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He’s a credit to his race. Bravo. I wish more of you black people be like him and lead by example. Bravo.

TPS …..Congratulations….

Tyler Perry is a testimony to the power of faith and deeds. I respect any brother who can turn nothing into something. His movies leave me a little perturbed from time to time; but no one is perfect. If I’m overtly critical towards him I block my own blessings.

And I also love the fact that Oprah openly loves and supports this brother.

Congratulations Tyler!!! You do us proud!!

Kimberly Elise is such a spectacular actress.

Congrats. Maybe ownership will help this dude stop making Sambo-esque movies.

That’s awesome!

We now have a better chance of seeing more black actors in movies & T.V thanks to Tyler Perry.[♥]

congratulations.you make us very proud.

oprah open it for all of us.

Congrats Tyler! I’m so proud of you. I love to see my black people doing big things.

john legend looks good! sandra rose says tyler perry is on the down low. is it true? i’m proud of him but i hate his movies.

Awesome! I hope he does a movie with Will Smith…that would be cool.

What is EVa the Diva doing there? that talentless HO better sit her lame ass down…f***king her way into industry parties like she has any talent and deserves to be there.

Derek Duke is married to a white woman?

TP is doing his thing. I’m so proud of him. He’s an example of how we can achieve as a people. He didn’t let his past dictate his future. Go Tyler!

Hollywood B.S.>>>I think Eva was there because her boyfriend Lance (I forget his last name) is a cast member of TP’s “House of Payne.”

Congrats Tyler! This is such a good look.

Yeah, Eva’s boyfriend is one of the actors that works closely with Perry.

Tyler Perry is doing it big!!! If I’m not mistaken, he said he wanted to make Atlanta the east coast hollywood or the black hollywood can’t remember which. Do your thing Mr. Perry.

Correction on Tyler’s last name. It’s Perry. Sorry bro and thanks for showing what you can accomplish with you stay focused, finally! Next time I’m in the ATL, I’ll check out the facility. Peace and best wishes.

It would be nice if some of the well known black actors would work with Mr. Perry to help him get established as a owner of a film studio. Tyler Perry mentioned that he was interested in Denzel Washington for one of his upcoming movie roles but by Denzel commanding 20 million per picture he did not know if he would be able to obtain him.

may he never stop learning and seek to make sound business decisions…..

…happy for him and wishing him nothing but good luck, which he doesn’t really need considering his talent.

Now that’s how you do it BIG! Loves it! Big ups to TP for making history. Hopefully I can get one of those 100 jobs he’s promised to bring to ATL!

This is a post about somebody black doing something spectacular and we have people here cursing other black people-calling one a ho; one on the down-low. Come on black people can we stop demoralizing each other?. It’s time to stop this disgusting behaviour. This plantation style behaviour has got to stop. Stop calling each other these derogatory names.

Just be happy for the man. If you’re not just say so without the deragotary remarks about him and other black entertainers. There was a time when people that looked like you and I would get killed just because we dared to breathe the same air as someone white. Have some self-respect and gratutide for how far we have traveled and how much we’ve achieved with all the obstacles erected against us.

T.Perry is a real gamer.Good for him.Hope he’s able to put many Black writers & tech support to work.More importantly I hope he TURNS A CONSISTENT PROFIT.Gotta laugh at how the media mafia is picketing his studio to hire union labor.

If anyone thinks negative about Tyler Perry than that is simply the devil!! Because what Tyler has been through to get to where he is now should be hope and inspiration to people who look like him! And the fact he is successful in an industry that does not cater to black folks shows when God has a plan for your life, no one can stand in your way honey!!!

im no longer a fan of Tyler Perry’s “typical” movies, but I’m very much a fan of any black brother who worked his way up in white hollywood to get this money…and some of the power. Props to him.

Very proud, saying it loud a la James Brown. May his tribe increase.

