EUE will provide all the hardware – cameras, lighting, electrical equipment – and serve as the liaison between the redevelopment agency and Viacom. “We had worked with in Atlanta for five years, and we understand the needs of a producer,” says Cooney, who negotiated the deal with Viacom.
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“Having one studio located five minutes from the airport and five minutes from the beach makes our job much easier, particularly if you’re trying to produce different series at the same time.”ĮUE/Screen Gems, which will supervise the day-to-day operations and ensure the facility is operational, will lease the building from the Omni redevelopment agency for 10 years at annual rent of $100,000, plus 11 percent of gross revenues.Ĭhris Cooney, the COO of EUE, says the dollar amount of the deal with Viacom was “proprietary.” “When we heard that EUE was doing their studio here, we jumped at the opportunity,” Gazzolo says. Gazzolo says Viacom will have 24 full-time employees working at the location, and will hire “hundreds” of crew members technicians and on-camera talent on a show-per-show basis. Previously, Viacom had been leasing various studio spaces and crews in Miami to produce shows such as Every Witch Way, the Nickelodeon teen sitcom about an adolescent witch currently in its fourth season, and its spin-off WITS Academy, which premiered on Nickelodeon Oct. “We’ve been building up so much volume of production in Miami, it was difficult to sustain it with third parties,” says Pierluigi Gazzolo, president of Viacom International Media Networks Americas and executive vice-president of Nickelodeon International. Viacom signed on to a three-year commitment on Aug. Construction on the facility began last year.
The building is the result of a public-private partnership between the redevelopment agency and EUE/Screen Gems Studios, a film and television studio company that operates 22 studios over 85 acres in New York, Georgia and North Carolina. Built at a cost of just over $14.5 million, the structure features two high-tech 15,000 square-foot sound stages with 40-foot ceilings, along with ample office space and post-production, dressing, wardrobe and conference rooms. The company will move into the 88,000 square-foot facility at 50 NW 14th Street, which was unveiled Monday by the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency. Viacom International Studios, which produces shows for Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central worldwide, has set up shop in downtown Miami.
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