From Petty Cash to Mogul, Pinewood Toronto Boss Plots Expansion
- MacLean is leading BCE film studio push on the waterfront
- Studio expansion will add 170,000 square feet in film-mad city
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Nanci MacLean took a job managing petty cash for a Canadian television network to get her foot in the door of the entertainment world, thinking one day she’d like to be Madonna’s personal assistant. She probably wasn’t thinking big enough.
Two decades later, MacLean, 43, is overseeing a massive expansion of Pinewood Toronto Studios for a unit of Canada’s biggest telecom company, BCE Inc. Set on 33 acres on the city’s waterfront, the studio already houses one of North America’s largest purpose-built sound stages, used to shoot movies from “Suicide Squad” to Stephen King’s “It.”