The historic Grand Opening of Tyler Perry studios

The writer and director Tyler Perry officially opened his massive new film studio in Atlanta three weeks ago, with a party that drew celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Samuel L Jackson and Halle Berry. This is the biggest film studio in the USA, bigger than any other studio in Hollywood.

Black Panther 2 might be shot there for a release in 2022.

Remember that Tyler Perry has long been ignored by the Oscars institution and put aside by Hollywood. In the upcoming months, he will also release BET Plus a streaming service with black-produced content. This is historic given the African-American history and the struggles that black film directors and actors encounter at Hollywood. This is something Denzel Washington and Viola Davies talked about years ago at the Oscars.

It is also marking economic independence for black-produced movies and I really hope that these movies will be broadcasted in France and on the African continent because for the moment in Paris we have to wait for the Brown Sugar Days and on the African continent, the youth barely accesses African-American content when we all know that they are inspired by African-American artists. This distribution issue in the past was solved by Afrostream the initiative of Tonje Bakang but the company went on bankruptcy. We still have distributing networks such as Iroko TV or Iroko plus but Iroko only purchases latin American productions and African productions for the moment. One must say that African-American movies are more expensive and require a lot more investment.