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A visitor interested in the building can select an architectural tour when offered; someone drawn to film-making can choose Rex Studios; an evening audience can attend the actual screening or stage event. Products may combine elements, but their stated inclusions determine access.\n\nOutside, the illuminated frontage remains part of the Grands Boulevards street scene. Passage des Panoramas, Passage Jouffroy and Passage Verdeau offer a smaller-scale architectural sequence nearby, while Bouillon Chartier Grands Boulevards gives a classic dining-room counterpart to the cinema’s large public interior.", "url": "https://www.legrandrex.com/en/", "subjectOf": { "@id": "https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/grand-rex/#editorial-article" }, "image": { "@id": "https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/grand-rex/#primary-image" }, "containedInPlace": [ { "@id": "https://above.guide/paris/#city-paris" } ], "isAccessibleForFree": false, "publicAccess": true, "sameAs": [ "https://www.legrandrex.com/en/" ], "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "1 boulevard Poissonnière, 75002 Paris", "addressLocality": "Paris", "addressRegion": "Île-de-France", "addressCountry": "FR" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": 48.8705444336, "longitude": 2.3476865292 } }, { "@type": "FAQPage", "@id": "https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/grand-rex/#faq", "mainEntity": [ { "@type": "Question", "name": "What is the difference between Le Grand Rex and Rex Studios?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Le Grand Rex is the cinema and performance venue. Rex Studios is a separately ticketed interactive film-making route through staged behind-the-scenes spaces." } }, { "@type": "Question", "name": "Does a Rex Studios ticket include a film?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Only a product explicitly sold with a screening includes one. Ordinary Rex Studios admission is for the interactive tour." } }, { "@type": "Question", "name": "Can I see Le Grand Rex’s main auditorium without watching a film?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Architectural visits are offered on selected programmes. Choose a product that explicitly includes the main room; the Rex Studios route alone does not guarantee it." } }, { "@type": "Question", "name": "Is Rex Studios suitable for young children?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Le Grand Rex recommends Rex Studios for visitors over five. Every child needs the applicable ticket, and the route uses effects and staged film-making activities." } }, { "@type": "Question", "name": "Is Rex Studios wheelchair accessible?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Rex Studios is not wheelchair accessible and excludes babies, pregnant visitors and people with claustrophobia. Ask Le Grand Rex about accessible cinema seating and other visit options." } }, { "@type": "Question", "name": "Which Métro station serves Le Grand Rex?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Bonne Nouvelle on lines 8 and 9 is near the boulevard Poissonnière frontage. Follow your specific product’s entrance instructions." } } ] } ] } ], "editorialMarkdown": "[View next **Les Invalides – Musée de l’Armée**]()\n\n## Le Grand Rex\n\nAn Art Deco cinema landmark with a grand atmospheric auditorium and a separate interactive film-making tour.\n\n[Plan this experience]()\n\n[Explore the story]()\n\nCost **Admission**\n\nTime to allow **Allow 45 minutes for Rex Studios**\n\nPlace **Grands Boulevards, Paris**\n\n01 / The experience\n\n### Cinema as a building-sized spectacle.\n\nThe corner tower of Le Grand Rex gives boulevard Poissonnière one of its clearest entertainment landmarks. Opened in 1932, the cinema belongs to a period when the building around a film could be part of the attraction. Its Art Deco exterior announces that ambition before the audience reaches the doors.\n\n#### Inside the atmospheric cinema\n\nThe main auditorium takes the idea further. Decorative architectural scenery and a vast ceiling create an atmospheric setting, with the screen and stage placed within a much larger imagined world. Seeing the room during a film, concert or architectural visit offers different experiences, so the specific programme matters to the visit.\n\nRex Studios is a separate interactive route through the world of making films. It uses staged spaces such as a director’s office, projection room, effects area and dubbing setting. Le Grand Rex describes it as an imaginary journey behind the scenes: its interest is participation and cinema craft, rather than a promise that every working technical area will be open.