Tyler Perry made history as he celebrated the grand opening of Atlanta’s Tyler Perry Studios. The entertainment mogul is now the first Black person in the U.S. to own a major movie studio, meaning he owns it outright, with no partners or corporate backing involved.
On his website, Perry says the lot is “making history where history has been made,” as it’s located on a former Civil War confederate army base, Ft. McPherson. As the only major production studio on the East Coast, it’s home to 12 sound stages, each of which was named after an iconic Black Hollywood A-lister, including one dedicated to Lady O herself. The others are: Whoopi Goldberg, Will Smith, Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Cicely Tyson, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, and the late Diahann Carroll—who died on October 4.
Tyler Perry has revealed he writes all of his own TV shows, without any assistance from a writers room.
Perry made the revelation Monday in a video on Instagram. The clip shows the entertainment mogul narrating as a camera pans across a stack of scripts from his Oprah Winfrey Network drama The Haves and The Have Nots; his new BET+ series The Oval and Sistas; and other projects.
“I don’t know if you know this, but all shows on television have a writers room and most of the time there are ten people, 12, whatever that write on these television shows,” Perry explained. “I have no writers room. Nobody writes any of my work. I write it all.”
Many of Perry’s fans praised him in the comments section for his “focus” but he did get some pushback, particularly from writers.
One person said they found his productivity “amazing” but added: “Doesn’t hurt to hire more writers/directors to improve ya content. Share some of that.”
Tyler Perry is indeed out here setting the bar too high.
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