More than 63000 square metres, half of offices, 11000 m² studios over nine shooting. 13000 square meters of workshops, warehouses and assembly halls. A street covered worthy of a shopping mall, restaurants, sports halls, a film school, and why not a little train for visitors? At the Cinema City at Saint-Denis, which he is the initiator, Besson has thought of everything. And Thinks Big.

Located in the 1993 shooting deLéon, the vast wasteland of the former Central EDF located in the 93, 30 years of construction, imposes. Four years ago, the filmmaker has decided to establish "working tool" of his dreams: a space concentrating all activities of the film, along the lines of Hollywood. A project to 130 million euros (0% of public funds, prohibited by law) which should prove profitable. "The United States is spending $ 500 million a year in European studios. And not one in France, "Luc Besson plague. In 2007, the number of days of shooting of foreign films in Paris, yet city darling of the Americans, even declined. While the French film industry has "the best technicians from Europe," according to Besson. The cost of labour, more expensive than in Prague, Munich or Alicante, could be offset by the quality of services "any comfort" that "Bessonpolis meet."

Several companies reportedly intend to settle in this city of cinema. EuropaCorp, the box will house production itself rent some offices and studios. The site could work more than 1000 people. In early February, Luc Besson had met local residents. He expressed his willingness to give preference to local hiring, particularly in the maintenance jobs. Delayed by the work of partial demolition and remediation, Cinecitta à la française expected to be delivered in 2010.