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Luc Besson unveils big film center
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September 23, 2012, Sunday
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FRENCH director Luc Besson has realized his dream of building a world class film complex on the banks of the Seine River. Now the only question is whether big-budget Hollywood productions will take the bait.
Cite du Cinema, the largest film studio facility ever built in France, at a cost of 170 million euros (US$200 million), opens this weekend aiming to attract foreign productions with facilities to match those in Hollywood.
But while the complex offers modern equipment and facilities to compare with studios in Berlin, London and Rome, France's lower tax breaks for international productions could still reduce its appeal.
Located on the grounds of a former 1930s power station in Seine-Saint-Denis, a working class neighborhood just outside Paris, Cite du Cinema is the creation of director and producer Besson.
The site houses nine film studios, workshops for building film sets, office space for production companies and a film school.
"The attractiveness of Cite du Cinema, which is indisputable on a technical level, will be weighed down by the fact that our financial attractiveness for very large budgets is now lower than that of our neighbors," said Patrick Lamassoure, managing director of Film France, a non-profit agency that promotes France as a location for film and television shoots.
Cite du Cinema, the largest film studio facility ever built in France, at a cost of 170 million euros (US$200 million), opens this weekend aiming to attract foreign productions with facilities to match those in Hollywood.
But while the complex offers modern equipment and facilities to compare with studios in Berlin, London and Rome, France's lower tax breaks for international productions could still reduce its appeal.
Located on the grounds of a former 1930s power station in Seine-Saint-Denis, a working class neighborhood just outside Paris, Cite du Cinema is the creation of director and producer Besson.
The site houses nine film studios, workshops for building film sets, office space for production companies and a film school.
"The attractiveness of Cite du Cinema, which is indisputable on a technical level, will be weighed down by the fact that our financial attractiveness for very large budgets is now lower than that of our neighbors," said Patrick Lamassoure, managing director of Film France, a non-profit agency that promotes France as a location for film and television shoots.
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