Europe: EuropaCorp, Telecinco pics top in France, Spain -- Luc Besson's EuropaCorp and Spain's Telecinco Cinema, two of the most powerful production houses in Europe, are on a B.O. high.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters Life!) - French film director Luc Besson, known worldwide for blockbusters like "The Big Blue" and "The Fifth Element," says his movies face the toughest criticism at home where they are seen as not quite "French enough." The spiky-haired director told Reuters on Friday that he had sometimes struggled with skepticism and narrowmindedness when trying to find support for his film projects in France. "Every time I try to make a film, the first reaction I have from the French... Read Full Story
Since his career resurrection in 1994, John Travolta’s hits have dried up a great deal. He’s still A-list, but he’s coasting on past successes. Could Luc Besson and Pierre Morel be providing him with a new hit? From Paris With Love , judging from the excellent trailer, looks set to give Travolta a needed boost. Even the poster looks great!
Travolta (with shaved head and goatee) teams up with Jonathan Rhys Meyers for an action-comedy in which two CIA operatives cause destruction and... Read Full Story
Crave Online has two exclusive posters from Pierre Morel’s follow-up film to the hit Taken . The film is called From Paris With Love . The action comedy comes from a story by famed Director Luc Besson.
A low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent (John Travolta) who’s been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist... Read Full Story
by Larson Hill Now that 2008 is winding down to a close with just over two months of movie goodness left to go at the box-office, we can look ahead to see a new crop of theatrical releases on the 2009 horizon. In fact, from what we can tell, 2009 is looking like an awesome year at the movies. If all goes well, moviegoers will see the holy grail of comic books come to life on the big screen, the return of James Cameron, a healthy balance of fantasy and sci-fi, and another Terminator movie... Read Full Story
Producer Luc Besson and Director Pierre Morel, who previously worked together on Taken , team up again on a new action movie From Paris With Love , which is based on a script co-written by Besson. The film is starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers . I’d like to give a green card to Besson and Morel right away: they make movies the American way! And they hire great talents from Hollywood for their movies.
The movie From Paris With Love should be released in 2009 .
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Check out John Travolta's crazy, bald head. Is Jonathan Rhys-Meyers a Parisian cop? If so, why's he speaking English in an American accent (and what's with that silly pencil-thin mustache)? Obviously Travolta plays an American, but is he a cop? An impostor-cop? Why would an American cop have a rocket launcher in France? Ah, wait a second... ComingSoon.net has a brief logline for the film: The thriller "From Paris With Love" concerns a young embassy worker and an American secret agent who... Read Full Story
Above is John Travolta on the set of his new movie, From Paris with Love. The film, co-written by Luc Besson and Adi Hasak, stars Travolta as an American spy, while Jonathan Rhys Meyers co-stars as an embassy employee. Travolta doesn’t look too bad with a bald noggin, and now I’ve got visions of the actor teaming up with Bruce Willis for a baldie buddy cop film.
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Written by Adrian Twist - In what is a modern retelling of the Hollywood legend of Lana Turner being discovered at Schwab's on Hollywood & Vine, Natalya Rudakova , the femme fatale in the upcoming Transporter 3 with Jason Statham , was discovered on the street going to work at a hair salon in New York by the film's writer Luc Besson . Besson is no stranger to Russian beauties - He was once married to the then 22-year-old Milla Jovovich . Of his new (presumably) Russian find, he says: "She... Read Full Story
As writer and producer of the Transporter films, Luc Besson has a quite a task. He has to create outrageous action sequences, and then get them done on a budget. Plus, he has to deal with a star who wants to risk life and limb doing it all himself.
“Stop doesn’t come from him,” Besson said. “The stop comes from us, where we say, ‘No, you’re not going to do this. All right, it’s a double who’s going to do it.’ And then he’s screaming, fighting, ‘Come on, let me do it, I can do it... Read Full Story
