Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has opened the National Film Institute’s expanded studio complex in Fót, on the outskirts of Budapest. “Filmmaking has been in the blood of Hungarians since the silent film era and we were also there at the birth of Hollywood,” the Hungarian leader said at the opening.
NFI Studios has been the major production facility in Hungary since the 1980s. The expansion added four new soundstages, totalling 10,000 square meters of new studio space, 20,000 sqm.
of auxiliary facilities, and 135,000 sqm. of green areas. Two of those four new stages can be connected using a soundproof mobile wall.
In recent times projects including The Witcher, Blade Runner 2049 and Terminator: Dark Fate have shot at NFI Studios. It also housed Robert Lantos’ sprawling TV epic Rise of the Raven.
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