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Exclusive: Incredible Film has acquired global distribution rights to upcoming comedy feature After Party, from Dutch director Jean van de Velde, creator of the hit sports-themed franchise All Stars.

The company is launching pre-sales on the Netherlands-South African co-production at the EFM ahead of the shoot this September in Mauritius, as the first feature film to be filmed on its Island of Rodrigues.

Written and directed by van de Velde, the movie revolves around a childless couple in their early fifties who have enjoyed a fulfilling lifestyle, centered around their careers, wealth and freedom.

As young urban professionals, the world was their oyster but when health, wealth and youth is no longer on their side, the pair take drastic action to ensure they remain on top.

Dutch actor Thomas Acda, who collaborated with van de Velde on All Stars, with other credits including Zonen and Ome Cor, will lead the cast.

SXSW Sydney Headliners

Experimental music film “Pavements” and offbeat comedy “Nightbitch” are among five titles designated as ‘headliners’ of the film section on the upcoming SXSW Sydney festival.

“Pavements,” which premiered in Venice, is an experimental hybrid of narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, and metatextual elements from director Alex Ross Perry about the indie rock outfit, Pavement.

“Nightbitch,” which debuted in Toronto, is a darkly comedic fairy tale about a stay-at-home mother, portrayed by Amy Adams, who transforms into a dog.

Others getting the gala treatment include Max & Sam Eggers’ new A24 horror “The Front Room,” starring pop star Brandy as a newly-pregnant woman facing off against her mother-in-law; “Smile 2,” by Parker Finn; and Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of “Saturday Night Live.”

“These bold, hilarious, captivating and thrilling films...

The Forgotten Battle Trailer — Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.‘s The Forgotten Battle (2020) movie trailer has been released by Netflix. The Forgotten Battle stars Gijs Blom, Jamie Flatters, Susan Radder, Jan Bijvoet, Tom Felton, Coen Bril, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Scott Reid, Marthe Schneider, Justus von Dohnányi, Joep Paddenburg, Mark van Eeuwen, Pit Bukowski, and [...]

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The Nfts scheme has chosen 20 participants representing 13 territories.

Executives from UK producers Warp Films and Fulwell 73, and Ireland’s Element Cinemas, are among the 20 selected for the 2020 edition of the National Film and TV School’s 2020 Inside Pictures business training and leadership skills development programme.

The scheme has chosen 20 participants representing 13 territories, from sectors including acquisitions, development, production, sales, distribution, finance, marketing, publicity, exhibition, legal and business affairs.

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This year’s industry mentor is BBC Films director Rose Garnett, who was previously head of creative at Film4.

The participants have all...

Netflix continues to push into local content, producing its first Dutch film, war drama “The Battle of the Scheldt,” in partnership with local broadcasters and other backers.

Alain de Levita is producing the Dutch-Belgian picture through his Levitate Film banner. It will be in movie theaters in the Netherlands in November 2020, and on Netflix – where it will be branded as a Netflix Movie – in the U.S. and the rest of the world. Production is about to get underway on the $15.5 million war film, which will be helmed by Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

Set in late 1944 and shot in Dutch and English, the film centers on the bloody but crucial battle that claimed 10,000 lives but secured supply lines for the Allied forces’ push to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany. It follows the lives of three people involved in the conflict: a young Dutchman fighting for the Germans, a stray English...

There are two new thrillers out this weekend in limited release that are well worth your time, and I reviewed them here. Two more indie thrillers hit both theaters and VOD yesterday, but they’re enough of a mixed bag for me to suggest you wait for their inevitable DVD or Netflix release instead. Both are produced and acted well enough, but they share a single trait that keeps them from the recommended list. For everything they do, it’s the things they don’t do that ultimately underwhelms. Cor van Hout (Jim Sturgess) is a man between jobs. It’s the early ’80s, and the economy in Amsterdam is in the canal leaving him far more motivated towards illicit employment. His friends are in the same boat — Jan (Ryan Kwanten) is good with his hands, Frans (Mark van Eeuwen) is a wild man and Willem (Sam Worthington) is an aggressive go-getter with an existing grudge against...

It's 1982 in Amsterdam, and for four friends, things aren't looking good in the true story dramatic thriller "Kidnapping Mr. Heineken." Willem Holleeder (Sam Worthington), Cor Van Hout (Jim Sturgess), Jan 'Cat' Boellard (Ryan Kwanten), and Frans 'Spikes' Meijer (Mark van Eeuwen) are all partners in a construction business that's about to go belly up. They're working-class guys, but they meet white-collar resistance when their attempt to get a bank loan to keep them afloat is rejected. Meanwhile, their sole asset and potential collateral — a run down, derelict building — has been overtaken by squatters who can't legally be moved. And while for most people this might mean trying to find a new job or starting a different business, these young men have had it with struggling to get by. So they take the next logical step and decide to kidnap the titular famous and wealthy beer magnate (Anthony Hopkins) and hold him for ransom,...

