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Article: Film Studio Proposal for Homestead Air Base in Florida Faces Resistance.

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By Cara Buckley, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 11--Filmmaker John Corse says the Homestead air base is perfect for a WWII epic he wants to produce: "We have to accommodate 100 vintage aircraft, 140 movie sets."

Depending on whom you ask, Miami-Dade Commissioner Joe Martinez may be about to save South Florida's film industry -- or hurt it.

Martinez is behind a push to build a massive, $300 million movie studio in Homestead's sprawling defunct air base, and is enticing a seasoned cinematographer named John Corso to use the studio to produce a $100 million World War II fighter pilot epic.

"It's the kind of ...

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