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Luc Besson inaugurates Europe’s biggest film studios

Europacorp's don dada put his money where his mouth is--this is big

Europe now may just be on equal footing with Hollywood in terms of sound-stage real estate thanks to Luc Besson ("Fifth Element," “Taken,” “Nikita”). The French filmmaker’s twelve-year-in-the-making dream of a movie studio has materialized with the official inauguration last night of the Cité du Cinéma (City of Cinema) in the northern Paris suburb of Saint Denis. Visibly moved, the director drove ... more >