Yes, your first assumption is correct – Kidnapping Mr. Heineken details the imprisonment of Amsterdam’s most iconic beer entrepreneur, and even more shocking is that it’s based on a true crime. Back in 1983, Freddy Heineken and his driver Ab Doderer were kidnapped by local scoundrels and then released some three weeks later for 35 million Dutch guilders – the largest ransom ever paid for one individual. As an avid beer drinker and alcohol culture snob, my complete ignorance of the real event is surprising and shameful, but Daniel Alfredson does an amicable job of filling in the blanks. Peter R. de Vries’s source novelization serves as a proper jumping point for writer William Brookfield, as he and Alfredson find a tense balance between historical recreation and cinematic embellishment – either of which can easily sink a true story when handled clumsily.

This is typically the point where I explain a film’s central plot,...

Who doesn’t love a good kidnapping movie? A bunch of criminal scamps, the blueprint-planning stage, and the final act of their plan unraveling in the shape of the kidnapping itself. From start to finish, there’s tension and drama threaded throughout every step of the story. So, throw in an international icon And beer and you’re somewhere close to Daniel Alfredson’s upcoming flick, Kidnapping Mr. Heineken.

Based on a true story, the movie follows four childhood friends – played by Sam Worthington, Jim Sturgess, Mark Van Eeuwen and Ryan Kwanten – who in 1983 decide they want out of the rat race. Keen to line their pockets with enough cash to sink the Titanic, they carry out a plot to kidnap one of the world’s wealthiest men, Mr. Freddy Heineken (Anthony Hopkins). If the name sounds familiar, it’s because the man being taken doesn’t just share a...

Crime doesn’t pay. Except, apparently, when it does. The kidnapping case of Alfred "Freddy" Heineken in the 1980s became famous for resulting in the biggest ransom for one person in history. And now the incident has been brought to the screen, with the first trailer for Kidnapping Mr. Heineken arriving via Yahoo.Daniel Alfredson, who worked two of the original Millennium Trilogy TV movies, has directed this one, with Anthony Hopkins suiting up to play the target himself, Freddy Heineken.Sam Worthington, Jim Sturgess, Ryan Kwanten, Mark van Eeuwen and Thomas Cocquerel are playing the men who hatched the scheme to swipe Freddy and hold him hostage. But despite a carefully crafted plan, things didn’t exactly go their way: while Heineken and his driver Ab Doderer were eventually released after payment of a 35 million guilder ransom, the criminals were eventually caught and served prison terms.One version of...

The crime thriller is the first acquisition to be announced by the company formerly known as Millennium Entertainment.

Anthony Hopkins stars in Kidnapping Mr. Heineken, which will open theatrically and on VOD on March 6 and is expected to be the first of several deals with producers Informant Media.

Daniel Alfredson directed the film, which also stars Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington, Ryan Kwanten, Mark van Eeuwen, Tom Cocquerel and Jemima West.

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken is based on real events and takes place in the 1980s when a gang abducted the beer magnate, resulting in the largest ransom ever paid for an individual.

William Brookfield adapted the screenplay from the book by Peter R de Vries.

“Judy Cairo and Michael A Simpson have a taste level and track record that exemplify the kind of producers Alchemy is cultivating creative partnerships with,” said Alchemy CEO Bill Lee “In Kidnapping Mr. Heineken they bring us an elevated caper film that’s...

Informant Media’s true-tale thriller Kidnapping Mr. Heineken has been acquired by Alchemy, the company formerly known as Millennium Entertainment, which has set a March release in theaters and on VOD. Anthony Hopkins stars as the titular beer baron Alfred “Freddy” Heineken, who was kidnapped in Amsterdam in 1983 by five boyhood friends, resulting in the largest ransom ever paid.

Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington, Ryan Kwanten, Mark van Eeuwen, Tom Cocquerel and Jemima West also star in the Daniel Alfredson-directed film, adapted by William Brookfield from the best-selling book by Peter R. de Vries.

Alchemy will release the film March 6.

