While Besson did not follow through with his plan, he came up with the idea as a means of resisting the temptation to take uninspiring studio jobs. When Quentin Tarantino begins production on his ...

Luc Besson — the French filmmaker behind The Professional, The Fifth Element, and La Femme Nikita — has been cleared of all charges in the alleged rape of actress Sand Van Roy. According to legal ...

Airelle Besson has enjoyed exceptional success in recent years: she has twice been named Best French Musician of the Year by the French Django Reinhardt Award Academy and as Jazz Revelation of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four decades have passed since Luc Besson found fame as an emerging 26-year-old director with thriller Subway starring Isabelle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former casting director wrote to the Public Prosecutor to “relate that of which I was both a witness and a victim,” the ...

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Actress Sand Van Roy is no longer the only Luc Besson accuser, as two more women have come forward to accuse the French filmmaker of harassment. Van Roy said Besson flirted with her on set, but she ...

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 ...

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, an ...

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The judge responsible for overseeing a rape complaint brought against filmmaker Luc Besson today dismissed the case following a lengthy investigation. This follows a request made by the Paris public ...