The early trailer for Luc Besson’s new film, “Lucy,” promised giddy digital wizardry, and the movie delivers, in a way that surprised me. I saw that it would have a pulp-fiction setup (though I couldn ...

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Luc Besson was feeling a little discombobulated. On a recent afternoon, the French director of such films as “La Femme Nikita,” “The Fifth Element” and “Lucy” sat in a Los Angeles multiplex, where he ...

Around this time just a year ago, Robert Eggers' dark, drenched-in-atmosphere version of "Nosferatu" - the rogue version of Bram Stoker's original 1897 novel - was an unexpected hit in theaters, a ...

In his over 35-year career, French writer-director-producer Luc Besson has been responsible for blockbuster hits like “The Fifth Element” and spectacular flops like “The Messenger: The Story of Joan ...

It's a summer of Besson-branded sci-fi spectacle. Buckle up, Besson-ites, because fans of the action-bent French auteur are in for a very big summer. Luc Besson‘s newest sci-fi spectacle — the ...

The director will showcase exclusive footage from the recently concluded 'Valerian' shoot in San Diego in July. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter after the 2015 show ...

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"[W]hen you watch it now, it definitely has some cringey, to say the least, aspects to it. So, yes, it’s complicated for me." Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. Since 2016, his ...

On the 20th anniversary of space opera "The Fifth Element," it's become clear how much it shares with Besson's latest passion project, "Valerian." Luc Besson was born to make “Valerian and the City of ...

Luc Besson’s cinema school appears to be another casualty of the director’s legal and financial troubles. By Rhonda Richford Luc Besson’s cinema school appears to be another casualty of the director’s ...