Sunset Las Palmas Studios

Sunset Las Palmas Studios is a 15-acre studio lot on North Las Palmas Avenue in Hollywood with 11 sound stages, production offices and support space; all but one of its stages are audience-rated with control rooms. It is run by Sunset Studios, the studio business of Hudson Pacific Properties, which bought the lot, then called Hollywood Center Studios, in 2017. According to Sunset Studios, its greenhouse-like early stages lit classic film and TV shoots, and Stage 2 was home to I Love Lucy, the first primetime comedy produced before a live studio audience on the West Coast.

Sound stages

• Stage sizes: from 2,828 to 19,900 square feet; Stages 4, 10 and 11 have 35-foot heights.
• Largest stages: Stage 3/8 (19,900 sq ft) and Stage 4 (18,819 sq ft), both with raised wood floors.
• Stage 5: 14,766 square feet with a raised wood floor and a cyc.
• Standing Sets by Sunset Studios: five pre-lit sets on Stage 1 (an apartment, hospital, bar and restaurant, courtroom and office) under a 16-foot grid, which Sunset Studios says need no film permit.

History

Sunset Studios traces the lot to John Jasper’s Hollywood Studios, Inc., whose early tenants included Harold Lloyd, Howard Hughes, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. As Metropolitan Studios it built one of the industry’s first sound stages in 1928, and the lot later hosted Mae West films, the Hopalong Cassidy series, Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios, Jeopardy!, Star Search and Pee-wee’s Playhouse. The four-story Harlow office building opened among the stages in 2020.

Services and amenities

• Production offices, a mill, basecamp and Babalu Café.
• Control rooms and broadcast engineering, hair and makeup rooms, wardrobe and dressing rooms.
• 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, standing sets and event space are booked through Sunset Studios’ check-availability form and sales team.