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NEXT SUBWAY STOP HOLLYWOOD
January 8, 2006The New York Times – The largest room at Steiner Studios, the year-old moviemaking compound at the Brooklyn Navy Yard between Williamsburg and Fort Greene, is 27,000 square feet, with ceilings more than 45 feet high. Inside this mammoth space last Wednesday, as part of the set for a movie called “Across the Universe,” were a few cramped rooms straight out of an artsy 1960’s East Village tenement building, authentic down to the scuffs on the wood floors.
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NY EAGER TO PLAY LEAD ROLE IN TV-FILM INDUSTRY
July 10, 2005The Los Angeles Times – The Brooklyn Navy Yard has seen its share of big productions in the last two centuries. In 1862, the armored gunboat Monitor was fitted with state-of-the-art iron cladding here that helped it fend off a Confederate war vessel during a pivotal Civil War battle. The battleship Maine was built in the yard, a few years before the Spanish sunk it in Havana Harbor in 1898. During World War II, the site teemed with more than 71,000 workers, many of whom helped construct the battleships Arizona and Missouri.
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LIGHTS, CAMERA, BROOKLYN!
June 8, 2005The New York Times – Hollywood on the Hudson, it is not. In truth, the new $118 million Steiner Studios overlooks the East River. But the movie factory’s growing presence on the Brooklyn waterfront is starting to produce ripples far beyond that borough.The 280,000-square-foot studio with its five stages will not even be finished until the winter. But already there is a measure of pride in blasé, forget-about-it Brooklyn, which, despite its rocketing condo prices and feisty, Manhattan-is-Satan esprit, still smarts from being relegated to a laugh line in so many Hollywood movies.
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SPRINGTIME FOR BROOKS IN BROOKLYN
October 8, 2004Screen International – Even in 1968, the fact that Mel Brooks was able to shoot The Producers for under a million dollars in locations around New York City raised eyebrows in Hollywood. So much so that a newspaper report quoted an unnamed producer as saying it was not kosher to make a successful film for so little money.
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STEINER STUDIOS TO DEBUT WITH MEL BROOKS’ “PRODUCERS” REMAKE
October 1, 2004Brooklyn Daily Eagle – A press conference at the almost-completed Steiner Studios here yesterday heralded a double blessing. The first was the announcement of the first project at the 280,000-square-foot facility a remake of the Mel Brooks’ 1968 classic ‘The Producers,’ using the songs from Brooks’ recent hit Broadway play.
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