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Host to ‘The Walking Dead’ and Olympics Opening Ceremony, France’s TSF Studios Inaugurates New Backlot Recreating City of Lights

After hosting shoots of 'Emilia Perez,'''The Walking Dead' and 'The Substance,' Paris Launches Splashy New Outdoor backlot to Lure More Productions.

Bringing Hollywood magic closer to the Seine, the long-awaited TSF Paris Backlot officially opened this week, inaugurating an outdoor cityscape built to scale, staged as a standing, permanent set 38 miles east of the real urban center. At the same time, productions like “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” and the still-shooting “L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche,” with Claes Bang and Xavier Dolan, have already taken advantage of the exurban construction site even before the Paris set was finished. As local filmmakers Dominik Moll (“The Night of the 12th”) and Xavier Giannoli (“Lost Illusions”) now eye the finished set for upcoming projects, international productions have also taken notice, with negotiations still ongoing between TSF and unnamed U.S.-based outfit.

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