Dufferin Gate Studios Plans Toronto Soundstage Growth (Unique)

Toronto’s Dufferin Gate Studios is about to double the scale of its Studio 1550 facility within the metropolis’s east finish.

Dufferin Gate has unveiled plans so as to add 70,000 sq. toes of soundstages and assist area to the Birchmount Avenue studio complicated already with 4 phases over 68,000 sq. toes of area in operation.

As a part of the enlargement, Dufferin Gate Studios has mixed an current 25,000 sq. toes of manufacturing area with an adjoining facility acquired in Jan. 2022 because the movie studio operator positions itself to serve overseas productions by main studios and streamers capturing in Toronto.   

“We’re thrilled to announce our new addition in Toronto’s east finish. The added sq. footage expands our bases throughout town and helps meet the wants of our rising roster of home and overseas productions,” Noel Phillips, normal supervisor, Dufferin Gate Studios, stated in an announcement.

Dufferin Gate Studios has in throughout 400,000 sq. toes of phases and manufacturing area in six studios throughout Toronto that serve options, TV sequence, commercials and music movies.

Through the Nineteen Nineties, Dufferin Gate was a significant producer of TV films for U.S. cable channels, particularly Showtime Networks, earlier than increasing its city-wide community as Hollywood producers more and more got here north to shoot unique originals on native phases.

Current productions shot on Dufferin Gate phases embrace Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds, The Massive Cigar, Hardy Boys and Youngsters Destroy The whole lot.

Rival studios have additionally been booked stable as Los Angeles gamers like Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Warner Bros., Amazon, Paramount, Apple and AMC Networks chase Toronto phases amid the trade’s streaming wars to feed rising subscriber demand for unique content material.