Luc Besson Articles

Zoe Saldana, Colombiana Because of Hurricane Irene, which forced more than 1,000 movie houses to shut down in the Northeast this past weekend, it's hard to tell just how disappointing were the openings of three wide releases in North America: Olivier Megaton's girl-kicks-butt Colombiana, written by Luc Besson and starring Avatar's Zoe Saldana; Troy Nixey's horror thriller Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, written and [...]

Liam Neeson in Pierre Morel's Taken (top); John Travolta, Melissa Mars, Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Morel's From Paris with Love (bottom) French productions and co-productions sold 17.9% fewer tickets abroad in 2010 when compared to 2009, according to uniFrance, which promotes French cinema around the world. French films sold an estimated 57.2m tickets internationally in 2010. Of those, 13m were sold in the United States [...]

Best actress Oscar winner Susan Sarandon (for Dead Man Walking back in 1995) was at the 2009 edition of the Stockholm Film Festival, where she was handed the festival's Lifetime Achievement Award. (Photo: Kalle Mörck.) Among Sarandon's screen credits, which span nearly 40 years, are Atlantic City, Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo's Oil, and The Client. She was nominated for best actress Academy Awards for those [...]

Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos (top); Mo'Nique in Precious (middle); Edgar Flores in Sin Nombre (bottom) In Giorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth, winner of the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival's Bronze Horse for best film, a patriarch (Christos Stergioglou) tries to shield his cloistered wife (Michelle Valley) and two daughters (Aggeliki Papoulia and Mary Tsoni) from the outside world. Apart from selected home video entertainment and Frank Sinatra records [...]