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Grid Animation named European Producer of the Year at Cartoon Movie The Flemish animation studio Grid Animation, together with the co-producers of the animated feature film Ooops! Noah is Gone... named European Producer of the Year during the Cartoon Movie Tributes.

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Criticism: 'too light' actress plays Nina Simone in film The poster and trailer of Nina, the biopic about the famous American singer, pianist and activist Nina Simone (1933-2003), to be released at the end of April, has provoked angry reactions from fans and daughter Simone Kelly.

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Matthias Schoenaerts gets a leading role in a film about the Kursk submarine Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts plays a leading role in the film about the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk. The Dane Thomas Vinterberg directs. The shooting of Kursk will start in the autumn, writes the American film site Deadline.

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Koen De Bouw in The Last Tycoon from Amazon Studios Koen De Bouw is currently in Hollywood on the set of the pilot episode of The Last Tycoon for Sony Pictures Television and Amazon Studios, among others. Based on the unfinished last novel by F.

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The Netherlands signs film treaty with Wallonia The Netherlands and the Belgian regions of Wallonia and Brussels concluded a treaty on Thursday that should stimulate the joint production of films and other media productions.

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Filming of Cargo, Gilles Coulier's film debut, started today Today the shoot of 'Cargo' starts, the first feature film by Gilles Coulier. After the success of 'Bevergem', this film is the third project of the production house De Wereldvrede of Gilles Coulier, Gilles De Schryver and Wouter Sap.

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Netflix buys Belgica Netflix announced in Berlin that it has acquired the exclusive SVOD (subscription video on demand) world rights - with the exception of the Benelux, German-speaking Europe and France - for Felix van Groeningen's Belgica.

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Flemish actor Spencer Bogaert makes American film debut in The Solutrean Spencer Bogaert, the young Flemish actor who made his feature film debut in Douglas Boswell's Labyrinthus, has been cast in the American The Solutrean by director Albert Hughes. The shooting of this mega production will start later this month in Vancouver.

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Finally a penis on television The BBC film adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace delivers a new victory in the battle for more dicks on TV. Male nudity on TV just 26 minutes after 9pm: the BBC received hundreds of complaints.

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Lots of Flemish film talent at Berlinale With actress Martha Canga Antonio as one of the 10 European Shooting Stars, films featuring Veerle Baetens and Jan Bijvoet, four participants in the Berlinale Talents initiative and a number of market screenings of Flemish (co)productions during the European Film Market, talent from Flanders is again well represented this year at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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American premiere of Black at SXSW Black, the second film by the director duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, has been invited to SXSW (South By Southwest) in Austin, America. The film will be shown as part of the 'Narrative Spotlight' programme.

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Brother and Problemski Hotel invited to American festival Cinequest Geoffrey Enthoven's latest feature Broer and Problemski Hotel, Manu Riche's feature debut, both have their North American premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival near Silicon Valley, California.

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