Backing a new studio:Russell Crowe.Credit:AP
It would help ease the pressure on east coast production facilities since Australia became one of the most COVID-safe filming locations in the world.
With Fox Studios in Sydney fully booked for more than a year for the Marvel moviesShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings andThor:Love and Thunder,filmmakers have been using converted warehouses and industrial buildings for interior filming for the likes ofThree Thousand Years Of Longing andCarmen in the western suburbs.
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But the pressure on studio space will ramp up when George Miller shoots the big-budget prequel toMad Max:Fury Road,Furiosa,early next year.
A new regional studio in Coffs Harbour would supplement soundstages on the Gold Coast and in Brisbane. There have also been discussions about building new studios in Byron Bay.
Since the resumption of filming last year the northern rivers has been a popular place for shooting overseas television projects.