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The Flying Liftboy
''The Flying Liftboy'' () is a 1998 Dutch family adventure film directed by Ben Sombogaart and written and produced by Burny Bos, based on the 1953 Dutch children's book ''Abeltje'' by Annie M. G. Schmidt. It stars Rick van Gastel, Soraya Smith, Frits Lambrechts, Marisa Van Eyle and Annet Malherbe. It is the first feature film to be adapted from Schmidt's books. Development began in 1994, when Bos acquired the rights to the book from Schmidt. However, various issues such as the budget delayed production of the film. It was filmed in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain and New York. The film was released on 26 November 1998 in the Netherlands by Warner Bros. under their Family Entertainment label. The film received positive reviews and became a major success in the country. It won the Golden Calf for Best Feature Film. The film was later re-edited into a seven-episode miniseries for television by AVRO in 2000. Plot After a humiliating incident involving his girlfriend Laura, Mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Sombogaart
Bernard Cornelis (Ben) Sombogaart (born 8 August 1947) is a Dutch film and TV director. His film '' Twin Sisters'' (2002) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Filmography *''The Pocket-knife'' (''Het Zakmes'', 1992) *'' The Boy Who Stopped Talking'' (''De Jongen Die niet meer Praatte'', 1996) *'' The Flying Liftboy'' (''Abeltje'', 1998) *'' Twin Sisters'' (''De Tweeling'', 2002) *'' Tow Truck Pluck'' (''Pluk van de Petteflet'', 2004) *'' Crusade in Jeans'' (''Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek'', 2006) *'' Bride Flight'' (2008) *'' The Storm'' (''De Storm'', 2009) – film about North Sea flood of 1953 *''Isabelle'' (2011) *''Moordvrouw Moordvrouw is a Dutch television series broadcast by RTL 4 and in Flanders by VTM. Crew The creative director of the first season was Joram Lürsen. After the first season he was replaced by Gerd Jan van Dalen and Marcel Visbeen. Van Dalen ...'' (2012-) *'' In My Father's Garden'' (''Knielen Op Een Bed Violen'', 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miniseries
In the United States, a miniseries or mini-series is a television show or series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. Many miniseries can also be referred to, and shown, as a television film. " Limited series" is a more recent American term which is sometimes used interchangeably. , the popularity of miniseries format has increased in both streaming services and broadcast television. The term " serial" is used in the United Kingdom and in other Commonwealth nations to describe a show that has an ongoing narrative plotline, while "series" is used for a set of episodes in a similar way that "season" is used in North America. Definitions A miniseries is distinguished from an ongoing television series; the latter does not usually have a predetermined number of episodes and may continue for several years. Before the term was coined in the United States in the early 1970s, the ongoing episodic form was always called a "serial", just as a novel appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trijntje Oosterhuis
Judith Katrijntje "Trijntje" Oosterhuis (; born 5 February 1973) is a Dutch singer and songwriter. She formed the band Total Touch in 1990 with her brother Tjeerd Oosterhuis before she started as a solo singer. She represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song " Walk Along", placing fourteen in the first semi-final with 33 points and winning the Barbara Dex Award of the year. Early life Judith Katrijntje Oosterhuis was born on 5 February 1973 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is the daughter of theologian and former Catholic priest Huub Oosterhuis and violinist Jozefien Melief of the Amsterdam Promenade Orchestra. Her older brother is Tjeerd Oosterhuis (born 1971). Total Touch In 1990, Oosterhuis formed the band Total Touch with her brother Tjeerd and, in 1991, they participated in the Grote Prijs van Nederland, the most important amateur musician contest in the Netherlands. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Volkskrant
''De Volkskrant'' (; ), stylized as de Volkskrant, is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. Founded in 1919, it has a nationwide circulation of about 250,000. Formerly a leading centre-left Catholic broadsheet, ''de Volkskrant'' today is a medium-sized centrist compact. Pieter Klok is the current editor-in-chief. History and profile ''De Volkskrant'' was founded in 1919 and has been a daily morning newspaper since 1921. Originally ''de Volkskrant'' was a Roman Catholic newspaper closely linked to the Catholic People's Party and the Catholic pillar. The paper temporarily ceased publication in 1941. On its re-founding in 1945, its office moved from Den Bosch to Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re .... It became a left-wing newspaper in the 1960s, but began s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seville
Seville ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Spain, Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir, River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Seville has a municipal population of about 701,000 , and a Seville metropolitan area, metropolitan population of about 1.5 million, making it the largest city in Andalusia and the List of metropolitan areas in Spain, fourth-largest city in Spain. Its old town, with an area of , contains a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising three buildings: the Alcázar of Seville, Alcázar palace complex, the Seville Cathedral, Cathedral and the General Archive of the Indies. The Seville harbour, located about from the Atlantic Ocean, is the only river port in Spain. The capital of Andalusia features hot temperatures in the summer, with daily maximums routinely above in July and August. Seville was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luxembourg
Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France on the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembourg City, is one of the four institutional seats of the European Union and hosts several EU institutions, notably the Court of Justice of the European Union, the highest judicial authority in the EU. As part of the Low Countries, Luxembourg has close historic, political, and cultural ties to Belgium and the Netherlands. Luxembourg's culture, people, and languages are greatly influenced by France and Germany: Luxembourgish, a Germanic language, is the only recognized national language of the Luxembourgish people and of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; French is the sole language for legislation; and both languages along with German are used for administrative matters. With an area of , Luxembourg is Europe's seventh-smallest count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilversum
Hilversum () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Holland, Netherlands. Located in the heart of the Gooi, it is the largest urban centre in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, forest, woods, meadows, lakes and smaller towns. Hilversum is part of the Randstad, one of the largest conurbations in Europe, and the Amsterdam metropolitan area; it is about 22km southeast of Amsterdam's city centre and about 15km north of Utrecht. The city is home to several major radio, television, and newspaper companies such as ''Nederlandse Omroep Stichting''. Hilversum is thus known for being the ''mediastad'' (media city) of the Netherlands. Town Hilversum lies south-east of Amsterdam and north of Utrecht (city), Utrecht. The town is known for its architecturally important Hilversum Town Hall, Town Hall (Raadhuis Hilversum), designed by Willem Marinus Dudo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noordoostpolder
Noordoostpolder (; ) is a polder and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands. Formerly, it was also called ''Urk, Urker Land''. Emmeloord is the administrative center, located in the heart of the Noordoostpolder. For history, see Zuiderzee Works#Polders, Zuiderzee Works. Population centres The population centres are Bant, Creil (Netherlands), Creil, Emmeloord, Ens (Netherlands), Ens, Espel, Kraggenburg, Luttelgeest, Marknesse, Nagele, Rutten (Netherlands), Rutten, and Tollebeek. The former island of Schokland is now a museum. The town and former island of Urk, in the southwest, now surrounded by the Noordoostpolder, is a separate municipality. Topography ''Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Noordoostpolder, June 2015'' Rail links There are no railway stations in the Noordoostpolder, but the nearest stations are in Kampen railway station, Kampen, Steenwijk railway station, Steenwijk and Lelystad Centrum r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principal Photography
Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production. Personnel Besides the main film personnel, such as the actors, director, cinematographer(s) or sound engineer(s) and their respective assistants ( assistant director, camera assistant, boom operator), the unit production manager plays a decisive role in principal photography. They are responsible for the daily implementation of the shoot, managing the daily call sheet, the location barriers, transportation, and catering. Additional typical roles during filming include the script supervisor to record changes to the script and the still photographer to produce images for advertising and documentation. Several reports are prepared each day to track the progress of a film production, including the daily production report, the daily progress report, and the sound report. Process Prepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buena Vista International
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is an American film distributor within the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. It handles theatrical and occasional digital distribution, marketing, and promotion for films produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios, including Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, and Searchlight Pictures, though it operates its own autonomous theatrical distribution and marketing unit in the United States. The company was originally established by Walt Disney in 1953 as Buena Vista Film Distribution Company Inc. (later renamed Buena Vista Distribution Inc. and Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Inc.). It took on its current name in late 2007. History Before in 1953, Disney's productions were previously distributed by: * M.J. Winkler Pictures (1924–1926), * Film Booking Offices of America (1926–1927), * Universal Pictures (1927–1928), * Celebrity P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as Filmworks, Casablanca Record & Filmworks, PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures or simply PFE) was a film production company founded in 1975 as an American film studio, which became a European competitor to Hollywood within two decades, but was eventually sold to Seagram in 1998 and was folded into Universal Pictures a year later. Among its most successful and well known films were '' The Deep'' (1977), '' Midnight Express'' (1978), ''An American Werewolf in London'' (1981), '' Flashdance'' (1983), ''Batman'' (1989), ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (1994), ''Trainspotting (film), Trainspotting '' (1996), ''Dead Man Walking (film), Dead Man Walking'' (1995), ''The Big Lebowski'' (1998), ''Fargo (1996 film), Fargo'' (1996), ''The Usual Suspects'' (1995), ''The Game (1997 film), The Game'' (1997), ''Candyman (1992 film), Candyman'' (1992) and ''Notting Hill (film), Notting Hill'' (1999). Overview In 1975, Peter Guber formed its o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
