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TYLER PERRY TO FILM ‘MEET THE BROWNS’: Popular stage play to become his fifth film under Lionsgate deal.
*Tyler Perry will again don the Madea housedresses for a film adaptation of his stage production, “Meet the Browns,” due in early 2008 for Lionsgate.
The story follows a single mother in Chicago who takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father, whom she never met. There, she is introduced to her father’s crude-yet-fun-loving Brown family.
News of the film comes a day after the premiere of Perry’s TBS sitcom “House of Payne,” which is being distributed in first-run syndication by Lionsgate's wholly owned Debmar-Mercury subsidiary.
The series debut has become the No. 1 sitcom telecast in TBS history among adults 18-34, adults 18-49, adults 25-54, overall viewers and overall households, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research.
The show, which grew a strong 12% from the first episode to the second, also provided TBS with the network’s top series telecast of all time among all key adult demos, households and viewers, as well as ad-supported cable’s top scripted telecast for the year to date among adults 18-49 and adults 25-54.
Perry and Lionsgate first struck gold in Feb. 2005 with “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” which became an unexpected box-office hit opening at No. 1 and eventually earning more than $50 million.
A year later, Perry scored another No. 1 opening with “Madea’s Family Reunion.” His next film, the Madea-less “Daddy’s Little Girls,” earned over $13 million during its opening weekend this past February. His fourth Lionsgate feature, "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?" is slated for a November 16 release.
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