Released on: 1999
Rating: 8.50
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Tyler Perry extends deal with Lionsgate
Tyler Perry, he of the successful Madea films and the upcoming star of I, Alex Cross, has extended his partnership with Lionsgate with a multi-year deal for films and home entertainment. Lionsgate has distributed Perry’s films since 2005′s Diary of a Mad Black Woman, and three more Madea films are on the way, including next month’s Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family.
“Together, Lionsgate and I have built the ideal filmmaker/studio relationship, and I’m thrilled that it will be continuing,” said Perry, in a statement. “We share an entrepreneurial spirit and have a great business rapport.»
- Jeff Labrecque
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The Fascinating, Exciting, Mind-Numbing Life of an Extra
We don't usually feature reader/listener blog posts here at /Film (although I do hope that will change in the future). However, /Film reader, /Filmcast listener, and Tobolowsky Files [1] intern Andrew Goldfarb recently wrote a post about his work as an extra/background artist over the past four years that I could not resist re-posting here. It's informative, funny, harrowing, and kind of riveting.If you've ever wondered about the fascinating life of an extra, read on. Andrew's post was originally published at his IGN blog [2]. It has been republished here with his permission.***For the past four years, I've worked full-time as a background actor in film and television. I went to school at the University of Connecticut. At the end of my junior year in 2007, there were rumors that the fourth Indiana Jones movie would be filming in New Haven at the Yale campus. With no idea what»
- David Chen
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