| Phronesis said: What's pop in Germany anyway? They don't have Hollywood's, Silicon Valleys and a games/animes industries like Japan as far as I know. |
Just because our tech industry isn't centralised doesn't mean we have none. Potsdam's Babelsberg film studios serve more and more as an extension for bigger Hollywood productions. Stuff like The Bourne Conspiracy, Cloud Atlas, Speed Racer, Operation Valkyrie, V for Vendetta, The Pianist, Aeon Flux, Inglorious Basterds, Gran Budapest Hotel, have been at least partly filmed and/or produced there. They are the largest studio complex in Europe atm.
Their biggest studio there (Studio 20) is the biggest studio in the world (7355 sqm, twice as big as Hollywood's biggest studio with only 3900sqm).
It's supposedly cheaper to use them than to go to established studios in L.A. so the studio is getting bigger and bigger.
On the post-pro side Darmstadt based Pixomondo is doing CGI for big international projects like Game of Thrones or Spiderman, for example.
