Fox Studios comes out of hibernation as the bustling screen hub we want to see

Tim Burrowes

October 12, 2011 4:13

A few months back I visited Fox Studios in Sydney to view the filming of a commercial for Earth Hour.

The main thing that struck me (apart from the massively rude security guy on the gate) was how depressingly empty most of the place was.

It was desolate. It had the atmosphere of a business district on a Sunday afternoon rather than the film hub of one of the world’s great cities.

Today though, the feeling is very different.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.