Picture: Netflix
Will (also referred to as Wil) has been picked up by Netflix and is set to be released globally on January 31st, 2024. Set in Antwerp, Belgium, the new WWII movie tells the story of an auxiliary policeman working during the Nazi occupation. Here’s what you need to know about the movie, plus some first looks and a clip from the movie.
The movie was first announced to be coming to Netflix via the New on Netflix newsletter for January 2024, including the title with its original name of Wil, which has since been replaced to have two Ls in the Netflix Ui.
Based on the novel by Jeroen Olyslaegers, the movie first saw a limited theatrical release in September 2023 but has been scooped up by Netflix, where it’ll debut as a Netflix Original at the end of January 2024. Per Netflix, here’s the official logline for Will...
Will (also referred to as Wil) has been picked up by Netflix and is set to be released globally on January 31st, 2024. Set in Antwerp, Belgium, the new WWII movie tells the story of an auxiliary policeman working during the Nazi occupation. Here’s what you need to know about the movie, plus some first looks and a clip from the movie.
The movie was first announced to be coming to Netflix via the New on Netflix newsletter for January 2024, including the title with its original name of Wil, which has since been replaced to have two Ls in the Netflix Ui.
Based on the novel by Jeroen Olyslaegers, the movie first saw a limited theatrical release in September 2023 but has been scooped up by Netflix, where it’ll debut as a Netflix Original at the end of January 2024. Per Netflix, here’s the official logline for Will...
- 1/3/2024
- by Kasey Moore
- Whats-on-Netflix
Wil
A television director for about a decade (including episodes for Peaky Blinders), Tim Mielants got into features with 2019’s Patrick (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival) followed by 2021’s Nobody Has to Know (a non-solo which had its world preem at TIFF). Production on the ambitious WWII drama Wil took place in May of last year in Liege and Poland featuring Stef Aerts, Matteo Simoni, Annelore Crollet, Kevin Janssens, Dirk Roofthooft, Dimitrij Schaad and Pierre Bokma. Producers include Hans Everaert, Guy Goedgezelschap, Tomas Leyers and Jan Segers.
Gist: Based on the bestselling novel by Jeroen Olyslaegers and written by Carl Joos, Wilfried Wils is an auxiliary policeman in Antwerp at the start of the Second World War.…...
A television director for about a decade (including episodes for Peaky Blinders), Tim Mielants got into features with 2019’s Patrick (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival) followed by 2021’s Nobody Has to Know (a non-solo which had its world preem at TIFF). Production on the ambitious WWII drama Wil took place in May of last year in Liege and Poland featuring Stef Aerts, Matteo Simoni, Annelore Crollet, Kevin Janssens, Dirk Roofthooft, Dimitrij Schaad and Pierre Bokma. Producers include Hans Everaert, Guy Goedgezelschap, Tomas Leyers and Jan Segers.
Gist: Based on the bestselling novel by Jeroen Olyslaegers and written by Carl Joos, Wilfried Wils is an auxiliary policeman in Antwerp at the start of the Second World War.…...
- 1/9/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Van Groeningen: "What inspired me was, why do people go out? What is attractive about nightlife? What sensations do you have, how does music play with people? How does it get people extremely excited and make people want to jump and scream?" Felix van Groeningen's Belgica was one of the Day One films at this year's Sundance Film Festival, where it competed in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. It recounts the story of two brothers, Jo (Stef Aerts) and Frank (Tom Vermeir) who take on shared ownership of the titular bar. Their success with customers brings with it personal problems, as Frank begins to enjoy the hedonistic lifestyle a bit too much, causing tensions with his wife Isabelle (Charlotte Vandermeersch), while Jo's relationship with his girlfriend Marieke (Helene De Vos) also hits the rocks.
Music played a key part in Van Groenigen's previous film, the Oscar-nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown,...
Music played a key part in Van Groenigen's previous film, the Oscar-nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown,...
- 2/5/2016
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Writer/director Felix van Groeningen based Belgica’s script on his father’s experiences running a nightclub in Ghent. How closely the story hews to the real events is anyone’s guess, though the boilerplate “though inspired by true events, all persons depicted are fictitious” title card which opens the film suggests that it might hit too close to home for more than a few real-life people. There are no bad guys in the movie, but no one comes off particularly well, either. A pair of brothers’ effort to build a successful disco pulls both of them into a draining swill of drugs and greed. That trajectory, and how the film goes through it, is disappointingly cliched — although maybe in this case, life was imitating (bland) art, and van Groeningen is just telling it as he saw it as a child.
