YONKERS POWER LIST: Melissa Goldberg (#51)
Melissa Goldberg, heads Mayor Mike Spano’s Office of Film and Photography, which is the one-stop shop for all film and photography production in the City of Yonkers.
There’s no business like show business and Melissa Goldberg is helping The City of Yonkers earn the title of “Hollywood On The Hudson”
Yonkers is no stranger to Hollywood glitz and glam. Melissa Goldberg, has shown that it means big money for the area when production companies set up shop.
For example, when the HBO series “Show Me A Hero” about the desegregation battle in the city was filmed there, the city of Yonkers took in $200,000 in revenue.
The industry just keeps growing in Yonkers.
In In 2011 there were two days when they filmed something in the city, now last year as many as 150 plus days of filming all across Yonkers
Yonkers’ geographic diversity and convenience offers a wide range of production opportunities, including urban, suburban, industrial, historic, scenic or a state-of-the-art studio location.
Recently it was announced that a new $100 million movie and television production studio to be used by Lionsgate, a producer of motion pictures and television series was to be the anchor tenant.
The entertainment complex at 28 Wells will include three 20,000-square-foot and two 10,000-square-foot stages, a studio backlot and the opportunity to create a location-based entertainment property similar to what Lionsgate has already established in China, the Middle East and elsewhere around the world.
Lionsgate, which bills itself as “the first major new studio in decades,” has had big hits like “The Hunger Games” and “The Twilight Saga,” both of which became successful franchises with several sequels.
Television has become an important segment of the company’s activities. It bought pay-TV network Starz in 2016, paying a reported $4.4 billion.
Just to the north of the Lionsgate site on the Hudson River, the “Blue Cube,” once home to Phelps Dodge International and then BICC Cables Corp., served as a soundstage for number of movies, including “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “Zoolander,” “Kate and Leopold” and “The Stepford Wives.”
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