Just to reassure you: Madea does not die in “A Madea Family Funeral.” That would be too much to bear. But Tyler Perry — the character’s creator and alter ego, and the writer, director and producer of ...

Tyler Perry is retiring his Madea wig — the last of this major money-making movie franchise is hitting theaters this weekend with A Madea Family... After 'A Madea Family Funeral,' Tyler Perry Will ...

*Lionsgate is reserving Easter weekend for its next Tyler Perry movie. Taraji P. Henson teams with the director a third time for “Tyler Perry’s She’s Living My Life,” opening March 30 opposite ...

Eric D. Snider endures the now-predictable blend of excruciating and baffling in Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral. In this week's feature review, Gretatries unsuccessfully to recapture that menace ...

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - After a close race for the top spot in North America, Universal and DreamWorks' "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" pulled ahead ...

Tyler Perry has managed to sculpt an empire around Madea (full name Mabel Earlene Simmons), the no-nonsense matriarch he first portrayed in the 1999 play "I Can Do Bad All By Myself." Madea has a ...

Tyler Perry is one of the most stacked filmmakers of his generation — and one of the most distinct, with his melding of comedy and melodrama. Across a few dozen films, most of which he directed, Perry ...

For 20 years, Tyler Perry’s Madea has delivered laughs, tough love and some valuable life lessons in between. Madea, short for Mabel Simmons, is the no-filter grandmother figure fans have grown to ...