Tyler Perry’s Stage Play Arrives on Blu-ray Disc, DVD, Digital Download, Video On Demand and Pay-Per-View February 5 From Lionsgate Home Entertainment
“Exhilarating and indescribable with a very high-spirited and uplifting performance
from a collection oftalented and exceptionally seasoned cast.”
— BROADWAY WORLD
DVD SRP: $19.98
SANTA MONICA, CA December 5, 2012 – It’s time to celebrate because Madea got a job! Tyler Perry’s Madea Gets A Job, the newest musical stage play from director, writer and producer Tyler Perry, arrives on Blu-ray Disc, DVD, Digital Download, Video On Demand and Pay-Per-View February 5 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The uplifting production features Tyler Perry, crowd favorite Patrice Lovely (I Don’t Want to Do Wrong [The Play]), Cheryl Pepsii Riley (Why Did I Get Married?) and Chandra Currelley-Young (Madea’s Big Happy Family). The Blu-ray and DVD contain a behind-the-scenes featurette with the hilarious cast. Taped in front of a live audience, Tyler Perry’s Madea Gets A Job will be available on Blu-ray Disc and DVD for the suggested retail price of $24.99 and $19.98, respectively.
Tyler Perry’s new musical stage play stars the infamous Mabel “Madea” Simmons. When a judge orders Madea to do 20 hours of community service at a local retirement home, the residents and staff are not ready for Madea’s brand of “the truth”, but all is well that ends well when Madea helps the residents of Easy Rest Retirement Home realize the importance of family, love and forgiveness.
BLU-RAY/DVD SPECIAL FEATURES*
· “Behind the Curtain with the cast of Madea Gets a Job” featurette
*Subject to change
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Street Date: February 5, 2013
Title Copyright: © 2012 TP Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved.
Type: Home Entertainment Premiere
Rating: Not Rated
Genre: Musical, Drama, Comedy, Urban
Blu-ray Closed Captioned: English SDH
DVD Closed Captioned: English
Subtitles: English and Spanish
Blu-ray Format: 1080P High Definition 16x9 Widescreen (1.78:1)
DVD Format: 16x9 Widescreen (1.78:1)
Feature Running Time: 144 minutes
Blu-ray Audio Status: English 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital
DVD Audio Status: English and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital
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ABOUT TYLER PERRY
Born into poverty and raised in a household scarred by abuse, Perry’s strength, faith and perseverance would later form the foundations of his plays, films, books and shows. A simple piece of advice from Oprah set his career in motion as a diary of his daily thoughts and experiences led to his writing of a musical, I Know I’ve Been Changed, in 1992. Five years later with no money left, sleeping in seedy motels and his car, Perry’s faith in himself and God only got stronger, allowing him to forge ahead. In 1998, his perseverance paid off when the play began a limited church run.
The community came out in droves and Perry never looked back as he began an incredible run of eight plays in eight years. Madea first debuted in 2000’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself and spawned three more plays leading to Perry’s jump to the big screen with 2005’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman, which debuted at #1 nationwide. He followed with Madea’s Family Reunion, Daddy’s Little Girls, Why Did I Get Married?, Meet the Browns, The Family That Preys, I Can Do Bad All by Myself, Why Did I Get Married Too?, For Colored Girls, Madea’s Big Happy Family and Good Deeds, which were all met with massive fan support and commercial success. In 2006, Perry’s first book, Don’t Make A Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea’s Uninhibited Commentaries On Life and Love, shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and claimed two Quill Book Awards.
In 2007, Perry expanded his brand to television with the series House of Payne, the highest-rated first-run syndicated cable show of all time and followed that up with Meet the Browns, the second highest debut ever on cable, after House of Payne. In November of 2011, Perry unveiled his newest television series on TBS,“For Better or Worse,” based on the characters from the popular “Why Did I Get Married” films.
Tyler Perry’s most recent film that he directed , Madea’s Witness Protection, opened over the summer and went on to gross over $65 million. His next film,Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, opens March 29, 2013.
ABOUT LIONSGATE
Lionsgate is a leading global entertainment company with a strong and diversified presence in motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home entertainment, family entertainment, digital distribution, new channel platforms and international distribution and sales. The Company has built a strong television presence in production of primetime cable and broadcast network series, distribution and syndication of programming and an array of channel assets. Lionsgate currently has 25 shows on 18 networks spanning its primetime production, distribution and syndication businesses, including the multiple Emmy Award-winning Mad Men, the critically acclaimed series Weeds, Nurse Jackie and Boss, the new comedy Anger Management, which has been picked up for another 90 episodes by FX, the network series Nashville, picked up for a full season of 22 episodes by ABC, the syndication successes Tyler Perry's House of Payne, its spinoff Meet the Browns, The Wendy Williams Show, Are We There Yet? and the upcoming Orange Is The New Black, an original series for Netflix.
Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first installment of The Hunger Games franchise, which grossed nearly $700 million at the worldwide box office, The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn – Part 2, which achieved the best worldwide opening in Twilight franchise history, The Possession, Sinister, The Expendables 2, Cabin in the Woods, Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection and Arbitrage. With the January 2012 acquisition of Summit Entertainment, the Company has now added the blockbuster Twilight Saga, which has grossed more than $2.5 billion at the worldwide box office, to its current slate, giving the Company the two premier young adult franchises in the world. Recent Summit hits include Red, Letters to Juliet, Knowing and the Academy Award-winning Best Picture, The Hurt Locker.
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