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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Secondary Navigation Search Search: France wants bigger slice of Hollywood action AFP - Thursday, November 6 PARIS (AFP) - - Because Hollywood spends a quarter million dollars a day when filming a blockbuster like Paris-located "Da Vinci Code", France is laying out the red carpet for 10 US screenwriters in hopes of seeing more movies set in France. From November 6 to 13, a bunch of "A List" writers linked to top directors and big studios are being offered a slate of unsusual decors and rare slices of action to whet their appetites. This does not include humdrum tourist sites like the Eiffel Tower or Louvre Museum featured in "Da Vinci Code". Instead the group is to go cruising with river police, buy veg with a star chef, and put up at Paris palace, Le Meurice. The 100,000-euro (130,000-dollar) movie Tour de France is being organised by Film France, which promotes movie shoots, a giant national industry currently under fire from its neighbours, where tax rebates and labour costs are more conducive. "If we want to see more films shot on location in France, then we need more screenplays set in France," Franck Priot, deputy head of Film France, told AFP. Even Quentin Tarantino, lover of things French, is currently shooting 95 percent of his new film set in wartime France -- "Inglourious Basterds" (sic) -- in Germany, complained Priot. The writers may not be household names but include the likes of John August ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"), Michael Brandt ("Wanted"), Michael Dougherty ("Superman Returns"), Derek Haas ("3:10 to Yuma") and Edward Neumeier ("Starship Troopers"). During their stay in Paris, they visit the city's giant larder, the Rungis market which is the biggest in Europe, and check out the high-speed TGV rail control centre. "Rungis is a perfect backdrop for a thriller or love story," said Priot. Also on the agenda is the discovery of little-known locations in Paris that are part and parcel of US history, including a building said to be the model for the US Capitol. In Marseille, they meet the heiress of the Paul Ricard pastis liquor-making empire, and trail the secret wartime escapeways that enabled the likes of artists Marc Chagall or Andre Breton to sneak out of France to evade the Nazis. "We're hoping this will inspire them to write screenplays set in France," said Priot. With 70 percent of foreign shoots held in Paris or on the Riviera, the stakes are high, said Lydie Fenech, who heads a grouping of 80 movie companies in southern France. Costs in France, she said, were 30 to 40 percent higher than in sunny Montenegro. Of the 15-odd feature-length foreign movies shot in France each year, around six to 10 are US productions. The problem, said Film France, is that shoots are being shortened as more and more of France's neighbours including Germany and Britain offer cost-cutting tax rebates. Yet each of the big Hollywood productions shot in France between 2005 and 2007 spent 10 to 20 million euros, with daily expenses running up to between 250,000 and 300,000 euros a day on blockbusters. Hotel costs alone on "Marie-Antoinette" or "Rush Hour 3" amounted to between half a million and a million euros, with crews putting up in Paris' top hotels. Hopefully, said Fenech from southern France, the parliament soon will enact legislation enabling rebates that would put France on a par with its competitors. "This would really help," she said. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: Hollywood France wants bigger slice of Hollywood actionAFP - Thursday, November 6 `HSM3' takes box-office curtain call with $15.3MAP - Tuesday, November 4 Director Mendes tapped to film 'Preacher' comicsAFP - Friday, October 31 Fashion's Tom Ford lands a movie gigAP - Thursday, October 30 Related Articles: Entertainment & Lifestyle Michelle Obama wears Rodriguez on Election nightAP - Thursday, November 6 Pic of Hezbollah chief with Jesus barred at Lebanon showAFP - Thursday, November 6 Indian filmmaker B.R. Chopra diesAP - Thursday, November 6 NYC auction house art sales continueAP - Thursday, November 6 Online sales of Obama's books surge after winAP - Thursday, November 6 Related Full Coverage Paris Hilton American celebutante, businesswoman, model, actress All Full Coverage Most Popular – Entertainment Viewed Obama wins US election, to become first black president US elects Obama as its first black president Stocks, dollar rise as Obama takes White House Obama's grandmother, family 'rock', dies on election eve World tunes in to see Obama win historic US election View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology

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