Australian producer James M. Vernon is leading the charge for a new ten sound stage studio in the country.
The Lakeside Studio and Penrith Lakes Development Corporation today announced a commercial agreement to develop the purpose-built studio in Western Sydney to service the growing demand for content.
The Lakeside Studio complex is being planned across 96 acres (39 hectares) west of Sydney. The multi-million-dollar facility is being lined up over three phases with the idea for it to eventually feature 10 sound stages of various sizes aimed at attracting large-scale international productions, as well as catering for the domestic market.
According to the developers, Number One sound stage will have a capacity of 48,000sqft (4500sqm) and will be the largest sound stage in the Southern Hemisphere, with a total sound stage area of more than 226,000sqft. There will also be a massive backlot and extensive water shooting options, the team said.
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The Lakeside Studio and Penrith Lakes Development Corporation today announced a commercial agreement to develop the purpose-built studio in Western Sydney to service the growing demand for content.
The Lakeside Studio complex is being planned across 96 acres (39 hectares) west of Sydney. The multi-million-dollar facility is being lined up over three phases with the idea for it to eventually feature 10 sound stages of various sizes aimed at attracting large-scale international productions, as well as catering for the domestic market.
According to the developers, Number One sound stage will have a capacity of 48,000sqft (4500sqm) and will be the largest sound stage in the Southern Hemisphere, with a total sound stage area of more than 226,000sqft. There will also be a massive backlot and extensive water shooting options, the team said.
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- 8/16/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Lakeside Studio and Penrith Lakes Development Corporation Monday announced an agreement to develop a world-class purpose-built film studio and production training facility in Western Sydney.
The move is promoted by producer James Vernon, who positions it as a means to service the growth in demand for new content now that the Disney-owned Fox Studios are largely occupied with Marvel business.
“With Sydney’s Fox studios being so heavily booked, its rendered Sydney without a full-service film studio,” Vernon told Variety. And while Sydney currently remains in a strict lockdown due to the spread of the Delta variant, Vernon says that Sydney studio space is still in high demand.
“We’ve spoken to many studios and streamers and they are not thinking of the current situation, but of the future. Sydney still stands as one of the best places to come and film.”
The site which was used for numerous scenes...
The move is promoted by producer James Vernon, who positions it as a means to service the growth in demand for new content now that the Disney-owned Fox Studios are largely occupied with Marvel business.
“With Sydney’s Fox studios being so heavily booked, its rendered Sydney without a full-service film studio,” Vernon told Variety. And while Sydney currently remains in a strict lockdown due to the spread of the Delta variant, Vernon says that Sydney studio space is still in high demand.
“We’ve spoken to many studios and streamers and they are not thinking of the current situation, but of the future. Sydney still stands as one of the best places to come and film.”
The site which was used for numerous scenes...
- 8/16/2021
- by Katherine Tulich
- Variety Film + TV
Following the production of Antaine Furlong’s Ascendant at Fox Studios Australia towards the end of 2019, producer James M. Vernon wanted to return to the Sydney facility to film his next project.
However, he found space was hard to come by.
“We couldn’t get in because Marvel and other projects were there for the foreseeable future,” he told If.
“It got us thinking that we’ve got nowhere to go and there are a whole lot of other people that have got nowhere to go as well.”
The predicament would plant the seed for Lakeside Studio, a $150 million film production precinct to be built at Penrith Lakes.
A commercial arrangement has been agreed upon with Penrith Lakes Development Corporation to deliver the facility, which will be spread over 39 hectares in the tourism and tech precinct immediately west of the city’s CBD.
The three-stage development will feature 10 sound stages...
However, he found space was hard to come by.
“We couldn’t get in because Marvel and other projects were there for the foreseeable future,” he told If.
“It got us thinking that we’ve got nowhere to go and there are a whole lot of other people that have got nowhere to go as well.”
The predicament would plant the seed for Lakeside Studio, a $150 million film production precinct to be built at Penrith Lakes.
A commercial arrangement has been agreed upon with Penrith Lakes Development Corporation to deliver the facility, which will be spread over 39 hectares in the tourism and tech precinct immediately west of the city’s CBD.
The three-stage development will feature 10 sound stages...
- 8/15/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Well, it didn’t take long to find out where New Myth will be finding the money to make tentpole-sized movies. A group of investors and distributors led by New Myth and Toonz Entertainment Pte Ltd have launched Epiphany, a $200 million film fund that intends to strategically build a content platform and invest in a slate of event films with an eye toward global appeal. Epiphany aims to get involved as producer and co-financier of franchise films with major studios. It starts with New Myth and Toonz and also in the investor group is European distributor A-Company, an affiliate of Ar Film in Russia. Related: New Myth Forms With ‘X-Men/Transformers’ Tom DeSanto; Goal To Hatch Tentpoles New Myth is a Hollywood-based production company founded by principals Tom DeSanto, David Ranes, Grace Oppenheimer and Wayne Duband. Epiphany will co-finance its projects. Toonz is one of the largest animation and VFX studios in Asia,...
