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Universal’s Stunning Campus Upgrade Built to ‘Sustain the Next 100 Years,’ Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and NBCU Content Chief Donna Langley Say
Universal Pictures unveils a stunning film lot upgrade as part of Comcast's 25-year, $1 billion facilities evolution plan.
It’s the conglomerate’s oldest, most glamorous asset — home to the theme park, historic soundstages and increasingly limited bungalow space for Universal Pictures’ bounty of overall production deals (Jordan Peele, Amy Pascal, the Daniels, to name a few). A ribbon cutting on Sept. 18 revealed the new digs — an integrated campus designed by Lever and Field Operations, supervised by NBCUniversal chief real estate officer Ed Chuchla. Three new state-of-the-art screening rooms have been installed in the Commons building, which for the first time in decades provides adequate trophy cases for Universal’s many Oscars (most recently, a Best Picture statue for “Oppenheimer”).
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