While Tyler Perry’s movies have found enormous popularity amongst African American audiences, they’re generally been criticitally mauled and ignored by the mainstream, and in Britain, they weren’t even released until recently (some are yet to arrive, and most have only come to DVD), making them just about the only recent movies to reach number 1 at the US box office, but not to get a cinematic release in the UK. Now Perry is doing something a little different, as while his previous movies have been based on his own comedy scripts, this time he’s adapting Ntozake Shange’s acclaimed play, For Colored Girls, and he’s assembled a stunning cast of black women to star in it. The movie features Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Loretta Devine, Phylicia Rashad and loads more, and from this trailer it looks like it could be a bit of a dramatic tour de force. For Colored Girls is indeed scheduled to make it to the UK at some point, as it’s seen as potential Oscar fodder, so click below to watch the trailer.