Lionsgate and Motown Records have announced soundtrack album for the holiday comedy Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5, Boyz II Men & Brian McKnight, Mariah Carey, James Brown, Pearl Bailey, Kelly Rowland, Ashanti and Jeremih. Also included are two previously unreleased tracks by Kevin Ross and Mprynt. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on November 25, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas is written, directed and produced by Perry who also stars in the film alongside Chad Michael Murray, Larry the Cable Guy, Kathy Najimy, Eric Lively, Alicia Witt, Lisa Whelchel, JR Lemon and Noah Urrea. Christopher Young composed the film’s original score.
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‘Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas’ and ‘Gods Behaving Badly’ to Feature Music by Christopher Young
Christopher Young has composed the score for the upcoming comedy Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas. The film is written and directed by Perry who also stars in the film alongside Chad Michael Murray, Larry the Cable Guy, Eric Lively, Alicia Witt, Anna Maria Horsford, Tika Sumpter, Eric Lively, Lisa Whelchel, JR Lemon and Kathy Najimy. The movie follows Madea as she gets talked into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas. Perry is also producing the film with Ozzie Areu (House of Payne, Good Deeds) and Matt Moore. Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas will be released on December 13, 2013 by Lionsgate.
Aaron Zigman to Score ‘Madea’s Witness Protection’ and NBC’s ‘Happy Valley’ Pilot
Aaron Zigman has been hired to score Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection. The film is written and directed by Perry who also stars in the film alongside Eugene Levy, Doris Roberts, Tom Arnold, Denise Richards, Danielle Campbell, Devan Leos, Romeo, John Amos and Marla Gibbs. In the comedy, Levy plays a high level CFO at the center of a Ponzi scheme in New York City who is enrolled in the Witness Protection program along with his family in the one place that absolutely no one will think to look for them: Madea’s house down South. Ozzie Areu, President of Tyler Perry Studios, and Paul E. Hall are producing the film with Perry.
Aaron Zigman to Score Tyler Perry’s ‘The Marriage Counselor’
Aaron Zigman has signed on to score the upcoming comedy drama The Marriage Counselor. The film is written and directed by Tyler Perry and stars Jurnee Smollett as an Ivy League educated relationship expert who gives marital advice for a living, yet can’t seem to follow that advice in her own marriage. The cast also includes Lance Gross, Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Williams, Brandy Norwood, Robbie Jones, Ella Joyce and Jerry Stiller. Paul Hall and Ozzie Areu, both regular collaborators of the filmmaker are producing the movie. Zigman has become Perry’s composer of choice for his feature projects over the last couple of years.
Aaron Zigman to Score ‘Good Deeds’
Aaron Zigman is set to reunite with Tyler Perry on the director’s latest project Good Deeds. Perry is directing, writing, producing and starring in the romantic drama about an affluent and successful entrepreneur who’s about to get married when he becomes enamored with a down-on-her-luck single mom. His co-stars include Thandie Newton, Rebecca Romijn, Gabrielle Union and Jamie Kennedy. The project, which is currently being shot in Atlanta will be Zigman’s and Perry’s ninth collaboration following the comedy We the Peeples, which is produced by the filmmaker and is currently in post-production. Lionsgate has yet to set a release date for Good Deeds, but a release in early 2012 seems likely.
Aaron Zigman to Score ‘We the Peeples’
Aaron Zigman has signed on to score the upcoming comedy We the Peeples. The movie is written and directed by Tina Gordon Chism who makes her directing debut on the project. She has previously written the screenplays for Drumline and the 2006 crime drama ATL, which featured a score by Zigman. The comedy starring Craig Robinson, Kerry Washington, Tyler James Williams and David Alan Grier centers on a young man enduring the weekend from hell when he surprises his girlfriend by showing up to meet her parents during the family’s annual end of summer celebration. We the Peeples is produced by Tyler Perry who regularly works with Zigman. The movie marks the composer’s eighth collaboration with Perry.
Aaron Zigman scoring ‘Madea’s Big Happy Family’
Aaron Zigman is currently scoring the upcoming comedy Madea’s Big Happy Family starring and directed by Tyler Perry. Zigman has become Perry’s regular film composer, having scored the director’s last seven movies, most recently last year’s drama For Colored Girls. Madea’s Big Happy Family co-stars Loretta Devine, Bow Wow. The film is scheduled to be released on April 22, 2011 by Lionsgate. For more information on the film, watch the trailer below and visit the movie’s official webpage.