Tyler!,brother I am sooooooo happy for you,despite the recent setbacks, it’s good to see you still getting yours! Congratulations! And keep doing you…

Thats great!! Man people dont understand what the Oprah’s, the Will’s, and the Tyler’s do in the industry. Like owning your own stuff in the industry is like the difference between selling crack vs. weed. Its like either Will can demand a flat 20 million dollar salary or he can take 10 and produce the movie so he can get a % of the gross revenue which will often times triple what he wouldve made on a set salary. What Tyler is doing is not answering to studios. He can make the films he wants to make without a big name out of touch studio exec saying its not “enough” of something. Most times with Black movies they want all of us to fit into a stereotypical role with ghats and fowl language. Big ups to T.P. for doing big things and also, most importantly, paying homage to those people who didnt have it as easy as the modern generation has it.

WHO’S TYLER PERRY?

CONGRAT’S TO T.P.!

HE WORKED HARD TO COME UP FROM NOTHING TO HIS CHITTLIN’ CIRCUIT PLAYS, THEN MOVIES, NOW A STUDIO!

HE PROVED YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A HOLLYWOOD INSIDER TO MAKE IT IN THE BIZ!

You Go TP! You Go!

tyler is from my neck of da woods. congratulations

It is a histroic day, but he is still not paying the writers on his show the correct wage or into the penison or giving them helath benefits. I’m not knocking the accomplishment, but he knows how hard it is and to deny seven people the right to the correct wage and health benefits, he’s paying the actors, the crew and the directors (which he is the only one) those things is unfair. Okay now here comes the “hater” posts towards, but fair is fair. If this were a white man doing it to black writers black folks would be up in arms about this. Al Sharpton and Jesse would be searching for a press conference to talk.

who said Madea was a minstrel act?

@ Rusty Eagle,

I agree with you man…..100%

I’m happy for Tyler as well. I hope he don’t fall victim to Hollywood for real and start excluding black actors. He’s already recycling the ones he has now like there ain’t no more black actors out there. And why are his writers striking him?

Little do people know that this is not the first black studio in history, there was one back in the 1920′s which made over 200 films. One may have been Fly Boys with Harry Belafonte. I have to research cause I can’t remember the name now, can anyone else remember? Debra Lee pay attention and start changing that programing at BET, it has not had a program make over in years.

Way to go Tyler!!! I hope that through this one man, he can do what other great black filmmakers like Spike Lee have been hoping to do for a really long time and have laid the foundation for guys like Tyler, to find the industry ready and waiting… I hope and pray that Atlanta does become the black Hollywood of America and that they give them pinkies on the west coast a run for their money…

YES TYLER HAS COME A LONG WAY, I GIVE HIM PROPS. I JUST HOPE HE CAN KEEP IT GOING AND MONEY IN THE BANK.

I wish more celebs would follow in his footsteps. Maybe then there would be more black TV shoes and more black films in theatres.

CONGRATULATIONS BROTHER. LOVE ME SOME TYLER…

HE PROVES NOBODY WHO YOU ARE OR WHAT SKIN COLOR YOU OR WHERE EVER YOU MAY DERIVE FROM ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE THROUGH FAITH IN GOD AND DETERMINATION…THANK YOU TYLER FOR BEING SUCH A POSITIVE EXAMPLE TO OUR PPL.

MAY GOD KEEP YOU BLESS.

This is rather random but…Kirk Franklin and “guest”? Sooo…that isn’t his wife then? I don’t remember much about how she looks but I think she’s got a bigger booty than the chick on his arm and thus I conclude that all is not well?

I thought Oprah was the first to do that. Harpo productions and the oxygen channel. Well…kudos to you bro

I thought oprah was the first to do that? Kudos to you Mr. Perry!

Congrats Tyler! YEAH!

Congratulations Tyler. That’s what’s up. I like his movies. There is truth in em.

Congrats to him. Maybe now he will make some better movies. No hate just real talk.

BIG UPS TO TYLER PERRY AND SEN.OBAMA…BREAKING GROUNDS FROM 08 AND BEYOND………

Dude really gives off A LOT of gay vibes.

May God continue to Bless him and his success. I’m really happy someone can have some good news out here today.

