I Just Gotta Share This...

I cannot tell you how excited I am about this movie that is set to hit theaters November 5th, 2010. What is the movie that I speak of, Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls! Everything about this movie reads powerful. And you have read the book seen the plays or both then you know exactly what I am talking about.  Well I just had to shear this message from Tyler Perry himself regarding the upcoming film. Check it out...

A Message from Tyler Perry...Something's Gotta Give

Hey there, I know I haven't written in a while, but I've been crazy busy with 154 performances since the top of the year. I filmed two movies this summer and I haven't had a break. It's all too much! Something's gotta
give here. I'm exhausted.  Anyway, I wanted to talk to you about FOR COLORED GIRLS.

We are only a little more than 3 weeks out from FOR COLORED GIRLS, which opens on November 5th.  Wow, time is flying! I wanted to talk to you for just a second about this film. There has been a lot of Internet chatter about me doing this film. I've heard everything from, "I'm glad he's doing it!", to "How dare he touch this!".  Believe me, I know that this is sensitive material and I handled it that way. If you don't believe me see for yourself on November 5th.

If you know anything about the book or play, FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF, which is what my film is based on, then you know that it is one of the most powerful literary works of this century. But, if you know it, you are also thinking like I was, "How can I make this into a movie?"

After reading the play a thousand times and listening to these poems a million times, it hit me.  There was only one way to approach it.  So what I did was, I put these characters in the situations around the poems, so that they could speak the dialogue of the book without it sounding like a poem. And I have to tell you, I wasn't sure that it could be done. But, after listening to Phylicia Rashad, Thandie Newton, Kerry Washington, Macy Gray, Kimberly Elise, Tessa Thompson, Whoopi Goldberg, Loretta Devine, Anika Noni Rose and Janet Jackson say these words it was awesomely seemless.

The stories are about eight women who live in NYC and we follow them through their lives; follow them through loving, losing, giving too much of themselves, being hurt and betrayed, but most of all, we follow each of these women as they find love for themselves.

This movie is powerful.  It is incredible.  The performances in it are astonishing, but most of all this film will leave you lifted.

I don't know if you know this either, but never in the history of a feature film has there been an ensemble of this many black women.  That alone is worth celebrating. I hope you are planning to see it on November 5th.

By the way, you don't have to be a colored girl to be able to relate to and enjoy this movie.

Click the link to view the trailers: http://tylerperry.com/fcg

See ya soon,

TP

Definitely cannot wait to see this flick! Loved the book and the play and hope to say I will love the movie! Hits theaters November 5th, 2010.

Early November release for Tyler Perry's 'For Colored Girls'

It has been recently reported that Lionsgate will release 'Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls... on Nov. 5, 2010 instead of its original launch date during Martin Luther King weekend in (January) 2011.

With an earlier release date it would put the film in time for year-end awards consideration, and also continues Perry's streak of releasing at least one film per year since 2005.

"It's a serious film that really lends itself to the fall period. From talking with exhibitors, I know they're really excited to have another Tyler Perry film this year," said Lionsgate's executive vice-president and general sales manager David Spitz.

Competing against the film on November 5 will be the Paramount-DreamWorks Animation's 3D toon Megamind, starring Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, and Brad Pitt and Warner Bros.' Todd Phillips-directed Due Date, with Robert Downey, Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan, and Jaime Foxx.

Sneek Peek Pic of 'For Colored Girls' Cast

Well here ya go...the starring cast of Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf adaptation. From left to right: Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Janet Jackson, Kimberly Elise, Phylicia Rashad, Loretta Divine, Tessa Thompson and Thandie Newton.*

Love It!!! In theaters Januray 14th, 2011...So can't wait!!

*Featured in the latest issue of  Essence magazine (September 2010)

Girlfriends Star Khalil Kain added to the roster of Tyler Perry's 'For Colored Girls' movie

It has been recently reported that Khalil Kain (Girlfriends, Love Jones, Juice, Renaissance Man) has been casted in Tyler Perry's adaptation of 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Enuf'.

According to sources, his character will be paired with Tony Award winning 'Princess and the Frog' star Anika Noni Rose. He will join fellow actors Omari Hardwick, Isaiah Mustafa, and Richard Lawson as the men in the film.

Based on Ntozake Shange's award-winning 1975 play, 'Colored Girls' is scheduled to shoot in June 1st, 2010 in New York with a release date of  January 14, 2011.

Structurally, For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, referred collectively as a "choreopoem", performed through a cast of nameless women, each known only by a color: "Lady in Yellow", "Lady in Purple", etc.. The poems deal with love, abandonment, rape, and abortion. The performances of the seven actresses are focused on their specific stories;

Already cast in the movie are janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine, and Macy Gray. Other actors to be named later.

Kain broke out with his feature film debut playing opposite rapper Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps in Ernest Dickerson's Juice, which is considered to many as a hip hop classic.

I'm really excited about this film. As a huge fan and viewer of Shange and the play I am interested to see how will develop on the big screen! Such a powerful collection of stories that needs to be brought to the masses.