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New Orleans, Louisiana, native filmmaker Tyler Perry will write, direct, and producer Ntozake Shange's award-winning 1975 play 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf.'
The film will be the first project for 34th Street Films, Perry's new production company, which is housed at Lionsgate.
The film will feature an all-star cast of female actors. Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Atlanta in Nov. and continue through Dec.with a planned release for next year.
While this will be his tenth film collaboration with Lionsgate, it's Perry's first film to be based on non-original material.
The franchise's eighth title, 'Tyler Perry's Perry I Can Do Bad All By Myself,' opens nationwide on Sept. 11, followed by the opening of 'Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?' on April 2, 2010.
Perry is also a co-presenter and executive producer, with Oprah Winfrey, of the Sundance Film Festival award-winner 'Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire,' which Lionsgate is releasing in November.
