Global film and television production and distribution company Miramax is relocating its headquarters from Century City to West Hollywood.
The company recently signed at 16,000-square-foot office lease at The Lot at Formosa, an entertainment production campus owned and operated by Mid-Wilshire based developer CIM Group since 2007.
Originally built in 1918, The Lot at Formosa is a historic studio campus, spanning 11 acres of production and support space along Santa Monica Boulevard. From the first “West Side Story” to “Big Little Lies,” the campus has housed some of the most iconic productions in Los Angeles film history, according to CIM Group.
The studio features seven soundstages along with 100,000 square feet of historic office space, once occupied by entertainment legends such as Howard Hughes, George Lucas and Samuel Goldwyn, in addition to three new office buildings and two large parking structures built by CIM Group.
CIM Group was represented in-house in the transaction by Blake Eckert, along with Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. brokers Nicole Mihalka and Hayley Blockley. Miramax was represented by Pat Moody and Clay Hammerstein of CBRE Group Inc.
Miramax, led by chief executive Jonathon Glickman, is responsible for producing recent films such as “The Beekeeper” and “Strange Darling,” as well as Oscar-winner “The Holdovers.” It also helped bring filmmaker Quentin Tarantino into prominence as the distributor of “Pulp Fiction” in 1994.
The company was famously founded in 1979 by former film producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein and brother Bob Weinstein, who sold the company to The Walt Disney Co. in 1993. Today it is owned by beIN Media Group and Paramount Global.