The wildly successful filmmaker Tyler Perry ushered in a new era in Hollywood with the grand opening of Tyler Perry Studios in October of 2019. The opening ceremony drew many of the biggest names in black Hollywood. Perry’s massive studio property covers 330 acres of land in southwest Atlanta. That’s more than 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers Pictures and Paramount Pictures’ studios combined.

Perry’s success without mainstream support has long puzzled Hollywood insiders. In an interview with “CBS This Morning,” Perry addressed his complicated relationship with Hollywood:

“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… and we speak a language. Hollywood doesn't necessarily speak the language…So, to them, it's like, 'What is this?’”

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