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MAJOR SOKOLOV’S HETAERAS
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BAKHTYAR KHUDOJNAZAROV’S PROJECT
Russian film director Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov started working
on multi-episode action drama Major Sokolov’s Hetaeras. The
shooting process opened in Yalta. Series premiere is planned for
2014.
Synopsis: action takes place in the period before The SovietFinnish War. The main characters are five young girls whose mission is to spy abroad. These girls training presuppose not just
fulfillment of military functions but also development of special
skills...
Director: Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov.
Cast: Sergei Garmash, Andrey
Panin, Ksenia Rappoport, Igor Petrenko, Sergei Ugryumov, etc.
Genre: Action drama.
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov
CESAR
SERIES
DT PRODUCTION
Russian film company DT Production finished shooting 8-episode suspense detective with a tentative title Cesar. Filming
took place in Moscow and its outskirts. The project premiere is
planned for 2013.
Synopsis: Alexei Govorkov works as a journalist and press photographer with a nickname Cesar unveiling all failures of police
and officials on his own internet-portal. The police chief in order
to save his own reputation makes unexpected step and invites
Cesar to join the investigation department as an observer who
could show and reflect police real activities. But this investigation
group is given the simplest cases though nobody could predict
that the journalist will look at easy tasks as at really difficult and
complicated. Cesar sees and processes facts that ordinary officers miss. But the more Govorkov interferes into police work
the more irritation and aggression his actions evoke. Moreover
one of the agents suspects the journalist of being involved in the
range of crimes.
Producers: Alexey Moiseyev, David Dishdishyan.
Director: Eldar Salavatov.
Script: Ivan Serbin.
Cast: Daniil Strakhov, Victor Verzhbitsky, Artem Tkachenko, Anastasia Makeyeva.
Number of episodes: 8.
Genre: Detective.
THE TRAP
SERIES
FILM.UA PRODUCTION,
CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP
This November Ukrainian FILM.UA Production company in coproduction with Russian prodco Central Partnership finished
shooting 24-episode detective The Trap. Filming started early
June 2012 and took place in Kiev and Kiev region.
Synopsis: Hard 1990s have passed. But people who once had
a taste of the big time, do not miss their chance during another
sharing out to get even more. One of the most important authorities in southern Russia, Vyacheslav Lebedev, nicknamed “Artist”,
retires on a well-deserved pension, leaving his empire to his loyal
deputies ... It was the circumstance which made leaders of other
groups to decide that it was time for the redivision of spheres of
influence. And without preventing the war, not only the city but
the entire region will drown in blood. Film “The Trap” allows the
viewer to dive into the world of action, brutal gangster shootouts
and sincere feelings, where love borders on death, and the honor becomes the hostage of money and power.
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Producers: Armen Davityan, Victor
Mirsky.
Director: Sergey Korotayev.
Script: Vasiliy Popov, Dmitriy Lysenko, Evgeniy Gorislavets.
Cast: Sergey Gazarov, Igor Botvin,
Anatoliy Khostikoyev, Ivan Oganesyan, Sergey Sosnovsky, Maksim
Drozd, Evgeniy Efremov, Sergey
Strelnikov, Stanislav Boklan, Marina Konyashkina, Natalya Dolya,
Inna Kapinos, Ekaterina Kisten.
Genre: Detective.
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THE SNIFFER
SERIES
FILM.UA PRODUCTION
This November Ukrainian FILM.UA Production company finished shooting 12-episode detective The Sniffer. Filming started in 2011 and took place in Ukraine.
Synopsis: His name is Nyuhach (“the Sniffer”). He has an extraordinary sense of smell, and for him, no secrets or unsolved
crimes exist. Nyuhach can use his smell to deduce about anyone: what he ate, who he slept with, does he have an alibi. This
unique ability is his gift and his curse. On the one hand, he can
solve even the most tangled and complicated crime, knows
all the intimate secrets of politicians, businessmen and crime
bosses. On the other, Nuyhach is completely unprotected from
the outside world, which is full of all kinds of smells. He cannot
develop relationships with women, or have friends, because
he knows everything about them. He is never surprised, never
fooled, every outside smell turns him off any romantic encounter.
He has a complicated, but interesting life…
Producer: Victor Mirsky.
Director: Artem Litvinenko.
Script: Artem Litvinenko, Andrey
Babik.
Cast: Kirill Kyaro, Ivan Oganesyan,
Maria Anikanova, Aleksandr Tyutin, Boris Kamorzin, etc.
Genre: Detective.
RUSSIAN MARRIAGE
SERIES
Russian film company GP CINEMA has in post-production
4-episode romance Russian Marriage. The project is commissioned by Channel One Russia.
GP CINEMA
Synopsis: two women are two friends with different lifestyles and
views. One of them is a person who often runs into extremes,
another one is rather an annoyingly proper. She thinks that if you
are already thirty you have to find a match and it doesn’t matter
whether you love this guy or not. To be a normal element of modern society you have to get married…
Director: Ekaterina Shagalova.
Cast: Julia Sorokina, Valentina Samokhina, Yaroslav
Boiko, Alisa Khazanova, Lubov
Tolkalina,Veniamin Smekhov.
Genre: Romance.
Ekaterina Shagalova
PCM GROUP. A PRIMARY CONCERN
MISSION
SERIES
GREEN FILM
In the middle of November Russian production studio Green
Film started shooting 8-episode war adventure series PCM
Group. A Primary Concern Mission.
Rodion Pavlyuchik
Synopsis: The series tells about a group of Soviet spies, who
complete the most dangerous and important tasks during the
WWII. They have to overcome difficulties, to face enemies,
to learn about real friendship and loss. Several times the mission can seem to be on the edge of failure but belief in victory,
courage and authentic skills of the main characters will help the
group to find a solution to any problem…
Producer: Rodion Pavlyuchik.
Director: Peter Amelin.
Script: Nikolai Ageev.
Cast: Eduard Truhmenev Maria
Kulikova, Sergei Batalov.
Genre: Military adventures.
A PROPHET OF MISFORTUNE
SERIES
Russian production studio Lenfilm has in pre-production a new
historical series A Prophet of Misfortune. Recently producers
announced casting for the leading parts. Shooting process will
start in February 2013 in Saint Petersburg.
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Director: Andrei Malyukov.
Script: Eduard Volodarsky.
Genre: Historical drama.
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Synopsis: Year 1904. Rasputin with the help of abbot Theophanes moved to Saint Petersburg where he gained a reputation of a “saint”. It was Theophanes who told daughters of Montenegrin prince Nikolay Negosh about this stranger. The sisters
Militsa and Anastasia shared news about a new big name in religion with empress. But after several years he became quite a
different person in the crowd of other God’s men…
THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
SERIES
This November marked the beginning of shooting 4-episode TV
detective drama Flowers of Evil by Russian film company Luch.
Filming takes place in Rostov-na-Donu city and Novocherkassk.
The project is commissioned by Russia 1 TV channel.
LENFILM
Anna Legchilova
Director: Anna Legchilova.
Cast: Dmitry Ulyanov, Svetlana
Antonova.
Genre: Detective drama.
Synopsis: the series centers on a maniac who is mad about
Charles Baudelaire’s works, namely the collection of poems The
Flowers of Evil. The main character associates himself with the
hero of the poems. The reason for this is the death of his beloved
wife. But the man is not the only person in Russia who has such
psychological problems and disorders. The worst thing is that
such people don’t differ from the others. They are nice, polite
and very pleasant at first sight. Nobody can even imagine that
this person is a maniac whose aim and desire is murder. To prevent such crimes and save people from evil the best police officers do their utmost…
SPECIAL ORDERS
SERIES
OLEG POGODIN’S PROJECT
Russian film director Oleg Pogodin has a multi episode historical detective Special Orders
in production period. Currently the shooting takes place in Volkhov. The series will premiere in 2013 on one of the Russian federal TV channels.
Oleg Pogodin
Director: Oleg Pogodin.
Cast: Andrei Merzlikin, Yuri Solomin, Sergey Puskepalis.
Genre: Historical detective.
Synopsis: 1957 became a great year for the USSR. The world’s
first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviet Union.
That was the time of changes including the first technogenic disaster and first football fans’ disturbances. But some strange
crimes occured in a small town located far from technological
developments and novelties. The cases were so mysterious that
the USSR Committee for State Security sent a special agent to
solve them. A police officer who was in charge of the investigation had no privileges and power any more. So a newcomer and
a worker of Ministry of Interior start a competition. But they compete not only in work but also in the sphere of feelings. Both of
them are in love with one woman…
WEREWOLF HUNTERS
SERIES
Russian production center Green Film started working on
24-episode detective action Werewolf Hunters. Currently the
project is in pre-production period. Series premier is planned for
2013.
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Genre: Action.
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Synopsis: a special group was formed in the course of the reorganization of the Law Enforcement Agency. Its main task is to
fight against military werewolves. This group received inviolability status. The only head and controller of the special group
is Colonel Orlov who is the senior analyst in Federal Security
Service of the Russian Federation. The unique professional
connections and skills open wide range of opportunities for the
group. Nobody can hide from justice of the special security officers including politicians, criminal syndicates and mafia.
