Hollywood heads to Hertfordshire: Plans for £700m film and TV studios with 4,500 jobs

A £700m studios facility is due to be built just north of London as a Hollywood consortium eyes up expanding across the Atlantic.

Located just 20 miles east of the Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden - home to Harry Potter - the new venture is set to create 4,500 jobs. The development will be the first Sunset Studios operation outside of the US, where the owners - Blackstone, a private equity firm, and Hudson Pacific Properties, a real estate giant - run four studios.The partnership's California-based film houses have produced hits like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, La La Land, When Harry Met Sally and Zoolander.

So far, a £120m, 91-acre site has been secured 17 miles north of central London in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.As well as Leavesden, the new"campus" will be eyeing up competition from Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire - where James Bond and the Star Wars films have been shot. James Seppala, head of Blackstone Real Estate Europe, said:"We are excited to expand our partnership with Hudson Pacific into the UK and intend to deliver a world-class studio facility that will help ensure that the UK continues to be a premier destination for content production globally.

As used to be ElstreeStudios?....

well there is already notable facilities in the area at Watford, Pinewood & Earlstree Great to see some movement in the industry,

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