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Ghent actress Charlotte De Bruyne for film shooting in US Charlotte De Bruyne, the Ghent actress who has often worked abroad with the theater company Ontroerend Goed, is currently in California where she has finished shooting an American film by the Italian debut director Valerio Esposito.

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Television series Chicken Town is launching its own game Producer 1St-Day and game developer Fishing Cactus have launched 'Chicken Town', a video game based on the globally sold animated series Chicken Town. The game was created with cross-media support from the VAF/Mediafonds.

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Mike van Diem may want to make a dialect film Director Mike van Diem is thinking of making a film in the Limburgish dialect. The filmmaker stated this in an interview with the Limburg newspapers on Saturday. "I would like to make a film in Limburg, even in the dialect as far as I'm concerned.

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Why are so few Flemish novels made into films? (€) This year alone, four Dutch film adaptations of a book were shown in Flanders. Two of them, Paradise and Ventoux, have just been released. While Flemish film may not have had the same number of book adaptations in the last five years. How did that happen?

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Watching 3D films is good for your brain after all A new British study finds that there are indeed benefits to watching films in 3D. Their reaction speed increased by 11 percent and they reported a 'brain boost' up to 20 minutes after watching the film.

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Russian hospital fined for showing film A psychiatric hospital in Moscow has to pay a fine because young patients were shown The Silence of the Lambs. It is still unclear how high the fine will be.

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This is how Disney recycled animated films | HP/De Tijd In 1937, Walt Disney Animation Studios' Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was released, and Disney has continued to deliver iconic animated films ever since. Generations grew up with the adventures of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Robin Hood.

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Short film about forensic photographer (video) Filmmaker David Beazley portretteerde in een serie van unieke beroepen de forensisch fotograaf Nick Marsh, die al twintig jaar plaatsen delict afstruint op zoek naar bewijs die voor het blote oog onzichtbaar zijn. Reden tot zorg? Of toch wel? Reden tot zorg?

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Morocco bans prostitution film after controversy The feature film Much Loved is not allowed to be shown in Moroccan cinemas. The film by Moroccan-French filmmaker Nabil Ayouch is about prostitution in the North African country. There has been fierce discussion about the film in Morocco in recent weeks.

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Director Sam de Jong: 'Films from the Netherlands are often too safe' A filmmaker who advocates smaller budgets - it is a lonely voice in the Dutch cultural sector. Debutant Sam de Jong found freedom in working with modest budgets and amateur actors. Sam de Jong: 'I actually never dare to say it.

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Studio 100 knocks on the door of Belgian savers Studio 100 is preparing for a capital operation. The entertainment company, known for Bumba, Samson and Gert, K3 and Kabouter Plop, wants to turn to Belgian savers before the summer to raise up to 90 million euros through the issuance of bonds.

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Telenet proposes cast of own TV series From mid-2016, Telenet's Play subscribers can watch Chaussée d'amour, Telenet's first series. It is the very first time that a distributor in Flanders has created a series itself and offered it to its audience.

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