Tyler Perry Comes To The Rescue Of Great Grandmother Who Lost Home In Fire

     

Just like Madea would have, Tyler Perry reached out to an 84-year-old great grandmother whose house burned to the ground in a vicious fire Tuesday.  The Atlanta-based, producer/director/writer/actor and has offered to build the senior citizen a brand new house.

Rosa Lee Ransby, 88, and her 4-year-old great-granddaughter escaped the deadly blaze that turned her Coweta County home into ashes. She'd lived in the house for 40 years.

After seeing a distraught Ransby during a news report on Atlanta's WSBTV, Perry decided to step in a give the devastated family the ultimate Christmas gift.

“It’s made my Christmas," Coweta Fire Chief Todd Moore told WSBTV. "I’ve been doing this a long time, seen a lot of bad things come and go but this is special.”

The news station also reports that Perry is currently renting a home for Ransby to live in until her new house can be constructed.  It is just a few doors down from where her home once stood.

Ransby's new home will be built on the same lot where her old one burned, with construction beginning in 

Lionsgate Bidding For Tyler Perry-Dwayne Johnson Pic 'Take My Wife'

EXCLUSIVE: Studios and mini-majors must be hungry for product, because yet another star-attached picture is about to get snapped up. Lionsgate has made a preemptive bid for Take My Wife, and is negotiating to acquire a comedy that teams Dwayne Johnson and Tyler Perry. Lionsgate got first crack because Perry is a cornerstone filmmaker for the mini-major. While he usually plays regular and drag roles in the films he directs -- a small role in Star Trek was the exception -- this time he'll be playing a lead role in a movie he's not directing.

In Take My Wife, Perry will play a recently divorced man who realizes the only way to get out of paying alimony to his ex is to find her a new husband. He sets about transforming a rough-around-the-edges guy (Johnson) into a paramour who can be her ideal mate. After his Cyrano act creates the new love match, the divorced guy falls back in love with his wife and has to compete for her affections. Greg Coolidge and Kirk Ward wrote the script. Perry will produce through his 34th Street banner with Matt Moore and Ozzie Areu. Johnson and producing partner Dany Garcia are executive producers along with Chris Cowles and Chris Fenton. Perry's For Colored Girls will be released November 5 by Lionsgate, and he is filming Madea's Big Happy Family. Johnson has Faster coming out November 24 and just wrapped The Fast And The Furious 5. He'll next star in the 3D Journey to the Center of the Earth sequel. CAA reps Johnson, WME reps Perry.