Luc Besson unveils Cinema City production studio in Paris – FRANCE – CINEMA – FRANCE 24.

French film maker Luc Bessson has realised his dream of building a Hollywood style studio complex on the outskirts of Paris.

Cinema City will provide costume and model building; as well as production and post production facilities.

“France has Europe’s biggest film industry and yet until now it was the only European country without the infrastructure to produce a film,” said Christophe Lambert, general director of Besson’s production firm EuropaCorp.

Cinema City is being called “Hollywood on Seine”.

The project as cost 170 million euros and will need to major productions a year to cover operational costs. EuropaCorp believes the facility will be fully booked within the year, with European and America producers eager to use the studios.