Sound stage rental154 S. Victory Blvd, Burbank
Sound stage rental in Burbank, Los Angeles, sets included
A Burbank soundstage where the location is already built when you arrive. Pick from 250+ photoreal virtual sets, shot live in camera, with no build and no strike.
- Drive-on load-in
- 20+ parking spaces
- Green rooms and dressing rooms
- 20-ft ceiling, 15 ft to grid
Or call 818-934-3775 Burbank 818-861-7317 Albuquerque
Productions that have trusted us
The networks, the streamers and the studios have all shot here.
Hart to Heart, Aquaman 2, Inventing Anna, Bosch, The Mummy, Greenland, Deadliest Catch and national spots for T-Mobile, Amazon and Domino's. Full credit list
The Burbank stage
Four walls, or a sound stage with the sets already standing
Most stage rental in Los Angeles is four walls and a floor. Rent a bare soundstage and the rental is only the beginning: you still build the set, dress it, shoot it and strike it. Our Burbank stage comes with the locations. The location is a photoreal virtual set that appears around your talent live, in camera, on our stage. You see the finished shot on the monitor while you film, and the next location loads in seconds.
The courtroom, the subway car, the police station or the penthouse your script needs is standing before your trucks arrive. Each set is drawn in real time by Unreal Engine, the video game engine, from every camera's point of view. We pioneered real-time virtual production in Los Angeles here in 2007, and the process now holds two U.S. patents (how CastleVision works). It's the sound stage rental and film studio rental with the sets included, booked together.
- Ceiling
- 20 ft
- To grid
- 15 ft
- Parking spaces
- 20+
- Virtual sets
- 250+
Burbank studio specs
- Address
- 154 S. Victory Blvd, Burbank, CA 91502, at Olive Ave., across from Nickelodeon Studios
- Height
- 20-ft ceiling, 15 ft to grid
- Floor
- Pre-lit green screen cyclorama, silent HVAC, isolated power
- Load-in
- Drive-on: equipment and even vehicles roll onto the stage
- Parking
- 20+ parking spaces
- Support rooms
- Five green rooms, dressing rooms, hair and makeup with lit vanity mirrors, a conference room, writers' rooms, editing suites, crew kitchen and dining, and a coffee bar
- Audience
- Stadium-style seating built into the stage
- Video village
- A giant LED video village where the whole team watches the finished composite as you shoot
- Cameras
- Three cinema cameras, each with its own Unreal Engine render; a 13-ft encoded jib
What every Burbank sound stage rental includes
- The stage and the 250+ virtual set library
- Lighting, grip and audio packages, already on the floor
- The teleprompter system
- Green rooms, dressing rooms, makeup and production offices
- The virtual system operator who drives the set in real time
Optional
A crew package: three camera operators, one on the jib, plus a teleprompter operator. Or bring your own team.
Every shoot is quoted on its own. See what drives sound stage rental cost.
Fifteen feet to grid is the number to check first. Put your tallest set piece or crane move in your inquiry and we will check it against the floor. Full gear list on the Burbank studio page. Need a base for the whole production? Private production offices in Burbank rent month to month beside the stage.
On the floor
Inside the Burbank sound stage
Everything a traditional sound stage gives you, plus the sets, standing when you walk in.
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From our studios
Watch a sound stage day, from green cyc to finished shot
Start with the Burbank studio tour. Kevin Hart's Hart to Heart shot on this stage, and Aquaman 2 and The Mummy shot scenes here. Productions that could book any studio in Los Angeles choose this one because the location work is already done. Hover to preview; click to play with sound. Tap to play with sound.
Standing on arrival
Sets you would otherwise build on a Los Angeles sound stage
Each one is a photoreal virtual set that appears around your talent live, in camera. Load one in seconds and swap to the next between setups.
Check availability
Check sound stage availability in Burbank
Tell us the format, your dates and how many locations you need. A producer replies with availability and a quote, so a crew flying in can price the studio days before booking travel.
- Included: the stage, the 250+ set library, lighting, grip and audio, the teleprompter system, and the operator who runs the virtual sets
- At 154 S. Victory Blvd, Burbank: drive-on load-in, 20+ parking spaces, green rooms and dressing rooms
- Quoted against your actual shoot, never a rack rate
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Bare stage or our Burbank studio, side by side
Most soundstages in Burbank, Hollywood and the rest of LA rent you the room: four walls, a floor and a grid. Everything the camera sees is yours to design, build, light, dress and strike. Here is the same shoot on both.
