Virginie Besson-Silla Net Worth

Virginie Besson-Silla biography

Virginie Besson-Silla serves as Director of the Company. She spent her childhood traveling between Mali, Senegal, the United States and France. After receiving a degree in business administration from the American University of Paris, she joined the marketing team of the Gaumont-Buena Vista joint venture in 1994. In 1997, she joined Patrice Ledoux, at the time Chief Executive Officer and producer at Gaumont, where she managed the theater release of The Fifth Element and Jeanne d’Arc, both directed by Luc Besson. When Luc Besson founded EuropaCorp in 1999, he offered Virginie the position of production coordinator, which she accepted. She produced her first film a year later: Yamakasi, which was released in April 2001 and had 2.2 million admissions in France. In 2009, Virginie Besson-Silla began production of The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec with Louise Bourgoin and suggested that Luc Besson direct the film. This was the first time the director and producer had worked on a film together in ten years. They collaborated again on The Lady, a biography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, with Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis, and on Malavita (The Family) with Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones and Michelle Pfeiffer, filmed entirely in France. She again teamed up with Luc Besson in 2014 for the science-fiction movie Lucy, with Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman. The movie was a major success earning nearly half a billion dollars at the box office around the world. Virginie Besson-Silla then produced EuropaCorp’s most ambitious project, the science-fiction blockbuster Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Based on the cult comic strip “Valerian and Laureline” by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières, the film follows the adventures of two space-time agents responsible for maintaining order in the universe. The film features Cara Delevingne, Dane DeHaan, Clive Owen, Ethan Hawke and Rihanna. It was released worldwide in the summer of 2017.

What is the salary of Virginie Silla?

As the Director of EuropaCorp, the total compensation of Virginie Silla at EuropaCorp is €654,179. There are 1 executives at EuropaCorp getting paid more, with Luc Besson having the highest compensation of $6,514,770.