Hey ad Tyler Perry here want to take you
on a tour of Tyler Perry studios so hop
in come on let's go for a ride Studios
is three hundred and thirty acres in the
heart of Atlanta this was all Fort
McPherson army base
there was an 18 hole golf course here
that rivaled Augusta it was absolutely
beautiful
but when the army went away so there's
all of the majesty of the golf course so
we've just been developing it building
as we need it
hold on we don't have to do the
Flintstones to get up this hill
she wouldn't let me take my other Kart
the fast one I think I can I think I can
I think I can make it up the hill and I
think out then I did all right
so twelve sound stages we're getting
ready for our big grand opening
celebration where we will be dedicating
these sound stages to a lot of people
who have inspired and encouraged me over
the years so you got Halle Berry here
and Denzel Washington and Whoopi
Goldberg and Oprah lots of things have
been shot here The Walking Dead black
panther a shot here first man into the
family with Mark Wahlberg really excited
to be given stewardship to make sure
that
this maintain that the history is
protected and always serviced and known
for many people this is Maxine bill it's
our back lot where I shoot a few of my
TV shows some of the fans of those shows
will definitely recognize some of these
houses especially this neighborhood in
particular from if loving you is wrong
so this area in magazine Ville is
dedicated to Mardi Mardi additional
this is madea's house pretty famous
character from a lot of my movies so the
original house is down the street in
this neighborhood on Avon Avenue but
we've wanted to have a place where
visitors and fans of medea can actually
come and see it you can walk in this
house is like she's gonna come down the
stairs with her big huge self and say hi
and feed you it's all furnished and
ready to go Maxine bill is I named it
after my mother Maxine who passed in
2009 so this whole area this whole
neighborhood I wanted to be a town named
after her in her honor and she was so
happy to have that it's very sentimental
for me and and we do a lot of shooting
down here for a lot of the show so it's
always it's always really fun and
powerful and it's a good memory of her
to be down here she was very proud of I
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did this show where I needed a farmhouse
that looked like it was a hundred years
old so we built a farmhouse and set it
among these old trees to make it look
like it was had been there forever
and one day we're gonna get there on
this cart going up the hill but this is
our farmhouse they're all practical
inside you can go in and shoot inside
even though it looks like it's very
oldest only built a few years ago so let
me show you a little bit more of Maxine
ville so I built this house for one of
my shows it's a four-sided mansion that
I built to combat some of the sets that
we were building I just thought why not
build a permanent structure that has
four different sides to it
that could be four different places all
in one so I'll show you what I mean
here we have the Georgian side of the
mansion for one of my lead characters
she and our family and everybody live
here but if you go put across the grass
and really piss somebody off and then
you're here and it has a whole nother
feel to it
this was the president's home before he
went to Washington DC and they have to
have knobs and then there's this side
totally different and then we have this
side which is very modern
tried to make the best use of the space
and the places and there you have it
watch your knees see if we can get
through here legs and arms in that ain't
good good okay great now I'm going to
show you the White House welcome to the
White House so still a lot of cleaning
being done here but don't know how to
turn the lights on let's go upstairs
this is the 80% replica of the actual
White House in Washington DC so we built
this for my new show called The Oval on
B et and we're really proud of how it
turned out
the residents of the White House famous
iconic window here president's bedroom
some hell has gone on in this room over
the last episodes oh we've done some
everything in here it's the daughter's
room this is the son's room we built
this about five and half months ago we
started it it's the only White House has
ever been built at a studio on a lot and
we are really excited about it so I'm
gonna show you more of the property come
on there's a lot more to see Obama my
man
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all of these houses were all built in
the 1800s they are extremely extremely
beautiful inside every one of them the
one in the center is where I shot two
Madea movies and that's also where
President Roosevelt stayed and colon
Powell these were all that places for
the generals and the officers to stay
when they were on campus the church here
on the campus that also built in the
1800s really beautiful inside not much
has been touched all of these buildings
are on the National Historic Registry so
I take great pride in maintaining them
at their original state okay so this is
the post Theatre in the walking dead
this was the home of the Kingdom where
the tiger was on the stage and come on
I'll show you if the lights are on
I don't think the lights are on and
that's where the tiger was on the stage
in the kingdom for the walking dead the
tiger was on the stage hello I love
walking dead I love walking dead oh I
got to show you something this is
madea's car she would say this is my
1974 cattle action and I bought it in 74
and hadn't had maintenance on it since
but if you notice the luxury plastic on
the seats you can see if you are
Architectural Digest this what's wrong
people all could take the drive just
they don't know how to put plastic on
the furniture you buy all that nice [ __ ]
spend all that money on all that nice
[ __ ] but they don't know how to put no
plastic on the furniture put plastic on
all your yeah thank you this is my cat
nap
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this part goes to miles of that welcome
to the dream building the reason I named
this building the dream building is
because it was a dream come true for me
it's a dream come true for everybody who
comes to work here I wanted it to be
inspirational for so many people if they
have a dream I feel like their dream
become true so that's why I just wanted
to inspire you so this is the dream
building where as I know it looks pretty
like just an office building here but
there's a whole world just beyond these
doors if you want to be in a hotel
hallway like to say the ritz-carlton or
something then all of a sudden you're in
a hotel hallway you want to be in the
presidential suite of one of those hotel
rooms you just right here all on the
third floor magic and to happen have
nots I have a character that lives in a
brownstone well this is our brownstone
so you just bring the cameras in and
shoot and then if you get sick and need
to go to the hospital turn this corner
and you're in the hospital we've shot in
this hallway of the hospital for
acrimony look that way show them that
way you show me show me now come back to
me look at me look at me I'm over here
look at me yeah okay let me go this way
more hospital fake elevator pretty cool
but looks real but doesn't go anywhere
don't go with any other floor why it's
super sexy loft in the haves and
have-nots I feel like I could live in
this apartment it's pretty cool work it
on a restaurant here I haven't seen
yellow restaurant that's about to be
finished and convert it let's do look
for you who's coming along great
here are two cool bars this is our Irish
pub that we shot lots of things and this
bar was actually in my house in the
basement and I sold it to the studio
when I moved because I thought it was so
amazing such a great bar and this is the
iron bone bar from the haves and
have-nots
and I love it because of the way it's
always led the way feels really nice
dive-bar a lot of bad things go on here
but it's kind of cool very authentic
very unique the set decorators did a
great job with it everything you've seen
everything I've shown you I'm actually
drawn to scale gave it to the the
builders to designer saying this is what
I want so that's the way I've been very
specific in the design and build of this
building for my house everything is just
I love architecture from the bottom of
heart if I wasn't in this business I
would probably want to be a really great
architect thank you thank you so much ID
thank you all the people watched I hope
that this inspires you to know that you
can dream it you can do it you can
believe you can build anything you want
god bless you all right I get out get
out thank you it's been great seeing you
I appreciate it
time to go thank you
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