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BOX OFFICE Netherlands

Children’s fare and Oscar nominees dominate beginning of year

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The 2006 Dutch box office has so far been very light on domestic productions, with only one December holdover (children’s film De Griezelbus) and no new films released so far.

Instead, the box office has been dominated by mainstream fare such as the last of the 2005 releases, Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia, as well as more recent US entries Fun with Dick and Jane, Big Momma’s House 2 and the Oscar contenders Munich, Brokeback Mountain, Match Point and Walk the Line.

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Children have not been forgotten with the Belgian release Plop [+see also:
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, still going strong after nine weeks and over €1.4m at the box office, a successful launch for British hit Nanny McPhee (with almost €450,000 in two weeks), and the continuing success of March of the Penguins [+see also:
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, which is on its way to grossing €650,000. Another French film, European Film Award winner Hidden, is doing very well in limited release, maintaining an average of over €2,000 per screen.

After two months without any local releases, no less than four high profile projects will be out in March: A Thousand Kisses (Ik Omhels Je met Duizend Armen); the last film by the late Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Het Woeden der Gehele Wereld (adapted from the homonymous novel by Maarten Ot Hart); Song from the Other Side (Het Zwijgen) (see news), a magical realist mystery; and the hip-hop musical Gangsta Blues (Bolletjes Blues) about a drug smuggler from Surinam.

European March releases include French action films Sky Fighters (Les chevaliers du ciel) and Bandidas [+see also:
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and the decidedly more highbrow Gabrielle, German hits The White Masai (Die weisse Massai) and Crossing the Bridge, Danish comedy Dark Horse [+see also:
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(Voksne Mennesker) and Spanish Goya winners The Secret Life of Words [+see also:
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and Habana Blues [+see also:
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