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*Apparently “Alex Cross” the movie wasn’t very good for families, because it offended one family so much it resulted in an in-flight fight. According to reports, a father traveling with his children asked a flight attendant to turn off his little ones’ monitors while the film was being shown. When a flight attendant couldn’t do that, all [...]
*Nominees for the 33rd Annual RAZZIE Awards, “honoring” the Worst Achievements in Film for 2012, include the work of filmmaker Tyler Perry and actor Eddie Murphy. While “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2” led all nominees with 11, and Adam Sandler’s “That’s My Boy” followed with 8 nominations, including Worst Picture and Worst Actor for [...]
*”Flight,” “Django Unchained,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Red Tails” and “Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds” will battle for the outstanding motion picture trophy at the 44th annual NAACP Image Awards. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced the nominations Tuesday for the awards that honor diversity in the arts. The ceremony will [...]
*When thinking of “Saturday Night Live” and Jamie Foxx, one goes into a anything can happen mode. And that was the case Saturday night when the actor/comedian/singer appeared on the show as guest host and skit player. Put it this way, if you’ve got a taste for Tyler Perry as Alex Cross AND Madea, Jamie [...]
*Asked during interviews for “Alex Cross” in October if she would ever consider retirement, celebrated stage and screen actress Cicely Tyson, 78, revealed that for the past “five or six years,” she’s been holding out for one particular theater role before agreeing to close the curtain on her illustrious career. “I have always had a [...]
*Everything was set up for Alex Cross to be a hit. The movie had a built-in fan base, from the immensely popular James Patterson book series. It had a solid, popular lead with crossover potential in Alex Cross, and another capable lead actor playing the heavy in Matthew Fox (with his own big fanbase from [...]
*As the title character in the upcoming release of action thriller Alex Cross, Tyler Perry has momentarily hung up his Madea-style moomoo, grabbed a badge and a bigger gun to play an admitted badass detective, says BCNN1.com. Apparently, there are no days off for the multiple-title having Perry, though. Of course, this new movie deserves a [...]
*Tyler Perry believes industry folk are underestimating the flexibility of his fan base when it comes to his roles outside of the Madea mothership. “The great thing about my audience is that even though there’s an association with me with the character Madea, there’s also the association with ‘Good Deeds’ and ‘Why Did I Get [...]
*Deadline.com is reporting that a new deal is being worked out for author James Patterson’s crime novel “Double Cross” to turn into a second movie starring Tyler Perry as the famous Washington DC crimefighter/psychologist. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Perry’s first turn in “Alex Cross” opens this Friday, marking the filmmaker’s first lead role that [...]
*You’ve heard of the kooky Hollywood game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” where every actor in Hollywood is connect to Kevin Bacon by six degrees? Well it only takes one degree to connect actor Tyler Perry and Morgan Freeman. That degree is Cicely Tyson by way of the upcoming thriller “Alex Cross.” Yes, everyone knows [...]
*So, since Tyler Perry has decided to venture outside of himself to expand his career as an actor, he’s been the butt of a few jokes…no pun intended (you’ll see). The Atlanta-based filmmaker plays the leading role in “Alex Cross,” based on the popular book series. While he’s yet to build up a rapport as [...]
*Cicely Tyson had to come clean about her role in the new film “Alex Cross.” [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] “I have to admit, I’d never even heard of [author James] Patterson’s work and I hadn’t seen any of the movies,” the 78-year-old stage and screen legend said during interviews for the film last weekend. [...]
*“It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind, but here I had nothing,” says Tyler Perry, who not only sheds his Madea character to take on the lead in “Alex Cross,” but also leaves the directing to someone else and delivers lines written by someone other than himself – a [...]
*Tyler Perry is working it on the November cover of Essence. The media mogul discusses his rise to fame, dedication to his craft, some of the late greats like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. But most importantly, he praised the black woman. “When Black women are down with you and in your corner, you have [...]
*Mr. Madea, Tyler Perry, is adding action hero to his resume. Yep, that’s right. if you haven’t heard, Perry was picked (over Idris Elba, among others) to replace Morgan Freeman in the Alex Cross series of films. Well, the newest adventure is simply titled Alex Cross and it’s scheduled to come out in October. The [...]
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