Posted on 07/10/2017 9:07:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A $58 million film studio is in the works for Fayette County, just minutes from Pinewood Atlanta Studios.
This week’s Atlanta Business Chronicle reports the 24-acre, six-stage complex in north Fayetteville would be called Cinema South Studios.
The team behind the venture includes Alvin Williams, a film producer with more than 30 years of experience in the film industry; Jim Viviano of 5G Studio Collaborative, the architect behind the project; and Todd Brooks, president at Brooks Real Estate Development Inc.
Winter Construction will build the studios once funding is in place. The partners plan to break ground this December with a tentative completion date of December 2019.
Rather than competing with Pinewood, which has been full since its opening with productions that include Marvel’s “AntMan,” “Captain America: Civil War” and “Avengers: Infinity War,” Cinema South Studios’ partners see their stages as a complement to Pinewood. The studio has been so full at certain points that its productions have had to seek out space elsewhere.
Over the next five years, Cinema South Studios projects it will create 5,000 jobs.
Pinewood ???
British owned ???
Almost certainly.
Don’t get too excited since these movie studios will vacate and move with a better deal some where else.
After spending $60 million dollars? That’s your prediction?
Not exactly. It is a joint venture with the Cathy Family Foundation (Chik Fil A) that built the studios and provide funding and help for those wishing to make films or tv shows in Georgia.
Foljs would be surprised at the amount of work that goes on here
No.
It is a joint venture with the Cathy Family Foundation
They have very good deals in Georgia
There is a fairly large industry here. We have great locations, trained folks, good services, and tax breaks
You would be surprised at how much filming goes on here
It’s owned by both the original British Pinewood studio and the Cathy family:
Pinewood Atlanta is a joint venture between the studio and River’s Rock LLC, an independently managed trust of the Cathy family, founders of the Chick-fil-A fast-food chain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinewood_Studios
That’s what a joint venture means....
So nice that we agree
That’s what a joint venture means....
So nice that we agree
Not a win, since it’ll bring Liberals to Georgia. :-(
Not a win, since it’ll bring Liberals to Georgia. :-(
Our grandson just finished filming in Atlanta on a upcoming series on the unabomber for the Discovery Channel . He’s playing a small part, but has a good chance of moving on to bigger things.
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