Creator / EuropaCorp

EuropaCorp S.A. is a French film company founded by director and writer Luc Besson in 1992 (as Leeloo Productions, rebranded EuropaCorp in 1999), and headed by him until 2020.

It is headquartered in Saint-Denis (a suburb North of Paris), and is one of a few full service independent studios that both produces and distributes feature films in France, and also one of very few French film company to have an international reach (it has even produced more English-language films than French-language films over time). 80 films have been produced by the company, 11 of them directed by Besson (who also wrote about 16 of said productions that he did not direct).

Since 2018, the company is facing difficult times following the financial failure of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and sexual misconduct accusations towards Luc Besson (which were dismissed in court). It was bought out in 2020 by Vine Alternative Investments and Besson is not a majority owner anymore, only retaining creative control on the future films for five years.

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Noteworthy people who have worked in EuropaCorp productions:

• Luc Besson (founder, producer, director, writer)
• Franck Gastambide (director, writer, actor)
• Xavier Gens (director)
• Gérard Krawczyk (director)
• Louis Leterrier (director)
• Olivier Megaton (director)
• Pierre Morel (director)
• Chris Nahon (director)
• Vincent Perez (director, actor)
• Gérard Pirès (director)
• Éric Serra (composer)
• Yamakasi (stuntmen group, codifiers and namers of Le Parkour)

Films produced and/or distributed by EuropaCorp include:

Luc Besson-directed Films:

• The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
• Angel-A
• Arthur and the Invisibles trilogy
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
• The Lady
• Malavita
• Lucy
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
• Anna
• Dogman

Other Live-Action Films:

• 22 Bullets
• Adam's Apples (distribution only)
• Bandidas
• Be Kind Rewind (distribution only)
• Blanche
• Colombiana
• The Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
• Danny the Dog
• Dikkenek
• District 13
  • District 13: Ultimatum
• Brick Mansions (remake of District 13)
• Fanfan la Tulipe
• From Paris with Love
• Frontier(s) (distribution only)
• High Tension
• Hitman
• I Love You Phillip Morris
• Kiss of the Dragon
• Lockout
• Love and Other Disasters
• Miss Sloane (distribution only)
• Nine Lives (distribution only)
• Revolver (2005)
• Taken
  • Taken 2
  • Taken 3
• Taxi
  • Taxi 2
  • Taxi 3
  • Taxi 4
  • Taxi 5
• Taxi (Foreign Remake of the above)
• Tell No One
• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
• Three Days To Kill
• The Transporter and its sequels
• Wasabi
• Yamakasi

Animation:

Films:

• Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
• A Monster in Paris

Series:

• Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline

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