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From stories of deadly assassins to sci-fi spectacles, French filmmaker Luc Besson was the man behind some of the best action movies of all time.
Four decades have passed since Luc Besson found fame as an emerging 26-year-old director with thriller Subway starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert. His feature credits since range from ...
PARIS — The authorities here said on Monday that the French film director Luc Besson would face no charges after a nine-month inquiry into an actress’s accusations that he had raped her. An ...
Luc Besson, who has had a tumultuous few years, is back on the Lido with Caleb Landry Jones starrer DogMan.
UPDATE, 11:28 AM: Luc Besson looks to be one step closer to seeing the rape claims against him dismissed. The public prosecutor’s office in Paris has today requested Judge Marie-Claire Noiriel ...
Luc Besson may be watching his film empire crumble as a series of sexual assault and harassment claims leveled against the French director leaves EuropaCorp, the mini-major studio he created ...
We've heard word about Lucy 2 before, but thanks to Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, EuropaCorp and Luc Besson are prepping to get the sequel made. Unlike a lot of moviegoers, Valerian ...
Luc Besson, the French filmmaker whose credits include The Professional, The Fifth Element and La Femme Nikita, has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women.
“Dogman” director Luc Besson might be a newcomer to Venice, but following his film’s warm reception on Thursday, he’s likely to come back. Though Besson’s Golden Lion contender polarized ...
With his epic space opera "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets," director Luc Besson is trying to go where no sci-fi has gone before.
An emotional Luc Besson brought his latest film "Dogman" to the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, returning to the limelight two months after France's top appeals court rejected a request to ...
Luc Besson, the onetime A-list director who rose to the top of the box office with his kinetic action films, had his career derailed by rape allegations leveled against him in 2018 by Sand Van Roy ...