Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Luc Besson Still Wants to Make a ‘Valerian’ Sequel
Luc Besson Still Wants to Make a ‘Valerian’ Sequel
Luc Besson Still Wants to Make a ‘Valerian’ Sequel
Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, his passion project that he’d been wanting to make since before The Fifth Element, didn’t do so well in theaters. Did you see it? Probably not. And if you did, you’re in a depressingly small minority of people who saw perhaps the one movie of the year that makes a case for seeing big-budget sci-fi blockbusters entirely in IMAX 3-D.
Weekend Box Office Report: ‘Dunkirk’ Wins the Weekend
Weekend Box Office Report: ‘Dunkirk’ Wins the Weekend
Weekend Box Office Report: ‘Dunkirk’ Wins the Weekend
What did you see this weekend? Was it the dour World War II epic? The raunchy New Orleans sex comedy? Or the movie where Cara Delevingne shoves her head into a telepathic jellyfish’s butt? Truly, with options like this, anyone who complains about the death of cinema has no idea what they’re talking about. Anyways, here’s the box office numbers through Sunday afternoon:
‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ Review: Luc Besson at His Most Imaginative
‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ Review: Luc Besson at His Most Imaginative
‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ Review: Luc Besson at His Most Imaginative
No movie this summer will leave your jaw on the floor and your eyeballs as wide as saucers like Luc Besson’s latest will. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the latest from the French filmmaker, is a dazzling feast of spectacular visuals and exhilarating set pieces. It’s the most original big-budget adventure you’ll see on screen this season and Besson at his most ambitious. But such ambition doesn’t always come without its flaws.
You Can See the Opening Scene of ‘Valerian’ Before ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
You Can See the Opening Scene of ‘Valerian’ Before ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
You Can See the Opening Scene of ‘Valerian’ Before ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
It’s finally July, and more importantly, the month in which Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets comes out. The most generously-budgeted indie film to ever come out of Europe, with control in the grip of confirmed madman Luc Besson, it’s bound to be a spectacle of one sort or another. (Though it’s all but doomed to be crushed at the box office by Dunkirk, which arrives the same day.) And in an attempt to drum up some more excitement for the upcoming unveiling, distributor STX has set up a preview that audiences can’t help but attend.
Space Is More Eye-Popping Than Ever in the Latest ‘Valerian’ TV Spot
Space Is More Eye-Popping Than Ever in the Latest ‘Valerian’ TV Spot
Space Is More Eye-Popping Than Ever in the Latest ‘Valerian’ TV Spot
Everything’s gone haywire this summer at the box office. Big studio-fronted franchise movies are faceplanting, creator-driven products without brand-name stars are raking it in, nobody knows which way is up, and it’s only the second week of June. As with every other facet of life in 2017, it appears that anything goes at multiplexes nowadays, so hey, who’s to say that Luc Besson’s bananas-looking Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets won’t be a smash? The trailers have promised something between the colossal fantasia of The Fifth Element and the CGI wonderland of Jupiter Ascending, and I, for one, am here for it.