She better work congrats!

Nice pics!

wow.

Congrats!

Mo’Nique looks wonderful. Tired of that damn Mariah Carey looking like she stepped out of the 90’s

I AM SOP PROUD HER THIS YOUNG LADY. I HAVENT READ THE BOOK BUT I WILL. I CANT WAIT FOR THE MOVIE TO COME OUT. PROPS TO TYLER PERRY FOR DOING SOETHING DIFFERENT. BIG UPS TO OPRAH FOR DOING SOMETHING BETTER THAN ‘THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD’ PPL HAVE BEN RAVING ABOUT THIS MOVIE FOR SO LONG, I JUST KNOW IT WILL BE AWESOME.

I LOVE those pics!… everyone looks amazing. can’t wait til the movie comes out
(i smell an oscar lol or at least a golden globe!)

1st. This movie will be phenomenal. I adivse people all around the United States to go and watch this Monumental Ground Breaking Film. Derived from the book “Push” by Sapphire, it portrays the struggles of a young uneducated woman who yearns for a Better Life. SReid&Co. Give it 5 out of 5 stars.

@ lovelylady81- dont hate me…This is not a Tyler Perry nor Oprah Winfrey Movie. This movie is a Lee Daniels Production. Tyler and Oprah are just presenting it (standing behind it) and putting their endorsment on it.

Monique looks great, still dont like the show. This is shaping up to be a good movie.

Mariah is not aging well at all.

Mo’Nique looks fabulous!

–They all look great.

@ Deena pls dont give a compliment to one and not all. They all look great. Lets stick with stamps and comments of positivity, and comment more on the movie and not the actors’ looks.

what a flip for Mo to get the full body shop as opposed to her slimmer co-stars. and i love when Mariah looks regular. going to try to find the book before the movie comes out.

So Mo did the Promo for this, HUH? Well, I can’t wait to watch the movie.

I really feel that Gabourey is going to win the Oscar for best actress next year.

I really want Meryl Streep to finally win another Oscar but lets get real Meryl will have many other chances to win but this is it for Gabourey she not gonna get another powerhouse role again. This part was made for her to shine.

I might have to flip on my local hustle man and go see this one in the theatre…

Lee Daniels is an excellent director this will be an intense movie for many people to watch. I saw a screening of this and there is no release it’s just intense scene after intense scene.

Monique was GREAT!

MAriah was very good as well.
Everyone was great.

Lenny Kravitz had impact even if his role was so small.

This is be very hard to watch.

Love the cover and the pictures of the NYT Magazine I will look forward to this on Sunday.

Monique better work!

Wonderful ! ! !

SOOOOO EXCITED CANT WAIT TO SEE THE MOVIE AND I WANT 2 READ THE BOOK! HEARD IT WAS GREAT!!!

CANT WAIT 2 C THE MOVIE AND READ THE BOOK!!!!

Is rare to see HUMANITY on a gossip site or even in this world more and more superficial where every is about appearance and not substance, where true ugliness hides behind fake beauty.

Thanks ” precious”

Can’t wait to see the film, I read the book quite some time ago. She looks like she really did a great job.

Monique better stop bulljivin and get on board, being nominated for an Oscar can open up so many more doors for her, she needs to get with the program, chances are she will NEVER have another chance like this.

Paul Patton looks different

Can’t wait to see this movie!!!!!

Phenomenal feature. I can’t wait to see this movie!

Who is dude?

Wanna go see the movie!..Monique lost lotsa weight..Go gurl.

Everybody look good, can’t wait til the movie opens.

p.s. stop believing everything you read and hear.

very articulate and charming girl… the part w/ Paula Patton gives me chills every time i see the trailer! hope its in a movie near me, it’s definitely going to be ill.

Can’t wait to see this movie. Hear everyone including Mariah gave STELLAR performances. Its going to be powerful. The book had me shook! Monique better work, DIVA!

Mo looks nice..

I cant wait to see this movie 2 weeks left.

The book is at Borders and Amazon. That NY article was good. THANKS CONCRETE!

This is AMAZING!!! I am really looking forward to the film.

GREAT POST!!!

i’m really looking forward to this. the book was sooooo moving to me. i almost wanna pick up a copy an read it again before the movie premieres…

GREAT PHOTOS BTW!!!