- The set
- Bare stage: Designed, built and dressed inside the empty stage before the first shot
- Our Burbank studio: 250+ photoreal virtual sets ready to load, or a custom set built to your spec
- Lighting, grip and audio
- Bare stage: Usually a separate gear rental to order and coordinate
- Our Burbank studio: Already on the floor and part of the rental
- Who runs the set
- Bare stage: Your art department and construction crew
- Our Burbank studio: The operator who runs the virtual sets is included in every rental
- Locations per day
- Bare stage: One per build; a new location means a new build or a company move
- Our Burbank studio: Sets swap between setups: a courtroom in the morning, a spaceship by evening
- Support rooms
- Bare stage: Varies by stage
- Our Burbank studio: Green rooms, dressing rooms, hair and makeup and production offices on site
- Wrap
- Bare stage: Strike the set, then pay to store it or lose it
- Our Burbank studio: Nothing to strike, and no set storage fee: sets live on drives
- Pickups months later
- Bare stage: Rebuild the set, or try to match it
- Our Burbank studio: Reload the exact set, lighting and framing
That is how a whole series can live on this floor. Hilton Head Island, a 32-episode series, shot more than 50 locations without leaving the Burbank stage, and Celebrity Crime Scene: Princess Diana for FOX shot entirely here. The sets come from the virtual set library, including virtual standing sets like the police station that never need a build.
How to rent a soundstage in Burbank
Booking the Burbank sound stage starts with one message, and a producer reads it, not a sales queue. Put these in it and the reply comes back by email or phone with availability:
- The format: feature, series, talk show, game show, commercial or something else
- Your shoot dates and the hours you plan to work each day
- How many locations the script needs, and any you picked from the set library
- Whether you need an audience in the stadium-style seating
- Your tallest set piece, practical or crane move, so we can check it against 15 ft to grid
- Your crew plan: your own team, or our optional crew package of three camera operators and a teleprompter operator
Next, the producer walks you through the sets, cameras and crew and prices the days. If you want to see the floor first, tours and a live CastleVision demo run by appointment for producers with a project. Ready now? Send your details through the availability form.
A shoot day, from call time to wrap
The stage runs like any professional soundstage in Burbank: call time, blocking, lighting, takes. The difference is what's behind your talent.
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Pick your locations
Browse the set library and pick the environments your script needs from 250+ standing virtual sets, from network newsrooms to city streets. No construction schedule, no art-department build-out.
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Walk on and shoot
Your talent works in the foreground, with practical pieces they can touch, while the world is composited live, in camera, on every monitor. Sets swap in seconds between setups. An optional crew package can run cameras, or bring your own team.
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Wrap without a strike
The final look leaves the stage in camera. Nothing to tear down, no company move to the next location. The day ends when the last take does.
Victory Blvd at Olive, across from Nickelodeon
154 S. Victory Blvd, Burbank, CA 91502, in the ivy-covered castle-facade building on LA's media corridor: about 5 minutes from Warner Bros., 10 from Disney and roughly 15 from Hollywood. Directions and drive times are on the Burbank studio page.
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Studio tours and demos by appointment. Production days run on your call sheet.
The Burbank sound stage handles every format: feature films and series, talk show set rental, game show sets, news sets, commercials, host wraps, music videos and press junkets. Multi-camera tapings with an audience are covered on TV studio rental.
Need a plain chroma key day? The pre-lit green cyc also rents on its own as a green screen studio.
Weighing stages in Los Angeles against a shoot out of state? Our Albuquerque studio runs the same patented pipeline and shares the full set library. It is a New Mexico Qualified Production Facility, so qualifying spend there can reach the 30% refundable rate of the New Mexico film rebate; the Film Office rules decide how much of the shoot has to happen at the facility.
Questions
Sound stage rental, answered
- Is this a traditional sound stage rental?
- It works like one, a controlled, camera-ready soundstage in Burbank with lighting, grip, dressing rooms, makeup and production offices, but instead of renting empty walls and building a set inside them, you load any of our 250+ virtual locations in seconds and shoot it in camera the same day.
- What is a sound stage?
- A sound stage is an enclosed building made for filming, where the production controls the conditions instead of working around a real location. Ours in Burbank has silent HVAC, isolated power and a pre-lit green screen cyclorama. The difference is what fills it: the location is a photoreal virtual set that appears around your talent live, in camera, on our stage. You see the finished shot on the monitor while you film.
