Action Movies & Costume Drama Shoots Barred In Paris During 2024 Olympic Games
26.09.2023 - 13:29
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France’s National Cinema Centre, Paris city hall’s Mission Cinema and regional body Film Paris Region have unveiled location filming regulations for the period around and during the Olympic Games and Paralympics in the French capital in 2024.
Mission Cinema has created a schedule for 2024, setting filming rules for parts of the capital hosting events as well as parts of the city not directly impacted by the games. See below for the full schedule.
The plan distinguishes between shoots for action and costume dramas, defining them as “exceptional shoots”, and shoots for other types of films or TV shows, which are defined as “standard shoots”.
For the period immediately preceding and during the Olympics (July 26 to August 11) and the Paralympics (August 28 to September 8), no type of shoot will be allowed in and close to places hosting events, while a reduced number of standard shoots will be permitted outside these zones.
The summer is traditionally a busy time for both local and international film and TV shoots in Paris, which usually empties out of its inhabitants from mid-July to end-August, even if the number of tourists ratchets up.
In the summer of 2023, a record 33 feature films, including John Woo’s The Killer, and 22 series, including The Walking Dead, shot in the French capital for close to 2,000 shooting hours.
There will be 15 separate Olympic sites within central Paris, while the suburbs of Saint Denis, which will home to the Olympic Village, and Saint Ouen, will also be impacted as will the town of Versailles, with the Chateau Of Versailles hosting the equestrian events.
Film Paris Region said it was still able to offer some 1,683 referenced locations in the greater Ile-de-France area outside of the