At 3 minutes and 26 seconds, this seems to be more of a showreel than a trailer – but it certainly whets the appetite for Kidnapping Freddy Heineken, regardless. Directed by Daniel Alfredson (The Girl Who Played With Fire), and written by William Brookfield (Doctor Sleep), the film is based on the work of Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter, Peter R de Vries, who wrote ‘The Heineken Case’ in 1983, and ‘The Kidnapping of Alfred Heineken’ in 1987.

Heineken was Chairman and CEO of the brewing company, Heineken International, and was known to be one of the richest people in the Netherlands when he was kidnapped in 1983. His captors – Cor van Hout, William Holleeder, Jan Boelaard, Frans Meijer and Martin Erkamps – demanded a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders which, when received, made it the highest ransom ever paid for one person.

The film details the planning and execution of the kidnapping, as well as...

Beer ads may be a cornucopia of cheap jokes, swimsuit models and burly bearded men stirring great barrels of barley, but it’s not always easy cooking up those brews. Especially if you’re Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the Heineken beer founder and a victim of kidnapping in 1983. But the world will soon become far more acquainted with the Heineken heir and his story, as the aptly titled Kidnapping Freddy Heineken has just filled out its cast with a slew of recognizable names. The most recognizable being Anthony Hopkins, who’ll be portraying the titular victim. As well, The Hollywood Reporter has Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington, Ryan Kwanten joining the cast, along with the lesser-known Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen and the Australian Tom Cocquerel (who’ll be making his debut performance in a feature film). Heineken was kidnapped by five men, so it’s fairly safe to assume that at least a few of these...

Across his long and illustrious career, Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins has portrayed a great many colorful real-life characters, from Us President Richard Nixon to horror legend Alfred Hitchcock. Now, he’s set to play another figure from history, in the second of two biopics currently in his pipeline. After playing Ernest Hemingway in Andy Garcia’s Hemingway and Fuentes, Hopkins will portray Dutch brewery magnate Freddy Heineken for director Daniel Alfredson (The Girl Who Played With Fire), in Informant Media’s true-history action thriller Kidnapping Freddy Heineken.

Though most people are familiar with the Heineken brand, very few are aware of the ordeal faced by the late businessman in 1983 when he, along with his driver Ab Doderer, were abducted at gunpoint by five amateur Dutch gangsters. A huge ransom of $35 million Dutch guilders ($16 million euros) was eventually paid for the hostages by Heineken’s family. The kidnappers were eventually captured,...

Over two years ago, we featured a trailer for the Dutch film The Heineken Kidnapping, starring Rutger Hauer. The film told the story of Alfred "Freddy" Heineken, the grandson of the man who built the beer empire of the same name. However, rather that following his rise to success, the film chronicles a time in 1983, when Heineken, along with his driver, was kidnapped and held captive with a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders, the largest ransom ever paid at the time. Now that story is heading to the big screen in the United States with Kidnapping Freddy Heineken, and Anthony Hopkins has taken the title role. In addition, THR reports Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe), Sam Worthington (Avatar), Ryan Kwanten ("True Blood") and international actors Mark van Eeuwen and Tom Cocquerel, from the Netherlands and Australia respectively, also star in the film from Daniel Alfredson, director of the Swedish sequel...

Sam Worthington ("Avatar"), Ryan Kwanten ("True Blood"), Jim Sturgess ("Upside Down"), and Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen are set to join Anthony Hopkins in the action-thriller "Kidnapping Freddy Heineken" from Informant Media.

The story chronicles the 1983 kidnapping of Dutch beer magnate Freddy Heineken and his driver Ab Doderer. The two were released after payment of a record ransom of around $50 million.

Daniel Alfredson ("The Girl Who Played with Fire") directs from a script by William Brookfield ("Rough Magic") based on a book by Peter R. de Vries.

Howard Meltzer, Judy Cairo and Michael A. Simpson will produce. Filming begins late October in Belgium.

Source: Variety...

Director Daniel Alfredson, best known for helming the Swedish adaptations of both The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, has put together a strong ensemble of stars to frontline his next film, the thriller Kidnapping Freddy Heineken, with an Oscar winner sitting pretty at the top of the list. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Swedish filmmaker has enlisted Anthony Hopkins, Sam Worthington, Jim Sturgess, Ryan Kwanten, Dutch star Mark van Eeuwen and newcomer Tom Cocquerel to star in the new movie, which is based on a true story. Set in 1983, the film will follow a team of criminals who attempted to kidnap Alfred "Freddy" Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken Brewery. The crime stands out in history because the case involved a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders - the largest ever paid up to that point and equivalent to...

