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…

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline's fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films making noise in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it's ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track…

The Kinepolis Group – which operates 109 cinemas worldwide with 1,131 screens and more than 200,000 seats – has posted record results for 2023. The Belgium-based international exhibitor said it had achieved its highest ever revenue, thanks to a 20.6% hike in visitors to 35.3M, adding that the results…

EXCLUSIVE: Urban Sales has unveiled key deals for Mascha Halberstad’s CGI animation Fox And Hare Save The Forest ahead of its world premiere in the Berlin Film Festival's young audience-focused Generation Kplus sidebar this weekend. The company has sold the movie into more than 50 territories…

Updated Tuesday, October 16: Police in Belgium have killed a man who shot dead two Swedish soccer fans and seriously injured a third person in a gun attack in central Brussels on Monday evening. "The perpetrator of the terrorist attack in Brussels has been identified and has died," Belgian Interior…

Belgium has selected Omen, the debut feature from rapper-turned-filmmaker Baloji, as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars. The pic, which debuted in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes 2023, follows Koffi, a young Congolese man who — after spending years…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired North American rights for Belgian director Bas Devos's film Here which won best film in the Berlin Film Festival’s Encounters section last month as well as the Fipresci prize. The film revolves around a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels who is…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based genre specialist has boarded sales on Belgian black comedy Krump about a down-on-his-luck ex-porn actor who embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission to raise 50,000 euros when his daughter is kidnapped. The film is the debut feature of French-born, long-time Brussels resident…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal the first international trailer for Piece Of My Heart, inspired by the tragic life of 1970s Dutch ballerina Olga de Hass, ahead of its world premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (November 11-27), which was announced on Thursday. De Haas may not be a name…

Flanders Image, the promotional arm of the VAF film fund of Belgium’s Flemish-speaking community, has unveiled the 80 projects selected for its annual CONNEXT showcase, running as a hybrid event from October 10-24. The showcase, which will hold a physical component in Antwerp from October 9-11…

Belgium's Oscar-shortlisted International Feature is an intimate child's-eye view of bullying from debut writer-director Laura Wandel. Playground is known as Un Monde in its native French language, and this is set in a world of its own: the school that two siblings must navigate to get through the day. We meet…

The Belgian government on Wednesday imposed additional restrictions to combat rising Covid-19 numbers, including shuttering movie cinemas among most indoor activities as well as mandating sporting events including soccer be played behind closed doors. The new restrictions go into effect beginning Sunday, according to…