*Tyler Perry’s new film “Divorce in the Black” has achieved impressive viewership, accumulating over 498 million minutes watched in its first four days on Amazon Prime Video.
The drama has also driven a significant number of new Prime Video subscriptions, surpassing other Amazon MGM Studios films, Variety reports. The film debuted at No. 3 on Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming chart for July 8-14 and is estimated to have garnered around 3.5 million views. Additionally, it ranked highly on Luminate’s movies chart, with 93.2 million minutes watched in its third week.
“Divorce In The Black” centers on Ava (Meagan Good), a young bank professional who is devastated when her husband Dallas (Cory Hardrict) abandons a marriage she is determined to fight for until fate intervenes, revealing Dallas’ wicked deeds that have trashed their marriage, and once upon a time sabotaged Ava’s destiny to be loved by her true soulmate.
As we reported earlier, the film has been panned by critics and received a rare 0%” on Rotten Tomatoes.
On a recent episode of Keke Palmer’s podcast “Baby, This Is Keke Palmer,” Perry explained why he ignores negative remarks about his work. He emphasized that he values the positive impact his films have on people’s lives more than any criticism.
“You got to drown all of that out because if you let somebody talk you out of a place that God has put you in, you are going to find yourself in hell,” said Perry, Complex reports.
“I know for a fact that what I’m doing is exactly what I’m supposed to be doing because for everyone who is a critic, I have thousands of emails from people saying ‘This changed my life.’ ‘Oh my God, you know me.’ ‘Oh my God, you saw me, how did you know this about my life, my family?’ So that is what is important to me.”
Perry continued, “We’re talking a large portion of my fans who are disenfranchised who cannot get in the Volvo and go to therapy on the weekend. So you got this highbrow Negro who is all up in the air with his nose up looking at everything, and then you got people like where I come from and me who are grinders who really know what it’s like whose mothers were caregivers for white kids and were maids and housekeepers and all of these beauticians. Don’t discount these people and say that their story don’t matter. Who are you to be able to say which Black story is important or should be told. Get out of here with that bullsh*t.”
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