film studio

Movie-making company

A film studio is a company that produces movies, or the physical facility where movies are made—soundstages, backlots, and production equipment.

Major studios like Warner Bros. and Universal combine both functions, financing productions and maintaining permanent facilities.

The studio rejected the script.

They shot the interior scenes at a studio in Burbank.

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production venue/medium

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Unrecorded staged entertainment

stage play · Broadway theater · concert hall · opera house · street performance

production scale/infrastructure

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Ultra-low-budget independent production

home video · location shooting · found footage

indoor vs. outdoor filming

film studiolocation shoot

Filming at real places

on location · remote location

Family

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