As part of New York City Mayor Eric Adams‘ “Working People’s Tour,” Adams was joined Wednesday in Sunnyside, Queens by labor leaders and film and TV partners to break ground on a new production studio that will create almost 1,000 construction jobs and around 750 permanent, full-time jobs. The construction on East End Studios Sunnyside commences following the […]
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MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz. — A proposed mega-movie studio in the rural area west of Buckeye has gotten an initial approval from zoning officials. The location sits about one-hour west of Pheonix The Maricopa County Planning and Zoning Commission approved last week a change in the land-use designation for a large piece of vacant property near […]
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Great Point Studios, the owner of Lionsgate Studios in Yonkers, broke ground Monday on its new $100 million studio campus. “The No. 1 place in the United States to make film and television, that’s Yonkers now,” said Robert Halmi, CEO and founder of Great Point Studios. “That’s where people are coming from, and that’s where they’re going to […]
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Northern Ontario: Construction of a cutting-edge 20,000-square-foot film soundstage is underway in Wahnapitae First Nation thanks to a collaboration between a local Indigenous-owned multimedia company, White Owl Film Studios, and Volume Global, a film production company based in Los Angeles, Calif. The $3 million soundstage features a 35-foot-high clear span and will be located in […]
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When crowds gather to watch cars speed through retrofitted streets in Las Vegas Nov. 19, they’ll be looking at more than just the Formula 1 Heineken Silver Grand Prix. They’ll also be the audience — and extras — for Brad Pitt’s untitled racing movie from Apple Original Films and director Joseph Kosinski. “The filmmakers looked […]
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Tulsa Oklahoma – The Cherokee Nation broke ground recently on a soundstage and other facilities in Owasso, adding to its already substantial investment in the film industry in Oklahoma. The planned 10,000-square-foot addition to Cherokee Film Studios, set to be complete in 2024, will be equipped to attract high-end film, television and other commercial productions […]
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Northport New York resident Joe Schramm, who serves as director of the Office of Film and Television for the Town of Huntington, is promoting a big idea: Invite Hollywood to Huntington with a 200,000-square-foot film-and-television production studio located on a 4-acre parcel of land in Huntington Station. He’s hoping to use $2 million of the Downtown […]
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ATLANTA, Ga. Last Saturday, was ground zero for a who’s who list of A-listers, politicians and Hollywood stars. At least 2,500 people made the exclusive guest list to attend Assembly Atlanta’s long-awaited grand opening event. The massive million-dollar, full-service studio is Gray Television’s newest development with 19 sound stages on 135 acres in DeKalb County. […]
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Good news for the Illinois production community – from 2021 to 2022, the state saw increases in U.S. Scripted Television series distributed, U.S. Scripted Streaming Television series distributed, and remained even in U.S. Scripted Cable Television series distributed. FilmLA Research unveiled a groundbreaking report that analyzes U.S.-produced, first-run, English-language scripted projects distributed in the years 2021 and […]
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A decision on plans for a film studio supported by a James Bond film director and opposed by green belt campaigners has been deferred until March of 2024. Campaign groups such as Save Marlow’s Green Belt said more than 1,000 people opposed the plan for the Marlow quarry. Sam Mendes, director of Bond films Skyfall […]
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