Rod Lurie had spent about an hour talking to TheWrap about “The Outpost” — the combat movie he directed that was scheduled to have its world premiere at this week’s South by Southwest Film Festival — when he stopped and frowned. “You can say that as you sat with the director, he was wondering whether South by Southwest was even going to be going on…”

The Bulgarian production hub Nu Boyana Film Studios is preparing to break ground on a studio in Thessaloniki, Greece. The partnership with John Kalafatis, CEO of the New York City-based York Studios, will be dubbed Nu Boyana Hellenic, and will highlight the growing cooperation between the neighboring countries, as the introduction of Greece’s 35% cash rebate last year has a ripple effect across the region.

This week York Studios is breaking ground on a $100 million movie studio on a 10-acre vacant lot off the Bruckner Expressway in Soundview. The production complex is about 2 miles from Silvercup Studios’ new $40 million facility in the Port Morris neighborhood, which opened in August. The new production center will be the second for York Studios, which opened a 40,000-square-foot…