Moskino, a giant cinema city near Moscow, is now almost fully operational. This exciting development became clear during the recent festival for Moscow Day, celebrating the city’s 877th birthday. A year ago, Moskino was mostly a construction site, but now it’s running like a well-oiled movie-making machine.

Here’s the jaw-dropping part: this massive film city is on track to become the largest movie production site in the world. In fact, it’s already number one in terms of size! Russians ...