New film and TV studios to open on Chicago's Northwest Side

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The Fields Studios is a $250 million project that will bring nine sound stages, creative and production offices and more retail to the 21-acre Fields campus at Diversey Avenue and Pulaski Road. Shawn Papazian and Zain Koita are Partners with Knickpoint Ventures, the developer of The Fields Studios, appeared on the WGN News at 4pm to talk about the project. For more information: thefieldsstudios.com/

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@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79 4 ай бұрын

Right up the street from my apartment, I know it was another studio being built on the south side too. If it’s not completed already.

@mikelros81883 4 ай бұрын

Where are the workers going to park???

@raybod1775 4 ай бұрын

There’s a parking lot outside and across the street.

@mikelros81883 4 ай бұрын

@@raybod1775 that's where production and the higher ups will park. How big is the lot?

@jl453 4 ай бұрын

So no jobs unless union?

@mikelros81883 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely!!

@NexusMinecrafter64 4 ай бұрын

Lmao everyone keeps saying we not a hub for TV/Film and that just simply isn’t true lmao but go off

@garyryckewaert5724 4 ай бұрын

Hmmm, they seem to have ignored the fact that Chicago already has the largest movie studios in the world outside of Hollywood.... Cine space studios. Chicago fire, Chicago PD, Chicago med and a bunch of other shows film there, as well as many movies film there. Oops.

@Beloveandlight 3 ай бұрын

they may. but what Cinespace hasn't succeeded in is providing comfortable communal space. there is no green space, parking is a disaster, there is no cafeteria, no third party food spots, no cafes, no child or doggie daycares, no hardware stores. It would be cool to have a gym and locker room. But we are lucky to get a bathroom in walking distance from the offices, yet alone hot water to sinks or regulated HVAC. If it rains heavily, you can hear it in the sound stages. I know it was incredibly expensive to make, but they didn't account for the several other factors that make a film studio lot function and thrive. It would be cool to partner with a studio and allow space for a prop house.. a film lot should have a lot more than just sound stages and offices.

@DOGSSHAKESHIT 4 ай бұрын

Im excited where as CineSpace was the only place where there were movie studios.This can open up more jobs as i am laid off from there.😊

@macstrong1284 4 ай бұрын

They’ve been making movies at Studio City for much longer

@user-pb1ic7pi9c 4 ай бұрын

They won't use cinespace space no more on ogden

@mikelros81883 4 ай бұрын

Yeah they will no one wants to work over there

@macstrong1284 4 ай бұрын

False. The Dick Wolf shows will continue to shoot there, as well as The Bear and The Chi. Those shows aren’t going anywhere.

@A3Kr0n 4 ай бұрын

What is "film" and "TV"? Are they apps for my phone?

@OperationChicago 4 ай бұрын

lol

@conservativewarrior777 4 ай бұрын

How long before thugs take over the studio like in the beginning of Robocop Rogue City!

@gidget101 4 ай бұрын

How has anything changed with Chicago's unions' demands and rules that have historically caused local production costs to eventually become prohibitive? Even shows with Chicago-based storylines are filmed mostly elsewhere - just shooting exteriors and street scenes here and everything else in studios outside of Illinois.

@oneonetwothree 4 ай бұрын

There are so many shows shooting right now that we barely have crew to support them. Everything in LA is a ghost town. Not saying it'll last forever, but we've done exceptionally well here the last ten years. Our incentive doesn't allow for favorable conditions for features though, so with any luck that'll change and we'll see more movies. Currently it's a big TV and commercial town.

@cliffiez4540 4 ай бұрын

As someone who has worked on Movies all over the world and currently has worked on Chicago PD for the past 11 seasons. I can guarantee you what you are saying is woefully uninformed. No offense. But all three of the One Chicago shows film here exclusively, as does The Chi, Deli Boys, The Bear and others. Illinois has an amazing Production Tax Incentives. The Unions here do not demand anywhere near what the Local unions demand in LA & NYC. Plus we don't get paid anywhere near as much as the locals in other cities do.

@mikelros81883 4 ай бұрын

Not true.

@NexusMinecrafter64 4 ай бұрын

Don’t get me wrong our demands rlly haven’t been met and there are def still issues to be ironed out but ur trippin. Damn near every show filming here right now exclusively films in the city I literally work on the chi, power: force, and sum shit that’s not out yet and we never leave the city. Farthest out we’ve gone is like Barrington lmao

@HM-ec5vi 4 ай бұрын

@@cliffiez4540tax incentives for hiring Blacks, Latinos, and Asians. No tax incentives for hiring Whites. DEI is racist.