The two brothers in question are Jo (Stef Aerts...
The two brothers in question are Jo (Stef Aerts...
- 1/22/2016
- by Daniel Schindel
- The Film Stage
"Blending raw emotion with a rowdy musical sensibility," begins Variety's Peter Debruge, "Belgica doubles down on the qualities that made director Felix van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown such an international sensation, but loses the hook, resulting in a louder, rock-drenched melodrama lacking much of the earlier film’s gut-punch potential." Belgica, starring Stef Aerts and Tom Vermeir and featuring a pumping soundtrack by Soulwax, has opened the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance. We've got the trailer and we're gathering a first round of reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 1/22/2016
- Keyframe
"Blending raw emotion with a rowdy musical sensibility," begins Variety's Peter Debruge, "Belgica doubles down on the qualities that made director Felix van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown such an international sensation, but loses the hook, resulting in a louder, rock-drenched melodrama lacking much of the earlier film’s gut-punch potential." Belgica, starring Stef Aerts and Tom Vermeir and featuring a pumping soundtrack by Soulwax, has opened the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance. We've got the trailer and we're gathering a first round of reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 1/22/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Behind the joyful nihilism of messy nights out and a great Soulwax soundtrack, Felix van Groeningen’s Sundance-premiered drama is an accurate portrayal of all those ‘wtf’ moments
Felix van Groeningen’s Belgica is essentially a tale of two brothers who don’t know when the party is over. There’s Jo (Stef Aerts) the self-effacing, quietly confident bar manager, and his older brother Frank (Tom Vermeir), who’s reminiscent of an over-excited character from a Eugene O’Neill play: a middle-aged white man who is constantly banging on about pipe dreams and drinking far too much booze.
Frank’s bored of his home life, which consists of working at a used car lot and helping his wife out at the kennels, and wants some ‘rock’n’roll’ in his life. He decides Jo’s bar is the place to find that and, even though he can’t pour a pint,...
Felix van Groeningen’s Belgica is essentially a tale of two brothers who don’t know when the party is over. There’s Jo (Stef Aerts) the self-effacing, quietly confident bar manager, and his older brother Frank (Tom Vermeir), who’s reminiscent of an over-excited character from a Eugene O’Neill play: a middle-aged white man who is constantly banging on about pipe dreams and drinking far too much booze.
Frank’s bored of his home life, which consists of working at a used car lot and helping his wife out at the kennels, and wants some ‘rock’n’roll’ in his life. He decides Jo’s bar is the place to find that and, even though he can’t pour a pint,...
- 1/22/2016
- by Lanre Bakare
- The Guardian - Film News
Follow all of our Sundance 2016 coverage. Director Felix van Groeningen is no stranger to films about people whose closeness becomes a liability when conflict begins to drive them apart. His 2012 film, the Academy Award-nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown, focused on a married couple who found their pure and tangible love for each other unable to withstand the pressure of a sick child. His latest complicates things further by making his protagonists bonded by blood not choice. Jo (Stef Aerts) has faced his share of troubles including a right eye that he hasn’t been able to open since a childhood illness damaged it beyond repair, but he’s found a comfortable routine running a small, nondescript club called Cafe Belgica. His older brother, Frank (Tom Vermeir), is married with a young son, but his fear of complacency and growing stale in middle age leads him to suggest a partnership with Jo and ultimately, an...
- 1/22/2016
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Bar None: Van Groeningen Returns to Musical Inclinations for Vibrant Sibling Portrait
Belgian auteur Felix Van Groeningen, the front runner of the Belgian New Wave, returns with his fifth feature, Belgica, a portrait of two estranged brothers reuniting to open a successful night club, an experience forcing them to reexamine both their shortcomings and sometimes toxic enabling of each other’s worst tendencies. The film follows a career high for Van Groeningen, who scored an international breakout with 2013’s The Broken Circle Breakdown, another musically inclined drama which netted him an Oscar nod for Best Foreign Language Film. Though his latest still includes unpredictable emotional highs and lows within a familiar set of family and friends, his latest is more sobering by comparison. With a killer soundtrack this is a well-proportioned character piece for its two leads, requiring a bit of patience for the film’s rather lofty running time...
