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Amazon's Big Move: Acquired Bray Studios! #AmazonStudios
Amazon Prime Video has taken another major step into the British film and TV industry by acquiring the 70-year-old studios where Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is filmed.
Financial details of the deal for Bray Film Studios were not disclosed, with the first Amazon production to roll there on the second season of the Russo Brothers' Citadel series in September. Amazon MGM Studios was initially listed as the Bray acquirer, before it was flipped to Prime Video.
Amazon, which already leases production facilities at Britain’s Shepperton Studios, will produce TV series and feature films for streamer Prime Video from the Berkshire site – about 26 miles from central London. The acquisition includes about 53,600 square feet of sound studio space across five stages, 77,400 square feet of workshop space, 39,400 square feet of office space, 182,900 square feet of backlot space and 156,000 square feet of parking.
