Netherlands-based sales agent Dfw International has added romantic comedy “Costa!!” by Jon Karthaus, a follow-up to the 2001 Dutch cult classic “Costa!” by Johan Nijenhuis, to its Cannes Film Market slate.
Nijenhuis’ latest film “Yasmine’s Wedding” has also been added to the slate.
In “Costa!!” Anna (Abbey Hoes) and her best friend Bibi (Stephanie van Eer) travel to the Spanish coast to visit the famous Costa club where her mother Frida (Katja Schuurman) used to work only to find that it is no longer the place to be, but a run-down karaoke bar. Anna and her friends go all-out to win the battle of the bars and make Costa once again the hottest club on the strip. “Costa!!,” produced by Sabine Brian for Nl Film, was released in the Netherlands on April 28 and has racked up 100,000 admissions.
In “Yasmine’s Wedding,” produced by Ingmar Menning for Johan Nijenhuis & Co,...
Nijenhuis’ latest film “Yasmine’s Wedding” has also been added to the slate.
In “Costa!!” Anna (Abbey Hoes) and her best friend Bibi (Stephanie van Eer) travel to the Spanish coast to visit the famous Costa club where her mother Frida (Katja Schuurman) used to work only to find that it is no longer the place to be, but a run-down karaoke bar. Anna and her friends go all-out to win the battle of the bars and make Costa once again the hottest club on the strip. “Costa!!,” produced by Sabine Brian for Nl Film, was released in the Netherlands on April 28 and has racked up 100,000 admissions.
In “Yasmine’s Wedding,” produced by Ingmar Menning for Johan Nijenhuis & Co,...
- 5/4/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Pim van Hoeve directs the Dutch live-action family film.
Dfw International has sold a slew of major European territories on Pim van Hoeve’s Dutch live-action family film Pirates Down The Street. The film has been bought by Studio Hamburg Enterprises (Germany), Imago Company (Italy), and Planeta Inform (Russia and the Baltic states)
Pirates Down The Street is an adaptation of the Reggie Naus’ book series about the Blunderbuss family, a sword-fighting, rum-drinking bunch of pirates who take up residence in a small coastal town. Tygo Gernandt and Egbert-Jan Weeber star.
Dfw International, the sales arm affiliated to leading Benelux distributor Dutch FilmWorks,...
Dfw International has sold a slew of major European territories on Pim van Hoeve’s Dutch live-action family film Pirates Down The Street. The film has been bought by Studio Hamburg Enterprises (Germany), Imago Company (Italy), and Planeta Inform (Russia and the Baltic states)
Pirates Down The Street is an adaptation of the Reggie Naus’ book series about the Blunderbuss family, a sword-fighting, rum-drinking bunch of pirates who take up residence in a small coastal town. Tygo Gernandt and Egbert-Jan Weeber star.
Dfw International, the sales arm affiliated to leading Benelux distributor Dutch FilmWorks,...
- 12/17/2020
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Government-backed scheme is backing projects by Thomas Vinterberg, Alex van Warmerdam and Ramon Gieling.
The Netherlands film production incentive has announced today it is backing high-profile projects by Thomas Vinterberg and Alex van Warmerdam in its first funding round of 2019.
Overall the incentive will pump €10.5m ($11.79m) into 22 new productions and five high-end TV-series. This breaks down as 17 feature films, three feature length documentaries, two animated feature films, four drama series and one animated series, including 14 international co-productions. It is predicted the projects backed in this spending round will generate more than €40m ($35.64m) in production expenditure in the Netherlands.
The Netherlands film production incentive has announced today it is backing high-profile projects by Thomas Vinterberg and Alex van Warmerdam in its first funding round of 2019.
Overall the incentive will pump €10.5m ($11.79m) into 22 new productions and five high-end TV-series. This breaks down as 17 feature films, three feature length documentaries, two animated feature films, four drama series and one animated series, including 14 international co-productions. It is predicted the projects backed in this spending round will generate more than €40m ($35.64m) in production expenditure in the Netherlands.
- 4/4/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Beneficiaries include team behind children’s fantasy film Admiral.Scroll down for full list of projects
The Netherlands Film Production Incentive scheme has backed 21 film projects to the tune of €6.1m in its latest funding round, including 15 feature films, five documentaries and one animated feature.
