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Luc Besson’s ‘Dogman’ Kicks Off 2024 Transylvanian Film Festival

The 23rd edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival, kicked off Friday night with a sold-out screening of Dogman, the canine-focused revenge thriller by the French veteran Luc Besson, with Dogman co-star Jojo T. Gibbs in attendance. Some 3,500 viewers backed Unirii Square in Cluj-Napoca for the start of the 11-day festival, which runs through […]

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Caleb Landry Jones to Re-Team With Luc Besson on Dracula Origin Story

Luc Besson has found his next project with a Dracula origin story, teaming with Caleb Landry-Jones, who starred in his last film, Dogman, and Christoph Waltz. The big-budgeted film will be a retelling of Bram Stoker’s classic Gothic tale with Landry-Jones set to play the Transylvania Count-turned0vampire. Many directors have done their take on the […]

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Luc Besson’s ‘Dogman’ Lands March 2024 Release Date in U.S. Theaters

Writer-director Luc Besson’s Dogman will arrive in U.S. cinemas this spring, Briarcliff Entertainment announced Tuesday. The dark thriller, starring Caleb Landry Jones, will open in select cinemas on March 15 and then expands on March 22. Dogman is the embattled filmmaker’s first movie to arrive in theaters after he was cleared of rape charges by […]

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Venice: Caleb Landry Jones, Luc Besson Talk Casting 70 Canines for ‘Dogman’

Luc Besson faced the media in Venice ahead of the world premiere of his latest feature Dogman, taking the stage together with the film’s stars Caleb Landry Jones and Jojo T. Gibbs. His new film, which sold widely internationally ahead of its Venice debut, is being closely watched by Besson fans as a possible return […]

Dogman Venice Film Festival Competition

How Should the Media Cover Venice’s Problematic Men?

The first issue is the headline. As a culture journalist reporting the news of the 80th Venice Film Festival, should you lead with this year’s impressive list of directors, including Sofia Coppola, Ava DuVernay, David Fincher, Bradley Cooper and Yorgos Lanthimos, and stars — Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Penélope Cruz, Adam Driver, Mads Mikkelsen — […]

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Luc Besson Cleared of Rape Allegations by French Court

France’s highest appeals court, the court of cassation, on Wednesday dismissed rape accusations leveled at director and producer Luc Besson (Lucy, The Fifth Element) by Belgian-Dutch actress Sand Van Roy. The Paris court rejected an appeal lodged by Von Roy after her initial claimant alleging she had been sexually assaulted by Besson was dismissed in […]

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Maiwenn, Director of Johnny Depp’s Cannes Opener ‘Jeanne du Barry,’ Accused of Assaulting Journalist

Maïwenn, the French actress and director whose latest feature, Jeanne du Barry, starring Johnny Depp, will open this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is being sued by a French journalist for assault. Edwy Plenel, the editor-in-chief of Mediapart, an online investigative newspaper, filed a complaint with French police claiming Maïwenn assaulted him on Feb. 22 while […]

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