TYLER PERRY OPENS NEW FILM STUDIO
Tyler Perry unveiled his new multi-million dollar TV and film studio in Atlanta this Saturday among friends.
Tyler and his date for the evening actress Gelila Bekele
Other celebs for the night included Sidney Poitier
The occassion brought Oprah to tears
Will Smith
Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kodjoe....talk about a handsome couple
Doesn't Tasha Smith look fab!
Patti Patti in her usual over-done look
Star
Terri Vaughn...I really like this mix of casual meets formal.
Holly Robinson Peete
ANTM Eva (Pigford) and her man Lance
Tracey Edmonds
The sprawling complex includes more than 200,000 square feet of studio and office space and sits on 30 acres that once housed Delta Air Lines' finance, reservation and computer center. Perry will shoot his TBS sitcoms "House of Payne" and "Meet the Browns" along with other film projects at the studio, reports the Associated Press.
Perry, 39, said the studio features five sound stages that will be named after Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Cicely Tyson — with one still unnamed.
Still, while celebs were celebrating, protesters from the Writers Guild picketed outside against his firing of four writers on his series "House of Payne." The Writers Guild of America West filed an unfair-labor-practice complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against Perry after his studio fired four writers for the TBS comedy “House of Payne” who were seeking union representation.
Jeff Hermanson, an assistant executive director for the Writers Guild, said the four writers — Kellie Griffin, Christopher Moore, Teri Brown-Jackson and Lamont Ferrell — had sought a union contract because they felt they were underpaid and lacked benefits.
Perry maintains the writers were let go because of the quality of their work.
Written by Chronicmagazine on October 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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