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“Super-Serving Your Niche”

July 11, 2013 by Scott W. Smith

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This morning I returned some rental equipment to PC&E Atlanta and learned that Tyler Perry’s Studio wasn’t far away. So  heading south on I-285 back to Florida I made a slight detour to drive by Mr. Perry’s 200,000 square foot studio. As I took the above photo I recalled the Tyler Perry phrase “Super-Serving Your Niche”— that I first heard Edward Burns say on Jeff Goldsmith’s podcast, but found the same essential comment in a Vanity Fair interview:

“I worked with Tyler Perry last summer on this film called Alex Cross. While we were shooting, he told me that he had just recently re- watched Brothers McMullen and he asked me why that in 15 years, I hadn’t revisited the world that Brothers McMullen and She’s the One had, that Irish-American working-class milieu. Quite honestly, I didn’t have a reason. The story just never presented itself to me. He said, ‘Please take some advice from me. Think about super-serving your niche. I would imagine that a lot of Irish-American folks out there, who felt a connection to those themes and characters, would love to see another of those kind of films from you. ‘”
Edward Burns on his film The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
2012 Vanity Fair interview by Julie Miller 

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P.S. Many thanks to Stephen at PC&E for handling my last-minute rental request. In you’re in Atlanta or going to be doing a production in the Atlanta area check out PC&E because it’s an impressive rental house and studio set-up.

Scott W. Smith

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Posted in screenwriting | Tagged Atlanta, Edward Burns, Julie Miller, PC&E Atlanta, Tyler Perry, Tyler Perry Studios, Vanity Fair | 1 Comment

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  1. on July 11, 2013 at 6:32 pm jim calocci

    it was great to see
    the comment about Tyler Perry
    and the response,I believe ,by Ed Burns
    that they would both be open
    to the opportunity
    to continue to tell the stories,waiting to be told



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