Tyler Perry slams Georgia voter legislation as 'unconstitutional,' calls on DOJ to investigate

Jake Paul fought Ben Askren at the Triller Fight Club in Atlanta on Saturday night, with the YouTuber earning a decisive victory by knocking out the retired MMA fighter in the first round.

The fight for full enfranchisement is fundamental to the African-American struggle in this country and to this country’s claim to functioning democracy. As an African-American, and as a citizen, I oppose all attempts, explicit and otherwise, to shrink the electorate and reduce access to the ballot.

John Malone's Liberty Media — which owns audio entertainment giant SiriusXM, the Atlanta Braves baseball team and the Formula One racing circuit — disclosed that president and CEO Gregory Maffei's 2020 compensation amounted to $47.1 million, up from $44 million in 2019 and $20.1 million in 2018. He had made $19.8 million in 2017 and $16.9 million in 2016.The pay details were disclosed in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Canadian studio operators have been watching the growing Hollywood backlash against Georgia's restrictive voting laws and are betting the major studios will soon bow to pressure and shift production out of Atlanta. Paul Bronfman, CEO of Comweb Corp.

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.

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.

New Jersey may be the first state to pitch itself as an alternative to Georgia production but won’t be the last amid national furor at the Peach State’s restrictive new voting law. Atlanta’s booming entertainment infrastructure has so many advantages from rebates to infrastructure, yet the state is making itself a liability again less than a year after passing a highly controversial state abortion law (struck down by a federal judge as unconstitutional).

Major League Baseball will move the 2021 All Star Game and MLB Draft out of Atlanta after the state of Georgia passed a law that sets restrictions on voting that President Biden called "Jim Crow in the 21st Century." "Over the last week, we have engaged in thoughtful conversations with Clubs, former and current players, the Players Association, and The Players Alliance, among others, to listen to their views," MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.

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Major League Baseball is making a huge move.

Major League Baseball will move this summer’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta in direct protest of Georgia’s recently passed voting laws.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterAfter the installation of restrictive new voting laws in Georgia, Hollywood seems fractured in response to new measures that affect marginalized voters in a state where dozens of film and TV projects are shot.Tyler Perry, who just spent $250 million on an Atlanta-based production facility, called for a Department of Justice investigation into the laws this week.

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.

Did we ever envision a day when a whole-ass Twitter thread would become a movie? Well, it happened alright; an epic story by A’Ziah King, aka ZOLA, told on Twitter (since deleted) became “Zola.” The movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2020 to major acclaim. Directed by Janicza Bravo (“Atlanta,” “Lemon“) and starring Taylour Paige and Riley Keough, “Zola” is about Aa stripper named Zola who embarks on a wild road trip to Florida.