Cinelease Studios–Caven Point, or Caven Point Studio, is a
film studio
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soundstage
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complex in
Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.Greenville section of the city, had earlier been a 'last mile' warehouse-distribution center. It is east of Garfierld Avenue and west of the Hudson County Extension of the New Jersey Turnpike at the southern end of the Canal Crossing redevelopment area.
In September 2019 the Criterion Group announced would convert the warehouse complex into the what would be state's largest film studio named Caven Point Studio. In 2020, Criterion Group partnered with One Stop Properties to purchase two nearby warehouse properties to create three
soundstage
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s and an offsite “support space” called "Fold and Hold".
The project received tax credits and other incentives offered by the state through the
New Jersey Economic Development Authority
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) is an independent government entity in the U.S. state of New Jersey dedicated to broadening and expanding the state's economic base.
The EDA creates public-private partnerships to provide access ...
and the
New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission
The New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission is a U.S. state government entity that promotes and facilitates film and television production in New Jersey. Its chair is ''Batman'' film producer Michael Uslan, who was appointed in 2016. As ...
The complex opened in August 2021. It has three soundstages totaling that are high to the
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and to the ceiling. In August 2023 it was announced that the complex would further expand.
See also
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Lionsgate Newark Studios
Lionsgate Newark Studios is a 350,000 square foot film and television production studio under construction in Newark, New Jersey. It is located in Dayton in the South Ward on of land overlooking Weequahic Golf Course west of Newark Liberty Inte ...
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1888 Studios
1888 Studios is a proposed film and television studio planned to be built on a site at Bergen Point in Bayonne, New Jersey. Its name is a nod to the year the movie camera was invented. At 22 million gross square feet, reports say it will be the l ...
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America's first motion picture industry
Fort Lee is a borough at the eastern border of Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, situated along the Hudson River atop the Palisades.
As of the 2020 U.S. census, the borough's population was 40,191. As of the 2010 U.S. census, th ...
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Television and film in New Jersey
There is a long history of television and film in New Jersey, which is considered the birthplace of the movie picture industry.
Film and television "firsts"
The roots of the industry started in Newark with Hannibal Goodwin's patent of nitrocellu ...