James Bond’s playground reopens

Last July, Pinewood Studio’s famed 007 Stage – once the largest in the world – burned down like the final action scene in a James Bond movie. Given the type of movies being made these days, that was quite a setback to the British film industry.

The folks in Pinewood immediately started rebuilding, and now the 007 Stage is reopening as the largest sound stage in Europe – all 59,000 square feet of it.

Want to take a tour? Yep, it’s got its own website.

(Glenn Hauman contributed mightily to this story.)