I wonder if the person who wrote the book Push, which became Precious , ever saw a movie called A Patch of Blue, because the story of Precious is the same as A Patch of Blue, it was about a teen-ager in New York City who was brutally abused by her family,both of the abused teen-agers in Precious and in A Patch of Blue,live in New York City,and have extremely vulgar and abusive mothers and have been sexually abused by men in their families. and they both eventually meet a kind professional black teacher or social worker who helps to inspire them to rise above their abusive circumstances and take power of their own life and find a better life. The plot of Precious and of A Patch of Blue is identical,,that can`t be a lucky coincidence

No, I`ll wait for this to come out on cable , because Lee Daniels and Tyler Perry ,all of their movies are basically the same, they always have a story about a black woman who has gone through some cycle of abuse and they are trying to find a better life,, so even if you get to the movie theater late, you really have`nt missed anything ,because Daniels and Perry make the same black woman that has been abused movie over and over again !

Wow, I think this is the first time I’ve seen a trailer/clip/scene of this movie and it looks really good. I wanna see it now!

Ok Ms. Monique finally showed up for something…Keep acting because you r the worst talk show host ever!!! You try toooo hard, SIT DOWN!

I sooooo hope MoNique gets n oscar for her role

REAL BLACK LOVE stop hating. So what if A Patch of Blue is similar you are a fool if you think that many young girls arent abused by family members. So Saphire did not steal the concept. It was a true story that so many young people can relate to.

Who are you to think there is a copy right on abuse. get real

I think Lee Daniels is a horrible filmmaker, he`s that weird dude,that sounds like a black hippie , and he`s the one that made that flick with Halle Berry in it where she was having all kinds of degrading sex with a white guy, I think it was called monster`s ball, and Angela Bassett was suppose to play Halle Berry`s part but she turned the role down because she said that it was degrading to black women !

I can’t wait to see this film, I hope it lives up to its hype and im sure it will

Degrading to women my butt. Monster Ball was a powerful moving story about loss and redemption and Halle delievered. Yes the sex scene did not have to be so graphic but the scene was necessary to convey Letishas emotions. So much was conveys on Halle Berrys face during that sex scene and it sealed the oscar for her

I`m not a puppet,I`m a human being and tyler perry and that lee daniels or whatever his name is they manipulate the hell out of the black audience like they are puppets or something, with their low budget movies that follow the same old formula ,a black woman experiences some type of abuse at the hands of some ole evil cruel darkskin black man,because of her abuse she starts to lash out at the world,until she either discovers Jesus or meets someone who helps her to improve her life. Seen it ! So many times before !

#38, why are you going so hard on them? At least it isn’t like Twilight where the lead character is weak and doesn’t do anything for herself to establish independence. Both of them make movies where ppl go through trials but EVERYONE works through it. So what if abuse is a recurring theme. HELLO, it’s like that in real life so why not shed light on it? I swear, ppl be having the DUMBEST complaints on ish nowadays.

#43 He didn’t direct Monster’s Ball he produced it. He DIRECTED Precious there is a HUGE difference.

Precious is BASED on a Book written by a Black woman.

46 # @ Somia ! Lmao , that is so true ! my damn stomach is hurting I laughed so hard, Tyler,Lee and Oprah ! birds of a feather flock together they all joined forces and made the movie Precious together, because they all pimp the same thing , which is a black woman who suffered abuse and is seeking a better way ! and you know that tyler is going to further manipulate the black audience by throwing in a soundtrack with Bebe Winans, Gladys Knight and all those black gospel choirs on BET. No Negro can resist music.And in the meantime,while they financially exploit us Tyler,Lee and Oprah sit back and watch their money pile up !

#49 Tyler and Oprah don’t have shit to do with what goes in the film and the music either. They are helping promote it. What you said makes absolutely no sense.

WEll, isn’t that just…well, “precious”. Congrats and good luck to them all.

I`m tired of seeing movies about black suffering.Why can`t they make positive movies about black people. How about a movie about a teen-age black girl who goes to college and graduates or a teen-age black guy who goes to Morehouse College graduates ,then goes on to Harvard to become a lawyer and eventually beomes the first black president of the United States. As you can see with Barack and Michelle Obama , not all black people, live a life of suffering and abuse, We need more positive images of ourselves in these movies.

Im so glad that a movie with primarily African Americans is getting alot of shine this time around. I really hope it does well and I’ll go see it. Everybody looks great also.

52 # Nina ! i agree ! I know that`s right , I can do bad all by myself ! i got my own negative problems and issues to deal with why would I go and see a movie about someone that got negative problems and issues ! now I will go see a movie that is positive and upbuilding but I `m tired of the negativity about black people we are always portrayed in a negative way as pimps,video chicks,criminals , crackheads ,babymommas,abusers and victims of abuse, it`s time for a change !

Great interview. I wish Gabourey all the best.

