EuropaCorp

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EuropaCorp
Type Public Limited Company
Industry Films
Founded 2000
Headquarters Paris, France
Key people Luc Besson
Pierre-Ange Le Pogam
Products Motion Pictures
Revenue €128.5 million (2009)
Parent Frontline
Divisions Roissy Films
Website europacorp-corporate.com

EuropaCorp is a French movie studio headquartered in Paris. It has been a listed company on Euronext Paris since July 2007. Co-founded by Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, the Group takes on a range of production activities like film distribution in France, DVD distribution, sales of French TV rights, and producing advertisements.

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[edit] Company's organization

[edit] History

Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam worked together for the first time in 1985, on the movie Subway, directed by Luc Besson. Pierre-Ange le Pogam was then Distribution Director at Gaumont. Subsequently, virtually all the films that Luc Besson made with Gaumont between 1985 and 1999 topped the three-million ticket mark at the box office (e.g. The Big Blue, Nikita, Léon, The Fifth Element and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc). Meanwhile, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam developed innovative promotional techniques at Gaumont which he applied for the first time in Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element. This film is France’s biggest export success of all time.

In 1997 Pierre-Ange Le Pogam became Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Gaumont.
In September 2000 the two friends created EuropaCorp.
In July 2007, EuropaCorp successfully managed its IPO on Euronext Paris.
In May 2008, the CSA, French authority for media regulation, has selected "EuropaCorp TV" project in its invitation to apply for a mobile TV channel in France.

[edit] Structure

Today EuropaCorp is owned at 62% by Luc Besson through its company Frontline and at 8.06% by Pierre-Ange Le Pogam; 23% is public.[1]

Luc Besson is the Chairman of EuropaCorp's Board of Directors.
Jean-Julien Baronnet has been the Chief Executive Officer of EuropaCorp since November 2008.

Digital Factory[2] is related to EuropaCorp via Luc Besson. Regarding EuropaCorp films, post-production of sound is mainly being carried out in its Normandy site while the image editing is being proceeded in Paris.

[edit] International dimension

EuropaCorp has notably produced the world box-office hits Taken ($224 million at world box-office), Arthur and the Invisibles ($107 million), Transporter 3 ($106 million) and Hitman ($100 million).

Two EuropaCorp productions have been topping the US box-office: Transporter 2 by summer 2002 and Taken at spring 2009.

Several internationally renowned talents have taken part in EuropaCorp films: Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Penélope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Tommy Lee Jones, John Malkovich, Jason Statham, David Duchovny, Brittany Murphy, Liam Neeson, Madonna, Robert De Niro, Lou Reed, Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor... 1/3 of the films produced by EuropaCorp are shot in English.

EuropaCorp Japan, a subsidiary of EuropaCorp settled in Tokyo, has for core business the distribution of feature films in Japan. It is a joint-venture with 3 Japanese companies: Asmik Ace, Sumitomo Corporation and Kadokawa.

[edit] "Cité du Cinéma", French movie studios

EuropaCorp will join the «Cité du Cinéma» due to open in 2012. This movie studio complex, located in Saint-Denis in the close suburbs of Paris, will comprise a total of 9 film stages, each of which is between 600 and 2,200 m² (6,458 sf and 23,681 sf), as well as more than 51,000 m² (548,960 sf) of offices and workshops, making the “Cité du Cinéma” the biggest movie studio in Europe.

The cinema school « Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière » will also become established in the area.

EuropaCorp has signed a lease with the Nef Lumière, owner of the tertiary complex, to have at its disposal the space to assemble in one place the Europacorp permanent staff and the film crews, with extra space for any potential new activities. This tertiary complex is financed by both the Caisse des Dépôt and Vinci.

EuropaCorp is a minority shareholder in the company operating the studios, joining Euro Media Group, Quinta Communications and Frontline. The Euro Media Group, which owns several film studios throughout Europe, will contribute its expertise in the management and day-to-day running of these Studios of Paris.

[edit] Films

French theater releases

[edit] 2000

[edit] 2001

[edit] 2002

[edit] 2003

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2005

[edit] 2006

[edit] 2007

[edit] 2008

[edit] 2009

[edit] 2010

[edit] Upcoming Releases

Pierre-Ange Le Pogam next to French director Michel Gondry at the French premiere of Be Kind, Rewind distributed by EuropaCorp (March 3, 2008)

[edit] Awards and nominations

  • 2009: Taken, directed by Pierre Morel, was nominated at the Teen Choice Award for the Action Adventure Movie Award. The movie and its soundtrack composer Nathaniel Mechaly in particular, won the BMI Film Music Award.
  • 2009: Human Zoo, directed by Rie Rasmussen was competing at the 59th Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section, as well as at the Copenhagen Festival and at the Rio de Janeiro Festival.
  • 2007: Hitman, directed by Xavier Gens won the Golden Trailer Award 2008 for Best Motion/Title Graphics.
  • 2007: Arthur and the Invisibles, directed by Luc Besson won the NRJ Ciné Award 2007 for Best Dubbing; the film was also nominated at the Young Artist Award for Best International Family Feature Film and Best Performance in an International Feature Film - Leading Young Actor with Freddie Highmore.
  • 2006: The Chinese Botanist's Daughters, directed by Dai Sijie won in 2006 the Best Artistic Contribution and People’s Choice Awards at the Montreal World Film Festival, and was nominated for the «Grand Prix des Amériques». The film also won the Best Canadian Film or Video Award at the Toronto Inside Out Lesbian and gay Film and Video Festival in 2007.
  • 2005: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, by Tommy Lee Jones was nominated for the Palme d'Or, and Tommy Lee Jones won the Best Actor Award while Guillermo Arriaga won the Best Script Award. The movie was given a place of honor at the Satellite Awards 2005 and the Independent Spirit Awards 2005. It also won the “Grand Prix” at the Flanders International Film Festival and the Bronze Wrangler at the Western Heritage Awards.

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Corporate website Shareholders section
  2. ^ Digital Factory website (fr)
France CAC Small companies of France (18 October 2011)
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