Tyler Perry

====Tyler Perry Studios====
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In 2015, Perry acquired the 330-acre former military base [[Fort McPherson]] located in [[Atlanta]], which he converted to studios.<ref name="Braxton2016">{{cite news|last1=Braxton|first1=Greg|title=Take a tour of Tyler Perry's massive new studio on a former Army base in Atlanta|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-ca-st-tyler-perry-guided-tour-20161016-snap-story.html|access-date=February 24, 2018|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=October 13, 2016}}</ref> The studios were used to film the HBO Films/OWN film version of ''[[The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (film)|The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks]]'', and is currently in ongoing use for the television series ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]''.<ref name="Braxton2016"/><ref name="DeggansAtlanta">{{cite news|last1=Deggans|first1=Eric|title=Atlanta Is Experiencing A Film And TV Production Boom|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/02/23/588374743/atlanta-is-experiencing-a-film-and-tv-production-boom|access-date=February 24, 2018|work=[[NPR]]|date=February 22, 2018}}</ref> 50,000 square feet of the site are 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 away. It also hosts 12 sound stages named after highly accomplished African Americans in the entertainment industry.<ref name="DeggansAtlanta"/> The blockbuster Marvel film, ''[[Black Panther (film)|Black Panther]]'', was the first to be filmed on one of the new stages at Tyler Perry Studios as announced personally by Perry on his Instagram account on February 19, 2018.<ref>{{cite news|title='Black Panther' was the first movie filmed at Tyler Perry Studios' new stages|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/world/black-panther-was-the-first-movie-filmed-tyler-perry-studios-new-stages/O37OBGUaCloW20QIL9Hi5I/|work=Atlanta Journal Constitution|date=February 20, 2018}}</ref>

Tyler Perry Studios is one of the largest film studios in the nation, and it established Perry as the second African American to own a major film studio outright, after [[Tim Reid|Tim]] and [[Daphne Reid]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/movies/tyler-perry-atlanta.html |title=Tyler Perry Builds a New Kingdom, With Madea Behind Him |work=[[The New York Times]]|last=Buckley |first=Cara |date=October 14, 2019 |access-date=July 3, 2021 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=Shadow and Act Staff|title=Tim and Daphne Maxwell Reid Sell Their New Millennium Studios (The End of a Dream)|url=https://shadowandact.com/tim-and-daphne-maxwell-reid-sell-their-new-millennium-studios-the-end-of-a-dream|date=May 9, 2015|access-date=December 16, 2022|website=Shadow and Act|language=en}}</ref>