Studios used in Hollywood blockbusters to come down

Film studios that once hosted Hollywood blockbusters are set to be taken down.

Winnersh Studios in Winnersh Triangle Business Park, Reading has been vacant since April 2024.

Operators, Stage Fifty went into administration following the 2023 writers and actors strikes in the United States.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire was partly filmed at the studios along with George Clooney's The Boys in the Boat.

The studios were first given retrospective approval in 2022, promising to bring around 1,000 new jobs to the area.

Wokingham Borough Council has now approved plans to take down two temporary buildings known as 1100 and 1040 used for film, video and sound recording.

Wokingham Borough Council has granted approval for the studio site accessed via Eskdale Road to be cleared and left in a "flat, level and tidy condition" with all waste material moved.

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