If it’s February, it must be time for a new Tyler Perry pic. Staying true to its recent tradition, Lionsgate has dated the helmer’s latest pic, “Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds,” for a Feb. 24 release.
Perry has become a boffo first-quarter staple for Lionsgate, usually bowing a film of his in February or during Easter weekend.
“Good Deeds,” which toplines Perry, Thandie Newton and Gabrielle Union, will open the week after Presidents Day weekend, a solid time at the box office. Pic tells the story of a businessman who falls in love with a single mother just before he is skedded to marry another woman.
The helmer’s most recent film, “Madea’s Big Happy Family,” opened April 22 and has cumed $51.9 million domestically. “Madea Goes to Jail” — Perry’s highest grossing film to date — tallied $90.5 million after launching Feb. 20, 2009.
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In its February slot, “Good Deeds” will go up against FilmDistrict’s “Lockout,” starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace, “The Devil Inside” from Paramount’s genre label Insurge, and Summit’s Amanda Seyfried-thriller “Gone.”