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Created his own company Europacorp to produce a new kind of movies, in the same streamline as the Taxi series, or Yamakasi.
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Luc is often called to be the
Steven Spielberg of France.
This because he makes films with a big budget to make even more money. The artistic work isn't that important in those film.
In France this reference is meant in a really negative way.
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Luc only directed ten movies. He thinks that's enough. He started with Le dernier combat in 1983 and ended his career as director with Angel-A in 2005.
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Luc owns his own production company Les Films de Dauphins.
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Luc is mostly known for is work as director, although he only directed 10 movies, but produced over 70 and written over 20.
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Luc wrote and produced the film
Léon - The Professional in 1994, because he liked
Jean Reno's character in
Nikita (1990) so much.
In this movie he discovered
Natalie Portman.
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Luc was first married to
Anne Parillaud and they got a daughter together (Juliette, born 1987).
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Luc produced the most expensive movie in Europe's history in 1997 with a budget of 90 million USD. He also wrote the screenplay, book and directed it by himself. The movie is called
The Fifth Element and features well-known actors like
Bruce Willis,
Gary Oldman, and
Milla Jovovich.
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Luc used to date Maïwenn Le Besco. They had a child together (Shana born 1993).
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Luc is married with Virginie Silla since August 28th 2004 and has two children (Talia, born 2001 and Satine born 2003) with her.
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Luc was married for less than two years with famous actress
Milla Jovovich from December 14th 1997 till June 12th 1999.
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Luc was accused of involuntary manslaughter on June 4th 2002 by Paris state attorney during inquiry of the death of a cameraman in 1999 while filming Taxi 2.
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Luc hates to film outside, so he produces often in fully-enclosed sets with no natural lighting.
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All films Luc makes feature music form
Eric Serra.
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Luc's dream job as child was marine biologist, but an accident at the age of 17 destroyed his plans.
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Luc has four daughters with three different women.
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Luc was president of the jury at Cannes Film Festival in the year 2000.
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Luc refuses to do any interview or audio commentary for DVD releases of his film, because he believes that would destroy some of the fascination a fim has.
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Luc grew up in Greece and former Yugoslavia where is parents worked as diving instructors for Club Med holiday parks.