THERE WERE TWO COMRADES
SERIES
PRO100 FILM
Russian production center PRO100 Film has in pre-production
24-episode adventure action There Were Two Comrades. Series premier is planned for 2013.
Director: Ivan Krivoruchko.
Genre: Action.
Synopsis: They are two comrades. Mikhail works in homicide
unit and Victor is an officer of special squad of Federal Security
Service of the Russian Federation. Terrorists threaten to bomb
the city. While Mikhail chases criminals who took part in bomb
creation, a special group led by Victor assaults abandoned
warehouse where the main forces of terrorists are located. Only
Mikhail can find a group of drug dealers investigating a simple
case. And only Victor can punish corrupted politicians who hide
dangerous criminals…
MOM WILL BE AGAINST
SERIES
SERGEY BASIN’S PROJECT
Russian film director Sergey Basin is working on 4-episode TV
romance Mom Will Be Against. Shooting has already taken
place in Saint Petersburg and Sevastopol and recentle the filming crew has returned to Saint Petersburg.
Synopsis: in the centre of the plot are relationships between
grown-up children and their moms who try to control kids’ private life. The main characters are in their 30s but they are not
able to break their mothers’ care. Zhenya and Sasha are very influenced by their parents’ opinion. That’s why both of them can’t
adopt to adult life. Sasha can’t cook and Zhenya refuses to face
routine household duties. But the woman and the man are very
different. While Zhenya is disorganized and awkward Sasha likes
to control other people and always gains her goals. So couple’s
love is in danger. Though everything turns to be good. Mothers
find their love and the story has a happy end.
Sergei Basin
Director: Sergei Basin.
Cast: Olga Krasko, Elena Safonov,
Nikolai Ivanov, Sergey Parshin,
Tatiana Tuzova.
Genre: Romance.
RE-TRIAL
SERIES
SERGEY PUSKEPALIS’
PROJECT
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Russian actor Sergey Puskepalis started pre-production period of his director debut - 8-episode series based on the novel of
the same name by famous writer Aleksey Slapovskiy. Shooting
should start next year.
Director: Sergei Puskepalis.
Script: Alexey Slapovsky.
Genre: Thriller.
Synopsis: the storyline begins with an escape of 5 prisoners from
the jail. They arrived to Moscow under the supervision in order to
be present on re-trial. A hardened recidivist, a financial tycoon, a
maniac, a car thief and paranoic demobilized military officer who
is very angry with his bride’s betrayal capture intercity bus. Now
14 passengers and 2 drivers are their hostages. The criminals
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want to move off from the capital as far as possible. Meanwhile
the passengers drink with jailbirds, listen to fake stories, rebel,
submit to criminals’ orders and wait for release...
KILL STALIN
SERIES
Russian-Ukrainian film company Star Media started shooting
8-episode war adventure movie Kill Stalin. Filming takes place
in Moscow, Yaroslavl and Rybinsk and will be wrapped up in 2013.
STAR MEDIA
Synopsis: Autumn, 1941. German troops come up to Moscow.
Here Soviet soldiers try to hold Germans back. It’s very cold and
the situation is very problematic and difficult. Enemy’s attacks are
extremely aggressive. So the leaders of the Reich decide to make a
smashing strike and kill Stalin. The special group formed by members of fascist organization Abwehr is responsible for this operation.
One of the German agents works in the heart of Russian army and
helps Nazis to fulfill their plans. But brave, smart and courageous
Soviet soldiers won’t let Germans win this war game…
Producer: Vlad Riashyn.
Director: Sergei Ginzburg.
Script: Igor Ter-Karapetov.
Cast: Alexander Domogarov,
Mikhail Porechenkov, Ekaterina
Vilkova Pavel Trubiner, Andrey
Gusev, Vasily Mishchenko, Igor
Khripunov, Jaroslav Zhalnin, Igor
Artashonov, etc.
Genre: Military Adventure.
THE BEST ENEMIES
SERIES
TRIIKS MEDIA
Inessa Yurchenko
Russian film company Triiks Media started filming multi episode crime drama The Best Enemies. The project is commissioned by Russian NTV channel.
Synopsis: the main characters are two different officers who lead
departments in the Law enforcement agency. Two men don’t like
each other. Gromov is an ordinary straightforward person while
Vereshagin pretends to be an intellectual aristocrat. Despite the
lieutenant colonel rank Gromov does the hardest work helping
his colleagues and subordinates to investigate cases. Meanwhile three assistants help Vereshagin to manage the department in a cozy office. The only thing that links their lives is their
job. Gromov and Vereshagin have to approve the investigation
process of every case mutually. Men take offense at each other
for a long time but their conflicts often happen to help solving
many problems…
Producers: Inessa Yurchenko,
Sergei Shcheglov.
Director: Bogdan Drobiazko.
Script: Anastasia Tereshkina,
Alexey Hasanov, Marianna Faktorovich Vladimir Izmailov.
Cast: Sergei Selin, Alexey Nilov,
Anna Tabanina, Sergey Aprelsky,
Vera Sotnikova, etc.
Genre: Crime drama.
THINK LIKE A WOMAN
SERIES
Russian prodco YBW Group is in production of its new sitcom
Think Like a Woman. Filming started this November. The project was commissioned by Russian TV channel CTC and is set to
premiere next year.
YBW GROUP
Synopsis: Evgeniy Novikov is a modern Russian Don Juan. A
womanizer quickly changes girls and doesn’t even bother about
seeking the only love. Once he meets Dasha who previously
was his colleague. Long ago a young woman presented a new
tourism project to her boss who immediately fired the girl after
watching her presentation. Now everything has changed. Dasha’s project can win a tender organized by the Ministry of Culture. But young woman remembers the offence and refuses to
work arm in arm with her ex-boss. Nevertheless Novikov can’t
think of anything but Dasha and her project…
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Producers: Vyacheslav Murugov,
Eduard Iloyan, Vitaly Shlyappo,
Alexey Trotsyuk, Denis Zhalinsky.
Director: Andrei Silkin.
Cast: Marat Basharov, Sergey
Chirkov.
Genre: Sitcom.
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ANGELIKA
SERIES
Russian film company YBW Group started shooting a new sitcom Angelika. The project is commissioned by CTC-channel.
YBW GROUP
Vyacheslav Murugov
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Synopsis: an ordinary girl leads ordinary life. But the girl has a
serious problem – she is overweight. Her weight is 99.9 kg and
it hinders the girl to communicate with boys. She has a wide
range of complexes that influence her self-confidence. But one
day she wakes up and finds out that she has lost 50 kg. The girl
doesn’t know how it has happened and doesn’t bother about
it. Now Angelika’s life will certainly change. But her happiness
fades away next morning when she finds out her previous body
shape. What is going on? What are these strange transformations? Who can guess this secret?
Producer: Vyacheslav Murugov.
Cast: Angelica Kashirina Marusya
Zykova, Ksenia Teplova Vasiliy
Rakash, etc.
Genre: Sitcom.
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LOVE FROM A TEST-TUBE
TV Movies
MEDIAPROFSOYUZ
Russian production company Mediaprofsoyuz finished filming
2-episode TV drama Love From a Test-Tube. The project is in
post-production now. Movie will premier on Russia 1 TV-channel
in 2013.
Synopsis: Nina is just over 30 years old woman. She is alone and
doesn’t believe in love anymore. So the woman decides to give
a birth to a child. But it’s not so easy as it may seem. It’s a really hard task to find a proper biological father. But Nina’s sister
Galina finally finds the way out. She works in the Center for Reproductive Medicine and is going to help her sister with a donor.
At last she chooses a chic and successful businessman Valeriy
Uvarov who doesn’t even know about sisters’ plans. IVF passes
successfully so a boy Stepka is born. After six years the life of a
main heroine improves. She is happy with her son and she has
made a good career. But the fate has its own plans for Nina. Suddenly woman gets to know that her boss, a real bore and despot,
turns out to be Stepka’s father…
Producers: Alexander Kushaev,
Vladimir Ignatiev.
Director: Ilya Khotinenko.
Script: Yana Romanenko.
Cast: Yana Shivkova, Yuri Baturin,
Sergey Komarov, Anton Strashko
Olga Burlakova Tatiana Bovkalova,
Andrew Karako, etc.
Genre: Drama.
LET ME KISS YOU…AT THE WEDDING
TV Movies
TELEFILM PRODUCTION
Russian production center Telefilm Production is working on
comedy Let Me Kiss You…at the Wedding. The project is in
pre-production now. Its premiere is set for 2013.
Cast: Igor Lifanov ,Maria Kulikova,
Boris Shcherbakov.
Genre: Comedy.
Synopsis: Vlasov is reinstated in a military rank. He is transferred
to the unit located nearby Moscow. The whole family is happy in
a new flat. So Vlasov decides to get married. The man has been
dating with his beloved woman for a long-long time but for his
work and all circumstances he hadn’t opportunity to propose to
her. At least Vlasov makes a proposal. So here plannings and
preparations for the wedding begin…
Igor Lifanov
THE HOUSE STEWARD
TV Movies
Russian-Ukrainian film company Star Media started shooting
period of a new fiction comedy The House Steward. Filming
takes place in Ukraine.
