Atlanta police have launched an internal investigation into filmmaker Tyler Perry's claim he was racially profiled by two white officers who pulled his car over, the police department said.
Racial profiling "should be a hate crime investigated by the FBI," filmmaker Tyler Perry wrote in a Facebook posting Sunday in which he described his own tense encounter with police.
2012 continued its box office winning streak this weekend, as Kate Beckinsale replaced herself at the top of the chart.
Mr. Moviefone previews the 3 biggest releases out this weekend: "Haywire," "Red Tails," and "Underworld: Awakening"
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey took her final bow in a taped episode that aired Wednesday, marking the end of her 25-year daytime talk show with a tearful goodbye.
Gayle King tells Piers Morgan about Oprah Winfrey's mood now that the finale to her show has aired.
The siblings are recognized for "Whip My Hair" and The Karate Kid, as Tyler Perry leads with 19 nods
"It's made my Christmas," Coweta Fire Chief Todd Moore said of Perry's generosity
Director Tyler Perry says his new movie "For Colored Girls" is one that will inspire women from all ethnic backgrounds.
A little more than three weeks before "For Colored Girls" was set to debut, filmmaker Tyler Perry took to his website to make something clear: "You don't have to be a colored girl to be able to relate to and enjoy this movie."
The director says his childhood was "a living hell" of physical and sexual abuse
I'm lucky enough to have a job that requires me to think, read, write, teach and speak about the intersections of religion, entertainment and popular culture in American society. However, long before I began work as a college professor, I attended a church that placed as much emphasis on entertainment as instilling faith. There was a shared sense that the latter goal (i.e. instilling faith) depended upon an ability to perform the former task (i.e. entertaining).
Some came for the bargains. Others arrived just to capture a glimpse of a lifestyle from a largely bygone era of decadence and conspicuous consumption.
The cast of "Grown Ups" joke about the summer comedy they say is fun for the whole family.
The director replaced Carey, who dropped out of his new film at the last minute, with Thandie Newton
The America's Got Talent host jokes about pregnancy rumors surrounding wife Mariah Carey
Tyler Perry has done it yet again. His latest opus to the melodrama of marriage, "Why Did I Get Married Too," landed at No. 2 at the box office last weekend, with a gross of $29 million.
The notoriously private Janet Jackson opened up about her brother's death on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Friday, admitting that the family knew he had a problem.
She calls the director, whom she was working with at the time, "so giving and so loving"
Sarah Siegel-Magness doesn't mind that you probably don't recognize her or her name. You'd have to look carefully at movie credits.
CNN's Kareen Wynter sits down with Best Actress Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe.
The actor-producer's mother, a pre-school teacher in New Orleans, was 64
"Precious," a movie about a 1980s-era Harlem teen who strives to overcome abuse, neglect and illiteracy, pulled five Independent Spirit Award nominations Tuesday morning.
In an unprecedented gesture, Tyler Perry has pledged $1 million to the country's oldest and largest civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The director is "blessed to be in a position where I can give" to the civil rights organization
The two moguls share their own stories of abuse while bringing a tale of an abused teenager to the big screen
Tyler Perry has, for the first time, revealed graphic details about the sexual, physical and emotional abuse he says he suffered as a child.
The writer and director opens up about childhood beatings and sexual assaults
There's nothing funny about Tyler Perry's latest work: a revealing account of the horrific abuse he suffered as a child.
Seconds, anyone? Eating up $24.6 million worth of tickets, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" defied box office gravity by falling a minuscule 19 percent to win the top spot yet again.
Mary J. Blige has sung her way to nine Grammy Awards and sold 40 million albums worldwide.
Do you find yourself occasionally slipping into a Liverpudlian accent? Hankering after a pair of granny glasses? Arguing with your friends about the best Beatles songs of all time?
Movie producer Tyler Perry talks to CNN's Soledad O'Brien on the backlot of his studio.
Tyler Perry is known today as the first African-American to own a major film and TV studio. He's a pioneer whose own life story is a rags-to-riches tale that reads like a screenplay.
Tyler Perry, the star, writer and producer of films such as "Madea Goes to Jail" and the television show "House of Payne," could be adding philanthropist to his growing list of credits.
Turned away from a Philly swim club, minority children head to the Florida park
The Disney family film update, "Race to Witch Mountain," won the weekend box office in fine fashion, grossing $25 million according to Sunday's estimates from Media by Numbers.
After all the anticipation and hubbub, the weekend is coming to an end and the box office results are here: "Watchmen" (No. 1) grossed $55.7 million during its first frame, according to early estimates from Media by Numbers.
You are about to meet Mr. Brown.
With even Aretha Franklin loving Madea, it's unlikely she'll go away
The lure of uninterrupted work and no paparazzi appeals to the "loner by nature"
Tyler Perry describes how he went from being homeless to a mega-millionaire on Larry King Live.
If anybody had a reason to doubt whether Tyler Perry has become one of the most bankable brands in all of movies, be skeptical no longer.
Unfortunately "she'll be on tour at the same time they are shooting," her rep tells PEOPLE
Tyler Perry wants to take his character Madea to Europe, but he's been told that audiences there won't relate to his stories about African-American lives. The films have made nearly $300 million at U.S. box offices.
CNN Entertainment Producer KJ Matthews sits down with the cast of the new film "Madea goes to jail."
Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Tyler Perry and other men have dressed in drag for roles
The actress-singer faces off with Beyonce and Alicia Keys in music and film categories
Winfrey, Will Smith, Sidney Poitier and sports legends help open his film and TV center
The newlyweds attend the Time 100 Gala and Waverly Inn
A number of entertainers were named in connection with an Albany-based steroid investigation, but they are not part of an ongoing criminal probe
Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean, Timbaland and Tyler Perry are among the names that have surfaced on a long list of people in a current New York investigation of those who may have obtained steroids or human growth hormones, the Albany Times Union reports.
Americans are always good at touting an issue as a state of emergency in order to establish a sense of urgency. And there are any number that we could highlight -- HIV/AIDS, gun violence, drug addiction -- but one that should be added to the list is that of the divorce rate in this nation.
Tyler Perry explores marriage's ups and downs in his new film, "Why Did I Get Married?" CNN's Jennifer Wolfe reports
Los Angeles is looking fabulous today. It's a November afternoon - bright, clear skies, sparkling ocean - and from this glass mansion in the Hollywood Hills, a flock of seagulls can be seen taking ...
Fortune: Last of the indiesupdated: Wed Aug 02 2006 12:11:00
The movie is bad, and everyone in the screening room knows it. But Jon Feltheimer, CEO of Lions Gate Entertainment, isn't fazed. "Just because it sucks doesn't mean we can't make a few bucks with i...
showbuzzupdated: Fri Apr 21 2006 12:03:00
Pete Doherty was released on bail Friday, a day after his latest arrest for suspected drug possession.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Playwright Tyler Perry, who turned his crazy-granny "Madea" character into a lucrative cottage industry, returned to the top of the box office Sunday, exactly one year after stunning the industry with a No. 1 bow for his first film.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - There's been a lot of talk about the box-office slump in Hollywood. But if you're looking at the results of independent film studio Lionsgate, you'd think Tinseltown was on a roll.
Did you know that if you film a scene, tell everyone to hold really, really still, shut off the camera, add a prop of some sort, and then turn the camera back on -- it looks like magic? It's true!
The gonzo soap opera "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" is a bad movie so over-the-top that at moments it's almost good -- or, at least, more arresting than it has any right to be.
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