Paris 2024: Filming in the capital will be banned for the first time for three months

The Olympics and Paralympics (JOP) are coming to Paris at the worst possible time for the film industry. “Summer is traditionally the best time to shoot very spectacular films in the capital. explains Michel Gómez, General Delegate of the City of Paris Cinema Mission. A period during which it was possible, in 2022, to close the Place de l’Etoile, the Panthéon or the Place Denfert-Rochereau for biography. De GaulleBy Antonin Beaudry. “It’s possible from the middle of August to the end of August, never on October 15”– says the host of filming in the capital.

A very large film of this type, such as Mr. Aznaurby Mehdi Idir and Malad of the Great Corps, “We won’t have it next year”, she said. Note: Since they cannot be postponed, “We will lose them, leading to 20% fewer filming days in Paris 2024.”.

This year, as well as in 2022, Paris recorded 7,000 days of filming, a high for all genres combined (films, series, commercials, etc.), which is explained by the exponential increase in demand for series delivery to platforms. flow.

Opening big in the summer of 2024, there will be a total ban on feature filmmaking, whether described as “exceptional” (action or costume) or simply “standard,” from June 16 to September 15 in the occupied territories. Olympic games. The City of Paris Film Mission has planned four different periods from March 15 to November 2, during which authorizations will be granted only to individual, sensitive sites based on “vigilance” criteria and “expertise” of each file. The green light from the City Hall takes into account both the geographical proximity to the events related to the games, the type of film proposed, as well as the periods of assembly and dismantling of sports facilities.

Fallow quarter

Therefore, entire areas of the capital will be off-limits or very inaccessible to filmmakers during the crucial period of the games. There are no cameras on almost all banks of the Seine, nor on the entire section of the 7th^e8^e and 16^e areas, especially the Trocadero or the Champs-de-Mars, but also the Tuileries Gardens, the Île Saint-Louis and the Parc de la Villette. Not to mention several other territories scattered throughout the 12th^e15^e and 18^e districts.