STAR MEDIA
Synopsis: Lesha Agafonov studies at university. Once a newcomer
appears in their group. Her name is Angelina Aistova. But handsome man can’t attract attention of the beauty. So he decides to
imitate a crash with Angelina’s car. When the boy comes to Aistova’s house he realizes that he has fallen in love with daughter
of a financial tycoon. Angelina’s father is under pressure now because of the hard times and a business ‘war’ with his main industry
rival. Lesha wants to smooth the situation with car and becomes
a gardener at Aistova’s house. He often comes to a flower shop
where he meets a nice shop assistant Katya. So they immediately
become friends. Later Katya turns out to be Aistov’s elder daughter. But she is straight-forward person who wants to achieve a
success without help of her famous and rich family. During some
celebration the main Aistov’s rival Tikhonov confesses that Lesha
is his son, who has found a solution to their business conflict. Angelina is shocked and embarrassed for she hasn’t noticed that
Leash as a good match for her. But Lesha has changed his mind.
Now he has tender and mutual feelings to Katya.
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Producers: Vlad Riashyn Yuri
Minzyanov.
Director: Roman Barabash.
Script: Vyacheslav Durnenkov Maria Zelinskaya.
Cast: Ilya Glinnikov, Alika Smekhova, Polina Vorobyova, Konstantin
Milovanov, Pavel Bessonov.
Genre: Comedy.
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LOVE NOT FORGET
TV Movies
Russian-Ukrainian film company Star Media launched into production 2-episode TV romance Love Not Forget. Shooting is
held in Moscow. The project is commissioned by Domashniy TVchannel (Russia).
STAR MEDIA
Synopsis: Marina is 37. She is divorced and her life is rather ordinary and boring. She brings up twelve year old Ksyusha and
works as a teacher in an art school. It seems to the woman that
her life is already finished and nothing else can happen. But everything changes when Marina meets Nikita. A young man immediately falls in love with Marina and is ready to do everything
to win her heart. The woman also feels some chemistry between
them. The problem is that Nikita is only 20 years old…
Producers: Vlad Riashyn, Daria
Lavrova, Natalia Bilan.
Director: Vyacheslav Lavrov.
Script: Elena Laskareva.
Cast: Natalia Antonova, Dmitry
Bederin, Polina Tarasova, Svetlana
Galka, Elena Starodub, Ruslan
Dzhaybekov, Pavel Shingarev, Angelica Volchkova.
Genre: Romance.
THE LAST VICTIM
TV Movies
On the 15th of November Russian group of companies WeiT Media, subsidiary of Endemol (Netherlands), wrapped up shooting
on TV drama The Last Victim. Filming was held in Saint Petersburg and its outskirts. The project is commissioned by Russia 1
TV channel.
WEIT MEDIA
Producer: Timur Weinstein.
Director: Fouad Shabanov.
Cast: Alexandra Samokhina, Dmitry Isaev, Gennady Smirnov, Marina
Yakovleva, etc.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: for the main character Yulya it is very difficult to overcome a loss of her beloved husband. Though some time passes
and she gets acquainted with another man. But this time her life
will be full of distrust, sorrow and betrayal. Nevertheless she has
a person to rely on - a friend who is always next to her…
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I WANT TO VIA GRA
TV Shows
GAUDI STUDIO
Konstantin Meladze
Ukrainian producer Konstantin Meladze and director Alan Badoev prepare new reality talent show I Want to VIA Gra. Alan
Badoev’s prodco Gaudi Studio is responsible for the show
production. Casting started on the 16th of December and takes
place in Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. The project will premiere in 2013 on the Ukrainian “1+1” TV channel and Russian
TV net NTV.
Producers: Konstantin Meladze,
Alan Badoev, Vladimir Zelensky.
Viewers of the show will choose new singers of the VIA Gra
band themselves. The authors of the project are going to show
the audience the “real show business” without embellishment.
The project will show the truth of remaking simple girls into pop
divas. The best stylists, makeup artists, musicians, and directors will work with the selected in the result of casting girls. Former VIA Gra soloists will prepare the contestants.
LADY BURLESQUE
TV Shows
Ukrainian Inter TV channel prepares new reality talent show
Lady Burlesque based on the Eccho Rights (the distribution
arm of Sparks Eccho, the newly formed entity of Sparks Network in Stockholm and Hong Kong and eccho media in Amterdam) format. Currently castings that take place in Kharkiv,
Donetsk, Odessa, Kiev, Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk are underway. Lady Burlesque originally comes from Italian producers
Europroduzione and will be included in Inter TV’s 2013 spring
schedule.
INTER
Format: Lady Burlesque
The art of burlesque is a phenomenon spreading all over the
world. Lady Burlesque is the reality-based talent competition
featuring women with normal lives that compete in the art of
burlesque. They attend the burlesque school and absorb the
culture, movements and fine details that go into performances,
from seduction tips and tricks, hair, make-up and accessories.
Ultimately, they compete in weekly studio based elimination
game that will reveal the femininity and sensuality that will wow
the viewers. And what is burlesque? Striptease without nudity…
TASTY DATE
TV Shows
Ukrainian Inter TV channel prepares new dating-cooking show
Tasty Date. Currently castings are underway. Show premiere
is planned for spring 2013.
INTER
Candidates for the creation of the most delicious pair with the
main character of the project will try to amaze him with their culinary talents. They will fight for his affection, ready to surprise
and feed him with self-made dishes. This is not just a culinary
contest; it is a fascinating reality show about the search for the
soul mate. A girl also may be the main heroine of the show, so
guys will have to cook too.
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DIET ON THE DANCEFLOOR
TV Shows
Ukrainian Inter TV channel prepares new entertainment makeover show Diet on the Dancefloor based on the British company Mentorn International format. Ukrainian broadcaster will
produce eight 60-minute episodes of the show. Currently castings are underway. Show premiere is planned for spring 2013.
INTER
Format: Diet on the Dancefloor.
Glamour meets fitness in this dance show with a difference.
In Diet on the Dancefloor, ten contestants have to shape up
and get fit through dance. With expert tuition, weekly dances,
tasks and eliminations they’ll go on a roller coaster journey
as they compete to become champions of Diet on the Dance
Floor. Paired up with a professional dancer, over eight gruelling
weeks, they have to learn to dance and improve their fitness as
they battle to gain a place in the final dance off.
DATE MY MOM
TV Shows
MTV RUSSIA
Russian TV channel MTV Russia is preparing a new dating
show Date My Mom based on the British company Shine International format. Currently castings are underway. Note that
Ukrainian adaptation of this format premiered on the TET TV
channel in February 2011.
Format: Date My Mom.
Three mothers with grown-up daughters and one young man
will participate in each episode of the show. After dating with
all three mothers, the young man will make a choice whose
daughter he would like to have a dating with. Meanwhile, mothers try to decide whether they would like this young man to date
their daughters or not. The host of each show will be its main
participant.
MASTER CHEF 3
TV Shows
Ukrainian STB TV channel is launching the third season of culinary reality show Master Chef, based on the British Shine
International company format. Currently casting is underway.
STB
Format: Master Chef.
This is a culinary reality show, whose participants are people
without professional culinary training, but want to demonstrate
their culinary abilities to the nation. The main goal of the program is to choose only 30 deserving amateur chefs from thousands of contestants, who will then, during a period of several
weeks, compete to earn the name of the best chef in Ukraine.
The participants will pass the casting by pleasing the professional chef judges’ taste buds with their dishes. The weakest
contestants must permanently leave the project. At the end of
the show, there must be one person left who will receive a prize
of 500,000 hrivnas and a free education in Paris at Le Cordon
Bleu.
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MAKE THE COMEDIAN LAUGH
TV Shows
STUDIO KVARTAL 95
Ukrainian production company Studio Kvartal 95 started
shooting the fifth season of standup comedy show Make the
Comedian Laugh. Casting finished on the 23d of December
and took place in the ten biggest cities of Ukraine. Earlier Inter
TV channel aired the show but the new season will premiere on
“1+1” TV channel.
Host: Dmitriy Shepelev.
The point of the show it to make the two judges, Vladimir Zelensky and Mikhail Galustyan, laugh or smile in less than a minute.
If the participant or the team (two people) does this, they win
some money and can try to make the judges laugh again for
more money. This can often continue for a few rounds until the
team runs out of routines (or is satisfied) and takes whatever
money they’ve already won (maximum prize is 50,000 hrivnas).
WHAT IF?
TV Shows
Ukrainian TV channel TET is preparing a new sketch comedy
show What If? based on the German company Red Arrow International format. Currently shooting is underway. Ukrainian
prodco Roga i kopyta Production is producing the Ukrainian
adaptation of the format.
ТЕТ
Director: Ivan Sautkin, Ivan Yasniy.
Format: What if.
