TORONTO – Cinespace Film Studios has announced plans to build new film and TV production facilities in a former marine terminal located on Toronto’s waterfront.
The former home of cruise and cargo ships will become a new hub for Cinespace's downtown productions, relocating studio capacity from the company’s former site in Toronto. The new Marine Terminal Studio project will add 165,000 square feet of studio and support space to Toronto’s film industry infrastructure, the company announced Friday.
“Toronto's film industry has great potential for further growth and success," said Cinespace president and CEO Steve Mirkopoulos, in the announcement. "The Cinespace family is proud to move on phase two of our multi-year, multi-million-dollar investment and intensification initiative. The new Marine Terminal studio complex will feature 165,000 square feet of production space that both relocates and enhances capacity recently displaced, and most importantly keeps it inside Toronto's strategically important studio district."
Cinespace's Toronto studio facilities have housed award-winning productions such as the TV series The Handmaid's Tale and Oscar-nominated film The Shape of Water.
"Hearing the clear and recurring requests from Toronto's repeat film clients for more studio space in our city, we asked every agency in Toronto to audit their inventories for large sites that could be leased to the film industry," added Toronto Mayor John Tory. "I am gratified today that PortsToronto and Toronto's studio veterans – Cinespace – have come to this agreement in the Port Lands."
With locations in Toronto and Chicago, Cinespace is the largest private owner and operator of studio space in North America, specializing in the development, management and operation of space and support for the film, television, and digital media production industry.
In photo: artist rendering of Cinespace Film Studios’ new Marine Terminal Studio project
