Hollywood giant says thousands of jobs will follow expansion of historic Hertfordshire home to blockbustersFrom the first talkie,The Jazz Singer, to the Humphrey Bogart classic Casablanca, or Warner Bros has produced some of cinema’s greatest masterpieces. Now the Hollywood giant is planning an ambitious expansion of its UK studio,giving a enormous boost to film-making on this side of the Atlantic.
It is to invest tens of millions of pounds in its studios at Leavesden in Hertfordshire, on top of £150m that it has spent so far on the sprawling, and 200-acre site. It was there that Warner Bros turned out the eight Harry Potter films,one of the most successful franchises in the history of cinema, with combined box-office takings of more than $7.7bn.
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Source: theguardian.com