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Patrice Ledoux is a French film producer. Filmography. The Big Blue (1988) Nikita (1990) Atlantis (1991) 1, 2, 3, Sun (1993) Léon (1994) The Fifth Element (1997) The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) Just Visiting (2001) J'ai faim !!! (2001) Camping 2 (2010) The Sense of Wonder (2015) References
Patrice Ledoux est un producteur de cinéma français . Biographie. Patrice Ledoux est nommé 1 en 1985 directeur général de Gaumont 2, succédant 3 à ce poste à Daniel Toscan du Plantier 4. Il exercera cette fonction 5 jusqu'en mars 2004 6. Sidonie Dumas le remplace à ce poste.
Patrice Ledoux is known as an Producer and Actor. Some of his work includes Léon: The Professional, The Fifth Element, La Femme Nikita, The Big Blue, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Just Visiting, The Valet, and With Open Arms.
Producer: The Fifth Element. Patrice Ledoux is known for The Fifth Element (1997), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and The Big Blue (1988).
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Léon is an Italian-American hitman (or "cleaner", as he refers to himself) working for a mafioso named "Old Tony" in the Little Italyneighborhood of New York City. One day, Léon meets Mathilda Lando, a lonely twelve-year-old who lives with her dysfunctional family in an apartment down the hall from Léon, and has stopped attending class at her schoo...
Léon: The Professional is to some extent an expansion of an idea in Besson's earlier 1990 film, La Femme Nikita (in some countries Nikita). In La Femme Nikita, Jean Renoplays a similar character named Victor. Besson described Léon as "Now maybe Jean is playing the American cousin of Victor. This time he's more human." While most of the interior foo...
A soundtrack for the film was released in October 1994 by TriStar Music. It was commercially successful in Japan, being certified gold for 100,000 copies shipped in December 1999. 1. "Shape of My Heart" by Sting 2. "The Experience of Love" by Éric Serra 3. "Venus as a Boy" by Björk 4. "I Like Myself" from It's Always Fair Weather
Léon: The Professional was released in France on 14 September 1994. The film was a commercial success, sold 18,662,979 tickets on worldwide . It grossed 26.8 million French francs ($5.1 million) in its opening week in France and was number one for three weeks.In France, it sold 3,623,153 tickets in total.
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 74% based on 66 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Pivoting on the unusual relationship between seasoned hitman and his 12-year-old apprentice—a breakout turn by young Natalie Portman—Luc Besson's Léon is a stylish and oddly affecting thriller." At Metacritic, the film received an average score of 64 out of 100 based on 12 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Mark Salisbury of Em...
Controversy
The film has been critically re-examined in the wake of the "#MeToo" movement (French: #BalanceTonPorc or "expose your pig") after sexual assault allegations were levied against Luc Besson in 2018. Maïwenn, Luc Besson's sixteen year old wife at the time of filming, says the film was inspired by their relationship. She says "When Luc Besson did Léon, the story of a 13-year-old girl in love with an older man, it was very inspired by us"; Besson met Maïwenn when she was 12 and he was 29, and he...
Year-end lists
1. Honorable mention – Betsy Pickle, Knoxville News-Sentinel
In the 2013 book, Poseur: A Memoir of Downtown New York City in the '90s, Marc Spitz wrote that the film is "considered a cult classic". In 2014, Time Out polled several film critics, directors, actors and stunt actors to list their top action films; Léon: The Professional was listed at No. 42.The character Norman Stansfield has since been named as...
Besson wrote a script for a sequel, Mathilda, but filming was delayed until Portman was older. In the script, Mathilda was described as "older" and "more mature", and was working as a cleaner. However, in the meantime, Besson left Gaumont Film Company to start his own movie studio, EuropaCorp. Unhappy at Besson's departure, Gaumont Film Company "ha...
There is an extended version of the film, referred to as "international version", "version longue", or "version intégrale". Containing 25 minutes of additional footage, it is sometimes called the "Director's Cut" but Besson refers to the original version as the Director's Cut and the new version as "The Long Version". According to Besson, this is t...
Léon: The Professional at IMDbLéon: The Professional at AllMovieLéon: The Professional at the TCM Movie DatabaseLéon: The Professional at Box Office MojoPatrice Ledoux (* vor 1975) ist ein französischer Filmproduzent. Patrice Ledoux ist seit Mitte der 1970er Jahre als Filmproduzent tätig. Von 1985 bis 2004 war er Präsident der Filmfirma Gaumont. Danach gründete er seine eigene Firma Pulsar Productions.
May 17, 2022 · According to then-Gaumont head, and The Fifth Element ’s lead producer, Patrice Ledoux, he first optioned the rights to Besson’s wildly colorful sci-fi adventure — or at least the idea for...