As much as I’d like to be completely happy for Tyler, I’m torn by this. He just fired four BLACK writers on his show because they had the nerve to ask for MINIMUM Union wages. The actors, and production crew are all receiving Union scale, so why not the writers? They helped him write 100 episodes and get his big deal, and then they got fired via conference call. As a writer myself I find this outrageous. Obviously Mr. Perry can afford to pay them. They just wanted health benefits and residuals just like any other writer. Were they supposed to accept less because they were black and should be happy to be working for him? He was homeless and living in his car. Perry should know better.

Spike Lee wrote on a public message board:

Tyler,

Come on, man. Being a writer yourself you should know how important it is to be a union member and support union wages and benefits for those who you employ on your writing staff.

Look at the temperature of the country now with corporate greed and with the very few profiting off of the very many. Don’t fall into that trap.

“Do the Right Thing.”

– Spike

Congratulations, Tyler!

Im proud of him. True example of getting up off your ass and making something happen for yourself… more ppl should be like this, its commendable

I actually love TPs movies. I think he shows the different dynamics of black people. How anyone can say that his movies are like minstrel shows is beyond me. My family consists of Madea. IT also consists of Robin Givens type charachters in “…Family that Preys”. I love his movies and will continue to support them when they come to theaters.

Lets all celebrate the opening of the new “Tyler Perry/ Stepin’ Fetchit” academy for coonin’

Glad for him, with his own production studio, he should now be able to put out more ‘developed’ characters and films and show more complex stories of black folk.

Handle it, Tyler.

Progress…

thats whats up! very proud of him.

I will be watching just to support

Congrats and Much Luv to Tyler Perry!!

…Ain’t God Good???

Real Conservative 1st I want to start by telling you to suck a #%&!GET A LIFE already!!!

now for more positive things….

GO Tyler Perry I love your works and Eva is beautiful as ever she is the true definition of a beautiful black woman.

It’s6am….LMMAO. Here’s hoping TP’s new company won’t result in my people being subjected to more coon-dom and downright bafoonery. Hopefully he was just producing bullsh*t because he knew that would bring in the black dollars. Maybe now he has the money and backup to make quality films. Here’s hoping anyway…

EVA IS SO PRETTY

Damn Eva has got to be one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

tyler perry lookin like a dick wit a rubber on,AND will smith just slid it on’em

I hope that he GROWS in his “art” —-

he is UNTHREATENING and GENIAL and

GOOD NATURED —- nothing wrong with

that.

I just hope that he realizes that

“Medea” is a diversion —- and that

he grows enough to produce art.

I’m not a fan of Tyler’s films but that’s cool that he has a movie studio !

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Big up to Tyler. its about time, a true rags to riches story he is. Even though he makes coonery movies he’s come a freaking long way. But Why is Will all on his chest like that!

For the folks saying Tyler Perry’s movies are about “minstrels,” you’re way off base. Minstrelsy was typified by white men dressing in black face and mocking a perverse vision they had of blacks. Tyler offers positive images of Black American life…it’s the complete opposite.

If you’re trying to say it’s the mammie character that offends you, then, first of all, you don’t know much about Black American culture. Matriarchs have been the foundation of our families for centuries; this is an extension of our African heritage. Because he makes his version comedic doesn’t mean it’s stereotypical or offensive.

Secondly, half of Perry’s movies hardly even deal with Madea– Daddy’s Little Girls: a single black working class father trying to find love and raise his children, Why Did I Get Married: a group of successful, educated black couples who are dealing with the pressures of marriage and find ways to heal their relationships or themselves, The Family that Preys: assesses how money can lead to corruption and greed. Even the ones WITH Madea all centered on spirituality and promoting strong family bonds. Do your homework before you knock the dude.

I was never into the chitlin curcuit, and I do get tired of stereotypical, shuckin and jiving productions, but I cannot call Perry’s films any of these.

I’m so glad this is in my city (ATL!!). Blessings to you my brotha! This is an historic event, and if you think you can do better, let this inspire you to do more.

CONGRATS TO HIM !! lol buts its true he does give a gay vibe

Tyler Perry’s movies remind me of the “Black Acting School” portion of “Hollywood Shuffle.”

- Duh promised land!

- Baltimo’?

Before bamas try to define minstrelsy, maybe they should 1) look it up, or 2) rent “Bamboozled”

all money ain’t good money…