Tyler Perry Studios
| Private | |
| Industry | production studio |
| Genre | Movie, Play and Television shows |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Founder | Tyler Perry |
| Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
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Key people
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Tyler Perry (CEO) Ozzie Areu (President) Will Areu (Senior Vice President) Mark E. Swinton (Producer) |
| Revenue |
 US$900 million (FY 2016)
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| 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, was attended by Patti LaBelle, Sidney Poitier, Will Smith, Cicely Tyson, Oprah Winfrey, and Hank Aaron, among others. Through 34th Street Films, a production arm of Tyler Perry Studios, Perry guides the work of other filmmakers. 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.
The Walking Dead television series uses Tyler Perry Studios to film 'The Kingdom' scenes in the latest 2017 season of The Walking Dead.
Perry has full ownership of his movies, and Lions Gate Entertainment serves as his distributor for all of his films. 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.
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