{"id":436711,"date":"2022-12-09T03:17:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T03:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=436711"},"modified":"2022-12-09T03:32:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T03:32:18","slug":"new-zealand-s-auckland-film-studios-launches-two-large-sound-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/new-zealand-s-auckland-film-studios-launches-two-large-sound-stages","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s Auckland Film Studios Launches Two Large Sound Stages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland, New Zealand , already a world-class film and television production hub, has boosted its capacity with the launch of two new state-of-the-art sound stages. The facilities were unveiled Thursday at Auckland Film Studios in Henderson by Auckland&#8217;s mayor Wayne Brown and Screen Auckland manager Matt Horrocks, along with New Zealand&#8217;s minister for arts, culture and heritage, Carmel Sepuloni. At approximately 22,000 square feet each (2,000 square meters), the expansion means Auckland Film Studios now has five stages totaling more than 80,700 square feet (7,500 square meters). The year-long construction project was made possible by $20 million (NZ$30 million) in funding from the New Zealand Government, with the remaining $5 million (NZ$7.5 million) from studio owner, the Auckland Council. Screen Auckland manager Matt Horrocks says the new stages were built to meet the growing demand of the past five years for studio space and quality content &#8212; despite the interregnum of the pandemic. The two new stages are already booked,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland, New Zealand, already a world-class film and television production hub, has boosted its capacity with the launch of two new state-of-the-art sound stages. The facilities were unveiled Thursday at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}