Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities
Filed accounts
NACE 59140 · financial year 2025 · 88 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 42.3% | 38.4% | 35.8% | 39.7% | 47.0% | 47.2% |
| Median net result | -€8,229 | €4,922 | €775 | €30,177 | €42,007 | €31,195 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 16-06-2026 | MEDIACINE
BE 0837.524.229 |
| 04-03-2026 | ANIMOTION
BE 0458.674.792 |
| 20-02-2026 | WHITE CINEMA BRUSSELS
BE 0640.784.770 |
| 10-10-2025 | L.E.A.H.
BE 0656.939.032 |
| 21-02-2025 | LWS PRODUCTION
BE 0809.711.953 |
| 13-12-2023 | Pauwels, Aldo
BE 0503.804.241 · sole trader · Kortrijk |
| 09-12-2022 | DIGITAL GRAPHICS ANIMATION
BE 0697.614.102 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 142 of 155 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Flanders
The balance sheets of division 59 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 59140 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 KINEPOLIS GROUPBrussels 141 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 KINEPOLIS MULTIKortrijk 71.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 U.G.C. BELGIUMIxelles 61.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 UGC VLAANDERENIxelles 37.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 EMPIRECharleroi 31.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 43 companies- 303.03 Film industry 26
- 303 Film industry 6
- 302 Hotels and catering 5
- 304 Performing arts 3
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 2
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
- 201 Independent retail 1
- 227 Audiovisual sector 1
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- 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 1
- 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 1
- 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 59: Film, video and music
Related activities
6 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video and film production, excluding cinema and television films59113 | 2,621 | 562 | 7 | 924 |
| Production of cinema films59111 | 1,303 | 58 | 3 | 767 |
| Post-production of films, video and television programmes59120 | 1,045 | 71 | 4 | 243 |
| Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities59114 | 518 | 35 | 1 | 674 |
| Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities59112 | 473 | 24 | 0 | 254 |
| Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities59130 | 308 | 17 | 2 | 167 |
Bankruptcies per year in division 59
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 28 | 21 | 26 | 32 | 30 | 27 | 17 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 39 | 33 |
| Jobs lost | 35 | 37 | 54 | 46 | 54 | 103 | 48 | 52 | 54 | 40 | 56 | 74 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 59
264 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €59,500 | €45,800 to €77,600 | 168 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €70,900 | €58,400 to €94,600 | 84 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 59Measured nationally: Of 108,621 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 9 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
23 of the 4,309 companies in NACE division 59 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (7), Netherlands (7) and United Kingdom (3). Together they employ 694 of the division's 3,956 FTE: 18%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €148.4m awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €120.1m paid
- Federal transfers 40,275 amount as published
- EU budget €59.0m attributed share
- EU research €604,500 EU contribution
Insights on Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €31,195 is above Belgium's €16,500. Return on equity of 10.2% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 34.5% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 34.5% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 21.4 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 7.7% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 27.6% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 342 of the 646 FTE: 53.0%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 42.3% in financial year 2020 to 47.2% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from -€8,229 in financial year 2020 to €31,195 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 59140 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.