posted 09-23-2009 09:10 PM                    

quote: Jonathan Althaus

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Several weeks later a box employee accidentally sold the wrong ticket and the customer was told to just let podium know it was ok and they were to see madea, they replied "No, I want my money to go to TYLER PERRY", actually yelling at the employee. So yeah, loyalty seems big for the audiences of his films.

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You're not the first theater that exact thing has happened to. I have heard this a LOT from accidents on box office ticket punchups where the black patron throw a tantrum. Now in reality the theater SHOULD have fixed the ticket (I always did when I was managing), but there are a lot of lazy people out there. Regardless, for the occasional goof where a Tyler Perry patron paid for Mission Impossible, the same is true in reverse...but they always think it is a plot "against the black man".

The opening week of "Tyler Perry's I Can Make A Bad Movie All By Myself" there was a crazy black lady who threw an absolute fit, even going so far as to alert the media at one location because she felt the theater was being "racist" over doing security checks at the door since it was a "stereotype" that all black people carry knives and guns. It took quite a bit of explaining to her regarding how the 3D RFI towers worked and how the glasses have a security chip in them to keep people from stealing them and because there was such a demand for the Tyler Perry movie, it got moved into the largest auditorium...that just happened to be equipped with 3D.

Whatever people, get over it.

posted 09-24-2009 08:44 AM                       

Speaking of demographics, I'm beginning to think The Onion is reading our list

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Man Not Belonging To Movie's Target Demographic Escorted From Theater By Hollywood Officials
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 | ISSUE 45•39
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/man_not_belonging_to_movies?utm_source=b-section
ST. LOUIS—Hollywood officials removed David Sinclair, 24, from the AMC Esquire 7's 9 p.m. showing of The Time Traveler's Wife Monday for failing to meet the minimum gender, age, and socioeconomic status requirements set forth in new guidelines to ensure marketing is reflected in movie audiences. "Looks like this punk is a little too young and a little too male to be here," said Toby Emmerich, president of New Line Cinema, who spotted Sinclair trying to discretely watch the film from the back of the theater. "Didn't your mother ever teach you that a romantic thriller starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana is for professional women aged 26 to 40 who make between $45,000 and $60,000 a year?" Despite Sinclair's promises that he would buy a Coke and popcorn, officials escorted the single, college-educated city-dweller out of the theater complex and issued him a $1,500 fine.

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posted 09-24-2009 11:39 AM                      

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Why is Tyler Perry so popular?

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Because everyone has a grandmother who bitches, curses, and apes out over inconsequential things.

posted 09-24-2009 01:13 PM                       

quote: Pravin Ratnam

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His success is just a lesson to Hollywood that there is huge underserved market.

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