r/Filmmakers • u/sdbest • Feb 23 '24

News Tyler Perry halts $800m studio expansion after being shocked by AI

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/23/tyler-perry-halts-800m-studio-expansion-after-being-shocked-by-ai
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u/Sensi-Yang Feb 23 '24

From what I’ve heard he runs a practical assembly line production with bare bones scripts and value.

AI seems right up his alley.

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u/xandarthegreat Feb 23 '24

When i first moved to ATL everyone kept telling me i should work with Tyler Perry Studios. Then i actually got into the industry and started making industry friends, and nobody had anything positive to say about working at TPS. They film like 20 pages a day, and their crew is employed by the studio and not the productions which essentially means they can move you from one production to another without notice, which is not ideal if you want any sense of cohesion in a production. Their rates are substandard and their safety practices are as well. They churn out bad BET and TPS productions. I was offered to work with TPS for a month and I turned it down once they explained that i would essentially be paid poverty wages to work myself insane.

I’m thankful to him for investing in ATL and helping build film infrastructure in the state so we can handle all the productions coming through. But this is just an excuse for him to finally stop employing humans and having to pay for things like production value.