They're building several new sound stages at the WB Leavesden Studios (same place the Harry Potter series was shot at), a near 50% increase to incorporate the future DC Studios projects.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-discoverys-leavesden-studio-expanding-become-dc-production-hub-1235596348/
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Is the studio tour icon telling people to frick off and leave?
I think it means "take a left curve and continue down"
yeah, basically
there's two roundabouts either end of the studio, if you're at that one you're at the wrong end, so you 180 around the near roundabout that sign is on and go to the other one, then take a right and head into the tour parking area; it's not a huge site as industrial units go, you can't really miss it
if you go into the site at that end looking like a tourist the guy on the gate rolls his eyes at you and points you back to the roundabout anyway
DC Entertainment is a subsidiary of Warner Bros Discovery (not Warner Bros Global Brands and Franchises as was previously the case); DC Studios (previously DC Films but effectively a new company) is a subsidiary of Warner Bros.Discovery as well, but separate to DC Entertainment
going to be fun watching them figure out who can do what
it's because of tax incentives and land values, usually; Warner Bros owns or otherwise has the right to build on the land adjacent to its existing studios at Leavesden so it's probably land values in this case (there's also fields behind the site for potential future expansion)
for many if not most applications film work is indoors anyway, particularly with CGI heavy works like tentpole features, so while it does mean you have to fly people from LA to Watford it also means you don't have to buy up a few square feet of Forest Lawn Drive at a time or buy up the housing (where people who work for you actually live in many cases) off West Olive, plus the WB lot in LA is just insanely big as it is, especially now they've added the Burbank Studio to it
does Warner Bros Discovery one of the largest companies ever to exist have the money for this rapid expansion? is actually a very good question which only time will really answer
if they end up with a second DCEU fiasco on their hands, the answer will likely be no
if it pays off, then yes
DC Studios is a division of WB Entertainment. WB Entertainment is a subsidiary of WB Discovery.
eh, they're still competing for influence over hundred-million-dollar projects within the group
there's no way it's gonna go down well
Do they have the money to afford this shit?
They don't. Barbie may have made a lot of money but the loses from the 3 DC movies on top of the loses from the strikes cancels out any profit they could have taken from it.
No
At this point it's do or die. Either they succeed make gobs of money and save the company and the DC brand. Or they do nothing and are either forced to go out of business or sell DC to Disney.
um DC doesnt have the money they are a company under Warner Brothers. So, you mean the WB is building several sound stages with their money for DC
>um DC doesnt have the money they are a company under Warner Brothers.
Not anymore. DC Studios is now seperate from Warner Bros. Studios., not under it. Gunn answers to Zaslav, not the ceos of WB (Deluca and Abdy).
>UK
If this is because of the strikes, don't theu realize that the british versions of the same unions they're currently fighting are also going to be a pain in the ass if WGA/SAG wins?
Not sure how this is fricking up.
it's company war bullshit
Not selling to Amazon
Investing millions of dollars into practical sets for movies that haven't proved to be successful is an awful idea.
If Superman flops, then what? You have an expensive Daily Planet set that you can't use for a few years at minimum.
A generic office set is a generic office set that can be used for Rom Coms, action movies, docudramas, whatever. Even if their capeshit flops, the sets can still be useful.
How about just renting spaces instead? Investing millions in a studio that will be empty for most of the time is an awful idea.
>But it will look different.
You're telling me that they can't reconstruct a fricking cubical? For one or two scenes?
>that will be empty for most of the time
This is a moronic assumption, not only can they theoretically use these sound stages for whatever projects they have filming at any given time (DC or otherwise), they could also rent them out to other productions. There's no reason to believe they'll just be sitting unused.
When have they not
When they terminated the JJ Abrams deal
>DC continues to frick up
>they now have their own studio so we can have sets done forever like harry potter
OP can you stop sucking wieners for a day?
Warner has been making poor planned decisions like this for a while. Not sure why the investors are putting up with it.
But anon, things are different now! They're owned by Discovery who is saving them from bankruptcy!
$50 billion in debt, a sequence of flops, and now they're investing in studios? Wasn't Discovery all about making cost effective movies?
Even if you plan on buying a studio you should rent it for a shoot and find out if it works.
That studio is gonna be used to produce Amber Heard's solo film, MERA the RED LANTERN.
I honestly thought the Volume was the future of movies so I don't understand ehat this is about other than tax incentives possibly.