Luc Besson

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    Review: Slick, delicious action in 'Anna' makes up for a wooden lead actress

    "Anna" dazzles you with violent eviscerations and surprise twists, though the heroine is pretty wooden.

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    Luc Besson denies new accusations of sexual assault

    New allegations of sexual assault are being levelled at French director Luc Besson by one of his former casting directors, and by two other women.

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    Will Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets be this year's John Carter?

    Luc Besson's ambitious comic book movie invites comparisons with Disney's 2012 flop - but is this necessarily a bad thing?

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    Final trailer for Luc Besson's Valerian hints at a worthy successor to The Fifth Element

    French filmmaker returns to space opera territory 20 years on from his sci-fi classic.

  • NewsBen Bussey

    Luc Besson Found Guilty Of Plagiarising Escape From New York

    The initial ruling ordered studio EuropaCorp to pay €10,000 (just over £7,300) to director Carpenter, a further €20,000 to  the writers (Carpenter and Nick Castle), and €50,000 to Studiocanal, the film’s current rights holders. Besson (whose other writer-producer credits include the ‘Taken’ and ‘Transporter’ franchises) appealed  the decision, but this did not work out in his favour, as he has now been ordered to pay a total of €450,000 in damages to Carpenter and Studiocanal. By comparison, ‘

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    Valerian: Dane DeHaan And Cara Delevingne Suit Up

    It’s official – we’ve finally got our first look at ‘Valerian’. ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ is the upcoming sci-fi epic from writer/director Luc Besson… which sees Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne suit up as time-travellers who might just be the universe’s last hope. Posted to Instagram by director Luc Besson, this new image shines a light on the film’s two protagonists – Valerian and Laureline.

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    Sci-Fi Thriller Lockout Plagiarised Escape From New York, Court Rules

    You may have noticed the recent news that a remake of John Carpenter’s 1981 cult classic ‘Escape From New York’ is in the works. Made in France, 2012′s ‘Lockout’ was directed by James Mather and Stephen Saint Ledger, and co-written and produced by French cinema icon Luc Besson (director of ‘Leon,’ ‘The Fifth Element’ and more recently ‘Lucy,’ and producer of the ‘Taken’ and ‘The Transporter’ movies). It starred Guy Pearce as a roguish ex-convict sent on a mission to rescue the President’s daug