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Tyler Perry, whose newest film Madea Goes to Jail opens tomorrow, hopes to take his brand global in the near future, and he hopes to disprove the widespread belief that African-American movies just don\u2019t do all that well overseas. So says the Hollywood Reporter in a lengthy, three-page article, at any rate. Best wishes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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