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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

November 2017

  • ‘Jawdropping’: War for the Planet of the Apes.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    DVD reviews: War for the Planet of the Apes; 47 Metres Down; Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and more

  • Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

    Luc Besson: acclaimed French director's studio struggles after losses

August 2017

  • Summer film

    Box office massacre: how Hollywood flopped this summer

  • High tide at cinemas … Dunkirk.

    Box office analysis: UK
    Dunkirk still afloat at top of the UK box office as Valerian dodges disaster

  • ‘Two different lifeforms in two different dimensions would have more natural chemistry’: Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne.

    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets review – a sci-fi plot full of black holes

  • Sucker Punch, Jupiter Ascending and Valerian

    Follywood: how Valerian earns its place among film's strangest big-budget flops

  • Five of the best… new films
    The Big Sick and Valerian: this week’s best films in the UK

  • Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets review – Luc Besson's bargain-bin space oddity

  • Luc Besson on turning Rihanna into a 28th-century Cleopatra and being stood up by Prince

  • Film blog
    Sacré bleu! Why Franco-Belgian comic-book movies are more fun than Marvel and DC

July 2017

  • Rihanna, Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in Valerian

    Steve Rose on film
    Valerian: why Luc Besson is the unsung hero of world cinema

    It may be flawed, but his surreal and spectacular new film only adds to the French director’s legacy

June 2017

  • Composite: Film summer preview 2017: It Comes At Night, The Square, Atomic Blonde, Rough Night and Okja

    Summer arts preview 2017
    Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years

    Pop’s great miserablist gets a biopic, Scarlett Johansson has stripper trouble, Charlize Theron explodes into ultraviolence, and Union deserter Colin Farrell shakes up a girls school during the US civil war

May 2017

  • a scene from T2 Trainspotting

    Hollywood and TV put the squeeze on UK's low-budget film-makers

  • rihanna and lupita n'yongo

    A meme come true: Rihanna and Lupita Nyong'o to star in film based on tweet

March 2017

  • Spider-Man

    Film blog
    CinemaCon 2017: five things we learned about the summer's biggest movies

    Spider-Man gets a new suit, Al Gore takes aim at Trump and Stephen King’s killer clown jumps on board the Stranger Things bandwagon

January 2017

  • Can he still cut it with a lightsaber? ... Mark Hamill returns as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode VIII.

    Week in geek
    Sci-fi and superheroes in 2017: can Luke Skywalker save us from Hollywood's bleak year ahead?

    Ridley Scott’s next Alien, new Blade Runner Ryan Gosling and a return of the Jedi are highlights in a year full of dark visions of the future

November 2016

  • Cara Delevingne

    First trailer for Luc Besson's Valerian released

    Cara Delevingne, Dane DeHaan and Ethan Hawke star in time-travelling science fiction film based on French comic strip from the 1960s

July 2016

  • Lockout

    Luc Besson told to pay €450,000 for plagiarism of John Carpenter classic

    Appeal court in Paris rules Nikita director ‘massively borrowed key elements’ of the 1981 film Escape from New York

October 2015

  • Rihanna.

    Rihanna to star in sci-fi movie Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets

    Director Luc Besson says singer will take a big role in her third major film, which will hit cinemas in 2017

July 2015

  • Cara Delevingne in Jake Schreier's Paper Towns.

    Cara Delevingne set to bid farewell to catwalk as critics hail film role

    Supermodel set to become the latest fashion star to establish a successful acting career after her performance in teen drama wins plaudits
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