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California Soundstage Boom Could Ease State’s Post-Strike Concerns
California's streaming content boom has led to a surge in soundstage building, which could ease post-strike industry concerns.
One of the new soundstage projects is Echelon Studios, an ecosystem of production complexes spread across a 1.5-mile radius in Hollywood that encompasses everything from an $600 million redevelopment of the Television Center on Romaine St., spanning roughly 6.4 acres, to a new facility at 1200 Cahuenga Blvd. Although projects are typically drawn to the city by its iconic exteriors, which have been featured in films ranging from 1959’s “Vertigo” to 2021’s “The Matrix Resurrections,” it’s hoped that a more complete production infrastructure might help keep San Francisco-set shows from spending the bulk of their shooting days in Vancouver, Canada, as so many have in recent years, including Hulu’s “Woke” and the CW’s “Kung Fu.” No matter how big the stakeholders, no soundstage project is a sure thing until the first tenant calls “action,” as evidenced by Tyler Perry’s recent announcement that he was putting his planned $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio complex on hold.
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