Ben stassen biography
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Ben Stassen is a Belgian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Within the European film industry, it is grudgingly accepted that locally produced animation has little chance of competing against the juggernauts from Pixar and DreamWorks. That is what makes the achievements of Brussels-based Ben Stassen [pictured right], founder of nWave Pictures, so notable.
In 2008, Summit released Stassen’s first animated 3D feature Fly Me To The Moon in the US.
At the time, there were only a few hundred 3D cinemas in the US but the film, which went out on 400 screens, still managed to reach 2 million admissions and went on to gross $42m at the global box office.
Thanks to his partnership with Studiocanal, Stassen’s productions are now shown around the world — and sometimes outperform films from the US majors.
A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures, for example, made close to $10m at the South Korean box office. Later this year, Lionsgate will release nWave’s latest film, The Wild Life (aka Robinson Crusoe), in the US on 2,000 screens.
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