Posted Feb 24, 2006, 3:39 AM
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Originally Posted by citywatch
I don't understand why Hollywood can't latch onto projs like these? OK, maybe Penthouse is kind of sleazy, but the hood already has lost ABC to Burbank & a few other show biz offices to SaMo or other burb type locations. IOW, beggars can't be choosers.
Penthouse Building Production Studio in So. Calif.
By Rhett Pardon
GLENDALE, Calif. — Penthouse is building a 50,000-square-foot production studio to help launch its new cable-TV channel, The Penthouse Channel. CEO Marc Bell told XBiz Thursday that the studio will be located in Glendale, Calif., which is 10 minutes away from downtown Los Angeles. “It will be in full production by June,” he said.
Bell wouldn’t elaborate on why Penthouse chose Glendale; however, the city has had Hollywood ties since the early part of the 20th Century and is home to ABC and one of the largest Los Angeles-area production facilities, Glendale Studios. Penthouse plans on producing eight feature-length films a month at the studio, as well as talk shows, celebrity sex reports and specials including "Penthouse Goes to Spring Break."
Movie plots will be based on sex tales submitted by readers to Penthouse’s Forum and Letters columns. Programming also will include inferences to its sex toys and lingerie line. “Sixty percent of the stories in the columns are submitted by women," Bell said.
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Oh great. This is one thing I wouldn't mind losing to Canada.
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