Tyler Perry Turns Fort McPherson Into A Media Empire!

Tyler Perry becomes the first African American to own a movie studio. He owns a studio that surpasses Warner Bros., NBC Universal, Paramount and Walt Disney Studios.

Entertainer Tyler Perry has broke ground. He is the owner and CEO of Tyler Perry Studios, the first ever fully Black-owned studio lot. He bought the former Army base Fort McPherson and turned it into a fully operation movie and television studio.

He purchased 330 acres of the decommissioned military base. He is the first African American to outright own a major film production studio.

Through 34th Street Films, a production arm of Tyler Perry Studios, Perry will guide the work of other filmmakers.

Perry has full ownership of his movies, and Lions Gate Entertainment serves as a distributor of his films. Some of his films are distributed through other companies.

Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry, Jr) is an American actor, playwright, filmmaker and comedian.

He is one of the highest paid man in entertainment, earning $130 million between May 2010 and May 2011.

He was an abused child. He grew up in New Orleans as the son of Willie Maxine Perry (nee Campbell) and Emmitt Perry, Sr. He was beaten constantly and almost contemplate suicide due to the abuse. He also was molested by a family friend and found out his father Emmitt wasn't his true father.

He also learned his father molested children. He also changed his name to Tyler to distance himself from his family.

Perry learned from Oprah Winfrey on how to be a successful entrepreneur. He began a career in writing after watching an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Tyler Perry has a lot of real estate. He bought a former military base and turned it into a movie and television studio.

In the 1990s, Perry moved to Atlanta started writing essays and screenplays. He turned it into a profitable enterprise with the release of his movie, Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Even though many panned the movie, it did financially well at the box office and gave Perry a name in Black cinema.

He took on the character of Madea Simmons, a wise, tough and vindictive African American woman.

The Madea movies have done reasonable well and has been a trademark of Perry's successful career.

He retired Madea in 2019.

In an interview with CBS This Morning host Gayle King, Perry said that he's done with Hollywood.

He said that he was ignored.

"I clearly believe that I'm ignored in Hollywood, for sure. And that's fine. I get it."

Gayle asks, "Is that fine?"

Perry responded, "It is. My audience and the stories that I tell are African-American stories specific to a certain audience, specific to a certain group of people that I know, that I grew up, and we speak a language. Hollywood doesn't necessarily speak the language. A lot of critics don't speak that language. So, to them, it's like, 'What is this?'"

He added, "But I do know what I do is important. I know what I do touches millions of people around the world. I know how important ever word, every joke, ever laugh [is]. I know what that does for people where I come from the people that I'm writing for. So, yeah, I get that."