TIM
REID, an accomplished actor, writer, director and producer, co-founded
New Millennium Studios alongside partner and wife Daphne Maxwell Reid
in 1997. New Millennium Studios (NMS) is a partnership between the
Reids, Mark Warner and Armada/Hoffler, as well as the culmination
of a lifelong dream for the husband and wife team. MORE>>
The Reids spent many years flying between coasts
for their demanding careers in the entertainment industry, but always
had envisioned relocating to Tim's home state of Virginia. Finally,
in the summer of 1997, the dream became a reality, as Hollywood welcomed
Virginia's first full-service studio complex to the entertainment
community of film, television, music videos and commercials.
New Millennium Studios is Virginia's first and
only full-service studio complex. The site opened July 12, 1997, and
is situated on 60-acres in central Virginia, 25 minutes south of the
state capital, Richmond. Petersburg is a colonial town nestled along
the Appomattox River where two of the nation's major highways, Interstate
95 and 85, meet two miles north of the studio. The studio has completed
construction of Phase I, which consists of 40,000 square feet of production
facilities, including a 15,000 square foot sound stage, post-production
facilities with digital effects, virtual-reality, and computer animation
(2-D and 3-D) capabilities, as well as editing suites, a recording
studio and a fifteen acre backlot.
The Petersburg, Virginia and surrounding communities
stand strongly behind the Reids and their efforts to stimulate the
local economy. NMS has not only brought new life to the area, but
also various jobs and career possibilities to the Virginia citizens,
who are more than willing to go the extra mile to support any of the
studio's efforts.
Just one year after inception, the studio has
already been the site for several commercials, including GMC, Chevrolet,
and the Virginia Lottery, as well as music videos. Also, various television
specials have been shot onsite, such as TNT's "The Day Lincoln
Was Shot," BBC/Discovery Channel's feature length documentary,
"LBJ: The Road to War," a PBS Abraham Lincoln documentary,
directed by renowned filmmaker David Grubin, Tom Clancy's "Netforce,"
the feature film "Asunder" and Showtime's television series
"Linc's."
July 12, 1998, marked the one-year anniversary
of the opening of New Millennium Studios, in which the State of Virginia
and the City of Petersburg invested a combined $560,000. Based on
guidelines used by the Virginia Film Commission, the growth and impact
of production on the state economy and regional film business was
reported to the Governor's Office and the Department of Economic Development.
New Millennium Studios injected $15 million into the Virginia State
Economy within the first year of its inception.
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