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The campus has no front door

Three venues going up in Shreveport. Not one of them can be booked.

A producer choosing where to shoot asks four things. What are the stages. What is the incentive. Who can crew it locally. Who do I call. Not one of those has an answer online today. This is the page that would answer them.

$124Mprivate investment committed by G-Unit Film & Television Louisiana, LLC
$50Mmaximum performance-based state funding under the agreement
6,000+jobs projected statewide, against $300M in wages
3venues in downtown Shreveport, none of them listed anywhere online

Sources: Louisiana Economic Development, announcement of the finalised Cooperative Endeavor Agreement. Figures on this page are drawn from that public record. Anything we could not source is left blank rather than invented.

Shoot here

The four numbers a scout compares, and where they are not

A scout compares stages on clear height, door width, power and sound rating. None of that is published for this campus. So the comparison never happens, and the show goes to Atlanta or Albuquerque by default.

Stage plate
photography to come

The former Stageworks facility

Renovation

Named in the state agreement as a renovation of the existing Stageworks facility.

  • Stagesnot published
  • Clear heightnot published
  • Powernot published
  • Sound ratingnot published
Stage plate
photography to come

The former Millennium Studios campus

Modernisation

Named in the state agreement as a modernisation of the former Millennium Studios campus.

  • Stagesnot published
  • Clear heightnot published
  • Powernot published
  • Sound ratingnot published
Venue render
to come

The dome venue and park

New build

Named in the state agreement as a new dome-style immersive venue with adjoining green space.

  • Capacitynot published
  • Formatnot published
  • Openingnot published
  • Bookingsnot published

Every not published above is a real gap, not a placeholder we invented. We have deliberately not guessed square footage, stage counts or dimensions for a facility we do not operate. The empty field is the argument.

Work here

Six thousand jobs is a promise. A register is the proof.

The state money is performance-based, so somebody eventually has to show the jobs. A standing register of local crew and vendors makes that countable instead of anecdotal. It also does the everyday work: a line producer staffing a show finds Shreveport people in it, rather than flying a unit in.

Camera Grip & electric Art Construction Costume Hair & make-up Sound Post Production office Transportation Locations Catering Health & safety Vendors & suppliers

Register a department

Prototype intake. In a live build this writes to the same queue the casting desk uses, so crew and talent sit in one record rather than two inboxes.

Nothing here is shared with a production
without the registrant asking for it.

The record

What is publicly known, in one place

Right now this exists across a state press release, a handful of trade write-ups and an Instagram account. A campus of this size carries its own record.

Note: every figure above is quoted from the Louisiana Economic Development announcement. We have added nothing to it.

And the people

Stages are half a studio

A campus that only rents space is a landlord.

Twenty-two actors went on screen in 2026, and the record of who found them sits on somebody else's platform. The studio site wins the show. The roster is how that show gets cast, and how the next actor gets found. One system, not two products.

This is a concept, openly

Built by Ariaria as an independent demonstration. Nothing here claims a relationship that does not exist, and no figure is invented.

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