“What If?” is an imaginative roller coaster of sketches that immerses viewers in life as it could be – almost! Each sketch begins with a question starting with “What if”. What if Barbie was
a real woman? What if the Titanic never sank? What if butchers
were like rock stars? What if auto mechanics were honest? And
this is exactly the goal of “What If?” – transporting the viewers into a completely new and different world! Showing a reality
that never happened, but easily could have.
THE BACHELOR
TV Shows
Russian TV channel ТNТ announced renewed casting for the
reality show The Bachelor based on the American format from
Warner Bros. and Next Entertainment. Earlier it was supposed
to produce the show in September – December 2012, but creators faced the problem of the main character absence. Note
that Ukrainian STB channel is already preparing the third season of the format local version.
ТNТ
Format: The Bachelor.
The series revolves around a single bachelor (deemed eligible)
and a pool of romantic interests, which could include a potential wife for the bachelor. The conflicts in the series, both internal and external, stem from the elimination-style format of the
show. Early in the season, the bachelor goes on large group
dates with the women, with the majority of women eliminated
during rose ceremonies. As the season progresses, women are
also eliminated on one-on-one dates and on elimination twoon-one dates. The process culminates with hometown visits to
the families of the final four women, overnight dates at exotic
locations with the final three women, and interaction with the
bachelor’s family and the final two women. In many cases, the
bachelor proposes to his final selection.
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HELL’S KITCHEN 3
TV Shows
Ukrainian TV channel “1+1” is preparing the third season of
the cooking show Hell’s Kitchen based on the British company ITV Studios International format. Currently casting is underway.
1+1
Host: Aram Mnatsakanov.
Format: Hell’s Kitchen.
Aspiring restaurateurs are put through an intense culinary
academy as Superstar chef Aram Mnatsakanov seeks out the
one chef who possesses the right combination of ingredients
to win the life-changing grand prize.
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LENIN?!
FEATURE FILMS
ARK FILMS,
CURB DENIZEN PRODUCTIONS
Kyrgyz prodco Ark Films in coproduction with British Curb
Denizen Productions started working on the black feature
comedy Lenin?! Film is currently in pre-production. Shooting is
planned for 2013. The project budget totals $620,000.
Producers: Oleg Vyboichenko,
Fyodor Druzin, Joanna Bence.
Script: Marat Alykulov
Genre: Black comedy.
Synopsis: Three punk kids in Kyrgyzstan steal a statue of Lenin
to make some extra cash selling it for scrap on the black market. Not knowing who Lenin is, they end up causing uproar in
their small town. How wrong they are. The town is in the middle
of municipal elections and the boys have unwittingly given the
candidates the ultimate buzz issue. As the situation spirals out
of control, the boys find themselves embroiled in politics, via the
city morgue and the library, as they try to learn (very quickly) just
who Lenin is … and how to get rid of him.
I CAN KNIT
FEATURE FILMS
BELOE ZERKALO
In the middle of November Russian film company Beloe Zerkalo
started working on a full-length feature film I Can Knit. Shooting
takes place in Saint-Petersburg and Moscow.
Synopsis: 20 years old’ Tanya is an ordinary girl, just like many
others. Endless everyday routine makes her think there is something wrong with her life – Tanya is not confident in her future,
and even worse – in present day. Trying to find her place in this
world, she suddenly triggers the long chain of events that will
change everything. Change forever.
Director: Nadezhda Stepanova.
Cast: Alina Hodzhevanova, Vladimir Svirsky, Irina Gorbacheva,
Oleg Dolin.
Genre: Drama.
ALL INCLUSIVE 2
FEATURE FILMS
EDUARD
RADZYUKEVICH’S FILM
Eduard Radzyukevich
Russian film director Eduard Radzyukevich is working on a
full-length comedy All inclusive 2. Shooting took place in Turkey and currently film crew moved to Moscow. Film release is
planned for spring 2013.
Synopsis: Andrey finally finds his love and is upbeat about his
future. Preparing for the wedding, he orders exclusive rings.
The problem is that he has to fly to Istanbul to take them. And
very soon everything will get out of control – Andrey will meet
his ex-companion Boris, escaped from the mental house Evelyn
and many other people. Love, passion, chase, betrayal and humor – all inclusive.
Director: Eduard Radzyukevich.
Script: Alexander Malenkov.
Cast: Mikhail Bespalov, Marina
Aleksandrova, Fedor Dobronravov, Anna Ardova, Roman
Madyanov, Nonna Grishaeva,
Eduard Radzyukevich, Olga Medynich, etc.
Genre: Comedy.
OTKHONCHIK. FIRST LOVE
FEATURE FILMS
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In the middle of November Russian prodco Feniks in coproduction with BuryatKino company started shooting a new fulllength comedy Otkhonchik. First Love. Due to be wrapped up
this month, shooting takes place in Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude. Film
premiere is planned for March 2013.
Director: Bair Dyshenov.
Cast: Sergei Snarski, Tatiana
Skorokhodova, Marta Zoriktueva, Sodnom Hazhitov, Mikhail
Elbonov, Anastasia Buzhinaeva.
Genre: Romantic comedy.
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Synopsis: Romeo-and-Juliette-style film tells the story of a
forbidden love between Russian young man from Irkutsk and
a Buriat girl. Parents are against their wedding because they
all have own plans for their children. Lovers try to keep their relationship in a secret, but it is not so easy as it looks, and often
leads to many funny situations…
AND GOD STEPPED OUT ON SPACE…
FEATURE FILMS
FRESH PRODUCTION
Ukrainian film company Fresh Production started working on
a full-length feature drama And God Stepped Out On Space…
Project received support from Rinat Akhmetov’s Foundation for
“Development of Ukraine” and currently is in a preproduction
period.
Producers: Julia Chernyavskaya,
Oleg Shcherbina.
Director: Zaza Buadze.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: a story about people who cannot find the common
language living close to each other. An abandoned village… Elderly couple is slightly drifting apart and an old man decides to
take drastic action – live separately…
ODNOKLASSNIKI.RU
FEATURE FILMS
HUDYAKOV PRODUCTION,
ART PICTURES
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Russian prodco Hudyakov production in a coproduction with Art
Pictures company is working on a full-length comedy Odnoklassniki.ru. Shooting already took place in Moscow and now film
crew moved to Los Angeles.
Synopsis: Young talented copywriter Lesha is down on his luck.
Whatever he does – he does it wrong. Having saved a dog from
the hooligan gang Lesha tries to return him to his real owner and
suddenly appears in a strange place where everything is under
control of a guy named Lil Weyn. For saving his dog Lil Weyn
gives Alesha a laptop, magic one – whatever you write in your
status in social network Odnoklassniki – will come true.
Producers: Dmitry Rudovsky,
Fyodor Bondarchuk, Kornelia
Polyak.
Director: Pavel Khudyakov.
Cast: Pyotr Fyodorov, Snoop
Dogg, Kornelia Polyak, Fyodor
Bondarchuk, Sergei Nikonenko,
Sergei Druzyak, Ksenia Sobchak, Zhanna Friske.
Genre: Comedy.
OPERATION MARKONI
FEATURE FILMS
INSIGHTMEDIA
Ukrainian filmmaker Anna Gres and Ukrainian prodco Insightmedia started working on a full-length spy detective Operation Markoni. The project was supported by the Ukrainian
State Film Agency receiving grant in amount of 12 mln. hryvnas
(about $1.5 mln). Total budget of the project is $4 mln.
Producers: Andrey Suyarko,
Vladimir Filippov.
Director: Anna Gres.
Script: Mark Gres.
Genre: Spy detective.
Synopsis: Shortly before the Polish–Soviet War Zenon Dibrova,
Simon Petlyura’s emissary, arrives to Kholodnyi Yar. Being a
counterspy he accidentally finds out that there is Cheka (AllRussian Extraordinary Commission for Combating CounterRevolution, Speculation, and Sabotage) agent inside headquarters. Dibrova have to lay open the spy and his plans…
Anna Gres
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LOVE IN THE BIG CITY 3
FEATURE FILMS
KVARTAL-95 STUDIO,
LEOPOLIS
Ukrainian prodco Kvartal-95 Studio in coproduction with Russian Leopolis film company is working on a full-length romantic
comedy Love in the Big City 3. Project is currently in a preproduction period. Shooting will start next spring in Las Vegas.
Synopsis: Action takes place 5 years later after the end of the
second movie. All three families faced the most frightful thing –
boring everyday life, which slightly but steadily drive them mad.
And finding the way to relax can bring new adventures…
Producers: Sergey Livnev, Lev
Nicolau.
Director: Marius Weisberg.
Cast: Alexei Chadov, Vera Brezhneva, Ville Haapasalo, Anastasia
Zadorozhnaya, Vladimir Zelensky,
Svetlana Hodchenkova, Philip
Kirkorov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Mikhail
Efremov.
Genre: Comedy.
A PLANT NAMED HOPE
FEATURE FILMS
NATALYA
MESHCHANINOVA’S FILM
Russian doc filmmaker Natalya Meshchaninova finished
shooting her debut full-length movie – youth romance entitled
A Plant Named Hope. Project is currently in a postproduction
period and is to be completed in spring 2013. Shooting took
place in Norilsk and Perm. Production budget is $300,000.
