“This is a rocket ship that’s ready,” he said of the 850,000-square-foot facility (210,000 sq. Every day, they are pushing.”ĭespite the adversity, Millsap kept Blackhall’s 12 employees on at full pay. The YouTube Red series Step Up, High Water from Lionsgate and a 20th Century Studios film that he wouldn’t name halted work abruptly on the three other soundstages in mid-March for COVID-19 but continued to pay rent. “That’s just the nature of the business,” he said. Disney planned to move in (Millsap declined to name the project), but the lease hadn’t been finalized before the coronavirus hit. Six of Blackhall’s soundstages emptied out in February when HBO and Paramount wrapped, respectively, HBO’s upcoming horror drama Lovecraft Country and Chris Pratt-starrer The Tomorrow War. Blackhall has laid out about $1 million for COVID-related safety upgrades, he said. But COVID will have easily cost us nearly $5 million, assuming production starts back up soon.” He has prepared for that moment, spending heavily to retrofit with air purifiers, foot pedals for toilet seats and touchless appliances. “Our revenues were off $1 million a month during COVID,” Millsap said. An empty soundstage at Blackhall Studios Blackhall Studios It is a focus of the racial justice protests sweeping the nation after police there killed Rayshard Brooks last week, and Georgia is still shadowed by a temporarily halted abortion ban that last year had some in Hollywood threatening to boycott the state. While Atlanta’s financial incentives established that city as one of the country’s biggest production hubs, the city has been challenged beyond the pandemic. Reopening Hollywood: NBCUniversal Begins Return To Work On The Lot, Tests COVID-19 Production Protocols
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