Exclusive: Brussels-based, pan-European co-production and financing company Umedia has acquired a 15% stake in Belga Studios, an affiliate of Belgium’s oldest film company Belga Films Group.
Umedia, which is a major player in the European audiovisual sector, overseeing €35M in Tax Shelter funds, and financing and producing around 50 audiovisual projects a year, described the move as “a milestone” in its collaboration with Belga Studios.
It said the partnership would bolster collaboration on features initiated in Belgium, while aiming for international reach, beginning with a quartet of high-profile projects announced by Belga Studios over the past year.
They span The Yellow M, an adaptation of the iconic ‘Blake and Mortimer’ comics series, The Magician of Auschwitz, an English-language feature film by Jaco Van Dormael; The Einstein Enigma, an adaptation of the bestseller by José Rodrigues dos Santos, and the fantasy trilogy The Book with no Name, based on a cult series...
Umedia, which is a major player in the European audiovisual sector, overseeing €35M in Tax Shelter funds, and financing and producing around 50 audiovisual projects a year, described the move as “a milestone” in its collaboration with Belga Studios.
It said the partnership would bolster collaboration on features initiated in Belgium, while aiming for international reach, beginning with a quartet of high-profile projects announced by Belga Studios over the past year.
They span The Yellow M, an adaptation of the iconic ‘Blake and Mortimer’ comics series, The Magician of Auschwitz, an English-language feature film by Jaco Van Dormael; The Einstein Enigma, an adaptation of the bestseller by José Rodrigues dos Santos, and the fantasy trilogy The Book with no Name, based on a cult series...
- 11/28/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Canneseries Expands
Set to run April 14-19, Canneseries has introduced a new competition documentary section, the International Documentary Series Competition, to be included in its next go-round in Cannes. The idea is to keep storytelling at the heart of the event. “Whether the main character is sport, history, a crime, a celebrity, the environment or a changing society, it is always about telling stories. And Canneseries, which promotes serial writing in all its forms, had to highlight this narration of reality,”, said Albin Lewi, artistic director of Canneseries.
Bavaria Takes Spi’S ‘Codex 632’
Bavaria Media International has sealed a distribution agreement with major Portuguese production house SPi to handle worldwide distribution of “Codex 632.” The six-part series is based on the bestseller of the same name by José Rodrigues dos Santos. “Codex 632” is a co-production between SPi, Portuguese TV station Rtp, and Brazilian streaming provider Globoplay, and is scheduled to premiere...
Set to run April 14-19, Canneseries has introduced a new competition documentary section, the International Documentary Series Competition, to be included in its next go-round in Cannes. The idea is to keep storytelling at the heart of the event. “Whether the main character is sport, history, a crime, a celebrity, the environment or a changing society, it is always about telling stories. And Canneseries, which promotes serial writing in all its forms, had to highlight this narration of reality,”, said Albin Lewi, artistic director of Canneseries.
Bavaria Takes Spi’S ‘Codex 632’
Bavaria Media International has sealed a distribution agreement with major Portuguese production house SPi to handle worldwide distribution of “Codex 632.” The six-part series is based on the bestseller of the same name by José Rodrigues dos Santos. “Codex 632” is a co-production between SPi, Portuguese TV station Rtp, and Brazilian streaming provider Globoplay, and is scheduled to premiere...
- 10/18/2022
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
’There is no point in releasing 25 movies a year. We need to be selective,’ says Belga’s Patrick Vandenbosch.
Patrick Vandenbosch, chief executive of leading Benelux distributor Belga, has outlined the company’s new strategy following its acquisition this week of Marc Punt’s Amsterdam-based distributor Independent Films.
Belga previously had a 50/50 partnership with Independent and released its films in the Netherlands through the company, while Independent’s films were released in Belgium through Belga. Now, Belga has taken over the Dutch outfit entirely.
“Independent is becoming for us a key profit centre instead of just an operational partnership,” Vandenbosch said,...
Patrick Vandenbosch, chief executive of leading Benelux distributor Belga, has outlined the company’s new strategy following its acquisition this week of Marc Punt’s Amsterdam-based distributor Independent Films.
Belga previously had a 50/50 partnership with Independent and released its films in the Netherlands through the company, while Independent’s films were released in Belgium through Belga. Now, Belga has taken over the Dutch outfit entirely.
“Independent is becoming for us a key profit centre instead of just an operational partnership,” Vandenbosch said,...
- 10/7/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
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