Synopsis: a young girl lives in an industrial district of a big city.
She believes that her luck directly depends on the residence –
shall she move to another district and her life will change in an
instant…
Producer: Elena Stepanischeva.
Director: Natalia Meshchaninova.
Script: Lubov Mulmenko Ivan
Ugarov, Jaroslav Pulinovich.
Cast: Daria Savelieva, Maxim
Stoyanov, Daniel Steklov, Stepan
Devonin, Polina Shanina.
Genre: Romance.
Natalia Meshchaninova
A MONK AND A DEMON
FEATURE FILMS
NIKOLAY DOSTAL’S FILM
Nikolay Dostal’
Russian filmmaker Nikolay Dostal’ started working on a new
feature drama A Monk and a Demon. Project is currently in a
preproduction period. Shooting is planned for 2013. Russian
Cinema Fund already supported project but its budget is still to
be announced.
Director: Nikolay Dostal’.
Script: Yuriy Arabov.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: Tragicomical story of an everlasting battle between
the Good and Evil, which is not as meaningless as it seems to
be – Evil will prevail if not to fight it back. A monk tries to defeat
a materialized demon named Legion. But it is so easy to fall for
the dark side …
SALAM NEW YORK
FEATURE FILMS
NOMADMEN FILMS
Kyrgyz film company Nomadmen Films finished shooting a
full-length comedy Salam New York. Filming, which started
this August, took place in Kyrgyzstan and the USA. Film is to
premiere at the end of December 2012.
Synopsis: one Kyrgyz wants to visit his relative living in New York.
There, he thinks, he will start a new life. But on arrival no one
waits for him at the airport and our hero appears to be lost in a
strange city penniless. Actually, he is a generalized character
based on the real Kyrgyz people who came to the Big Apple.
Producers: Nurbek Aybashov,
Chingiz Torobekov.
Director, script: Ruslan Akun.
Cast: Bektemir Mamayusupov,
Aida Tulebaeva.
Genre: Comedy.
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ANTALIAGRAD
FEATURE FILMS
NON-STOP PRODUCTION
Russian film company Non-Stop Production started working
on a new feature comedy Antaliagrad. The project is currently
in preproduction period. Note that the German-Russian CoDevelopment Fund granted the project $15,500 to facilitate its
further development.
Alexander Rodnyansky
Synopsis: a comic and funny story of confrontation between
two tourists at a Turkish Antalia resort: one tourist is from Russia, the other one is from Germany. Despite different mentality
and points of view on the same things, the confrontation of two
strangers will finally evolve into real men’s friendship.
FEATURE FILMS
DEAR HANS, DEAR PYOTR
PASSAZHIR,
MA.JA.DE FILMPRODUKTION
Alexander Mindadze
Russian film company Passazhir in coproduction with German
Ma.ja.de filmproduktion started working on the feature drama
Dear Hans, Dear Pyotr. Film is currently in pre-production.
Shooting is planned for 2013. The German-Russian Co-Development Fund granted the project $15,500 to facilitate its further
development
Producers: Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov.
Script: Murat Yunat, Serkan
Chetinkay.
Cast: Til Schweiger, Fyodor Bondarchuk.
Genre: Comedy.
Director: Alexander Mindadze.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: film tells the story of a German engineer Hans, the
employee of Carl Zeiss concern. Coming to the Soviet Union
in autumn 1940, Hans finds here a true love and a good friend
Pyotr. Then he briefly goes back to Germany and returns to the
USSR only as a soldier of Nazi troops. The story is based on the
real events.
ME IS YOU
FEATURE FILMS
RUSLAN MASHRAPOV’S
Kyrgyz filmmaker Ruslan Mashrapov started working on a
detective melodrama Me is You. Shooting will take place in
Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia and South Korea. Film premiere is set for
2013.
Director: Ruslan Mashrapov.
Cast: Lee Min Ho, Sergei Bezrukov, Shayyr Kasymalieva.
Genre: Detective drama.
Synopsis: Heroine is kidnapped by international criminal organization involved in organ trafficking. Who will rescue her if not
her first love?
Lee Min Ho
KUPRIN. PASSION
FEATURE FILMS
RUSSIAN PROJECT
Russian prodco Russian Project in coproduction with Channel One Russia started working on a full-length drama Kuprin.
Passion based on a short story The Garnet Bracelet by Alexander Kuprin. This is the second part of a previously reported
quadrilogy. Shooting started in Elz on the 20th December 2012.
Producers: Denis Evstigneev, Konstantin Ernst.
Director: Andrey Eshpai.
Cast: Mikhail Porechenkov, Yelizaveta Boyarskaya.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: On her birthday Princess Vera Nikolaevna Shein was
handed a package with an oval gold bracelet with garnet-cabochons. Being married Vera believes that she can not accept
such a gift from the strangers. So, her brother decided to find
the sender...
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A WOMEN’S DAY
FEATURE FILMS
RUSSIAN WORLD STUDIOS
At the end of November Russian film company Russian World
Studios wrapped up shooting on romantic comedy A Women’s
Day. Project is currently in a postproduction period. Shooting
lasted for a month and took place in the Moscow area.
Synopsis: Eugeniy, chief executive of a tour agency, gets an instruction to fire one of his employees. But the problem is that
the next day there will be a celebration of an international holiday – a Women’s Day, and all Eugeniy’s workers are women.
They all came to work already. All except one – Lena. It seems
Eugeniy has a scapegoat – make Lena redundant and case
closed. But he loves her…
Producer: Yuri Sapronov.
Director: Rachid Malikov.
Cast: Timophey Tribuntsev, Svetlana Ivanova, Ilya Lyubimov, Leonid
Gromov, Elena Drapeko Vladimir
Nosik, Mikhail Bogdasarov, Anton
Makarsky, etc.
Genre: Romantic comedy.
KURBAN-ROMAN
FEATURE FILMS
SALAVAT YUZEEV’S FILM
Salavat Yuzeev
FEATURE FILMS
WISE VISION
Tatarstan film director Salavat Yuzeev started working on a fulllength drama Kurban-Roman. Shooting takes place in Kazan’
and Zelenodol’sk suburbs. Project received support from the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Synopsis: the main characters are young Tatar musicians who
despite living in Poland believe in their identity with local people.
But when their friend Marysia, a talented ballet dancer, become
sick, they want to celebrate Kurban Bayram and offer up a sacrifice.
THE POLAR PASSAGE OR EVERYTHING WILL
CHANGE
Ukrainian prodco Wise Vision finished post-production of a fulllength comedy The Polar Passage or Everything Will Change.
Two-month shooting, which started at the beginning of this year,
took place in more than 20 locations, including Kiev, Chernigov
and Nezhin. Film premiere is set for winter 2013.
Synopsis: far far away, at the world’s end, brave pilot Igor receives from shaman a snow-white magic amulet which absorbed the power of a falling star. Suddenly Igor, his wife and
children appear to be in the middle of a constant flow of comic
events…
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Director: Salavat Yuzeev.
Cast: Daniil Shigapov, Aleksandra
Elagina, Rosa Khairullina, Laysan
Dusaeva.
Genre: Drama.
Producer: Oresta Kompanets.
Director: Sergei Chekalov.
Script: Alexander Kachan, Igor
Shvetsov, Victoria Bessarab, Alexander Kwak.
Cast: Egor Beroev, Julia Snigir,
Dmitry Nagiyev, Tatiana Orlova,
Anna Semenovich, Mikhail Tarabukin, Olesya Zhurakovskaya, Tamara Yatsenko, Yevgeny Smorigin.
Genre: Comedy.
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BEAR IN MIND FILMS
Russian production company Bear in Mind Films in partnership with
British studio Curb Denizen Productions signed a deal with German
sales and production development company Aktis Film International GmbH that will provide international sales of Russian-British coproduction feature project Saint Petersburg (2012).
The main hero, Elliot, is about to depart from London on a working
holiday to Russia when he discovers that his father has a love child in
Saint Petersburg. He vows not to meet his half-brother, Fyodor, but
when he loses his job he is forced to make contact. The two brothers
connect and it appears as if they may be able to form a relationship,
until Elliot meets Fyodor’s girlfriend, Anya, and falls instantly in love
with the beautiful dancer. Anya also finds herself drawn to Elliot, setting off a love triangle against a backdrop of white nights and endless
summer days in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Producers: Andrey Khvostov,
Fyodor Druzin, Joanna Bence,
Mikhail Pogolsha.
Director: Andrey Khvostov.
Cast: Terry Sweeney, Konstantin
Malyshev, Nadezhda Tolubeeva.
Duration: 83 min.
Genre: romance.
EASTERN EUROPEAN ACQUISITION POOL
Berlin-based company Eastern European Acquisition Pool Gmbh
(EEAP) specializing on licensing and film trading in Central and Eastern Europe, including the CIS, acquired all types of rights for Russian
drama Betrayal (Izmena, Russia, 2012) for the territory of Eastern
Europe.