- 6/18/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive: Tom DeSanto has teamed with David Ranes, Grace Roeder Oppenheimer, and Wayne Duband to form New Myth Entertainment. The intention is to hatch tentpole fare, along with some filmmaker driven small films. DeSanto’s writing and producing credits include X-Men and Transformers, and he was right there at the inception of both of those projects which have done billions in box office and merchandising. DeSanto is currently writing and producing his re-imagining of the millennium-old Chinese story, Creation Of The Gods, with YiSang Media, with plans of it being his next global film franchise. New Myth is currently developing several big properties that include Faces, a high concept action thriller, with DeSanto and Ranes producing. “When a young genius invents infallible facial recognition software he uncovers a millennia old global conspiracy that threatens to throw the planet into chaos and a new World War,” DeSanto said. Update: New Myth,...
- 6/18/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive: Jim Sheridan, who made news earlier this week when he signed with Wme’s Robert Newman and Manage-Ment’s Dan Halsted, has just committed to rewrite and direct Playing With The Enemy for newly formed New Myth Entertainment. The film is based on the Gary W. Moore book of the same name, which he wrote about how his father put his baseball skills to use during WWII. After being drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers as a 15-year-old prodigy in 1940, Gene Moore joined the Navy and was stationed at a prisoner of war camp in Louisiana. There, he taught German prisoners of war how to play baseball. The film explores both the relationship between the German POWs and their American captors in the isolated camp at the height of the war, but also the relationship between Gene Moore and his son, to whom he is telling the story. New Myth Entertainment...
- 5/1/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
The globalization of modern genre cinema has thrown up another interesting fish. Australian producer Pete Ford has hired ex Warner Brothers International president Wayne Duband and announced their first film together will be Russian action adventure Cold Patrol. Cold Patrol follows a dogsled team in the Arctic that discovers an abandoned Soviet town that has been overtaken by zombie polar bears. Of course. Produced by Ford's company Resolution Independent, Cold Patrol was written by Christopher Webster and will be directed by Nikolai Pigarev - who just directed the first Russian-language zombie movie, Meteletsa: Winter of the Dead, also produced by Ford.The film will be English-language and will shoot in late 2013 in the Arctic Circle. Ford has been fairly active in genre cinema in Australia, mostly at the...
- 11/3/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Meteletsa: Winter of the Dead, the first Russian language zombie film from writer/director/producer Nikolai Pigarev, will world premiere on November 3rd at the 26thLeeds International Film Festival in the Fanomenon section and ShockTillYouDrop.com has your exclusive first look at the super-stylish and impressive trailer as well as the poster by acclaimed artist Ashley Wood.
The action adventure film - which will be touted at the American Film Market - is co-written by Pigarev and Mikhail Borzenkov, and executive produced by Resolution’s Pete Ford alongside Wayne Duband.
The film follows the story of a not-so-intrepid Moscow reporter who finds himself battling an army of undead zombies during a freak snowstorm on the hottest day in Russian history. Now all he has to do is get the girl, stop himself from being shot by her father and stay away of the sharp end of the mad Russian Orthodox Priest’s axe,...
The action adventure film - which will be touted at the American Film Market - is co-written by Pigarev and Mikhail Borzenkov, and executive produced by Resolution’s Pete Ford alongside Wayne Duband.
The film follows the story of a not-so-intrepid Moscow reporter who finds himself battling an army of undead zombies during a freak snowstorm on the hottest day in Russian history. Now all he has to do is get the girl, stop himself from being shot by her father and stay away of the sharp end of the mad Russian Orthodox Priest’s axe,...
- 10/5/2012
- shocktillyoudrop.com
After being attached to several Us projects that have so far failed to go into production, Shane Abbess is returning to Australia to develop a sequel to his $250,000 debut Gabriel, which was picked up by Sony Pictures for worldwide release in 2006.
.We are bringing him home to write the screenplay,. producer James Vernon told If Magazine, .and will do everything we can to make sure that.s his next film and the budget is going to be substantial..
Abbess is still under a first-look deal with the studio and ideally they will sign-on for the next film, Vernon said, but failing that he will finance it through his financing arm Mfm.
Gabriel told the story of how the title character . played by Andy Whitfield -- fought to rid purgatory of evil fallen angels and save the souls of its inhabitants. The new film, tentatively titled Gabriel: Sins of the Father,...
.We are bringing him home to write the screenplay,. producer James Vernon told If Magazine, .and will do everything we can to make sure that.s his next film and the budget is going to be substantial..
Abbess is still under a first-look deal with the studio and ideally they will sign-on for the next film, Vernon said, but failing that he will finance it through his financing arm Mfm.
Gabriel told the story of how the title character . played by Andy Whitfield -- fought to rid purgatory of evil fallen angels and save the souls of its inhabitants. The new film, tentatively titled Gabriel: Sins of the Father,...
- 5/13/2012
- by Sandy George
- IF.com.au
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