Belgian auteur Felix Van Groeningen, the front runner of the Belgian New Wave, returns with his fifth feature, Belgica, a portrait of two estranged brothers reuniting to open a successful night club, an experience forcing them to reexamine both their shortcomings and sometimes toxic enabling of each other’s worst tendencies. The film follows a career high for Van Groeningen, who scored an international breakout with 2013’s The Broken Circle Breakdown, another musically inclined drama which netted him an Oscar nod for Best Foreign Language Film. Though his latest still includes unpredictable emotional highs and lows within a familiar set of family and friends, his latest is more sobering by comparison. With a killer soundtrack this is a well-proportioned character piece for its two leads, requiring a bit of patience for the film’s rather lofty running time...
- 1/22/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Belgica
Director: Felix van Groeningen
Writers: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens
Belgian director Felix van Groeningen has received numerous critical applause over the past decade, beginning with his 2004 debut Steve+Sky. 2009’s The Misfortunates received an award out of the Directors’ Fortnight, while he received considerable international success with 2012’s The Broken Circle Breakdown, which picked up awards at Berlin, Tribeca and nabbed a Cesar for Best Foreign Language Film. He’s been working on his fifth title, Belgica, since 2014, a story about two brothers who open a bar in Belgium and get swept up in the city’s nightlife.
Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Stefaan De Winter, Charlotte Vandermeersch
Production Co./Producers: Menuet’s Dirk Impens, Pyramide Productions, Topkapi Films
U.S. Distributor: Rights available Tbd (domestic/international).
Release Date: Belgica will be competing in the World Dramatic category in January at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
Director: Felix van Groeningen
Writers: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens
Belgian director Felix van Groeningen has received numerous critical applause over the past decade, beginning with his 2004 debut Steve+Sky. 2009’s The Misfortunates received an award out of the Directors’ Fortnight, while he received considerable international success with 2012’s The Broken Circle Breakdown, which picked up awards at Berlin, Tribeca and nabbed a Cesar for Best Foreign Language Film. He’s been working on his fifth title, Belgica, since 2014, a story about two brothers who open a bar in Belgium and get swept up in the city’s nightlife.
Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Stefaan De Winter, Charlotte Vandermeersch
Production Co./Producers: Menuet’s Dirk Impens, Pyramide Productions, Topkapi Films
U.S. Distributor: Rights available Tbd (domestic/international).
Release Date: Belgica will be competing in the World Dramatic category in January at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
- 1/8/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Kate Plays ChristineThe lineup for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, taking place between January 21 -31, has been announced.U.S. Dramatic COMPETITIONAs You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, USA): As You Are is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation. Cast: Owen Campbell, Charlie Heaton, Amandla Stenberg, John Scurti, Scott Cohen, Mary Stuart Masterson. World Premiere The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, USA): Set against the antebellum South, this story follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. After witnessing countless atrocities against fellow slaves, Nat devises a plan to lead his people to freedom. Cast: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Jackie Earle Haley, Gabrielle Union, Mark Boone Jr. World PremiereChristine (Antonio Campos,...
- 12/7/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The Sundance Film institute has released the line-up of film for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Going to Sundance is one of my favorite events of the year. I love going because you never know what kind of movies you're going to see. Sometimes they are great films that amaze and entertain, other times they completely suck ass, but that's all part of the fun of going to the festival. It's an awesome experience for any hardcore movie geek, and if you ever get a chance to go, you need to.
The event takes place in Park City, Utah next year from January 21st to the 31st. It looks like there's a great line-up of movies at next year's event. My favorite portion of the event is the Midnight section because it deals more with geeky genre type movies, but I also enjoy the various sections of other line-ups.
Some of...
The event takes place in Park City, Utah next year from January 21st to the 31st. It looks like there's a great line-up of movies at next year's event. My favorite portion of the event is the Midnight section because it deals more with geeky genre type movies, but I also enjoy the various sections of other line-ups.
Some of...
- 12/6/2015
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
In last year’s section which included Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan and Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick, it was John Maclean’s debut Slow West claimed the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Alanté Kavaïté’s The Summer of Sangailé landed the Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic, Umrika was the audience’s won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic. In this year’s dozen offerings we have names we normally associate with Cannes in The Misfortunates‘ Felix van Groeningen (Belgica), The Other Side of Sleep‘s Rebecca Daly (Mammal – see pic above) and A Stray Girlfriend‘s Ana Katz (Mi Amiga del Parque). Here are the selections.
