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The studio will consist of four soundstages, offices, construction space, parking, set storage and other amenities. What stunned the film community and surprised the port city was where the government and its commercial partner, Home Fire Creative Industries, chose to locate it: not on the fringes of the metropolitan area, where such facilities tend to be found, but smack in the middle of a working port and a cherished heritage precinct.
If all goes to plan (no dates have been announced but itâs understood the government wants the studio up and running in two years) Hollywood stars will be soon sharing the space with cruise and cargo ships trading in passengers, motor vehicles and boatloads of sheep.