careers and friendship in their 30s, with a cast that includes KJ Smith, Mignon, Ebony Obsidian, Novi Brown, DeVale Ellis, Nwokocha, Anthony Dalton II, Brian Jordan Jr., Kevin A.

Tyler Perry, who got his COVID-19 vaccine on TV in January in an effort to instill trust in it, is now helping his production crew get the shot. Over the weekend, the film and television mogul set up a vaccination site at his Tyler Perry Studios production facility in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tyler Perry is ending the protocol and helping his production crew get vaccinated.

Production powerhouse Tyler Perry has landed on the Forbes Billionaires list for the first time, with $1 billion. The prolific filmmaker behind the Madea franchise, A Fall From Grace and recently announced A Jazzman’s Blues – both for Netflix — is billionaire no. 2,677.

Tyler Perry was one of the first Hollywood producers to come up with a comprehensive plan to safely restart TV production in April 2020, just several weeks into the pandemic-related Hollywood shutdown. He got filming up and running by mid-July, employing a quarantine bubble model, in which cast and crew are sequestered on the lot for the duration of a shoot.

Searchlight Pictures and Sam Mendes are teaming on the director’s next project with Searchlight boarding Empire of Light with Mendes on set to direct and Olivia Colman in negotiations to star. This will mark Mendes first film since his Oscar-nominated 1917 and will also mark the first time both he and Colman have worked together. The film will also re-team Mendes with cinematographer Roger Deakins, who won an Oscar for his work on 1917.

The legacy of author Tom Clancy‘s famous spy, espionage, and military-science thriller novels is such his name is in the title of Michael B. Jordan‘s latest film, “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse.” Clancy, of course, is the author behind the books adapted for such famous movies like “The Hunt for Red October” (1984), “Patriot Games” (1987), “Clear and Present Danger” (1989), and “The Sum of All Fears” (1991).

After Zack Snyder's Justice League was released, one thing that fans realized and were shocked to discover was how Ray Fisher's Cyborg was handled differently in both films. While the Snyder Cut gave Fisher his much-needed limelight, it was clear that Joss Whedon had chopped off several portions of Fisher's Cyborg and other characters of colour from the movie.

Tyler Perry is weighing in on Georgia's new voting law. The Atlanta-based mogul, who runs a sprawling studio in the city, acknowledged that it's not the first time his state has passed controversial legislation."As a Georgia resident and business owner I’ve been here a few times with the anti-abortion bill and the LGBTQ discrimination bill," Perry said in a statement.

Tyler Perry is speaking out about the new voting legislation that was signed into law by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp last week.  Perry, who runs a massive television and movie studio in Atlanta, issued a statement to The Hollywood Reporter decrying to new legislation, arguing it is "unconstitutional" and calling on the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into what he calls a "voter suppression law."  The bill standardizes voting hours in the state from 9 a.m.

Georgia’s sweeping overhaul of voting rights, Hollywood heavyweights are threatening economic consequences for the production-friendly state and calling for a federal investigation.The controversial new law requires a state-issued ID for absentee voting, limits the number of ballot drop boxes and makes it illegal to hand out food products and water to those waiting in line to cast their votes, among other measures criticized as efforts by the Republican-controlled legislature as efforts to

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp drew protests Thursday as he signed into law a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections that includes new restrictions on voting by mail and greater legislative control over how elections are run.