Los Angeles Center Studios Welcomes 7 New TV Pilots and 300 Creative Staff Utilizing 45,000 Sq. Feet of Production Space

Los Angeles Center Studios Welcomes 7 New TV Pilots and 300 Creative Staff Utilizing 45,000 Sq. Feet of Production Space

LACS Is City's Most Active TV Production Facility With 12 Shows and 620 Creative Staff Using Approximately 71,500 Sq. Feet of Office Space

LOS ANGELES, March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles Center Studios (LACS), Los Angeles' premiere independent studio, announced today that seven television pilots have based their productions out of LACS. Four additional pilots, Crazy Lawyers (Chris O'Donnell), Westside, In Justice, and Murder Book (Josh Brolin) are shooting on location at LACS. Additionally, LACS' pilot tenants Threshold and Fox have utilized sound stages for their productions.

These pilots join five other television shows currently located at LACS including CBS' NUMB3RS, WB's Blue Collar TV, Spike TV's Super Agent, Comedy Central's The Con, and Go Faster Productions. Not including the three additional pilots shooting at LACS, these 12 shows occupy approximately 71,500 square feet of office space and bring a minimum of 620 creative jobs to the studio on a daily basis.

The television pilots that are based at LACS include: ABC * Laws of Chance, starring Kadee Strickland and Bruce McGill, is about a feisty female in Houston who uses unconventional methods against old-boy Texas defense attorneys.

CBS * The Commuters, starring David Arquette and Jeri Ryan, is about the lives of three suburban couples in which the husbands commute by train together to New York.

* Threshold, starring Charles Dutton and Carla Gugino, is about a female government analyst who leads an alien "first contact" team.

Fox * Bones (a.k.a. Brennan), Executive Produced by Barry Josephson and starring David Boreanaz (Angel) and Emily Deschanel, is based on the true-life story of forensic anthropologist Kathy Reich.

* Briar & Graves, starring Elizabeth Rohm and Charles Mesure, is about a hard-living priest who partners with a female doctor to investigate unexplained religious phenomena.

* Untitled Diamond & Weissman Project, starring John Leguizamo and Executive Produced by Brett Ratner, is about parenthood for a sports agent dad and a magazine editor mom.

* Untitled Sean Jablonski Project, Executive Produced by Brian Grazer (Imagine Entertainment), is an ensemble drama featuring the staff at a fertility clinic.

"We are proud of our ongoing association with all of the major television production companies and will continue to serve as a flexible partner for all office and production needs for our new pilot production tenants," said Sam Nicassio, President of Los Angeles Center Studios.

About Los Angeles Center Studios

Los Angeles Center Studios is a fluid full-service studio for television, film, and commercial production -- a honeycomb of entertainment interests working collectively in a single campus environment. Set on 20-acres in the heart of Los Angeles, this full-service studio features six 18,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art soundstages and 450,000 square feet of short and long term 'Class A' office space for entertainment-related and creative companies in industries ranging from film and television to gaming to music to technology. With the amenities of a full-service studio and multiple special event venues to accommodate from 100 to 10,000 people, Los Angeles Center Studios can meet or exceed the requirements of nearly any company, production or event.

Source: Los Angeles Center Studios

CONTACT: Joshua Rubel of Los Angeles Center Studios, +1-213-534-2334, JRubel@LACenterStudios.com; or Nick Mendoza, +1-310-854-8128, nmendoza@rogersandcowan.com, or Sallie Olmsted, +1-310-854-8124, solmsted@rogersandcowan.com, both of Rogers & Cowan, for Los Angeles Center Studios

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