Three domestic co-productions hit screens
With three domestic co-productions among the eight European releases, this week’s line-up has a distinctly Belgian flavour.
French blockbuster of the week, Asterix at the Olympic Games [+see also:
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MIG also co-produced Ben Stassen’s Fly Me to the Moon, produced by Brussels-based nWave Pictures, a leading company on the international IMAX market and founded by the director (see news).
Fly Me to the Moon lays claim to be “the first film made entirely for 3D projection and screened exclusively in 3D”. This three-dimensional feature, which tells the story of three little flies who secretly set out to conquer the Moon, is being released by Kinepolis Films on 13 screens.
Moscow, Belgium [+see also:
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This debut feature centres on an amorous encounter between a young lorry driver and a 40-year-old woman with whom he falls in love during the course of a car accident.
Blanco, Van Rompaey’s latest film, produced this time by Eurydice Gysel for CCCP (Ex drummer [+see also:
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Three other French films are also hitting screens: Cortex [+see also:
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Finally, the European line-up is completed by Swedish teenage movie Kidz in da Hood [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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