PONTIAC, Mich. -- Pontiac will soon be getting a movie studio.

Governor Jennifer Granholm attended the groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for the Raleigh Michigan Studio Campus.

Watch: Granholm Attends Movie Studio Groundbreaking

The studio will be built at the site of the shuttered General Motors plant at the Center Point Business Campus in Pontiac.

The existing building will get a face-lift and a 200,000-square foot building will be built in addition.

Pictures of what the $80 million project will look like when it's finished have been released.

IMAGES: Film Studio Models

The studio is expected to be completed by early 2011.

Studio executives have said they hope to hire 3,000 people within the next three years.

Michigan Motion Picture Studios film got final approval from the Oakland County Economic Development Corp. for $28 million in bond financing in May.

Michigan Motion Picture Studios CEO Linden Nelson said he hopes this will really jump-start moviemaking in Michigan.

"This is what it's about, it's about jobs and keeping our children in the state of Michigan," Nelson said. "We thank the governor because she's had a lot of foresight on this ... this movements are training real people, real Michiganders."

Since the state approved film tax incentives more than two years ago, 96 movie or TV productions have been filmed in the state.