A man and a woman, two casual acquaintances, learn that their respective spouses are having an affair with each other. This discovery
drives them to do things they didn’t dare to do before. What will prevail
– the feeling of jealousy or the passion? What to choose – revenge
or forgiveness? The protagonists are looking for something to build a
new life upon, but it is not easy: their every action is influenced by the
fact of infidelity, and this infidelity has its own logic.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov.
Cast: Franziska Petri, Dejan
Lilic, Albina Dzhanabaeva,
Andrei Shchetinin, Arturs
Skrastins.
Genre: drama.
For the CIS territories and Central and Eastern Europe EEAP acquired
American comedy The Late Bloomer (USA, 2013) from French distributor Elle Driver. The deal was signed at the American Film Market
(AFM 2012).
The main character, Pete Newman, has a problem. He’s almost 30
years old and has never had a significant, physical relationship with a
woman. He chalks it up to being committed to his work and bad genes,
but soon learns a disturbing truth – he has a mysterious ailment that
he never knew about that has prevented him from going through puberty. Based on a true story, The Late Bloomer follows Pete as he has
the ailment cured, which causes his body to be flooded with 18 years
of built-up testosterone. His life is turned upside down as he rockets
through puberty. Zits, rogue erections, heartbreak – puberty is always
difficult and confusing, but in Pete’s case, better late than never.
FRESH PRODUCTION
Ukrainian film company Fresh Production signed an agreement with
German sales and production development company Aktis Film International GmbH on the world sales of Fresh Production feature
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Director: Randall Einhorn.
Cast: Elijah Wood, Melissa
Leo.
Genre: comedy.
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films and co-production projects. The deal concerns projects in production and in development:
Oleg Scherbyna
Ursus. Caucasian Brown Bear (Ukraine, Georgia, Germany, Great
Britain). This movie tells the story of a Georgian film director, who under the guise of a bear – and literally in the skin of the bear – runs
away from Tbilisi from the horrors of civil war that happened in the early
1990′s in Georgia. His path runs through Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania
and further on – to Germany. On the way he meets Ukrainian ex-stuntman and an American female fighter for the wild animals` rights. He
happens to be involved in a lot of funny and sad events. In the end, he
reaches the goal, but as usual in life, one must pay for everything…
Producers: Oleg Scherbyna,
Julia Cherniavska.
Director: Otar Shamatava.
Script: Zaza Buadze.
Cast: Nika Tavadze, Bogdan
Benyuk.
Genre: drama, adventure.
Assassin’s Love (Ukraine, Germany) - a love drama with elements of
a spy movie in the context of a complicated moment of the Ukrainian
history. The main hero Bogdan Stashynskii was a KGB agent and political assassin. He lived and worked in the German Democratic Republic
under the name of Joseph Leman. His beloved Inge Paul was a hairdresser from Eastern Berlin who had no idea about true origin of Bogdan-Joseph and what his real occupation was. They fell in love and got
married… Bogdan‑Joseph liquidated in Munich at least two Ukrainian
Nationalist Organization leaders – Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera…
When their only child died, Joseph Leman was overwhelmed and revealed his secret to his wife and told her the truth about him, turning
her world upside down. Inge did not leave him, instead she convinced
him to flee from Eastern Berlin. They fled in the night of August 13th
1961, the night when construction of the Berliner wall began.
Julia Cherniavska.
Director, script: Zaza Buadze.
Genre: drama.
Apostle. The main hero is successful photographer, a happy husband,
a father of two kids. He has everything. He made himself to prove his
father that left the family when he was a boy that he worth something.
But suddenly, his father dies. This news is brought by his younger
brother, father’s son of the second marriage. They meet each other for
the first time. In spite of similarity in appearance, they are very unlike.
The younger brother needs nothing except see the elder one, he loves
him from the beginning and doesn’t want to prove anything. It’s hard
not to love him back. The main hero’s life seems false. His kids, his
young wife, his house – nothing belongs to him anymore…
Julia Cherniavska.
Director, script: Alexander
Stolyarov.
Beauplan - docufiction film project in development. The film is based
on the book written in the XVII century by French engineer, inventor,
writer, cartographer and artillery officer Guillaume Levasseur de Beauplan. In his book, marquis de Beauplan described Ukraine in the historical period of the late XVI - early XVII century. From his point of view it
was a country with its own history, culture, traditions, religion and army.
The project includes reconstructions of confirmed historical facts and
events described by Beauplan.
Julia Cherniavska, Yaroslav
Pidgora-Gryazdovskii, Bogdan
Benyuk.
Script: Konstantin Konovalov.
HANZHONKOV FILM STUDIO
Ukrainian Hanzhonkov film studio signed distribution deal with Russian TV content distributor Total Content that will sell rights for 3D
animated comedy series Eskimo Girl (Eskimoska, Ukraine, 2012)
produced by Hanzhonkov film studio on the CIS territories (except
Ukraine). Ukrainian company also has preliminary sale agreements on
the series with Russian TV channel Karusel and French company Mobibase providing mobile TV services.
The series follows Eskimo Girl in her fun adventures set in beautiful
Arctic. Every day Eskimo Girl goes fishing to the little bay with her
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Producers: Elena Slyshko, Andrey
Kornienko.
Director: Aleksey Shaparev.
Script: Margaret Kerrison, Tatiana
Khomenko.
Duration: 26 х 5 min.
Genre: animation, comedy, family.
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friends Egghead, Loogan and their pet – Deer. Every time they find a
mysterious floating object in the water and try to find out how to use it.
As they explore, experiment and use their creativity and imagination,
they often get into funny misadventures.
INTER
Ukrainian TV channel Inter signed a license deal with Israeli format developer Armoza Formats for local adaptation of the format Shuttle
Battle. The Ukrainian version of this game show will be produced by
Inter affiliate 07 Production.
Format: Shuttle Battle.
Genre: game show.
In this game show, five couples board an airport shuttle, their suitcases
packed, ready to go on a dream vacation. On the ride, they’ll have to
prove that they’re the ones worthy of the dream trip by answering increasingly difficult trivia questions. One wrong answer will end in elimination, leaving the losing couples and their luggage on the side of the
road in the middle of nowhere. In the middle of their journey, when the
competition is down to just 3 couples, the shuttle will stop in a local village for a Physical Challenge. In order to be the ONE couple to board
the plane, they not only need to beat the other couples on the shuttle
in trivia battles, but also to beat the game’s reigning trivia champs in
the ultimate live video conference showdown. The champs are already
enjoying the luxurious resort… and they have no intention of giving up
their vacation without a battle. If the challenging couple wins, they will
immediately board the plane and replace the vacationing couple. If
they lose, the vacationing couple will continue to enjoy their luxurious
holiday – but only until the next battle.
INQ
Ukrainian production company INQ signed a distribution deal on its
feature movie Synevir (Ukraine, 2012) with American company Red
Sea Media that will sell the Ukrainian 3D-horror all around the world
except for the CIS countries. All the rights for the CIS are sold to Russian distributor Top Film Distribution.
The story takes place in the woods near the mounting lake Synevir in
the Soviet Carpathians in the end of 1970-s. There is a camp on the
clearing. There are five students in the camp - three boys and two girls.
They gathered to rest near the lake Synevir. One of them is a local guy.
He tells a story about monsters with dog heads and human bodies,
which supposedly used to lived on the lake shores. Young people don’t
know they have to meet one of these monsters…
Producer: Vladimir Horunzhy.
Directors: Alexander Aleshechkin, Vyacheslav Aleshechkin.
Duration: 73 min.
Genre: horror.
К1
Ukrainian company U.A. Inter Media Group acquired TV format Blind
Taste from Turkish distributor Global Agency. The adapted version of
the cooking show is planned to air on K1 TV channel that belongs to
Inter TV Group. At the same time MTV Russia produces its adaptation
of the format for the territory of Russia. Both Russian and Ukrainian
premieres will take place in January 2013. Note that Blind Taste was
first presented at Format Show that took place in Kiev in the course of
international media forum KIEV MEDIA WEEK.
Blind Taste is a daily cooking format, featuring a celebrity cook and
four contestants that change every week. Each day, the contestants
are assigned a food recipe that they will cook in a shared kitchen in
just two hours. The outcome will be the same food, but its taste will
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Genre: cooking show.
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be different. Next, the contestants will taste all the dishes and grade
them one by one on a scale of 1-5. But there is a twist - they will have
to taste all the food blindfolded. Not knowing who cooked the dish,
it’s possible a contestant could give the lowest score to his own dish.
Once the grading is over, the blindfold is removed and the contestant
faces the naked truth. At the end of the week, all the points from the
week are totaled, and the person with the highest score walks away
with the grand prize.
Israeli distributor Armoza Formats licensed to Inter TV Group and
K1 rights for local adaptation of dating format Foreplay. Armoza previously sold the format to broadcasters Polsat in Poland and Romantica in Romania. In Russia the show debuted on MTV Russia in April
2012.
The show is based around a series of questions and challenges, which
are designed to test a group of singles to find out whether looks or personality matters for them. Each episode features a male contestant,
four girls (or vice versa), and a celebrity host playing a quasi-cupid.
The four girls compete in trying to win the heart of the male contestant.
