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Sony Pictures Launches Innovation Studios Facility

June 7, 2018

Sony Pictures Entertainment is in the process of building out a new state-of-the-art digital technology facility dubbed Innovation Studios, which is scheduled to open later this fall. Innovation Studios is being housed on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, Calif., and is designed to bring advanced technologies like volumetric capture to filmmakers, TV show producers and even Hollywood outsiders.

The facility is being led by Glenn Gainor, who has been named Innovation Studios president in addition to his existing leadership role at Sony’s Screen Gems division.

“Sony has some magnificent technology,” Gainor told Variety this week. Innovation Studios now wants to combine some of the tech that Sony has been developing on the entertainment and technology side of the business with tech and expertise from partners including Deloitte Digital, Dell and Intel, with the latter two supplying some of the computing hardware and other technology used at the facility.

Innovation Studios will offer creatives the ability to scan film sets, and then reuse them as digital assets in future productions. This is effectively doing away with the need to rebuild assets by the time a film’s sequel is being made, and will even allow producers to capture a set halfway around the world, and then use it to shoot scenes back in Culver City.

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