Belgica / Belgium, France, Netherlands (Director: Felix van Groeningen, Screenwriters: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens) — In the midst of Belgium’s nightlife scene, two brothers start a bar and get swept up in its success.Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Hélène De Vos. World Premiere.
Belgica / Belgium, France, Netherlands (Director: Felix van Groeningen, Screenwriters: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens) — In the midst of Belgium’s nightlife scene, two brothers start a bar and get swept up in its success.Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Hélène De Vos. World Premiere.
- 12/2/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Titles include Tallulah starring Ellen Page and Allison Janney, and Chad Hartigan’s Morris From America (pictured); Next strand also announced.Scroll down for full list
Sundance Institute has announced the 65 films selected for the Us Competition, World Competition and out-of-competition Next categories set to screen at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival (Jan 21-31) in Park City.
Us Dramatic Competition selections include Sian Heder’s Tallulah with Ellen Page and Allison Janney; Antonio Campos’ Christine; Clea DuVall’s feature directorial debut The Intervention; and Richard Tanne’s Southside With You, about Barack Obama’s first date with the First Lady.
Among the Us Documentary Competition selections are: Holy Hell by undisclosed; Jeff Feuerzeig’s Author: The Jt LeRoy Story; and Sara Jordenö’s Kiki.
The World Cinema Dramatic Competition entries include: Belgica (Belgium-France-Netherlands), Felix van Groeningen’s follow-up to The Broken Circle Breakdown; Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo’s Between Sea And Land (Colombia); and Nicolette Krebitz’s Wild...
Sundance Institute has announced the 65 films selected for the Us Competition, World Competition and out-of-competition Next categories set to screen at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival (Jan 21-31) in Park City.
Us Dramatic Competition selections include Sian Heder’s Tallulah with Ellen Page and Allison Janney; Antonio Campos’ Christine; Clea DuVall’s feature directorial debut The Intervention; and Richard Tanne’s Southside With You, about Barack Obama’s first date with the First Lady.
Among the Us Documentary Competition selections are: Holy Hell by undisclosed; Jeff Feuerzeig’s Author: The Jt LeRoy Story; and Sara Jordenö’s Kiki.
The World Cinema Dramatic Competition entries include: Belgica (Belgium-France-Netherlands), Felix van Groeningen’s follow-up to The Broken Circle Breakdown; Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo’s Between Sea And Land (Colombia); and Nicolette Krebitz’s Wild...
- 12/2/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Over the past few years, there have been a number of films focusing on the personal toll of music making. This year saw Eden, the lightly fictionalized story of a failed DJ, which dominated the festival circuit, and the Edm story, We Are Your Friends, which attracted a small but vocal fanbase. And though they took markedly different approaches in tone and presentation, they both provided a snapshot into the coexisting destructive and wondrous effects of music.
Belgica, the next from from the Oscar-nominated Broken Circle Breakdown helmer Felix van Groeningen, looks to mine similar emotional terrain with its story of two brothers, Jo (Stef Aerts) and Frank (Tom Vermeir), who start a bar and become subsequently immersed in the Belgium club scene.
The first trailer emerged today, and it looks both exhausting and thrilling, shifting back and forth between the strained home life and frenzied work life of the two characters.
Belgica, the next from from the Oscar-nominated Broken Circle Breakdown helmer Felix van Groeningen, looks to mine similar emotional terrain with its story of two brothers, Jo (Stef Aerts) and Frank (Tom Vermeir), who start a bar and become subsequently immersed in the Belgium club scene.
The first trailer emerged today, and it looks both exhausting and thrilling, shifting back and forth between the strained home life and frenzied work life of the two characters.
- 11/24/2015
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
Felix van Groeningen, the director behind the terrific (and Oscar nominated), "The Broken Circle Breakdown," is quickly moving on up. In September he inked a deal to make his Hollywood debut with "Beautiful Boy," a drug addiction drama that Cameron Crowe was at one time attached to helm. But first, the filmmaker has knocked out "Belgica," and the first trailer for the movie has landed. Originally slated to star Matthias Schoenaerts, the film now features Stef Aerts, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Jean-Michel Balthazar, and Tom Vermeir, and finds the director going from the world of country and bluegrass, to rock 'n roll. The story follows brothers who run a raucous club, only to find the lifestyle starting to wear on their personal lives. Here's the official synopsis: The movie follows the story of two brothers who, even though they have absolutely nothing in common, open a bar together that quickly becomes a regular hangout for nighthawks.
