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Voltage Pictures has taken a majority stake in fellow international sales and finance company The Exchange as it continues to expand operations.

Under the new structure, Brian O’Shea will remain CEO of The Exchange and focus on creative strategy and expanding the slate of projects.Financial terms were not disclosed.

Voltage COO Sarah Dunn will oversee day-to-day operations, and Alexandra Cocean has been promoted to president of global sales and distribution, working across both companies to integrate their films.

Screenunderstands worldwide sales and distribution presidentNat McCormick has left The Exchange.

Voltage CEO Nicolas Chartier announced the development and said the...

After captivating audiences in Run Sweetheart Run, Ella Balinska is stepping into the eerie world of horror once again as she takes the lead in the upcoming apocalyptic horror film Monsters. Like in Run Sweetheart Run, she'll find herself once again on the run from a terrifying threat.

Glenise Mullins, known for writing for TV shows such as Star Trek: Discovery, Surface, The Continental, Outer Range and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, wrote the script and will be directing. The cameras are reportedly set to start rolling sometime in January 2025.

Additionally, Tea Shop Productions' James Harris and Mark Lane will produce the horror flick alongside David Whitney.

Monsters follows a desperate mother as she strives to guide her two young daughters to safety over 20 miles of harsh terrain in a dangerous post-apocalyptic world swarming with relentless, zombie-like creatures. Balinska will play the mother. Her character's name is unknown,...

Belgian filmmaker Fabrice du Welz brings us back to 1995 with Maldoror, drawing loose inspiration from the harrowing Marc Dutroux case that rocked his home country. Two young girls have gone missing in Charleroi under murky circumstances, with the police investigation stalled. Enter earnest rookie officer Paul Chartier, assigned to the secretive Maldoror task force tailing chief suspect Marcel Dedieu.

Played with compelling intensity by Anthony Bajon, Chartier throws himself into the case with a determination bordering on obsession. As leads dry up and his superiors counsel patience, frustration mounts in our headstrong protagonist. Offscreen parallels to real failings of the Belgian authorities only fuel Chartier’s crusade for justice. But with corruption proving more deeply rooted than expected, how far will he go to challenge the damaging status quo?

Du Welz establishes a brooding atmosphere through unflinching depictions of a societal ill far graver than initially meets the eyes. Bajon...

Belgium is approaching the 30th anniversary of the start of a dark chapter in its history in which pedophile Marc Dutroux abducted six young girls from June 1995 to August 1996.

Imprisoning them in the basement of his house in the former coal-mining town of Marcinelle, the convicted sex offender tortured and sexually abused his young victims, killing four of them.

Mélissa Russo and Julie Lejeune, who were just eight years old, died of starvation and dehydration, while An Marchal, 17, and Eefje Lambrecks, 19, were buried alive. Sabine Dardenne, 12, and Laetitia Delhez, 14, were freed following Dutroux’s arrest in August 1996.

In a bold cinematic move, Belgian director Fabrice du Welz revisits the case in high-octane crime thriller Maldoror, which weaves in details of the real affair with the fictitious journey of a young police officer played by Anthony Bajon.

“I was about 20 when the Marc Dutroux Affair broke in Belgium,...

An immense yet slinking police procedural that slips with disturbing ease into its audiences’ subconscious, Fabrice Du Welz’s Maldoror owes a debt to many contemporary serial killer creepers to come before it but comes together as a formidable, restrained, uniquely resonant work that finds the director at the height of his powers in telling a story at once hauntingly personal and broad in scope.

In early ‘90s Belgium, impulsive young police officer Paul Chartier (Anthony Bajon) is preparing to marry his sweetheart, Gina (Alba Gaïa Bellugi) but is soon distracted when he’s tapped by his superior, Hinkel (Laurent Lucas) to participate in Maldoror – a secret operation to monitor a dangerous sex offender named Marcel Dedieu (Sergi López) and investigate the abduction of two pre-teen girls. But, as Chartier gets closer to uncovering the truth, he grows increasingly erratic and frustrated with the calcified bureaucracy of his department, jeopardizing...