Vancouver’s Bridge Studios plans 42-stage expansion for Hollywood shoots – The Hollywood Reporter
Bridge Studios, a major Hollywood film and television studio in Vancouver, plans to build another 42 sound systems over the next four years.
New construction, slated to begin next year, will see Bridge Studios in Burnaby, a suburb of Vancouver, take 55 stages in all after a studio campus expansion. The new stages aim to meet the growing demand from Hollywood studios and broadcasters for stages in Canada or elsewhere around the world as their streaming wars fuel demand. growing subscriptions to original content.
And MBS Equipment, a lighting and grips supplier affiliated with studio operator Hackman Capital, will be the exclusive supplier of production rental equipment for the expanded Bridge Studios facilities.
Since 1987, the Bridge Boundary Road studio location has hosted more than 1,000 productions, including MacGyver and Once upon a time series and movies like Jumanji, The Legend of Autumn and First Blood, it’s part of Rambo Franchising.
Ron Hrynuik, general manager of Bridge Studios, predicts in a statement: “With 55 sound stages completed and operational over the next four years, the city of Burnaby and British Columbia will be the undisputed leader. about filming outside of Hollywood.
New studios will be built on the existing Bridge Studios Boundary Road campus and new locations. These include four stages that will be built on Griffiths Drive and will open next year; Another 21 phases will be built on Lake City Way and open in 2025; and 16 other soundstages will open on 18.5 acres on Marine Way in Burnaby in 2025.
And the existing Bridge Studios campus will add another stage in 2026. The new construction will include 50-foot-tall stage facilities ranging in size from 9,000 to more than 30,000 square feet.
TV series like Superman & Lois and The Flash Local filming has powered Vancouver and the province of British Columbia in the past prior to the 2019 pandemic, with Hollywood studios reducing production spending by $3.8 billion by 2021. Canada’s province competes compete with rival localities such as Ontario, Georgia, New York and California to attract Los Angeles-based producers to take advantage of tax credits and other incentives when filming on its sound.
