What's the Future for Malaysia's $150M Film Studio After Pinewood Pulls Out?
reality show format. But major Hollywood productions have been thin on the ground. To date, no tentpole U.S. studio film has shot at the facility.
When the Pinewood-Iskander collaboration was first mooted, back in 2009, the Malaysian film industry was still in its infancy, producing around just 30 feature films per year. Local money for the development was provided by the Khazanah Nasional Berhad sovereign wealth fund as part of its plans to expand cinema in Malaysia. It was also designed to boost the local economy in the southern Iskandar development region of Johor state, home to around 1.
“The idea was to first establish Malaysia as a production hub and then build the local industry organically over time,” Karim says. “When the studios opened, Malaysia had never really done anything like it before. So in the early days, there were certainly concerns [at Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios] that there was not enough infrastructure, not enough crew."
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