Courtesy PT Studios Inc. That state should be blacklisted, Pinewood Toronto Studios chairman Paul Bronfman says of Georgia amid a corporate backlash against the U.S. state s restrictive voting laws.
Canadian studio operators have been watching the growing Hollywood backlash against Georgia s restrictive voting laws and are betting the major studios will soon bow to pressure and shift production out of Atlanta.
Paul Bronfman, CEO of Comweb Corp. and chair of Pinewood Toronto Studios, says supporting calls for a production boycott over the Georgia situation is about morality, not competing jurisdictions for Hollywood production. It s not that Atlanta is a direct competitor to Canada. There s a bigger point here. It s morality and the right of people to exercise their democratic vote. And what s going on in Georgia, and spreading, is anti-democratic and it s anti-everything we stand for. So I would be very disappointed if the major studios continue to go to Atlanta and try to hid
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Interiors for Netflix’s Locke & Key are shot at Cinespace Studios in Toronto.
With no end in sight for the production surge north of the border, facilities from Vancouver to Toronto are scrambling to meet demand.
Shooting in Canada has become so busy, the country s production sector is running out of room. Welcome to the Canadian space race, where the need for more shooting facilities is driving a building boom from coast to coast. The construction fever is especially high in and around Toronto and Vancouver, with earthmovers and jackhammers a common sight as developers scramble to meet the seemingly endless demand for international film and TV shoots.