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Telescope award for The Hero and Falko, letters of fire In the annual Telescope collaboration, NPO, CoBO and the Dutch Film Fund have selected the feature films De Held and Falko Letters van Vuur. The Hero is by director Antoinette Beumer, screenwriter Marjolein Beumer and producer Millstreet Films.

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Why Flemish films are not popular in the Netherlands Flemish feature films receive Oscar nominations, good reviews, prizes abroad and attract many visitors in their own country. Yet the Dutch cinema audience does not like them. 'If it was rubbish, you could still make some peace with it.'

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Waiting for August wint International Feature Award Teodora Mihai's documentary feature Waiting for August won the Best International Feature Award last night at Hot Docs, Toronto's renowned international documentary festival (April 24 - May 4). The director accepted the award personally.

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Golden Film for Lucia de B. On Friday, May 2, director Paula van der Oest and actress Ariane Schluter were surprised by Lucia de Berk with a Golden Film for the film LUCIA DE B. The film has attracted more than 100,000 visitors to the cinema since its cinema release on Thursday, April 3.

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'AT&T wants to pay billions for DirecTV' The US pay TV market has been in turmoil lately. In February, the largest US cable companies, Comcast and Time Warner Cable, announced they would merge in a transaction worth $45 billion.

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Planning a new incentive measure The international launch of the Film Production Incentive in combination with the Netherlands Film Commission is scheduled for May 16, 2014 during the Cannes Film Festival.

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Tribeca Film Festival awards montage Ne me quitte pas The documentary Ne me quitte pas by Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden was awarded the prize for Best Editing of a documentary during the leading Tribeca Film Festival (April 16-27).

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Russians are allowed to see 'drug film' Wolf of Wall Street after all Film lovers in the Russian city of Novosibirsk can still enjoy the American film The Wolf of Wall Street. Judge Jelena Pilipenko today overturned the ban imposed by a local court in Siberia, the Ria Novosti news agency reported.

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Flemish film keeps cinema visits going The Flemish film attracted almost 2 million visitors to the cinema last year. That is an increase of 17 percent compared to 2012. With three major Flemish public films, 2013 was an exceptional film year. In Flanders, the number of cinema visitors remained status quo.

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Barco launches an even more intense film experience with three screens This could well be the next cinema revolution after 3D: Escape, a system in which film is projected on not one but three screens. The Belgian company Barco recently introduced this new form of immersive cinema at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas.

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Netflix is getting more expensive The American online video service Netflix continues to attract subscribers, but prices will soon increase due to international expansion and increased competition. This became apparent on Monday during the presentation of the quarterly results.

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Quentin Tarantino herschrijft The Hateful Eight Quentin Tarantino has announced that he will make the western The Hateful Eight, but is at least partially rewriting the script. A few months ago, Tarantino said he had given up on the idea of the western. Tarantino is still pursuing a lawsuit against the website.

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