02/03/2018 - The cast of this Labyrinthe Films and Atchafalaya Films production, sold by Other Angle Pictures, includes Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sveva Alviti and Sami Bouajila

Following Chrysalis [+see also:
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film profile], popular recently in Blessed [+see also:
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film profile] and The Crew), Belgium’s Kevin Janssens (a European Film Promotion Shooting Star in 2007, Ensor Award for Best Actor in 2016 for The Ardennes [+see also:
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interview: Robin Pront
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interview: Coralie Fargeat
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interview: Bart Van Langendonck
interview: Michaël R. Roskam
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interview: Alice Rohrwacher
interview: Tiziana Soudani
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interview: Jessica Woodworth
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Written by Jérémie Guez (The Night Eats the World [+see also:
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Produced by Julien Madon (a European Film Promotion Producer on the Move in 2016) and Julien Leclercq for Labyrinthe Film with Aimée Buidine and Jérémie Guez for Atchafalaya Films (the two companies are working together under the Cheyenne Films banner), The Bouncer is being co-produced by Belgian outfits Umedia (Bastien Sirodot) and 10:80 Films (Nadil Ben Yadir and Benoît Roland), as well as by C8 Films. Having also been pre-purchased by Canal+, Ciné+ and CStar, The Bouncer is being shot over seven weeks in Belgium, and principal photography is due to wrap on 28 March. The French distribution will be handled by Océan Films, while the international sales are being overseen by Other Angle Pictures.

Labyrinthe Films, which has produced such films as SK1 [+see also:
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(Translated from French)