The brand’s Sunset Las Palmas Studios lot is offering courtroom, restaurant and hospital settings for the low-budget but ascendant format.
Properties-owned brand announced the launch of the sets, which were developed in partnership with the verticals studio Knockout Shorts, at its Sunset Las Palmas Studios lot on Tuesday.
Sunset Las Palmas is offering courtroom, apartment, bar-slash-restaurant and hospital settings, all adapted from previous productions for major studios. , according to Sunset Studios, in a move pointing to the rise of microdrama filming in L.A. but also widespread uncertainty about its future.
“These standing sets are about removing friction from the production process,” Sunset Studios svp of sales Sean Griffin said in a statement. “Creators can walk onto a completely built, and fully lit high-quality set and start shooting right away, while also enjoying the infrastructure and support of a premier Hollywood studio lot. ” The Knockout Shorts studio, based in L.A.
, is one of several recent upstart companies attempting to make inroads with the low-budget, fast-pacedSaid co-founders Matthew Ko and Chris Crema, the goal with the sets was to “empower creators with speed, flexibility, and production value. ” The pair added, “These sets are designed to serve both the next generation of storytellers and established productions looking for efficiency without compromising quality. ”over the years, but hasn’t been immune to major studios’ recent pullback in content production and aggressive cost-cutting.
Asto purchase the Radford Studio Center lot for around $330 million. If that transaction goes through, a shakeup could be in store for the streamer’s footprint in L.A. , even as their leases on the Sunset Studios buildings currently extend until 2031. Verticals productions have their own specific production needs.
They tend to shoot in only a few locations to keep costs low and look for striking visuals as well as interesting floors and ceilings in their shooting locations, CandyJar executive producer Kelly Ann Parker Sunset Las Palmas isn’t the first studio lot to host microdramas, nor will it likely be the last. In 2025, Wes Bailey, the CEO of SirReel Studio Services,that verticals “went from something that never happened to something that is probably representing somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 percent of the shoots” on his soundstages.
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