Does this mean people are finally tired of Tyler Perry

if he stamps his name as producer or executive producer, people will see the film, because of the associate name. Tyler Perry has no appeal for people to see his movies regardless of handling only the financial aspect of film production. That still says something.

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The two prized film directors right now is Antoine Fuqua of Training Day and Olympus Has Fallen, and Afro-English director Steve McQueen. Tyler Perry needs to get his game up. It's like in the old days, Spike Lee was hood, but "high art" enough to appeal to all races. While Tyler Perry has the hoodrat appeal, and only appeal to a small market of blacks.

Seriously? I really wonder if you haven't seen the things that are wrong with your entire post, and especially the above comments. Really I have to wonder if you are black or not; if you are black then something must be really wrong with you, if you are not black then you are truly an ignorant and annoying (and possibly racist) individual.

First off, can't you see anything wrong with you calling those black people who go to watch a Tyler Perry movie "ghetto" and "hood rats". That is the kind of comments racist people who have absolutely no respect for black people (and poor people) would make, why would you label a group of human beings hood rats if you are not a sick and twisted racist? I mean, if you are black and using those words then I must tell you that you cannot expect non-black people to have any kind of respect for black people when you degrade and demean your own people with disgusting racist terms like that.

I know its mostly the uppity elite black people - who are often ashamed of other black people who haven't risen to their "faux standards" - that make these kinds of comment.

Note that the reason the so-called "black cinema" is in shambles and even non-existent in this decade is not because Hollywood or white people or non-black people act against it or refuse to support it, but because black people themselves are responsible for destroying it.

The truth is that black people are mostly responsible for black problems; black people hate other black people more than non-black people. These days black people hate to even watch other black people on screen, they think its too "ghetto". It is called "mental slavery;" we as black people have come to accept inferiority and low expectations as part of being black.

There are "hood movies" because sadly, the majority of black people in America live in "hoods" and the live in POVERTY, that is a fact. Black Americans are at the bottom of the economic scale in America, they are below every other ethnic minority group. Most black people are POOR and live in the inner-cities, hence most black people belong to that "hood rat" group you mentioned. By law of averages shouldn't these majority "hood rats" in the black community have their stories first in line on the cinematic queue than the minority rich black people in the black community?

Listen to yourself, you call Antoine Fuqua and Steve McQeen prized film directors - you meant prized BLACK directors; just tell me, what do those two directors have to do with black films and black cinema? You mentioned them only because they are black but didn't mention how Steve McQueen has never made any movie about black people. Antoine Fuqua only made one or two independent movies about black people - that was when he started making movies, since then he has essentially become a mainstream director who only makes commercial movies with a predominantly WHITE cast for mainstream audiences, he has nothing to do with black cinema.

Just because a filmmaker is black cannot make them PRIZED filmmakers as regards black cinema. You cannot even put those two in the same category as filmmakers like Spike Lee and John Singleton who mostly make BLACK-THEMED MOVIES, those two DO NOT make black-themed movies hence they are irrelevant.

Tyler Perry is about the only black filmmaker/producer who makes black-themed movies - sadly in 2013! He is horrible at film-making but guess what? he actually makes movies for black audiences, something 99% of Hollywood filmmakers don't care about. Hate him or love him, the man has some principles and pride in his race compared to those who lust after $$$$$ from Hollywood. Steve McQueen? Are you kidding me? the man is about as black as Mathew Perry, that man knows about being black about as much as Bill O'Reilly.

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With Kerry Washington's B-list status, I'm surprised Tyler Perry was able to hire her to star in this movie.

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