The average investment was €291,185, with the smallest being €40,000 and the largest sum, €900,000, going to the team behind 2015 fantasy film Admiral [pictured] for their new project Redbad 754 A.D.
Currently in pre-production, Redbad 754 A.D. will be directed by Rob Reiné (who is attached to direct episdoes of Marvel’s upcoming TV series Inhumans) from a script by Alex van Galen. Dutch producers will be Farmhouse TV en Film, with Belgian outfit Bulletproof Cupid co-producing.
The Conductor, directed and written by Maria Peters and produced by Shooting Star Filmcompany, received the second largest grant with €898,111. Peters’ previous credits include romantic drama Sonny Boy and family film Mike Says Goodbye!.
Projects also receiving...
The Netherlands Film Production Incentive scheme has backed 21 film projects to the tune of €6.1m in its latest funding round, including 15 feature films, five documentaries and one animated feature.
The average investment was €291,185, with the smallest being €40,000 and the largest sum, €900,000, going to the team behind 2015 fantasy film Admiral [pictured] for their new project Redbad 754 A.D.
Currently in pre-production, Redbad 754 A.D. will be directed by Rob Reiné (who is attached to direct episdoes of Marvel’s upcoming TV series Inhumans) from a script by Alex van Galen. Dutch producers will be Farmhouse TV en Film, with Belgian outfit Bulletproof Cupid co-producing.
The Conductor, directed and written by Maria Peters and produced by Shooting Star Filmcompany, received the second largest grant with €898,111. Peters’ previous credits include romantic drama Sonny Boy and family film Mike Says Goodbye!.
Projects also receiving...
- 3/28/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Dutch Features Global Entertainment (Dfge) is to begin pre-sales in Cannes on a Dummie the Mummy sequel.
Dummie The Mummy And The Sphinx Of Shakaba is the sequel to the runaway box-office hit in the Netherlands, which has also sold to many territories internationally.
Like its predecessor, the new film is idrected by Pim van Hoeve and produced by Pv Pictures.
In Cannes, Dfge will be screening the first footage from Dummie the Mummy and the Sphinx of Shakaba. The film will be released in the Netherlands in early December 2015 by Entertainment One.
In this sequel Dummie, the little living mummy, realises he will never grow up to become a real Pharaoh, and decides he wants to be famous instead - just as famous as his father, the great Pharaoh, 4,000 years ago. His best friend Gus and his dad are worried: a famous living mummy is asking for trouble.
Also new on...
Dummie The Mummy And The Sphinx Of Shakaba is the sequel to the runaway box-office hit in the Netherlands, which has also sold to many territories internationally.
Like its predecessor, the new film is idrected by Pim van Hoeve and produced by Pv Pictures.
In Cannes, Dfge will be screening the first footage from Dummie the Mummy and the Sphinx of Shakaba. The film will be released in the Netherlands in early December 2015 by Entertainment One.
In this sequel Dummie, the little living mummy, realises he will never grow up to become a real Pharaoh, and decides he wants to be famous instead - just as famous as his father, the great Pharaoh, 4,000 years ago. His best friend Gus and his dad are worried: a famous living mummy is asking for trouble.
Also new on...
- 5/8/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Dutch sales agent Dutch Features Global Entertainment to screen family film at market.
Dutch sales agent Dutch Features Global Entertainment will be repping rights for family film Dummie the Mummy, by director Pim Van Hoeve, at the Afm.
The local box office hit charts stars Julian Ras as Gus in the lead as a boy who discovers a live mummy in his bedroom. Soon the two become fast friends.
The film is a co-production between PVPictures and Nickelodeon and was awarded a Golden Film by the Dutch Film Festival.
Dutch sales agent Dutch Features Global Entertainment will be repping rights for family film Dummie the Mummy, by director Pim Van Hoeve, at the Afm.
The local box office hit charts stars Julian Ras as Gus in the lead as a boy who discovers a live mummy in his bedroom. Soon the two become fast friends.
The film is a co-production between PVPictures and Nickelodeon and was awarded a Golden Film by the Dutch Film Festival.
- 10/31/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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