🎧 Now Renting: 8 Million Sq Ft of Sadness
Bar mitzvahs? YouTubers? L.A.'s soundstages struggle to fill production's void
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L.A. may have lost its crown as the world’s production capital, but it’s still sitting on 8 million square feet of sound stages. So what to do with all that excess space? Think bar mitzvahs, weddings, YouTubers and cover shoots. Elaine Low, Sean McNulty and Natalie Jarvey explore how L.A.’s sound stages are the new dead malls and what that means for the future of production in L.A., and who’s still filming locally (shoutout to Abbott Elementary and Grey’s Anatomy). Plus: What new layoffs at Disney and WBD mean.
In the early 70s, before The Godfather rescued Paramount, the studio reportedly rented out studio space for 16mm porn shoots. So it ain’t over ‘till it’s over.