Tyler Perry Studios
| Private | |
| Industry | production studio |
| Genre | Movie, Play and Television shows |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Founder | Tyler Perry |
| Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
Key people |
Tyler Perry (CEO) Ozzie Areu (President) Will Areu (Senior Vice President) Mark E. Swinton (Producer) |
| Revenue |
 US$900 million (FY 2016)[1] |
| Owner | Tyler Perry |
| Divisions | The Tyler Perry Foundation |
| Subsidiaries | 34 Street Films |
| Website |
tylerperry |
Tyler Perry Studios (TPS) is an American film production studio, founded by actor, filmmaker, and playwright Tyler Perry in 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia.
The studio occupies two former Delta Air Lines affiliated buildings in the Greenbriar area of southwest Atlanta, and includes 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2) of sets and office space. Its opening, in the fall of 2008,[2] was attended by Patti LaBelle, Sidney Poitier, Will Smith, Cicely Tyson, Oprah Winfrey, and Hank Aaron, among others.[3] Through 34th Street Films, a production arm of Tyler Perry Studios, Perry guides the work of other filmmakers.[4] In 2015, Tyler Perry completed purchase of the former Fort MacPherson complex, and the film studios are in the process of being moved to that location.
Tyler Perry Studios was first established as The Tyler Perry Company, Inc. from 2000-2005, and became known as Tyler Perry Studios in 2006. Since then Tyler Perry Studios has made 16 movies, 14 stage plays, 5 television series, and has published 2 books. Half of those movies and stage plays are centered on Mabel "Madea" Simmons, a 70-year-old sassy, pistol-packing woman, that gave popularity to many of Tyler Perry Studios' movies and plays.
History
Perry has full ownership of his movies, and Lions Gate Entertainment serves as his distributor for all of his films.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]
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.[8] 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.[9] 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.[10] Less than three months later, another fire broke out on the roof of another building on the morning of August 27, 2012.
Studio locations
Before moving to its present 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.[11] The studios are as of 2013 being converted into the Krog Street Market.
In 2014, Tyler Perry Studios announced plans to acquire Fort McPherson, a US Army base in use until 2011, to use it as a production studio.[12] The sale was approved in June 2015.[13] The 330 acres contain 37 houses and buildings, 200 acres of greenery and open space, a corporate headquarters and production facility known as the "Dream Building", and areas planned to become 14 sound stages.[14]
34th Street Films
34th Street Films is a studio within Tyler Perry Studios that is for non-comedy films. Tyler 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
| Year | Film | Credited as | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | Actor | Tyler Perry's Role | ||
| 2005 | Diary of a Mad Black Woman | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian |
| 2006 | Madea's Family Reunion | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian |
| 2007 | Daddy's Little Girls | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2007 | Why Did I Get Married? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Terry Bob |
| 2008 | Meet the Browns | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe |
| 2008 | The Family That Preys | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ben |
| 2009 | Madea Goes to Jail | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian |
| 2009 | I Can Do Bad All By Myself | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe |
| 2010 | Why Did I Get Married Too? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Terry Bob |
| 2010 | For Colored Girls | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2011 | Madea's Big Happy Family | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe |
| 2012 | Good Deeds | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Wesley Deeds |
| 2012 | Madea's Witness Protection | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian |
| 2013 | Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2013 | Tyler Perry Presents Peeples | No | No | Yes | No | |
| 2013 | A Madea Christmas | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea |
| 2014 | The Single Moms Club | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | TK |
| 2015 | Madea's Tough Love | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian |
| 2016 | Boo! A Madea Halloween | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian |
Television
| Year | Show | Credited as | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | Actor | Tyler Perry's Role | ||
| 2006–2012 | Tyler Perry's House of Payne | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea |
| 2008–2011 | Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2011–present | Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2013–present | Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2013–present | Tyler Perry's Love Thy Neighbor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea |
| 2014–present | Tyler Perry's If Loving You is Wrong | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
Plays
| Year | Play | Credited as | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | Actor | Tyler Perry's Role | ||
| 1998 | I Know I've Been Changed | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Joe |
| 2000 | I Can Do Bad All By Myself | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea |
| 2001 | Diary of a Mad Black Woman | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Daddy Charles / Madea |
| 2002 | Madea's Family Reunion | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea |
| 2003 | Madea's Class Reunion | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Dr. Willie Leroy Jones / Madea |
| 2004 | Why Did I Get Married? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2005 | Meet the Browns | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Madea (voice only) |
| 2006 | Madea Goes to Jail | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea |
| 2007 | What's Done in the Dark | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2008 | The Marriage Counselor | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2009 | Laugh to Keep from Crying | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2010 | Madea's Big Happy Family | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea |
| 2011 | A Madea Christmas | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea |
| 2011 | Aunt Bam's Place | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2011 | I Don't Want To Do Wrong! | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2012 | The Haves and the Have Nots | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2012 | Madea Gets a Job | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea |
| 2013 | Madea's Neighbors from Hell | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea |
| 2014 | Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2015 | Madea on the Run | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea |
References
- ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=tylerperry.htm
- ↑ http://www.tylerperry.com/studio/
- ↑ Tyler Perry Unveils Studio
- ↑ Ty-Light Zone
- ↑ Christian, Margena A., Becoming Tyler.Ebony. Oct. 2008: 78.
- ↑ "Diary of Mad Black Woman". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
- ↑ Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
- ↑ Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls (2007)
- ↑ Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008) - Weekend Box Office Results
- ↑ http://www.ajc.com/news/fire-strikes-tyler-perry-1429587.html?cxntlid=brkng_nws_bnr
- ↑ "Filmmakers have Georgia on their minds", Todd Longwell, The Hollywood Reporter as reported on Houghton Talent site
- ↑ Larry Copeland (September 10, 2014). "Some question Atlanta's land deal with Tyler Perry". USA Today. Retrieved October 13, 2016.
- ↑ Leon Stafford; J. Scott Trubey (June 27, 2015). "Fort McPherson sale to Perry approved". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved October 13, 2016.
- ↑ Greg Braxton (October 13, 2016). "Take a tour of Tyler Perry's massive new studio on a former Army base in Atlanta". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 13, 2016.