\n\n#### Rex Studios and separately booked visits\n\nThat distinction makes the venue particularly versatile. A visitor interested in the building can select an architectural tour when offered; someone drawn to film-making can choose Rex Studios; an evening audience can attend the actual screening or stage event. Products may combine elements, but their stated inclusions determine access.\n\nOutside, the illuminated frontage remains part of the [Grands Boulevards]() street scene. [Passage des Panoramas]() , [Passage Jouffroy]() and [Passage Verdeau]() offer a smaller-scale architectural sequence nearby, while [Bouillon Chartier Grands Boulevards]() gives a classic dining-room counterpart to the cinema’s large public interior.\n\n![Le Grand Rex, Paris]()\n\nCulture & landmarks **Le Grand Rex** Paris\n\nIn pictures\n\n### The full gallery.\n\n02 / The essentials\n\n### Le Grand Rex: visit essentials\n\n1. 01\n\n Grands Boulevards\n2. 02\n\n Allow 45 minutes for Rex Studios; longer for a guided visit or film\n3. 03\n\n Screenings, architectural visits and Rex Studios are separate products; prices depend on your choice.\n\n04 / Before you go\n\n### Plan your visit\n\nAn Art Deco cinema landmark with a grand atmospheric auditorium and a separate interactive film-making tour.\n\n#### Admission\n\nScreenings, architectural visits and Rex Studios are separate products; prices depend on your choice.\n\n#### Opening & visit\n\nScreening and visit times follow the current programme; Rex Studios has its own opening calendar.\n\n#### Arrival\n\nThe main cinema frontage is at 1 boulevard Poissonnière, near Bonne Nouvelle métro. Follow the entrance on the specific screening or tour confirmation.\n\n1 boulevard Poissonnière, 75002 Paris\n\n[Get directions]()\n\n#### Plan your visit\n\nChoose the actual screening, architectural visit or Rex Studios product. Rex Studios is recommended for visitors aged over five and does not by itself promise admission to a film or the main auditorium.\n\n[Choose a Grand Rex visit]()\n\n#### Accessibility\n\nRex Studios is not wheelchair accessible and excludes babies, pregnant visitors and people with claustrophobia. Cinema seating and architectural visits have different access arrangements; contact Le Grand Rex for the appropriate option.\n\n05 / Where it is\n\n### Find it\nand what’s nearby.\n\nExplore around Le Grand Rex\n\n The map will load when you reach it.\n\nContinue exploring\n\n### More of Paris, around your visit.\n\n#### Continue your Paris day\n\n- [Grands Boulevards]()\n- [Passage des Panoramas]()\n- [Bouillon Chartier Grands Boulevards]()\n- [Passage Jouffroy]()\n- [Passage Verdeau]()\n- [All Paris sights and neighbourhoods]()\n- [Paris cafés, restaurants and food stops]()\n\n#### Plan your Paris visit\n\n- [Paris city guide]()\n- [Choose a Paris city day]()\n- [Find a Paris hotel]()\n- [Plan Métro and walking journeys]()\n- [Build your saved itinerary]()\n\n06 / Good to know\n\n### Le Grand Rex: frequently asked questions\n\n01 What is the difference between Le Grand Rex and Rex Studios?\n\nLe Grand Rex is the cinema and performance venue. Rex Studios is a separately ticketed interactive film-making route through staged behind-the-scenes spaces.\n\n02 Does a Rex Studios ticket include a film?\n\nOnly a product explicitly sold with a screening includes one. Ordinary Rex Studios admission is for the interactive tour.\n\n03 Can I see Le Grand Rex’s main auditorium without watching a film?\n\nArchitectural visits are offered on selected programmes. Choose a product that explicitly includes the main room; the Rex Studios route alone does not guarantee it.\n\n04 Is Rex Studios suitable for young children?\n\nLe Grand Rex recommends Rex Studios for visitors over five. Every child needs the applicable ticket, and the route uses effects and staged film-making activities.\n\n05 Is Rex Studios wheelchair accessible?\n\nRex Studios is not wheelchair accessible and excludes babies, pregnant visitors and people with claustrophobia. Ask Le Grand Rex about accessible cinema seating and other visit options.\n\n06 Which Métro station serves Le Grand Rex?\n\nBonne Nouvelle on lines 8 and 9 is near the boulevard Poissonnière frontage. Follow your specific product’s entrance instructions.\n\nContinue exploring\n\n### Make Paris\nyour own.\n\n[Visit the official site]()[← All things to do]()\n\nOpening hours, prices and access change. Confirm details on the official site before visiting." }