News about Luc Besson

That's wizard, Harry! As Warner Bros' TEN series about a new TV show about 'the boy who lived,' will be released in Leavesden, Herts, a £2 billion Harry Potter bonanza. Production details for the scheme, which will be based on J. K. Rowling's seven favorite books, have yet to be confirmed. However, this week, reports show that the Potter shows are absolutely intending to be shot in the United Kingdom, with British creative and technical talent front and center. The budget is expected to be about $200 million per series, bringing it into alignment with House Of The Dragon, which is also shot on the Warner Bros lot. The company revealed plans for the series in April last year and said it expects to begin filming later this year or early next year, as long as scripts and casting can be settled quickly.

BRIAN VINER: Woody Allen, 52-year-old Woody Allen, looked sprightly for a man of 87 as he arrived at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. The couple, as well as their two adopted children, strode down the red carpet, pauseping now and then to pose for the paparazzi. For Allen's face, the filmmaker seemed to be a man with the world at his feet, not one dogged by controversy. Allen is certainly a member of a triptych of directors, including Roman Polanski and Luc Besson, of whom some have ordained someone as a non grata at the floating city's annual cinematic shindig. All are presenting latest films, but they have been accused of sexual impropriety at some point in their careers.

Luc Besson, a French filmmaker, has been found not guilty of rape five years after actress Sand Van Roy first accused him of attacking her during their marriage. On Wednesday, France's top appeals court dismissed a bid to reopen a rape case against the film director, ending one of the country's MeToo movement against sexual assault as a result. Sand Van Roy, a Dutch-Belgian actress, accused Besson, the creator of The Fifth Element and Leon, of raping her during a two-year on-off relationship, filing a lawsuit against him in May 2018.