The Million Dollar Way (The Bakken Oil Blog): The Midight Hour --Rambling -- August 18, 2025

Monday, August 18, 2025

The Midight Hour --Rambling -- August 18, 2025

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It's 11:07 p.m. CT and I'm wide awake, eager to read, blog, and listen to YouTube music.

I think back on all the hours I've spent awake after the midnight hours throughout my life. It's really quite amazing. College. Medical school. 24-hour emergency room duty during my USAF career. Red-eye flights. And, now, even now. Wide awake going into a new day. I might brew a cup of caffeinated coffee. LOL. I even have a blog dedicated to what I call "The YouTube Fugue."

I am really in a great mood. I have some really great books right now. My "summer reading program" is as good as ever. Link here. The most recent addition:

The French Dispatch, Matt Zoler Seitz, c. 2023. The Wes Anderson Series.

Which reminds me, look at this:

Fort Worth's Alliance area is rapidly becoming a significant hub for the movie and television industry, largely due to the establishment of SGS Studios, a large film production campus developed by Taylor Sheridan and Hillwood. This development is part of a broader trend of increased film production in Texas, driven by factors like the state's diverse locations and financial incentives.

Here's a more detailed look:

SGS Studios:

This 450,000 square foot facility, located in AllianceTexas, includes sound stages, post-production suites, and other production-related spaces. Tag: Alliance, Texas.

"Landman" and other Productions:

The Paramount+ series "Landman," co-created by Taylor Sheridan, has been filming at SGS Studios, with other productions also utilizing the space.

Job Creation:

the studio complex is expected to create numerous jobs in various roles, including construction, administrative, and production crew positions.

Training Programs:

SGS Studios is partnering with Tarrant County College to offer training programs in areas like set construction and post-production, further contributing to workforce development in the film industry.

Fort Worth as a Production Hub:

Fort Worth is actively working to attract more film and television projects, including designating media production zones and increasing state film incentives. Texas Film Incentives:
. Texas has increased its state film incentive program appropriation, making it more attractive for productions to film in the state.

Today's news, link here:

From the linked article:

Fort Worth has seen a boom in film and television production over the last few years, and it’s about to get a whole lot bigger.

Through their company SGS Studios, “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan and 101 Studios CEO David Glasser are partnering with Hillwood and Paramount Television on a 450,000-square-foot film and television production campus in Fort Worth.
Hillwood, the Ross Perot Jr. company that developed AllianceTexas, says it will be the largest operating film studio in Texas.

The two-building campus in far north Fort Worth is as part of the Alliance development.

The campus features sound stages, post-production suites and ample space to build more sets and props. In total, the facility can support four large-scale film and television productions at the same time. “Landman” season 2 has already filmed at the new studio, and more productions will stop by soon, according to Glasser.Much more at the link.

AllianceTexas [tag: Alliance, Texas] has been talked about many times on the blog. It's just down the road from where live. TxDOT says that Alliance, Texas, will be the geographic-population center of the DFW metroplex in 2025. It's out where they build BNSF locomotives; NASCAR's Texas Motor Speedway; and one of the first Bucc-ee's.

SGS?