Anthony Hopkins will play Dutch businessman Alfred "Freddy" Heineken in the new thriller Kidnapping Freddy Heineken. The grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery and his driver were kidnapped in 1983 and released only after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid, the largest ransom ever paid at the time. Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington, Ryan Kwanten, Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen and Australian newcomer Tom Cocquerel round out the cast. Photos: 'Good Evening': The Making of 'Hitchcock' Daniel Alfredson -- who directed the original 2009 Swedish film version of The Girl Who Played With Fire and its sequel,

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Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington and Ryan Kwanten have joined the cast of Kidnapping Freddy Heineken. Embankment Films handles pre-sales.

As previously announced by ScreenDaily, Anthony Hopkins will star in Daniel Alfredson’s action thriller. Alfredson is best known for directing two of the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.

Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen and Australian newcomer Tom Cocquerel have also joined the production, set to begin shooting later this month in Belgium before moving on to Amsterdam and New Orleans.

Hopkins will portray brewery magnate Freddy Heineken, who was kidnapped along with his chauffeur in 1983 and eventually released for a 35 million Dutch guilder ransom, roughly equivalent to $50m by today’s standards.

William Brookfield adapted the screenplay from Dutch investigative reporter Peter de Vries’ bestseller.

Informant Media partners Judy Cairo and Michael A Simpson produce alongside Howard Meltzer under the Informant Europe label.

Informant partner...

Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington, Ryan Kwanten and Anthony Hopkins have joined the cast of Kidnapping Freddy Heineken. Embankment Films handles pre-sales.

Daniel Alfredson of The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest fame will direct the action thriller.

Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen and Australian newcomer Tom Cocquerel have also joined the production, set to begin shooting later this month in Belgium before moving on to Amsterdam and New Orleans.

Hopkins will portray the brewery magnate Freddy Heineken who was kidnapped along with his chauffeur in 1983 and eventually released for a 35mn Dutch guilder ransom, roughly equivalent to $50m by today’s standards. William Brookfield adapted the screenplay from Dutch investigative reporter Peter de Vries’ bestseller.

Informant Media partners Judy Cairo and Michael A Simpson produce alongside Howard Meltzer under the Informant Europe label.

Informant partner Eric Brenner serves as one of the executive producers and the project financiers are [link...

Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington, Ryan Kwanten and Anthony Hopkins have joined the cast of Kidnapping Freddy Heineken. Embankment Films handles pre-sales.

Daniel Alfredson of The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest fame will direct the action thriller.

Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen and Australian newcomer Tom Cocquerel have also joined the production, set to begin shooting later this month in Belgium before moving on to Amsterdam and New Orleans.

Hopkins will portray the brewery magnate Freddy Heineken who was kidnapped along with his chauffeur in 1983 and eventually released for a 35mn Dutch guilder ransom, roughly equivalent to $50m by today’s standards. William Brookfield adapted the screenplay from Dutch investigative reporter Peter de Vries’ bestseller.

Informant Media partners Judy Cairo and Michael A Simpson produce alongside Howard Meltzer under the Informant Europe label.

Informant partner Eric Brenner serves as one of the executive producers and the project financiers are [link...

In September Dutch public broadcaster Avro will air a new series of the game show Fort Boyard. The show returns after almost 20 years (at that time it was too expensive for Dutch TV). This time teams of celebrities will compete against each other. Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden actors Ruud Feltkamp (Noud Alberts), Ferry Doedens (Lucas Sanders), Mark van Eeuwen (Jack van Houten) and Ferri Somogyi (Rik de Jong) are on one of the teams.

Former Gtst actors Hugo Metsers Jr. (Marcus Sanders) and Inge Ipenburg (Martine Hafkamp) are on other teams.

Fort Boyard is a French game show that has been remade in several countries. It's filmed at the real Fort Boyard in France. This series will premiere on Monday, September 5.

On July 8 Season 21 of the Dutch soap opera Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden will end with a traditional 'summer cliffhanger'. Every year the show sends its viewers into the summer with a big cliffhanger. The last week of this season revolves around romance, desire and jealousy.

The day has finally arrived: Noud (Ruud Feltkamp) and Nina (Marly van der Velden) are getting married. Nina is clearly stressed out because of the wedding. She fears that small details will ruin her big day. She doesn't realize that Wiet (Pip Pellens) is the real danger to her happiness. Wiet has convinced her sister Sjors (Inge Schrama) that she has accepted that the love of her life Noud is now marrying someone else. But that's not true at all. Secretly she's coming up with a plan to get rid of her rival Nina for good. Without thinking about the consequences, Wiet sets her plan in motion.