Last Hope "Anna": New movie by Luc Besson | Movies | '
Can Luc Besson pull his head out of the noose again? His new action epic "Anna", in which a young KGB agent defends herself martially against all sorts of bad guys, is regarded as the last hope for the ailing director and producer. Besson's film empire, u.a. a production company and a film school, is in serious financial difficulties. His company "EuropaCorp", with which the Frenchman wanted to defy Hollywood, is insolvent. A Paris court recently applied for bankruptcy protection.
Last but not least, the defense of his own person was in the foreground with the 1959 born Luc Besson. Several women accused the director and producer of sexual assault in 2018. Although some investigations have been discontinued in the sequel, other allegations against the French are still in the room today. Besson had always denied being outraged against the women.
Competition with Hollywood: "Valerian"
His penultimate film, the science-fiction opus "Valerian" – The City of the Thousand Planets ", released in cinemas worldwide in 2017, played far less than hoped for." Valerian "is considered the most expensive French film of all, at around 200 million euros Times The story, based on a 50-year-old comic, is a kind of "Star Wars" version in French, but the box office scores for "Valerian" remained modest at home, but also in the major movie markets of the US and USA China.
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Besson's cinema empire then faltered. With a budget of 200 million, such a blockbuster has to spend a lot of money to actually become a sustainable commercial success. Besson was not only a director of the film, but also a producer. Behind "Valerian" stands his production company "EuropaCorp".
With his directing he also celebrated artistic successes
The bustling Besson had founded "EuropaCorp" in the year 2000 and thereby finally made himself the most powerful man in the domestic film industry. Although Besson had begun in the 1980s as a director and with successes such as "In the intoxication of the deep", "Léon – the professional" and "The Fifth Element" considerable success at the box office and also to celebrate the criticism, but finally in his Element of the native Parisian seemed to be only with the establishment of its own production company.
Luc Besson was one of the most successful producers in France
In the late 1990s, the proceeds of successful films such as "Taxi" and "Taken", which then went into series, washed millions into the coffers of Besson's company. The Frenchman worked from now on double-tracked. His directing work rarely reached the great artistic power of bygone days. After all, he was able to celebrate with "Lucy" – with Scarlett Johansson in the lead role – in the US still a great success. Besson was at that time rather a producer of popular mass-produced as an artistically ambitious filmmaker: French cinema on (commercial) eye level with Hollywood to hoist – that seemed to be his goal.
She beats everything short and sweet in "Anna": Sasha Luss
It went well for a while. But he seems to have gotten over the big project "Valerian". Whether "Anna" can save much, seems doubtful. Besson now holds only a good third of the company he once founded. Previously, shares had already been sold, including to Hong Kong. And even if it should continue with "EuropaCorp" despite the great imbalance, Besson's future there is anything but rosy. According to the will of the other co-owners, the Frenchman should not continue to run the business.
"Anna" – based on the example of Besson's last great success "Lucy" – relies on the power of an attractive young woman. The new discovery Sasha Luss is like a mix of James Bond, Rambo and Lara Croft through the action-packed movie. The Frenchman thus commemorates the new female international action cinema. Whether "Anna" can fuel their own career again, the viewers will decide all over the world.
"Anna" starts on June 20, 2019, first in Italy, Turkey and Singapore. US start is on 21.6. In the following weeks the movie will be released worldwide. In Germany, "Anna" comes on July 18, 2019 in the movie theaters.
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