New Film and TV Studio Space Planned in Atlanta

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/atlanta-electric-owl-1235061774/

Electric Owl Studios is proposed to have offices in the Atlanta area in 2023. Wow Atlanta will be the next Burbank, Glendale, Culver City, Century City the way newer TV studios have been heading to Georgia. In the Past Year Gray Television proposed for Studio City Georgia before they took over WGCL/WPCH-TV from Meredith and its proposal has gotten support.

Note I remember hearing stories that the reason the Movie Industry moved from New Jersey and New York to California a century ago partially for lower labor costs and also to avoid Edison's influence in New York and New Jersey at the time. Now the same thing is happening a century later. You can say similar things about the recording industry being in the Nashville area on similar grounds.

Atlanta is set to get another film studio after private investment firm Domain Capital Group and real estate development company Capstone South Properties purchased a 17-acre property in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Plans to build the facility, to be called Electric Owl Studios, will see construction on an initial six-stage, 300,000 square foot film studio be completed in January 2023.



“We believe the Electric Owl facility will be a best-in-class film and television production center that minimizes environmental impact and promotes a sustainable economic opportunity for the local community,” Domain managing director Chuck Taylor said in a statement.

How Did the Movie Industry End Up in California?

It took other things than just the weather to move the movie industry to California.

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California’s weather was a major driving force for why the movie industry set up shop in sunny California in the early 1900s. What better place to make a movie without contending with cold temperatures or storms with the added benefit of having over 300 days a year of sunshine. But there were a few more things at play that took movie making from places like Chicago and New York and put them on the West Coast.

One thing that happened after 1909 was that movies were becoming increasingly popular, and an increase in production was needed to meet the demand. Again this had to do with the weather, but California, at the time, also had non-union labor, which made producing a movie in California significantly cheaper than on the East Coast where labor costs were higher. The availability of land was also not a problem in California, and it was inexpensive. Almost any location to suit a movie could be found close to downtown Los Angeles.

Another reason the movie industry thrived on the West Coast was because it was as far away from the East Coast as a movie maker could get, and this physical distance had almost everything to do with Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had over a thousand patents to his name, and he had his name on many of the American patents that had to do with motion picture cameras.