Steiner Studios
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Steiner Studios is the largest film and television production studio complex outside of Hollywood. Steiner Studios offers 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) of soundstages, with air conditioning and power infrastructure, and an additional 215,000 square feet (20,000 m2) of offices, dressing and make-up rooms, mill shops, spray booths, prop lock-ups, etc. All sound stages are equipped with a grid and catwalk system. Office and support spaces have access to satellite uplinks and a high-speed data backbone.
Soundstages, with 35 to 45 foot grid height, are column-free, sound-insulated, and offer loading and staging areas. Built to accommodate film, high-definition television (HDTV) and digital camera productions, each stage is 120 feet (37 m) wide, wired with a minimum of 9,000 amps of power and 150 to 200 tons of cooling. Stages are accessed via 20-foot-high (6.1 m) by 28-foot-wide (8.5 m) elephant doors.
Each stage is attached to production and support space, including make-up and dressing rooms, green rooms, storage areas, conference rooms and offices. In addition to the enclosed building areas, there are assembly and secondary areas for "lay-down" of materials and equipment used in large-scale film projects.
The facility also features a 100-seat screening room and a full commissary, with dining and catering services available on soundstages, in offices and on location.
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[edit] Notable productions
Among the major motion pictures filmed at Steiner Studios are The Producers: The Movie Musical, Fur, Then She Found Me, The Tourist, Across the Universe, The Hoax, Funny Games, The Nanny Diaries, Life Support, Spider-Man 3, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Inside Man, Enchanted, Baby Mama, and Burn After Reading.
Steiner Studios also has hosted many television shows, including, Damages, Flight of the Conchords, Clash of the Choirs, The Unusuals, and Boardwalk Empire. It was the location of the 17th annual Gotham Awards held on November 27, 2007.[1]
[edit] History
First commissioned by Thomas Jefferson and employing 70,000 workers during World War II, the Brooklyn Navy Yard remained dormant, finally sold to New York City by the federal government in 1967 for $24,000,000. NYC reopened the Brooklyn Navy Yard as an industrial park in 1971. 28 years later, David S. Steiner and his son, Douglas C. Steiner began development of what has become NYC's largest television and movie production facility sitting on 15 of the Navy Yard's nearly 300 acres.
[edit] Expansion plans
An expansion of the facility through renovation of a seven-story building in the Navy Yard, announced by its chairman, Douglas C. Steiner, on February 15, 2007, would nearly double its size to 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2), creating a 289,000-square-foot (26,800 m2) media campus, located on Washington Avenue, to house businesses with ties to film and television, such as art designers and stylists.[2]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ New York Daily News, November 15, 2007
- ^ Steiner Studios (2007-11-22). "Press release: Steiner Studios to Sign Lease on Building at Brooklyn Navy Yard, Doubling Space for Feature Film, Television and Commercial Production". steinerstudios.com. http://www.steinerstudios.com/press-releases.php. Retrieved 2008-06-23. "Hollywood-style Steiner Studios to undergo major expansion - adding new soundstages, post-production, photo studios, and office, wardrobe, and warehouse areas."