- 11/24/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Sneak Peek the Belgian 'werewolf' horror feature "Cub" (aka "Welp") directed by Jonas Govaerts, available in a DVD, Blu-ray Combo Pack, from Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada and Raven Banner Entertainment, August 19, 2015:
"...'Sam' (Luijten) is a twelve-year-old cub scout that is frequently bullied by fellow scout members and pack leader 'Peter' (Stef Aerts). Fellow pack leader 'Chris' (Titus De Voodgt) and 'Jasmijn' (Evelien Bosmans) try to keep Peter and the others from dominating Sam, but are not always successful.
"When some of the pack's bullying causes them to lose their way in the mountains during a trip, Peter and Chris try to keep things light by telling the campers a campfire story about 'Kai', a werewolf thought to be living in that very forest.
"Soon after, Sam runs into a 'feral boy' (Gill Eeckelaert) that he believes to be the actual Kai. He tries to tell the others, but...
"...'Sam' (Luijten) is a twelve-year-old cub scout that is frequently bullied by fellow scout members and pack leader 'Peter' (Stef Aerts). Fellow pack leader 'Chris' (Titus De Voodgt) and 'Jasmijn' (Evelien Bosmans) try to keep Peter and the others from dominating Sam, but are not always successful.
"When some of the pack's bullying causes them to lose their way in the mountains during a trip, Peter and Chris try to keep things light by telling the campers a campfire story about 'Kai', a werewolf thought to be living in that very forest.
"Soon after, Sam runs into a 'feral boy' (Gill Eeckelaert) that he believes to be the actual Kai. He tries to tell the others, but...
- 8/14/2015
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
The Belgian film Cub validates the fear some of us have of spending the night in the woods. Cub on Blu-ray and DVD will hit stores on August 18th. Also: theatrical and digital release details for The Diabolical, HollyShorts Film Festival 2015 lineup, and Manos: The Hands of Fate soundtrack on vinyl.
Cub: Artsploitation Films will release Cub on Blu-ray and DVD on August 18th. Directed by Jonas Govaerts from a screenplay he wrote with Roel Mondelaers, Cub stars Maurice Luijten, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts, Evelien Bosmans, and Jan Hammenecker.
"This dark, bloody, imaginative fairy tale about a camping trip that turns into deadly carnage draws on such influences as Lord of the Rings, Friday the 13th, and The Devil’s Backbone. The story follows 12-year-old outcast Sam who, along with his troop of cub scouts and their teenage supervisors, camp in woods rumored to house a mysterious and deadly werewolf.
Cub: Artsploitation Films will release Cub on Blu-ray and DVD on August 18th. Directed by Jonas Govaerts from a screenplay he wrote with Roel Mondelaers, Cub stars Maurice Luijten, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts, Evelien Bosmans, and Jan Hammenecker.
"This dark, bloody, imaginative fairy tale about a camping trip that turns into deadly carnage draws on such influences as Lord of the Rings, Friday the 13th, and The Devil’s Backbone. The story follows 12-year-old outcast Sam who, along with his troop of cub scouts and their teenage supervisors, camp in woods rumored to house a mysterious and deadly werewolf.
- 8/4/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
A cub scout camping trip becomes a fight for survival when a group realizes someone's watching them from beyond the light cast by their bonfire in the Belgian horror film, Cub. Artsploitation Films is releasing the movie on Blu-ray and DVD this summer, and the U.S. trailer teases the movie's nighttime human hunting.
Artsploitation Films will release Cub on Blu-ray and DVD on August 18th. Directed by Jonas Govaerts from a screenplay he wrote with Roel Mondelaers, Cub stars Maurice Luijten, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts, Evelien Bosmans, and Jan Hammenecker.
"This dark, bloody imaginative fairy tale about a camping trip that turns into deadly carnage draws on such influences as Lord of the Rings, Friday the 13th and The Devil’s Backbone. The story follows 12-year-old outcast Sam who, along with his troop of cub scouts and their teenage supervisors, camp in woods rumored to house a mysterious and deadly werewolf.
Artsploitation Films will release Cub on Blu-ray and DVD on August 18th. Directed by Jonas Govaerts from a screenplay he wrote with Roel Mondelaers, Cub stars Maurice Luijten, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts, Evelien Bosmans, and Jan Hammenecker.
