Tyler Perry Enters Into Creative Partnership With Netflix For First-Look Film Deal
Tyler Perry signed into a creative partnership with Netflix where he will write, direct, and produce feature films under a multi-year first-look deal.
The billionaire media mogul is already working with the streamer on a slate of upcoming films including the World War II period film “Six Triple Eight” starring an ensemble cast led by Kerry Washington and including Oprah Winfrey, via The Hollywood Reporter. The film tells the inspiring true story of the first and only All-Black Women’s Army Corp unit to be stationed overseas during World War II.
Another film on the list is “Mea Culpa” starring Kelly Rowland about a criminal defense attorney who takes on the case of an artist who may or may not have murdered his girlfriend. The new films will add to Perry’s previous Netflix films including
Perry’s previous films with Netflix include the 2022 love and family drama “A Jazzman’s Blues,” the 12th installment to the Madea franchise “A Madea Homecoming”, and the 2020 thriller “A Fall from Grace.”
His first-look deal with Netflix coincides with an ongoing deal with competing streamer Amazon where he agreed to write, produce, and direct four feature films. On the lineup for Amazon Prime include the police brutality drama “Black, White, and Blue,” the Meagan Good-led marriage drama “Divorce in the Black,” and the upcoming bio-doc on the Hollywood mogul’s life “Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story.”
Perry still is in partnership with BET where he houses his long-running scripted series “The Oval,” “Assisted Living,” and “Sistas.” Perry was attempting to purchase a majority stake in BET when Paramount Global put the network up for sale. However, negotiations came to an end in August when the company announced it was no longer seeking a buyer.
While at the the Bloomberg Equality Summit in Atlanta, on Wednesday, Oct. 18, Perry expressed his disappointment in the “disrespectful” failed deal.
“I was disappointed about it for a number of reasons,” he said as captured by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The way it happened was disrespectful in a lot of ways.”
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