Film Newark with Lion Motion
New Jersey's Creative Capital — 25 Minutes From Manhattan
Newark delivers big-city production value without big-city friction: brick industrial lofts, Beaux-Arts architecture, Branch Brook Park’s cherry blossoms, the Passaic riverfront, transit-rich streetscapes, historic theatres like NJPAC and Symphony Hall, and neighbourhoods with real texture. It doubles convincingly for New York at a fraction of the cost — with an international airport in city limits.
The Newark Advantage
Manhattan Production Value. New Jersey Economics.
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35% credit on all qualified NJ wages
The statewide wage rate applies fully in Newark.
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Direct access to New York market crew and talent
Without NYC location fees, congestion, and permit competition.
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Newark Liberty International Airport
Fly in cast and department heads from anywhere; be on set in 20 minutes.
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Transit density
NJ Transit, PATH, and Amtrak make crew moves and background casting easier than almost anywhere in the region.
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Opportunity Zone geography
For investors building media infrastructure.
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A creative ecosystem on the rise
Lion Motion's Newark operations connect to a growing network of studios, venues, artists, and broadcast partners across the city's creative economy.
Signature Newark Looks
Real Texture, Twenty Minutes From the Airport
- The Ironbound's dense, authentic streets and Portuguese/Brazilian storefronts
- Military Park, the Gutzon Borglum sculptures, and downtown's early-20th-century canyon of architecture
- Branch Brook Park (the largest cherry blossom collection in the U.S.)
- Industrial riverfront, rail infrastructure, and warehouse interiors
- University Heights, historic churches, and residential brownstones
- Location scouting and management
- City permitting
- Crew and apprentice staffing
- Equipment packages
- Venue partnerships for premieres, screenings, and events
- Post-production coordination
Scout Newark with us.
Brownstones, downtown towers, the Ironbound and the riverfront — minutes from Manhattan, inside New Jersey's incentive programme. Tell us what you're looking for.