"This dark, bloody imaginative fairy tale about a camping trip that turns into deadly carnage draws on such influences as Lord of the Rings, Friday the 13th and The Devil’s Backbone. The story follows 12-year-old outcast Sam who, along with his troop of cub scouts and their teenage supervisors, camp in woods rumored to house a mysterious and deadly werewolf.
- 4/27/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The Belgian Cub follows Sam (Maurice Luijten), a traumatized young boy who goes on a camping trip with a group of fellow scouts only to discover that a campfire story about a feral boy living in the woods turns out to be true. Somehow first time feature director Jonas Govaerts found a way to take something formulaic like a camping horror movie and make it wonderful. The creepy singing you can’t understand on top of some really great visuals and lack of knowing what the heck is going on makes this one of the best trailers this year.
The film also stars Evelien Bosmans, Jan Hammenecker, Titus De Voogdt, and Stef Aerts. It will play at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival in the Midnight Madness program, but there’s currently no release date.
The film also stars Evelien Bosmans, Jan Hammenecker, Titus De Voogdt, and Stef Aerts. It will play at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival in the Midnight Madness program, but there’s currently no release date.
- 9/4/2014
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
If you're hitting the Toronto International Film Festival this year and looking for a break from the award contenders, prestige dramas and foreign favorites, be sure to scan the Midnight Madness lineup. Each year, it provides some of the best genre programming around, with movies geared to get your pulse racing and make you jump out of your seat. "Cub" aims to do both of those things, and we'e got the exclusive first trailer for the movie. Directed by Jonas Govaerts, making his feature film debut, and starring Maurice Luijten, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts, Evelien Bosmans and Jan Hammenecker, this one goes into the woods with terrifying results. The story follows 12-year-old Sam, off on a summer camping trip with his Cub Scout troop. He claims to see something in the woods, but it's blamed on his over active imagination. But it turns out he's right, and a feral...
- 8/29/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Pinewood Shepperton Inks Deal For New Studio In Wales In a move that will bring much-needed new stages to the UK, has entered an agreement with the Welsh government for a new studio near Cardiff Bay. Under the deal, the Welsh government will acquire and fit out the former Energy Centre in Wentloog with the facility to be renamed Pinewood Studio Wales. Four stages will be built, which Pinewood will lease for a minimum of five years; it also will contribute £800,000 over the period to pay for equipment. This is good news for Britain, which has suffered from a capacity crunch as more and more Hollywood movies and TV shows come to shoot in the territory, accessing lucrative tax breaks. Pinewood has submitted proposals to expand its flagship studio outside London but has been thwarted by local government in the past two years. An appeal is pending. Also under the agreement,...
- 2/18/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
When I asked writer-director Felix van Groeningen what he would do after the Oscar-nominated "Broken Circle Breakdown," he insisted he's stick close to home. And so he has. His next project is drama "Belgica" with Belgium's hottest star, Cesar-winner Matthias Schoenaerts ("Rust and Bone") opposite Stef Aerts ("Oxygen"). Belgica, Groeningen’s fifth feature film, is a family drama set in the midst of Belgium’s nightlife scene. Two brothers who open up a successful bar get swept up in its early success. Groeningen wrote the script with his "With Friends Like These" co-writer Arne Sierens. Groeningen will reteam with a number of his collaborators from "The Broken Circle Breakdown." Menuet returns as producer in coproduction with Topkapi and Pyramide Productions, along with longtime producer Dirk Impens, director of photography Ruben Impens, and editor Nico Leunen. Principal photography will begin this Fall in Belgium. "The Broken Circle...
- 2/18/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Two young men who share an incurable illness face death together and try to find something precious in life.
Why go to see a film about life-threatening illness? Weepies on this theme keep on being made and keep drawing in audiences. Perhaps they're a convenient way to confront issues around mortality with attractive young actors. For those of us who live with such illnesses they are usually exercises in frustration, full of inaccuracies and suffocatingly sentimental. Fortunately, Oxygen is something different.
Stef Aerts plays Tom, who has grown up with cystic fibrosis and...
Why go to see a film about life-threatening illness? Weepies on this theme keep on being made and keep drawing in audiences. Perhaps they're a convenient way to confront issues around mortality with attractive young actors. For those of us who live with such illnesses they are usually exercises in frustration, full of inaccuracies and suffocatingly sentimental. Fortunately, Oxygen is something different.
Stef Aerts plays Tom, who has grown up with cystic fibrosis and...
- 2/9/2012
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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