Albuquerque Studios

Pacifica Ventures developed and built the state-of-the-art Albuquerque Studios (ABQ), operating the studio from its opening in 2007 for over 11 years until the facility was sold to Netflix at the end of 2018.  With an initial cost of nearly $94 million, the 366,000 sq. ft. facility consists of eight of the largest, most advanced soundstages in North America, including four (4) 24,000 sq. ft. stages separated by operable partition walls that open up to a massive 48,000 sq. ft. shooting space (close the big wall, and you can fire off a nail gun, on one stage without disturbing filming on the other) -- plus office space, back lot space, mill, storage and set-construction space, post-production suites, and the full spectrum of production support services, all situated on a 28-acre campus setting just minutes south of Albuquerque’s international airport.

In eleven years of operation under Pacifica management, Albuquerque Studios hosted such major films as Marvel’s The Avengers, Fox’s blockbuster sequel Independence Day: Resurgence; Disney’s The Lone Ranger, Warner’s Terminator Salvation, the Denzel Washington thriller The Book of Eli, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s The Last Stand, Frank Miller’s cutting-edge, 100% green-screen production of The Spirit, and the multiple Oscar-nominated films Sicario and its sequel Soldado.

The studio has also been home to hundreds of hours of television drama, including six full seasons of Sony Television’s multiple Emmy-award-winning series Breaking Bad, four seasons of NBC’s hit hospital series The Night Shift, two seasons of NBC’s Midnight, Texas, NBC’s The Brave, Netflix series Day Break, ABC series Killer Women and Scoundrels, and five seasons of Breaking Bad spinoff series Better Call Saul. Over $5 Billion dollars of production was produced on Pacifica’s soundstages creating over 100,000 jobs in New Mexico.