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Inside Sky Studios Elstree: Home Of ‘Wicked’, ‘Paddington In Peru’, New ‘Bridget Jones’ & ‘Jurassic’ Movies… And Sometimes A Hawk Called Zeus


From 'Wicked' & 'Paddington In Peru' To 'Jurassic World Rebirth': Inside Sky Studios Elstree

After an unseasonal smattering of snow, it’s cold as Deadline takes the tour, checking out camera phone pics of the train from Wicked being craned into position – its sheer size meaning it could not negotiate a corner leading to the back lot. “By time they were coming up to shoot, we’d finished all of their stages and we’re just making the final touches on the remaining few,” says Sophie Owen Street, VP of Strategy & Business at Sky Studios Elstree. From pent-up demand and streamers and studios scrambling for space, a combination of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and a surge in energy costs, and the dual Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes – and all against a backdrop of Brexit – changed the picture.

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