Here’s a poor attempt to show what the Warner Brothers lot is like (satellite photo courtesy of http://terraserver.microsoft.com/).
- Most of the big white squares on the left are soundstages.
- The “Big” soundstage is the thing that you see just before the Warner Brothers logo in the movies. It has the same footprint as the other soundstages, but is considerably taller.
- Slightly less than half of the stages have regular shows that film in them — Friends (now Joey), ER, West Wing, Gilmore Girls, Two and a Half Men, and a few others I’m probably forgetting. Most of the WB network shows shoot at a separate lot that is about a mile down the road.
- The soundstages that aren’t used for TV shows are usually either empty or else used for whatever movies are filming (at the moment Ocean’s Twelve is using three stages).
- The outdoor sets cover a big chunk of the east side of the lot and include everything from ER’s County General Hospital to a row of brownstones to the New York alley that the Spider-Man upside-down kiss was filmed in. They’re used nearly every day for whatever is shooting that needs an outdoor setting.