- How much does it cost to rent a sound stage in Los Angeles or Burbank?
- Most LA soundstages charge for empty walls, then the set build, lighting package and strike land on top. We quote each production on its own scope, and because the sets are virtual there is no build, storage or teardown line item. Tell us your format and dates and we will price the day.
- What is included with a sound stage rental?
- Every Burbank rental includes the stage, the 250+ virtual set library, the lighting, grip and audio packages, the teleprompter system, green rooms, dressing rooms, makeup and production offices, and the operator who runs the virtual sets in real time.
- Is crew included in a sound stage rental?
- The operator who runs the virtual sets in real time comes with every rental. Camera and teleprompter operators are an optional crew package, three camera operators (one on the jib) and a teleprompter operator, or bring your own team.
- How do you rent a soundstage?
- Send one message with the format, your shoot dates and how many looks you need. A producer replies with availability and a quote for your days. Tours and a live demo run by appointment if you want to walk the floor first.
- How tall is the Burbank sound stage?
- The stage has a 20-ft ceiling with 15 ft to grid, over a pre-lit green screen cyclorama. If your plan has a tall practical, a two-story set piece or a big crane move, tell us in your inquiry and we will check it against the floor before you book.
- Is there parking, and how does load-in work?
- Load-in is drive-on: equipment and even vehicles can roll onto the stage. There are 20+ parking spaces, plus green rooms, dressing rooms and a hair and makeup room for talent. The address is 154 S. Victory Blvd, Burbank, CA 91502.
- Where is the stage located?
- In Burbank, California, the Media Capital of the World, minutes from Warner Bros. and Disney. A second studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico runs the same pipeline and is a Qualified Production Facility for the state’s 30% refundable film tax credit.
- Is the stage near Hollywood?
- We are in Burbank at 154 S. Victory Blvd, directly across from Nickelodeon Studios, about five minutes from Warner Bros., ten from Disney, and roughly fifteen from Hollywood. Same production corridor, without the Hollywood load-in headaches.
- Can we rent the green screen stage without the virtual sets?
- Yes. The pre-lit green screen cyclorama in Burbank also rents on its own for a traditional chroma key day, when you plan to add the backgrounds in post. Say so in your inquiry and we will quote the green screen day.
- Can we bring physical set pieces onto the stage?
- Yes, practical foreground pieces like desks, tables and furniture blend with the virtual environment, so the camera sees real elements your talent can touch inside a world that extends far beyond the stage walls.
- Can we come back for pickups or reshoots on the same set?
- Yes. Sets live on drives, so there is no set storage fee and nothing to rebuild. We reload the exact set, lighting and framing, even months later.
- What has been shot on the stage?
- Kevin Hart’s Hart to Heart shot on the Burbank stage, Aquaman 2, The Mummy and Greenland shot scenes here, and clients include Warner Bros., HBO, Netflix, NBC, CBS, Amazon, BET, Paramount and Hearst, across talk shows, game shows, news, commercials, film and TV.
What a line producer checks before the scout
Gear, rooms, cost and sets.
- Burbank studio: gear, rooms and directions Cameras, jib, lighting and every support room on one page.
- Studio tour and facility photos The stage, control room, green rooms and makeup.
- Book a studio tour and live demo By appointment, for producers with a project.
- Sound stage rental cost What drives the quote: shoot days, crew, sets and studio.
- Browse 250+ virtual sets Every location that loads onto this stage.
- Virtual standing sets Standing sets with no build, storage or strike.
- Courtroom, police and jail sets Procedural interiors ready to load.
- Green screen studio rental The pre-lit cyc for traditional chroma key.
- Film studio rental Features and series at both studios.
- TV studio rental Talk, game and news tapings with an audience.
- Commercial studio rental Several spots, several locations, one day.
- Production offices in Burbank Furnished offices, month to month, beside the stage.
- How CastleVision works The patented method behind the live composite.
- Albuquerque studio Same pipeline, same set library.
- New Mexico film tax credit The 30% refundable credit on qualified spend.
- Credits and past productions Hart to Heart, Aquaman 2, The Mummy and the rest of the work shot here.
Walk the floor before you book it. Tours and a live CastleVision demo run by appointment, and we price your shoot against your actual dates, not a rack rate.
