{"id":653775,"date":"2025-12-25T08:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T08:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/653775\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T08:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T08:51:17","slug":"film-production-in-birmingham-could-boost-region-as-a-whole-according-to-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/653775\/","title":{"rendered":"Film production in Birmingham could ‘boost region’ as a whole, according to Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Parker said he has been approached by investors expressing interest about the possibility of building new film studios in the Black Country.<\/a><\/p>\n

This followed the announcement earlier this year of plans to build Production Central WM which is a new film production office to connect producers with set locations, local crew and suppliers needed to bring more big and small screen blockbusters to the region.<\/p>\n

Another ambitious project in Digbeth is the launch of the Warwick Bar Prospectus, which sets out a vision of an area covering the size of 22 football pitches with the potential of 1,700 new homes and 110,000sq ft of creative workspaces.<\/p>\n

\"WestWest Midlands Mayor Richard Parker with Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight at the official opening of Digbeth Loc Studios. PIC: West Midlands Combined Authority<\/p>\n

Write and director Steven Knight said filming of the new Peaky Blinders movie had taken place at his Digbeth Loc studios.<\/p>\n

And the BBC has transferred its regional Midlands HQ to the new Tea Factory site in Digbeth, along with relocating a number of TV productions there.<\/p>\n

Mr Parker said: \u201cWe will be investing in (Production Central) that will help drive more productions and capacity for creative industries here.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat initiative was launched in Digbeth but I have been approached by investors who want to build film studios in the Black Country.<\/p>\n

\"AA CGI show the Warwick Bar site. Image courtesy of Birmingham City Council<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I don\u2019t want anyone to lose sense of that. Birmingham is important but I\u2019m the Mayor of the whole region.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important we get the leverage from that investment in Birmingham in other parts of the region. That will be a priority for me going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be supporting those investors who are keen to build film studios in the Black Country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Parker also said he wants to take lessons on how he and the West Midlands Combined Authority<\/a> supported Birmingham City FC<\/a> and Knighthead\u2019s plans, such as extending the Midland Metro the serve the \u00a33 billion development.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIn Walsall, we are doing that around supporting aspects of the defence industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis includes a major defence contractor based in Walsall that\u2019s bidding for a large contract for the Ministry of Defence (MOD). We\u2019ve been supporting them with discussions with the MOD.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can help them position themselves and look at sites we can free up for them as well as how we can support them on the skills agenda so that if they are successful, there is the capacity for them in this region, we can help them access the skills they need and ensure the hundreds of new jobs they create are going to people in this part of the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve developed approaches on how we want to get things done and do things so that they\u2019ve got the support of all the key stakeholders and that support is framed around the requirements of those investors that want to create jobs here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Parker said he has been approached by investors expressing interest about the possibility of building new film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,8823,379,12,285,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-653775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-ldrs","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115779357806558347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}