At the same time they stay in two adjacent sets and throughout the entire episode the male contestant doesn’t actually see the girls until the
end of the show. However, he gets to know their characters via various
tasks that are undertaken in and out of the studio. All this leads to the
hilarious discovery of all kinds of surprises and revealing scoops about
each of the girls. He narrows his choices down to only two contestants
being left on set and then chooses “the perfect one”. Then he finally
gets to see all four of the female contestants for the first time and has
to make his second choice, but this time, according to the girl’s looks,
and without knowing which girl he chose the first time.
Format: Foreplay.
Genre: dating show.
STAR MEDIA, INTER, STUDIO KVARTAL 95
Russian-Ukrainian production and distribution group Star Media in
partnership with Ukrainian TV channel Inter and Ukrainian production
company Studio Kvartal 95 licensed to Metan Development Group
(China) an option for the Chinese adaptation of the dancing TV format
Go Dance! Earlier this year format adaptation rights were optioned by
Russia 1 TV channel, MY Tupelo Entertainment (USA), Effervescence
(France) and Nice Entertainment Group (Norway).
Go Dance! is a large-scale dancing TV competition where towns and
cities fight in a dancing mode for the right to be called the most dancing town of the country. According to the format every city or town can
gather a dancing group of 500 persons that will prepare under the
guidance of a professional choreographer unique dance. After the
preliminary casting 24 teams are chosen to compete for the main prize
- 1m UAH ($125,000) in Ukrainian version. Viewers votes are crucial in
choosing a winner. All dancing-battles are live-broadcasted.
Format: Go Dance!
Duration: 10 х 120 min.
Genre: dancing show.
1+1
Ukrainian TV channel 1+1 signed a deal with the international TV content and formats distributor Red Arrow International (HQ in Munich,
Germany) on the format The Taste. The original show is aired on
American channel ABC. Ukrainian version is planned to debut in 2013.
In this cooking competition show, 4 superstar mentors pick the team of
4 cooks they will coach through the show’s episodes. Their decisions
will be based on taste alone. Each episode features a culinary “Theme
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of the Week” with a famous guest, a culinary expert whose own
specialty is related to this week’s theme. The mentors prepare
their teams for the other show’s challenge: “The Team Taste”
– where all team members cook the same dish and afterwards
decide which plate to present to the jury. The winner of “The
Team Taste” has an advantage – the help of the guest expert in
the next challenge: “The Solo Taste”. In “The Solo Taste” each
cook prepares a dish judged by the mentors. Since the mentors
are “blind tasting” the food, they will not know if they are eliminating one of their own protégées. Only three cooks to be left to
compete in the tasty finale.
2X2
Russian 2x2 TV channel acquired from international production and distribution company Entertainment One (eOne)
TV-rights for fiction series Todd and the Book of Pure Evil
(Canada, 2010) and sitcom Mr. D (Canada, 2012).
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Todd and the Book of Pure Evil follows a group of high school
students who confront the effects of a demonic book. Todd,
Curtis, Jenny, and Hannah are students at Crowley High, the
only high school in a small town secretly founded by Satanists.
After encountering a cursed magical tome with a mind of its
own, the Book of Pure Evil, which grants the wishes of those
who hold it in dark and sinister ways they didn’t intend, they
team up in an attempt to track down and destroy the Book, although it has an unfortunate tendency to fly away after its spells
are undone. Each episode revolves around a student at Crowley
High using the Book to try to make their life better, though this
usually results in chaos, mayhem, and bloodshed at the school.
Duration: 22 min.
Genre: horror, comedy.
Mr. D follows the misadventures of a strange schoolteacher
named Gerry Duncan, nicknamed Mr. D. He has finally gotten a
full time teaching position at the prestigious Xavier academy after years of substituting. Unfortunately he’ll be teaching social
studies, which he knows nothing about, instead of his dream
Phys. Ed. job.
Duration: 22 min.
Genre: comedy.
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UKRAINIAN THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION MARKET OVERVIEW
(DECEMBER 1, 2011 – NOVEMBER 25, 2012)
Theatrical releases of 259 films took place in Ukraine in the period of December 1, 2011 – November 25, 2012. Totally 19 million tickets
were sold. Overall box office for the first time in the history of Ukrainian cinema distribution market, amounts to more than $100 million.
TOP-20 releases collected $51.1 million – 52% of the total amount. Comparing with 2011 results, when 242 releases earned in the Ukrainian cinemas almost $90.5 million the market grew near 10%.
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Title
Distributor
Release date
Premier weekend Box
Office, $
Total Box Office 01.12.2011 25.11.2012 г., $
Tickets sold
1
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
B&H
07.06.2012
1 498 899
4 868 856
968 723
2
Ice Age: Continental Drift
UFD
12.07.2012
1 354 531
4 517 344
914 330
3
Men in Black III
B&H
24.05.2012
1 738 541
3 846 532
649 300
4
John Carter
B&H
08.03.2012
1 516 394
2 841 963
461 283
5
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2*
UFD
15.11.2012
1 605 724
2 803 149
306 478
6
Vysotsky: Thank God I'm Alive (Rus)
GK
01.12.2011
1 043 068
2 766 176
636 524
7
Skyfall*
B&H
01.11.2012
1 215 269
2 685 427
470 498
8
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
KNM
29.12.2011
446 490
2 622 380
566 102
9
Rzhevskiy vs. Napoleon (Rus)
UFD
26.01.2012
1 154 732
2 522 216
457 712
10 Yelki 2 (Rus)
UFD
15.12.2011
796 715
2 396 742
526 064
11 The Avengers
B&H
26.04.2012
1 069 289
2 375 211
390 102
12 8 First Dates (Rus)
UFD
08.03.2012
1 161 641
2 119 590
458 378
IF
29.12.2011
504 363
2 087 767
425 944
14 Battleship
B&H
19.04.2012
1 001 478
2 011 019
442 582
15 Ted
B&H
02.08.2012
567 884
1 857 328
397 212
16 Ivan Tsarevich i Seryy Volk (Rus)
CNG
29.12.2011
301 820
1 814 600
355 334
17 The Amazing Spider-Man
B&H
05.07.2012
739 707
1 788 948
324 215
18 Hotel Transylvania*
B&H
25.10.2012
631 966
1 787 837
352 844
19 Prometheus
UFD
31.05.2012
669 351
1 735 295
284 054
20 Wrath of the Titans
KNM
29.03.2012
808 061
1 671 189
271 873
51 119 569
9 659 552
13 What Men Still Talk About (Rus)
TOTAL ТОP-20:
Sources: BOOKER’S BULLETIN, boxofficemojo.com
* films are still in the cinemas
Distributors:
B&H - B&H Distribution
CNG - Cinergy
GK – Galeon Kino
IF - Inter Film
KNM - Kinomania
UFD - Ukrainian Film Distribution
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In attempts to study cinema distribution market in the CIS countries we face the problem of unavailability
of the exact figures of films box-offices and admissions on separate territories. So-called major scheme
when distributor share income with cinema according to the pre set proportion is implemented in such
countries as Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The main barrier for major box-office scheme implementation on the territory of CIS is the inability of the cinemas to provide distributors with an accurate data about
the number of tickets sold. This problem is common for the cinemas in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus,
Georgia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
On the other hand cinema markets of some CIS countries are so small that copyright holders are not interested in dealing with them and sell Russian distributors theatrical rights for all CIS territories. In their turn
distributors sell cinema rights for the fixed fee and they are not interested in promoting the project on local
market and don’t care about the box-office. We’ll try to estimate these markets taking into account the
only indicator available – the level of cinema chain development.
Today we present an overview of local cinema markets of Armenia, Belarus, Georgia and Uzbekistan.
ARMENIA
To tell the truth, there is no any cinema distribution market in Armenia. In the capital city of this country
– Yerevan – there are two operating cinemas. One of them is Nairi Cinema that belongs to the company
ULISS. In 2008-2011 the cinema was leased and operated by Paradise Company – the operator of Five
Stars cinema chain in Russia. In April 2011 Nairi was closed. Six months later it resumed work. Now it is
operated by another lease holder – National Cinema Development Foundation founded by Gevorg Gevorgyan, Director of the National Cinema Center of Armenia. In the cinema there is one auditorium with 260
seats and digital projection equipment installed.
Nairi Cinema is one of the venues of the Yerevan International Film Festival “Golden Apricot”. At the same
time the main events of the festival are usually carried out in Moscow Cinema operated by Paradise Company.
Moscow Cinema is a modern 4-screen multiplex. Digital projection equipment is installed in one of its
two large auditoriums. In the two small auditoriums films are exhibited on DVDs. The only multiplex in the
country is actually the monopolist on the local market. But the company is not going to expand the cinema
chain.
Nairi Cinema
October cinema renovated and improved by Paradise Company in Gumri (Leninakan) is still not profitable.
