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N Boutique Celebrates ‘For Colored Girls’

You and a guest are cordially invited to join N boutique in celebrating the release of “For Colored Girls.” Continue reading

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HW Pick: “For Coloured Girls” Audio CD

“For Colored Girls” is the soundtrack to Tyler Perry’s new movie starring Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Loretta Devine, Phylicia Rashad and Macy Gray among others. The movie is an adaptation of a stage play, and Perry’s translation of this to a movie has earned tonnes of harsh reviews. Continue reading

Perry Premieres “Precious Formula” In ‘Colored Girls’ (update)

The book written by Ntozake Shange in the 1970s breaks out onto the big screen as a film with a star studded cast this week on November 5th. The focus on the negative of African American life by Tyler Perry is what we call “The Precious Formula.” Continue reading

Lionsgate and Tyler Perry team For Colored Girls

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Liongate, the leading next generation studio, announced today that it has acquired worldwide distribution rights to filmmaker Tyler Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s award-winning 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Perry will write, direct and produce. The film will be the first project for 34th Street Films, Perry’s new production company, which is housed at Lionsgate. Paul Hall (Pride) also produces. The announcement was jointly made today by Joe Drake, Lionsgate Co-Chief Operating Officer and Motion Picture Group President, and Mike Paseornek, Lionsgate President of Motion Picture Production.

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