Demand for the Moscow film cluster’s infrastructure has almost tripled
About 90 percent of Russian film content, including movies, TV series and other formats, is produced in Moscow. The market share of Russian movies grew from 22 percent to 82 percent between 2019 and 2024, and the number of viewers nearly doubled, from 51.1 million to 100 million.
In 2024, total box office receipts in cinemas amounted to 46.5 billion rubles, seven billion more than in 2023.
The development of the capital’s film industry is facilitated by a large-scale infrastructure for filming and city-supported specialized full-cycle services, such as the film commission and the Moskino film platform.
Sergei Sobyanin’s project Moscow — the City of Cinema enables film makers to use the sites of the Moscow film cluster for filming. The number of projects using its infrastructure increased by 270 percent in 2024. In 2023 there were 45 such projects, a year later — about 120. In 2025, the growth is continuing, with about 100 pictures filmed in the first half of the year.
Earlier, Sergei Sobyanin noted that in 2022, after major Hollywood studios left the Russian market, there was a vacuum, which began to be filled by Russian producers and online platforms.
Since then, Moscow film studios have earned 342 billion rubles in revenue, and their profits amounted to about 31 billion. The financial performance of Moscow film companies roughly doubled from 2022 to 2024. The most successful year was 2024, which brought 143 billion rubles in revenue and 14.7 billion rubles in profit, almost half of the total for the three years.
Moskino Cinema Park for location shooting
In August, Sergei Sobyanin announced the completion of the second phase of construction of the Moskino Cinema Park, Europe’s largest film park for location shooting. More than 140 projects have been shot here, including Not named on the Lists, Admiral Kuznetsov, Prince Andrei, The Emperor, Princess Olga, Arsenyev and Moscow does not believe in tears. Everything is just beginning. Work is currently continuing on other films and series by leading Russian directors, including Hard to be a God, Pinocchio and Queen Anna.
34 sets have been constructed for filming in the 356-hectare film park, including Yurovo Airport, Medieval Russian City, 1940s Moscow, Cowboy Town, Modern Moscow, Cities of the Middle East and Central Asia, and Provincial European cities. In addition, six pavilions and six infrastructure facilities have been created.
Moskino Film Factory and Gorky Film Studio
Another site is the Moskino Film factory, which is gradually developing into an innovative film production area. Seven pavilions designed for filming a diverse range of subjects have already been created here. These include a unique XOVP virtual production pavilion, equipped with the largest stationary configuration of LED screens in Russia, with an area of more than 300 square meters.
The film cluster includes the Gorky Film Studio, Moscow’s oldest studio, which celebrates its 110 th anniversary this year. There film makers can use the filming pavilions and studios and the 55.8 Degrees. Gorky Virtual Studio production pavilion, as well as the services of the costume and props complex. Today, the studio is the only member of the Moscow film cluster with its own production center producing both dramas and documentaries.
The Moscow Government will help cover some of the costs incurred during the filming process. To attract companies from friendly countries, a new support measure, rebate, has been developed. This allows movie producers to offset some of the costs of filming in the city. The maximum amount of compensation is 50 million rubles.
The capital has its own network of Moskino cinemas, including the Moskino Muzeon summer site. Every year it holds a Night of Cinema, which this year took place on August 23 and gathered about 18,000 spectators at 100 venues. The centerpiece of the event was a public talk by Serbian director Emir Kusturica and writer Sergei Minaev.
The Moscow Film Cluster combines infrastructure, services and facilities for film producers, and is being developed by the Moscow City Government as part of the Moscow — City of Cinema project. The cluster includes the Moskino Cinema Park, the Gorky Film Studio (with sites on Sergei Eisenstein Street and Valdaisky Proezd), the Moskino Film Factory, the Moskino chain of cinemas, the Film Commission and the Moskino Film platform.