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Exciting multi-million dollar construction project news! Paramount is undergoing a 700 million dollar, 25-year-long renovation of its landmark studios. From Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount Pictures is planning a $700 million upgrade of its Hollywood headquarters, which cover 62 acres, the company said Tuesday. The studio, which has been based in its current location since 1926, is filing applications with the city of Los Angeles for what it is dubbing the Hollywood Project, a 25-year plan to improve its existing studio lot and adjacent properties.
Most of the development will take place at the studio’s main 56-acre lot at 5555 Melrose Ave., which was created when Paramount bought the former RKO Studios from Desilu Productions in 1967. Portions of the lot along Melrose and limited areas within the main production area are being targeted for development, although the studio said it will maintain many of the historic structures while modernizing them. The plan also involves six properties in Hollywood adjacent to the studio.
So dope. I’m a HUGE multi-million dollar, decades spanning, ambitious and forward-thinking brand revitalizing construction projects head. LOVE ‘EM! Cannot get enough of ‘em. This one looks pretty promising. Check out some of the planned upgrades:
- 250 additional Razr Scooter parking places to be added by 2024 with an eye towards the ever-expanding use of Razr Scooters
- Taylor Lautner Memorial Reflecting Pool
- Abandoned underground tunnel system for future teenager-circulated myth-making
- Cocaineteria
- Elle Fanning Memorial Oscar Speech Media Training Center
- 18-hole golf course, members only
- Rooftop cigar bar and full-frontal strip club (open to the public 7AM-9AM)
- Cognac tasting room
- 50 single-seat IMAX screening rooms
- Open field for Burning Man spin-off
- Hotel ballroom for Democratic presidential candidate pancake breakfasts
- Keypad protected nuclear bunker equipped with 15,000,000 square feet of studio space, separate cigar bar, fully operational cocaineteria, and 18-hole golf course (members members only only)
- 1,000 monkeys banging on 1,000 typewriters equipped with Final Draft
- Adjustment Bureau Hat Store
Sick construction project. Can’t wait for it to be 25 years from now. BACK TO WORK!
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They should just reboot the existing lot.
I hope they use the renovations to re-release Shrek in 3-D!
What a waste they could have made 2.8 Transformers movies instead of this!
I heard most of the space is for processors capable of quickly rendering effects at 60 frames per second.
Having interned there for a summer during college, I’m pretty excited for the Cocaineteria upgrade from the current Methissary.
Paramount Studio Head: “…and this new construction should only take 5 years. Next order of business, Pendergast, what movies to we have coming up?”
Pendergast: “In order: Footloose, Paranormal Activity 3, Like Crazy, Puss in Boots, Hugo, and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.”
Paramount Studio Head: “Woof. Better make that 25 years.”
“No windows.”
we all know the ONLY person who can run a huge project like this is Ari Gold, right?
Will they make a full-scale replica of their mountain logo? With water slides and a petting zoo?
The Aggrocrag?
Oh, perfect, they’ll be done just in time for the filming of the Arrested Development movie.
it’s going to take them 25 years to buy every office a flatscreen TV and a new fish tank?
You guys, this is just like Hollywood to remake something that was already perfectly good, if a little dated. Can’t they think of any NEW ideas? SHEESH!
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Man, great parody of a construction press release. Classic.
Seriously. Really ripped them a new one.
And in 25 years, the first areas they updated will be outdated and it’ll start ALL OVER again.