On 13 October, Stage Fifty announced their submission to Buckinghamshire Council for the development of Wycombe Film Studios. With a decision to me made in January 2023, the opening of the studio is projected to support around 1,200 jobs and produce an economic output of GBP 305 million.
Stage Fifty has revealed its plans for Wycombe Film Studios, a new eight-stage boutique studio. Temporary planning applications have been submitted to Buckinghamshire Council for a Hollywood feature film that will start shooting in 2022. An application for a permanent studio will follow later this year, transforming a 26-acre site located just off the M40 […]
Stage Fifty is opening its second film studio site in the UK. A cutting-edge virtual production stage will be included as part of this facility. It is predicted that the entire site will bring the UK economy an annual boost of approximately GDP50 million.
A stage at Farnborough Film Studios has been named after the pioneering independent television production company Hartswood Films. Built and operated by Stage Fifty, the Hartswood Stage is one of two 22,000 square foot sound-stages built earlier this year to support the UK’s thriving film and television industry.
Independent TV production company Hartswood Films (Dracula, Sherlock) are the first to use the brand new Farnborough Studio developed by Stage Fifty. The two soundstages will house dramas The Devils’ Hour for Amazon Studios and Inside Man for BBC and Netflix.
Stage Fifty promises production-ready sound stages that can be built anywhere in just four months. Three UK film studio sites from Stage Fifty are currently in development, creating over 300,000 square feet of high-quality stage space.
For Sky Atlantic’s new series about the rise of Black Power in 1970’s Britain, Guerrilla, Director John Ridley filmed in the boroughs of Camden, Islington, Lambeth and Hackney.
Filming for the movie version of the wildly popular erotic novel Fifty Shades Of Grey helped boost production on Vancouver’s North Shore last year. The shoot included stage work at North Shore Studios, as well as location filming across the city.
Film L.A.’s new report Feature Film: A Profile of Production reveals that California and New York were the most frequent filming jurisdictions for U.S. originated features released in 2018. However, the US state of Georgia, the UK and Canada attracted a proportionately high percentage of the year’s top grossing films which “tend to be higher-budget […]
While the budget has not been revealed by the BBC, the series is the UK broadcaster’s most expensive show to date. The series was heavily filmed in studios, with much of the budget going to VFX, provided in its entirety by Framestore.