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Philly Film…studio?

by Meg Hine

Philadelphia is no stranger to filmmakers (as I’ve already mentioned), however, there aren’t any Hollywood style studios in the area…..yet. I recently came across this article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about plans for not one, but two movies studios for this area. I was somewhat surprised to find out that one of the proposed sites is a short distance from where I live, in an old vacant department store that we used to shop at when i was a kid.

old store

The Philadelphia area currently has nothing like a Hollywood-type film studio.

So, can it support two?

A New Jersey real estate developer said yesterday he planned to turn a tired, half-empty Norristown shopping center into what would be one of the largest studios on the East Coast.

This is a different project from the studio that other developers and film people said last week was in the works for a yet-to-be-announced site somewhere in the region.

Full story by Tom Infield- Phillywood? 2nd area film studio planned

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Posted in News, Philly Films on August 19th, 2007

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