VIDEO : 'Valerian's' Unique Funding

The release of Luc Besson's sci-fi thriller, "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets," is just around the corner. The film already faces a general positive word of mouth from early critical reviews, and it's unlikely that the movie will be a commercial bomb since it was funded by full-equity financing. unlike other film's of this scale, Besson followed the route of movies like "La La Land" and "Moonlight", which found investors to support the project regardless of future box offie performance. Typically, this practice is used for smaller indie films, like "Nocturnal Animals," that have far less of a budget than Valerian?s reported $209.68 million.