CineCity Studios

CineCity Studios is a film and TV production facility at 1414 South Western Avenue on Chicago’s West Side, across the street from Cinespace, with its studio entrance gate on West 14th Street. It offers 140,000 square feet of studio, production office and event space. According to CineCity, it has hosted the FOX series The Big Leap and Tyler Perry’s Mea Culpa for Netflix, along with commercial campaigns for Coca-Cola, Xfinity, Nike, Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, Bentley and BMW.

Studios

• Studio A: 5,000 square feet with 18-foot ceilings, a black epoxy floor, dimmable and divisible lighting, blank walls, first-floor load-in and a ceiling suited to rigging and custom builds.
• Studio B: 9,500 square feet including a furnished 2,500-square-foot mezzanine, with 22-foot ceilings, a gray epoxy floor, color-changing ambient lighting, three projectors with screens and a 16-by-16-foot stage with truss lighting. According to CineCity, Xfinity shot 10 commercials back to back here.

Production offices and podcast studio

Production offices fill the third floor (11,000 square feet) and the fourth floor (22,000 square feet, divisible east and west), with optional furniture, kitchenettes, separate restrooms and conference space on short or long-term leases. An executive boardroom seats 15 with video conferencing, and CineCast, the in-house podcast studio, takes single sessions or weekly shows. Fiber internet with a coaxial backup runs through the building.

Events and tenants

CineCity hosts industry events including the Filmscape trade show, the IATSE Marketplace and the Best of the Midwest Film Festival Awards. The building also hosts industry companies including Production Resource Group (PRG), On Stage Advantage and Shine Global Technologies. Each studio page has a quote form for bookings.