Sunset Bronson Studios

Sunset Bronson Studios is a 4.5-acre studio lot on Sunset Boulevard at Bronson Avenue in Hollywood with 10 rental sound stages, production offices and support space for film, television, commercial and music video work. It is run by Sunset Studios, the studio business of Hudson Pacific Properties. According to Sunset Studios, the Warner brothers bought the site in 1919 and produced The Jazz Singer, the first feature-length talking picture, here in 1927.

Sound stages

• Stage sizes: from 2,660 to 22,728 square feet, most with heights of 29 to about 31 feet.
• Largest stages: Stage 9 (22,728 sq ft), Stage 6 (21,865 sq ft) and Stages 1 and 2, which combine into one 19,060-square-foot stage.
• Control rooms: Stages 4 and 5 have their own control rooms.
• Floors and power: wood floors and an elephant door on every stage, with up to 9,600 amps.

History

Sunset Studios says the lot was home to Rin Tin Tin and Warner Bros.’ radio station KFWB, and kept producing Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies after Warner Bros. moved to Burbank. Gene Autry’s Golden West Broadcasters bought it in 1967 and kept the original executive building and radio tower. Hudson Pacific acquired the lot in 2008 and restored the white-columned Warner executive building on Sunset Boulevard; the 14-story ICON tower, completed in 2017, is Netflix’s Los Angeles headquarters. Sunset Studios names Netflix, CBS and KTLA among the lot’s occupants and says Sunset Bronson was one of the first studios in the world to earn BAFTA albert’s Studio Sustainability Standard.

Services and amenities

• Production offices, a mill, basecamp and an on-lot café.
• Hair and makeup rooms, wardrobe and dressing rooms, plus control rooms and broadcast engineering.
• Production vehicles, lighting and grip, and expendables from sister company Quixote.
• 24-hour lot access, security, parking with EV charging and production vehicle parking.

Booking

Stages are booked through Sunset Studios’ check-availability form and sales team for features, series, commercials, music videos, photo shoots and events.