Type	Private
Industry	Production studio
Genre	Film, Play and Television shows
Founded	2006; 13 years ago
Founder	Tyler Perry
Headquarters	Atlanta, Georgia , United States
Area served	United States
Key people	Tyler Perry (CEO) Michelle Sneed (President) Mark E. Swinton (Senior Vice President)
Revenue	US$900 million (FY 2016)[1]
Owner	Tyler Perry
Divisions	The Tyler Perry Foundation
Subsidiaries	34 Street Films BET+
Website	tylerperry.com

Tyler Perry Studios (TPS) is an American film production studio in Atlanta, Georgia founded by actor, filmmaker, and playwright Tyler Perry in 2006.

In 2019, Perry celebrated the grand opening of his newest Atlanta studio location; he purchased 330 acres of the former Fort McPherson complex in 2015 to make it the new home of Tyler Perry Studios. Tyler Perry Studios is the largest film production studio in the nation and established Perry as the first African-American to outright own a major film production studio. Through 34th Street Films, a production arm of Tyler Perry Studios, Perry guides the work of other filmmakers.

In 2018, Perry sold his previous studio location opened in 2008 to another film production company. The previous studio location occupied two former Delta Air Lines affiliated buildings in the Greenbriar area of southwest Atlanta, and included 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2) of sets and office space.

Tyler Perry Studios was first established as The Tyler Perry Company, Inc., and was rebranded as Tyler Perry Studios in 2006. Besides Perry's own projects, other projects have filmed there such as The Walking Dead and Black Panther.

• 1History
  • 1.1Studio locations
• 234th Street Films
• 3Production history
  • 3.1Film
  • 3.2Television
  • 3.3Plays
• 4References
• 5External links

History

Perry has full ownership of his movies, and Lions Gate Entertainment serves as his distributor for all of his films (with the exception of Nobody’s Fool, which was distributed by Paramount Pictures). His first movie, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, produced on a budget of $5.5 million, became an unexpected commercial success prompting widespread discussion among industry watchers about whether middle-class African-Americans were simply not being addressed by mainstream Hollywood movies. Its final gross box office receipts were $50.6 million, although it was critically panned scoring only 16 percent approval rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes. On its opening weekend, February 24, 2006, Perry's film version of Madea's Family Reunion opened at

1

with $30.3 million. The film eventually grossed $65 million and, like

Diary

, almost all of it in the United States. The film was jump-started by an hour-long appearance by Perry and his co-stars on

The Oprah Winfrey Show

.

His next project for Lions Gate, Daddy's Little Girls, starring Gabrielle Union and Idris Elba was released in the U.S. on February 14, 2007. It grossed over $31 million. Perry wrote, directed, produced and starred in his next movie, Why Did I Get Married?, which was released on October 12, 2007. It opened as the top-grossing movie in its first weekend, earning $21.4 million at the box office. It is loosely based on the play which Perry wrote in 2004. Filming began March 5, 2007, in Whistler, British Columbia, Vancouver, then Atlanta, where Perry opened his own studio. Janet Jackson, Sharon Leal, Jill Scott, and Tasha Smith appear in the film. Perry's 2008 film, Meet the Browns, which was released on March 21, opened at

2

with a $20,082,809 weekend gross.

The Family That Preys

opened on September 12, 2008, and grossed over $35.1 million as of October.

Madea Goes to Jail

opened at

1

on February 20, 2009, grossing $41 million and becoming his largest opening to date. This was Perry's seventh film with

Lions Gate Entertainment

.

On May 1, 2012, a four-alarm fire engulfed portions of the studio complex, causing the partial collapse of one building. Less than three months later, another fire broke out on the roof of another building on the morning of August 27, 2012. It also will host Miss Universe 2019 on December 8.

Studio locations

Before moving to its first southwest Atlanta location in 2008, the studios used the former studio space at 99 Krog Street in Inman Park on the BeltLine in central Atlanta. Perry had purchased the land from Atlanta Stage Works in 2006 for a reported $7 million. The studios were later converted into the Krog Street Market.

In 2019, Tyler Perry Studios officially moved into 330 acres of the former Fort McPherson complex in southwest Atlanta. The 330-acre (130 ha) studio has 50,000 square feet of the site dedicated to standing permanent sets, including a replica of a luxury hotel lobby, a White House replica, a 16,000-square-foot mansion, a mock cheap hotel, a trailer park set, and a real 1950s-style diner that was relocated from a town 100 miles (160 km) away; it also hosts 12 soundstages named after highly accomplished African-Americans in the entertainment industry. The soundstage dedications include Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Diahann Carroll, John Singleton, Della Reese, Sir Sidney Poitier, Cicely Tyson, Spike Lee, Halle Berry, Whoopi Goldberg, and Denzel Washington.

34th Street Films

34th Street Films is a studio within Tyler Perry Studios that is for non-comedy films. Perry also uses this name for producing other productions not written by him. The first film released from 34th Street Films is For Colored Girls which is based on the 1975 award-winning stage play about the lives of eight African-American women and the issues they face. The second film distributed by 34th Street Films is Tyler Perry Presents Peeples. Peeples is about a guy proposing to his girlfriend who has to go meet her wealthy, well-off Hamptons family at their Sag Harbor, New York mansion.

Production history

Film

Television

Plays

References

1. ^ "Tyler Perry". Box Office Mojo.
2. ^ Jump up to:a b Obenson, Tambay; Obenson, Tambay (October 3, 2019). "Tyler Perry Is About to Open a Studio Lot That Will Rival Hollywood's, as He Leaves Madea Behind".
3. ^ "Take a tour of Tyler Perry's massive new studio on a former Army base in Atlanta". Los Angeles Times. October 13, 2016.
4. ^ "Tyler Perry Biography, Movies & Net Worth". May 5, 2019. Archived from the original on March 10, 2009.
5. ^ "Tyler Perry Just Sold His Former Studio Lot For $18.5 Million". SHOPPE BLACK. January 3, 2019.
6. ^ Schilling, Mark; Schilling, Mark (November 4, 2007). "Index sets up China shop".
7. ^ Christian, Margena A., Becoming Tyler.Ebony. Oct. 2008: 78.
8. ^ "Diary of Mad Black Woman". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
9. ^ "Madea's Family Reunion". Box Office Mojo.
10. ^ "Daddy's Little Girls". Box Office Mojo.
11. ^ "Meet the Browns". Box Office Mojo.
12. ^ http://www.ajc.com/news/fire-strikes-tyler-perry-1429587.html?cxntlid=brkng_nws_bnr
13. ^ "Filmmakers have Georgia on their minds", Todd Longwell, The Hollywood Reporter as reported on Houghton Talent site
14. ^ Braxton, Greg (2019-10-02). "Tyler Perry Studios, the house 'Madea' built, becomes a landmark for black Hollywood". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
15. ^ Buckley, Cara (October 2, 2019). "Tyler Perry Builds a New Kingdom, With Madea Behind Him" – via NYTimes.com.
16. ^ Murray, Cori. "A Look Inside Tyler Perry's Epic Tribute To Black Hollywood". Essence. Retrieved 7 October2019.

External links

• Official website

• Companies based in Atlanta
• Film production companies of the United States
• 2008 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
• Lions Gate Entertainment
• Tyler Perry