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Argentinian actress Delfina Chaves (The Secret Of The Greco Family) and Martijn Lakemeier (The East) have signed on to star in the drama series Maxima.

The series tells the life story of the Argentinian-born Dutch Queen Máxima. Millstreet Films is the producer and will also handle international sales. Rtl commissioned the series for the Netherlands.

The series will shoot in Argentina, New York, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands from June. Rachel van Bommel of Millstreet Films is producing. Head writers are Marnie Blok and Ilse Ott. Episodes will be directed by Saskia Diesing, Joosje Duk, and Iván López Núñez.

The full synopsis reads: From the moment Máxima Zorreguieta appears at the Dutch crown prince’s side, she finds herself in the spotlight. When Willem-Alexander asks her to marry him, the past catches up with her. Heated discussion erupts about her father’s political career in the Videla regime – a discussion...

Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2023 Academy Awards.

Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.

Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry

An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.

Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.

A shortlist of 15 finalists is...

European Film Promotion has revealed the 10 actors who will take part in the 24th edition of European Shooting Stars. The program, which launches emerging European thespians onto the world stage, has boosted the careers of actors like Carey Mulligan, Alicia Vikander, Riz Ahmed and George MacKay.

For the first time, Efp will present the neophyte actors to the film industry, public and international press as part of a three-day online program. Efp’s oldest and most prestigious initiative will take place digitally from Feb. 23-25, one week before the industry events of this year’s 71st Berlinale (March 1-5). The Shooting Stars award ceremony will take place within the framework of the Berlinale screenings in the summer.

“Although this year we sadly cannot meet in person, we invite you to join, discover and celebrate the best in rising European acting talent, while staying safe at home,” Efp’s managing director Sonja Heinen said.

In the same vein as Come and See, Empire of the Sun and Hope and Glory comes, Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter). Set in a small Dutch village during a famine and the dying days of WW2, the film focuses on a young lad named Michiel.

After a British Raf pilot (Jamie Campbell Bower) crashes in some nearby woods, Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier) is given a map for safekeeping by a member of the resistance revealing the wounded man’s whereabouts. Curious for adventure and defiant against the occupying Nazi forces, he seeks him out and offers to help.

Director Martin Koolhoven’s award-winning film was a massive hit in the Netherlands and earned over eight million dollars at the domestic box office. It earned more than such films as The Dark Knight and Twilight (that’s no small feat). Produced by the same team behind Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book and...

This is a competition for Winter in Wartime, also known as Oorlogswinter, directed by Martin Koolhoven and starring Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower (Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, The Twilight Saga: New Moon), Raymond Thiry, Melody Klaver, Anneke Blok and Mees Peijnenburg. From the producer of Black Book comes a beautifully crafted Dutch coming-of-age drama directed by Martin Koolhoven and starring Jamie Campbell Bower (Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, The Twilight Saga: New Moon). The film follows a young boy who becomes involved with the Dutch resistance after he helps a wounded British soldier during the final winter of World War II.

With the 4.4 million dollar haul Black Book (Zwartboek) made back in 2006, Sony Pictures Classics are hoping that lightning strikes twice grabbing one more Dutch pic set during the war in Martin Koolhoven's Winter in Wartime. - With the 4.4 million dollar haul Black Book (Zwartboek) made back in 2006, Sony Pictures Classics are hoping that lightning strikes twice grabbing one more Dutch pic set during the war in Martin Koolhoven's Winter in Wartime. I'm sensing Empire of the Sun-like similarities with The Netherland's entry for Best Foreign Language -- Oorlogswinter hasn't been on my radar but this was an entry in film festivals in Pusan and Rome. No date has been set.  Based on a popular young adult novel by Jan Terlouw, near the end of World War II, Winter In Wartime shows how 13-year-old Michiel becomes involved with the Resistance after coming...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired U.S. rights to the Dutch film "Winter in Wartime" from High Point Films, the theatrical division of Carey Fitzgerald's London-based High Point Media Group.

Directed by Martin Koolhaven, "Winter," the Dutch entry for the best foreign-language Oscar, look at the Dutch resistance during World War II from the perspective of a 13-year-old.

It was produced by Els Vandevorst and San Fu Maltha.

So, there might be more than one The Twilight Saga: New Moon star at the Academy Awards this year. All along, it's been a supposition here that Anna Kendrick and her film Up In The Air would be the Twilight series' connection to the Oscar's, but, apparently, Jamie Campbell Bower and his 2008 film Oorlogswinter (translated to Winter In Wartime) is already on the shortlist for Oscar contention. Winter In Wartime is shortlisted, according to a recent press release, in the category for "Foreign Language Film." It sits alongside eight others upon the short list - a dramatic jump from the sixty-five originally in contention. The film's director, Martin Koolhoven, issued a twitter message to Bower ...