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hpdetijd • 10 j

Popcorn Time launches Porn Time Porn Time is the new initiative of the semi-illegal streaming service Popcorn Time. The free counterpart of Netflix now promises to offer pornographic material in addition to films and series. Free content, no advertising.

demorgen • 10 j

Digital media MTV buys Dutch app Maybe it's worth its weight in gold: an app that allows television, tablet and telephone to work together seamlessly.

trouw • 10 j

The eighties back on the silver screen Suddenly they hang ominously in the air: the eighties. With titles such as 'Mad Max: Fury Road', 'Jurassic World', 'Poltergeist', 'Terminator Genisys' and 'Star Wars Episode VII', we will inexorably go back in time thirty years through the cinema and television screen.

eye • 10 j

The EYE collection will be shown in various countries this summer In addition to EYE's annual participation in Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, where film history is presented from ever-changing angles, the EYE collection can also be seen this summer in Serbia, Mexico and the United States.

filmkrant • 10 j

Utrecht will have a one-off film festival around the Tour de France In the week prior to the Tour de France, a one-off film festival is organized in Utrecht. The festival program consists of almost forty documentaries, feature films, animated films and short films.

filmkrant • 10 j

IDFA starts "plein cinema" at Pakhuis de Zwijger IDFA is organizing a film outside the warehouse on several evenings this summer. Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam has a program of lectures, workshops and network meetings around technology, politics and economics. IDFA responds to this with its programming.

adformatie • 10 j

Netflix is advertising Orange Is The New Black in a very special way in Paris The online streaming company went big in Paris to promote the third season (available June 12) of the women's prison series Orange Is the New Black. A prison bus, completely in the style of the series, went to Boulevard Haussmann in the French capital yesterday.

movienewz • 10 j

Director Vicente Aranda passed away Spanish director Vicente Aranda died on Tuesday at the age of 88. He died at his own home in Madrid, the Spanish Film Academy announced. Aranda was one of Spain's best-known and most influential filmmakers. From the 1960s he made more than thirty films.

haarlemsdagblad • 10 j

IJmuiden is the setting for the short film Gotta At the beginning of July, IJmuiden will once again be the setting for a Dutch film. A film crew does all the shooting for the short film Gotta in four days. I knew immediately, this is where I was going to shoot my first film.

filmdistributeurs • 10 j

Cinema visits in Germany have declined sharply The negative development of cinema visits among young people in Germany is perhaps one of the reasons why the German cinema chains Cinemaxx, Cinestar, Cineplex, Kinopolis and UCI will collaborate with film distributors in a collective ticket platform.

filmdistributeurs • 10 j

European commissioners unclear about digital film distribution The European Commission's plans to create a digital market continue to concern people. The two commissioners involved in the policy, Günther Oettinger and Andrus Ansip, both recently gave different signals about the course to be followed.

nu • 10 j

Rutger Hauer plays in the film by creator of lightsabers Rutger Hauer will be seen in the major American sci-fi film Black Angel. Director Roger Christian was the set decorator of the first Star Wars film A New Hope from 1977 and as such was responsible for 'inventing' the world-famous lightsabers in the film.

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