Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets breaks the record as France's most expensive film
- Luc Besson’s film is the most expensive feature film in the history of French film, with EuropaCorp behind three of the top 10 French films with the biggest budgets of 2016
Made on a budget of €197.47 million according to the 2016 report on French film production published by the CNC (see article), science fiction feature Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets [+see also:
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EuropaCorp takes second place in the Top 10 biggest budget French films of 2016, with another English-language film: French-German action thriller Renegades [+see also:
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In third place is French-Belgian comedy Raid dingue [+see also:
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Fourth place goes to English-language thriller Overdrive [+see also:
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The biopic on Captain Cousteau, The Odyssey [+see also:
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In seventh place is the highly-anticipated Au revoir là-haut by Albert Dupontel, the plot of which takes place after the end of the First World War (see news article – budget: €19.75 million – due to be released in France on 18 October).
The top 10 biggest budget French majority productions of 2016 is completed by another English-language EuropaCorp film (100% French production Mrs Sloane by John Madden – €18.36 million), French-Canadian period drama A Bag of Marbles [+see also:
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