Babelsberg Studio

Babelsberg Film Studio
Studio Babelsberg
Company type	Private
Founded	1912, in Germany
Headquarters	Potsdam-Babelsberg, Brandenburg, Germany
Key people	Carl Woebcken (CEO); Christoph Fisser (board of directors); Marius Schwarz (CFO);
Owner	TPG Real Estate Partners
Number of employees	92 (2017)
Website	www.studiobabelsberg.com

Babelsberg Film Studio (German: Filmstudio Babelsberg) (also known as Studio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since 1912. With a total area of about 460,000 square metres (5,000,000 sq ft) and a studio area of about 25,000 square metres (270,000 sq ft) it is Europe's largest film studio.^[1]^[2]

Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel were filmed there. More recent productions include V for Vendetta, Captain America: Civil War, Æon Flux, The Bourne Ultimatum, Valkyrie, Inglourious Basterds, Cloud Atlas, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Hunger Games, Isle of Dogs and The Matrix Resurrections.

Today, Studio Babelsberg remains operational mainly for feature film productions. It also acts as producer on German productions and co-producer on international high-budget productions. Since January 2022 it has been owned by TPG Real Estate Partners (TREP) and Filmbetriebe Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (FBB), and promoted as part of the platform Cinespace Film Studios.^[3]

^ [1] Welt - "Das Filmstudio Babelsberg ist Teil der Medienstadt Babelsberg. Auf 46 Hektar Fläche arbeiten etwa 2000 Menschen aus der Film- und Medienbranche.",retrieved 10 February 2019
^ Studio Babelsberg Archived 2011-08-18 at the Wayback Machine - "Mit der Erschließung des direkt in der Nachbarschaft befindlichen Filmgeländes mit den Studios Neue Film 1 und Neue Film 2 konnte Studio Babelsberg seine Studiokapazitäten verdoppeln und verfügt so über Europas größten zusammenhängenden Studiokomplex.", retrieved 3 December 2013 (German)
^ News, Team; Schmalz, Alexander (3 January 2022). "Potsdam: Studio Babelsberg ist verkauft". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2022-01-05. {{cite web}}: |last1= has generic name (help)

[1] [1] Welt - "Das Filmstudio Babelsberg ist Teil der Medienstadt Babelsberg. Auf 46 Hektar Fläche arbeiten etwa 2000 Menschen aus der Film- und Medienbranche.",retrieved 10 February 2019

[2] Studio Babelsberg Archived 2011-08-18 at the Wayback Machine - "Mit der Erschließung des direkt in der Nachbarschaft befindlichen Filmgeländes mit den Studios Neue Film 1 und Neue Film 2 konnte Studio Babelsberg seine Studiokapazitäten verdoppeln und verfügt so über Europas größten zusammenhängenden Studiokomplex.", retrieved 3 December 2013 (German)

[3] News, Team; Schmalz, Alexander (3 January 2022). "Potsdam: Studio Babelsberg ist verkauft". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2022-01-05. {{cite web}}: |last1= has generic name (help)

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