Not going to say anything about the cover..i’ll just keep shut on that..but I do hope the movie does well.

46 , Somia , girl that is too funny lmao . But now that I come to think about it.You `re right, Tyler Perry and Lee Daniels , their movies do always have the same formula , it`s always, like you say, a black female that experiences some kind of trauma and abuse, by a very darkskin black man, and the darkskin black man will be crispy black and ashy.,so what are they really trying to say, that darkskin brothers are evil ? And then the abused female meets a wise old owl like Cicely Tyson or Gladys Knight that helps her and in Precious they have Paula Patton playing that role and to make her look older they told her not to wear make-up, it`s the same formula .

Love the pics, DAMMMN Monique looks GREAT! Can’t wait to see Precious. I hope it makes good money & gets the awards it deserves

Can’t wait to see this!!!!!

The reasons why the Tyler Perry, Oprah, and Lee Daniels theme work is because we black people don’t learn from our mistakes and can’t seem to move the race forward. We have a black president and still act like savages by killing each other. Hip hop and ghetto culture have destroyed any progress we’ve made. We don’t invest in our own businesses, churchgoers have no spirituality, educated black women think they’re too good for average black men, many black men are not taking care of their children, we flood the prison system…

Shall I go on?

I am not depending on my children, but my grandchildren to bring needed change to our people.

Lord, how can someone turn a positive article into something negative. Someone always wants to rain on the the parade. Sheesh. If they were showing a story about a ghetto black woman, some people would still complain. You just can’t please everyone. Keep your arse at home if you don’t want to see the movie, but let everyone enjoy it.

GET IT GURL!!!! I CANT WAIT TO SEE THE MOVIE!!!

i can`t take it no more, I done reached my last straw, if I see one more black movie about black folks suffering with their big ass rolling on the floor crying because they been abused I`m gonna personally go over to Tyler Perry`s house and kick his ass like a football over to China so he can make movies about Hong Kong Lee `s yellow ass rolling on the floor crying cause he been abused ! Why do we have to be the only people who are constantly suffering in movies !

That girl needs to lose weight immediately! For the sake of her life…you cannot be that big and healthy…and please do not say she big bone…she is fat and that is disgusting
The movie seem sreally good though and I will be seeing it!

Horrible cover. I guess it serves it’s purpose because it’s certainly eye grabbing but I would have loved to see her stare the camera down instead of looking up at… I don’t know what she’s looking at.

I’ll definitely be going out to support this movie though.

I SAW THIS MOVIE.

I was heartbroken. Mo and Mariah really brought the GOAL with this movie. I lost count of the tears i cried, i left out the movie feeling EMPOWERED.

THIS MOVIE IS INSPIRING

Tyler Perry , please ! please ! please ! stop making movies, or take some of the millions of dollars you have and get a education and go to a real film school and stop stealing shit from the Martin Lawrence TV show and learn how to write a decent movie., I will send you a application to film school , all you have to do is send us a copy of your GED and not the fake one that you bought over the internet and the official transcripts from the non-accredited college that you attended, which is called the Buckwheat School of Filmmaking.

lmao at wise old owls…cept u left our maya angelou!!!!

LMAO @ these comments esp #49, 57 and 67!!! I swear CL oopers are the craziest fools ever..

@ 43

He also produced a movie - The woodsman where we are supposed to ‘empathize’ with a pedophile.

Lee Daniels is a HELLUVA producer! He makes movies that are so uncomfortably real, but you just HAVE to watch…if you’ve ever seen Monster’s Ball, The Woodsman (about a pedophile) or Shadwoboxer you know exactly what I mean. I’ll see a movie produced by him without knowing a thing about it just because it’s produced by Lee Daniels

@ Sethian- if you thought that The Woodsman was primarily about “empathizing with a pedophile”, you weren’t paying attention.

Black people…just crabs in a barrel.

i see the idiots are out in full force. it’s obvious that those complaining about movies that always show “blacks struggling” have not read the book….or other in-depth interviews or articles regarding the movie.

if all you take away from this movie is that it’s just another “black female in distress….needs help” film….you have missed the point. do not pass ‘Go’. carry your ass directly back to 9th grade.

this movie, at the end of the day, is about compassion, empathy, showing concern for our fellow man. and if you feel the black community is not in need of hearing this message…..then proceed to get on a kayak back to Africa. ignorance will get you nowhere.

i would say carry on smartly, but it’s a tad bit late for that.

One of my friends has already read this book and said she cried, she laughed and she thought a lot. I haven’t had the pleasure to read it yet but I can’t wait to read it and also see the movie. I don’t think it’s coming where I live but I’m praying that it does.