When it comes to the latest fad, quiet luxury, Hollywood’s A-listers are the best to draw inspiration from.
15.05.2023 - 07:09 / variety.com
Ben Croll If once lured for brief visits by the panoply of iconic locations, international projects now linger in France to claim a competitive tax rebate and set down roots to benefit from an ever-expanding production infrastructure. And so, fuelled by mammoth shoots like Apple TV+’s upcoming Benjamin Franklin in Paris limited series, “Franklin,” the Christian Dior-Coco Chanel bio-series “The New Look” and AMC’s “Walking Dead” spinoff “Raise the Dead,” foreign spending hit a record high last year, filling local coffers with slightly more than $1 billion and marking a 324% increase from 2019 numbers. “This is more than a post-pandemic rebound,” says France’s National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC) digital director Vincent Florant. “[The industry has undergone] rapid acceleration and exponential growth. Nowadays, we host the totality of these massive shoots, whereas before we only received a part, or even, in the most extreme cases, just a few days of postcard shooting at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.”
Offering an across-the-board 30% rebate, with an additional 10% bonus to productions that partner with local VFX houses, the country’s Tax Rebate for Intl. Productions (TRIP) scheme has played an outsized role in attracting these foreign shoots, while a string of investments into physical infrastructure has kept visitors comfortable on-site. The publication of a 2019 white paper urging greater soundstage development has since yielded exponential public investment, with a $1.1 million amuse-bouche in 2020 leading to an $11 million “modernization” plan in 2021 before giving way to this year’s main feast — a $387 million investment into soundstages, backlots, digital facilities and VFX houses umbrellaed under
When it comes to the latest fad, quiet luxury, Hollywood’s A-listers are the best to draw inspiration from.
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