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thetopofmusic • 13 j

Dance performance live in the cinema For the first time, Kinepolis brings live dance performances from the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) directly to the big screen in seven cities. The Nederlands Dans Theater has an excellent reputation worldwide.

trouw • 13 j

65th Cannes Film Festival starts The 65th Cannes Film Festival started on Wednesday evening with the screening of the film Moonrise Kingdom by American director Wes Anderson.

standaard • 13 j

The Bullying of 'Pirate Pay' A Russian company called Pirate Pay has developed software that disrupts bittorrent file sharing. Pirate Pay has already offered its services to Walt Disney and Sony Pictures in recent months. Bullying like Pirate Pay is not the solution.

nu.nl • 13 j

Bruce Willis and Bill Murray open Cannes Major Hollywood stars battle for media attention on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday evening.

nu.nl • 13 j

American film opens Cannes Film Festival The 65th Cannes Film Festival starts on Wednesday evening with the screening of the film Moonrise Kingdom by American director Wes Anderson. Moonrise Kingdom is one of 22 films selected for the competition for the Palme d'Or.

ddg • 13 j

Nomination film KAUWBOY Best European Youth Film The Dutch feature film KAUWBOY by Boudewijn Koole is one of three films eligible for the European Film Academy's Young Audience Award. BLUE BIRD by Gust Van Den Berghe (Belgium) and SISTER by Ursula Meier (France/Switzerland) are the other two.

demorgen • 13 j

"BBC is outdated, despondent, non-business and Europhile" Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, has strongly criticized the British broadcaster BBC. He did this in a piece in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph. Above all, the conservative Johnson criticizes the broadcaster's left-wing profile.

nu.nl • 13 j

Outrage about 'sexist' Cannes film programme A number of female filmmakers find it ridiculous that the battle for the Palme d'Or this year is between exclusively male directors. The women complained on Saturday in the French newspaper Le Monde.

nbf • 13 j

LEV Pictures merges with CTM Films Film producer LEV Pictures merges with CTM Films. The two film production companies will immediately continue together under the name CTM LEV Pictures.

volkskrant • 13 j

Flemish public broadcaster overhauled Major changes for the Flemish public broadcaster. Since May 1, it no longer broadcasts on two but on three channels. In addition, the second network, Canvas, will radically change its programming from 2 p.m. this afternoon.

nu.nl • 13 j

Restored James Bond films at Cannes Five digitally restored James Bond films will be shown during the Cannes Film Festival. These are the films Dr No, From Russia with Love, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds are Forever and Casino Royale with Daniel Craig.

filmtotaal • 13 j

Director Cannes winner Gomorra paid "pizzo" to mafia In 2008, Italy's Gomorrah won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and five European Film Awards and subsequently received enormous attention worldwide.

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