According to Armen Badalyan, programming director of Paradise Company, the company cooperates with
the Russian subsidiaries of Hollywood majors providing the Armenian cinema with the new films for the
fixed fee. Some 60 films are released during the whole year. The projects from Paradise’s slate form one
fourth of the total number of features exhibited in Moscow Cinema. Ticket prices start from 500 Armenian dram (AMD) ($1.2) The most expensive tickets for the evening shows of 3D features cost 2000 AMD
($4.8). In Armenia the most popular blockbuster is watched by 6-to-7 thousand viewers. So the box-office
may total $20 000.
Armenian private businessmen are not interested in operating cinemas. For the first time since 2000 a new
payer comes to the local market. And this player comes from Russia – the company that operates Russian
cinema chain Cinema Star is the operator of the new multiplex that is supposed to be launched in shopping
and recreation center Dalma Garden Mall.
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Republic of Belarus is one of the CIS countries where the national cinema chain is owned by the state as
well as industrial enterprises. The Ministry of Culture yet didn’t approve the unified strategy of the industry
development. In some regions cinemas are controlled by the Ministry, and in the others they are affiliated
to regional and district executive bodies. So it’s almost impossible to get the information on their operability and the exact number of screens. At the same time according to the “Culture of Belarus” state program
for 2011-2015 the funds for re-equipment and reconstruction of the national cinema chain are provided
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Private businessmen are not interested in operating cinemas in Belarus. According to the official information the only private digital cinema is operated in Mogilev, another one, Rubin Plaza in Minsk, was shut
down not so long ago.
Cinema operators usually pay the local intermediaries of Moscow film distributors a fixed fee for the exhibition rights. Major right holders and international film distributors trust the premiere releases only to the
companies with a guaranteed income. One of them is Minsk unitary company Kinovideoprokat that signed
direct long-term contracts with the Russian subsidiaries of the Hollywood majors. A structural division of
Minsk municipal executive committee Kinovideoprokat created its cinema chain in the capital. At the same
time the company is accountable to the Ministry of Culture in terms of its film distribution and exhibition
activity. So Minsk Kinovideoprokat is a film distributor operating the cinema chain. It pays a specified share
of films box-office to the right holders but doesn’t act as an intermediary between the right holders and
other Belarusian cinema chains.
Minsk Kinovideoprokat operates 15 cinemas with 26 screens in the city. The number of seats in the cinemas of the chain totals 8 500. Digital projection equipment is installed in 8 auditoriums. It is planned all
the cinemas of the chain will be digital by the end of 2013.
MINSK CINEMAS
Name
Number of seats
3 (1 digital)
759
Belarus
5 (1 digital)
1012
Berestye
2 (1 digital)
447
Dom Kino
1
584
Druzhba*
1
630
1 (digital)
280
2
408
2 (1 digital)
538
Kiev
Komsomolets
Mir
Octyabr Cinema
Number of screens
Avrora
Moskva
1
900
Octyabr
1 (digital)
1188
Pioner
1
352
Pobeda
1
488
Raketa
2
390
Salyut
2 (1 digital)
258
Tsentralny
TOTAL
1 (digital)
166
26 (8 digital)
8400
* Druzhba cinema is temporarily closed
At the same time there are 8 cinemas in the whole Mogilev region. One of them is private – Octyabr. The
rest – four in Mogilev, two in Bobruisk and one more in the town Gorki - are operated by the regional unitary company Kinovideoprokat that uses the operating structure launched in Minsk. The company has
installed digital projection equipment in four auditoriums.
As a matter of fact Minsk cinemas operated by Kinovideoprokat provide 60% of the total Belarus boxoffice. The company sold 5 million tickets in 2011 and collected 36 billion Belarusian rubles ($4.2 million).
During the first six month of 2012 near 2.7 million tickets were sold. The total year box office is expected
to reach 75 billion rubles ($8.8 million). The pricing is flexible: tickets for the children movies cost 3 000
Belarusian rubles ($0.35), the most expensive are the tickets for long length 3D feature films - 40 000
rubles ($4.7). Tickets in digital cinemas are 30% more expensive than in those using physical film prints.
GEORGIA
In Georgia cinema distribution market has just begun to evolve. In the country with the population of 4.5
million people there are as few as 15 cinemas. And just two thirds of them operate all year long.
90% market share is covered by Rustaveli Cinemas Holding. It was launched in 1999 when the company
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leased and restored Rustaveli cinema in Tbilisi and equipped it with Dolby Digital Technology. By 2006
Rustaveli turned into an entertainment centre and cinema with 5 screens. The number of seats doubled
and totaled 858.
In 2004 two-screen cinema Amirani (566 seats) situated in the capital of Georgia became the property
of Rustaveli Cinemas Holding. In 2009 digital projection equipment was installed both in Rustaveli and
Amirani.
Two more cinemas were launched by Rustaveli Cinemas Holding in the cities Sighnagi and Rustavi in 2007.
In 2011 the company opened Apollo cinema in Batumi.
Rustaveli Cinema
Moreover, the holding plans to reinforce its positions in Tbilisi opening 2 more auditoriums (520 seats) in
Amirani cinema, launching new 8-screen multiplex and 5-screen cinema with 860 seats in the shopping
and recreation center TBILISI MALL in 2013-2014. The regional cinema chain is supposed to be expanded
by 3-to-5-screen multiplexes in Kutaisi and Batumi.
According to the information of The Georgian National Film Center (GNFC) apart from the cinemas that
operate all year round there are some that work in resort towns such as Borjomi, Bakuriani, Chiatura, Sachkhere during the holiday season.
CINEMA CHAIN OF RUSTAVELI CINEMAS HOLDING
Name
Number of screens
Tbilisi
5
2
Rustavi
1
Sighnagi
1
Batumi
1
10*
Rustaveli
Amirani
Rustaveli
Sighnagi
Apollo
TOTAL
Number of seats
858
566
195
126
150
1985
* information on the number of auditoriums equipped with digital projection equipment is not available
Rustaveli Cinemas Holding cooperates with the Russian subsidiaries of Hollywood majors Twentieth Century Fox International, Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing, Universal Pictures International as
well as independent distributors Paradise, West and Inter-Film releasing films produced by Paramount
Pictures, Warner Bros. and Central Partnership.
Totally 60-70 films are released in Georgia each year. About 25% of the total number of releases are Georgian films. The most of these local features are usually based on popular local TV series and are produced by independent film companies. Tickets cost 6-to-15 Georgian lari ($4-9). According to the GNFC
700,000 tickets were sold in 2011 with only 25,000 Georgian film admissions.
UZBEKISTAN
According to the information provided by Uzbekkino National Agency only 123 of 263 Uzbek cinemas are
operable. In most of them films are screened on DVD and BluRay. Dmitry Kirienko, distribution director
of Inter-Film Holding representing major’s products in Uzbekistan told that the company cooperates with
only just four cinemas providing them film copies for the fixed fee. The rest of the cinemas use pirated content and Uzbekkino National Agency that is supposed to control any activity concerned to licensing, dubbing, production and distribution of film copies doesn’t cope with its functions. At the same time agency
did its best to support legal cinema distribution of the local films. Basing on the deals signed with film
producers and cinemas Uzbekkino National Agency produces DVD copies and sends them to the cinemas
all around the country.
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While most of the Uzbekistani cinemas are in private property four are operated by the state. Two of them
are situated in the capital, Tashkent - Palace of Cinema named after Alisher Navoiy (11 screens, 4 450
seats), and House of Cinema (6 screens, 1 380 seats). Two more cinemas are situated in Samarkand:
Palace of Cinema “Star of the East” (6 screens, 450 seats) and Samrug cinema (350 seats). There is also
a cinema named after Alisher Navoiy (450 seats) in Fergana. All of these cinemas screen films on DVD,
at least they do it legally. To watch the Uzbekistani film viewers have to pay 4 000 Uzbekistani som (UZS)
($2.2) for the ticket. The price is set by Uzbekkino National Agency, it is fixed all around the country.
Palace of Cinema named after Alisher Navoiy is the main venue for the Tashkent International Film Forum
“Golden Guepard”. The events of the festival are also carried out in Youth Creativity Palace, State Institute
of Arts of Uzbekistan and PremierHall Cinema - the first Uzbekistani cinema with digital projection equipment installed. In 2012 Beshegach cinema was also re-equipped. The owners of Tashkent Asia Cinema
and Mega Cinema also plan to upgrade their cinemas. These cinemas cooperate with the distributors
legally. They sell tickets for the day shows of foreign films for 7 000 UZS ($3.7). Admission fee for the night
shows of 3D films may reach 24 000 UZS ($12.7).
TASHKENT PRIVATE CINEMAS
House of cinema
in Tashkent
Number of screens
Number of seats
PremierHall
Name
2 (1 digital)
312
Asia Cinema
3
324
Grand Cinema
1
179
1 (digital)
284
Beshegach
Mega Cinema
TOTAL
3
524
10 (2 digital)
1623
Summarizing the information above we should note that most of the cinemas operating in these CIS countries are situated in the capital cities. The program of the cinemas mostly includes foreign films that are
screened in Russian. In most countries state bodies responsible for control cinema distribution activity
don’t cope with their functions. Belarus with its developing state owned cinema chain and relatively transparent market is the exception. In Uzbekistan there are some positive results of implementing state policy
concerning cinema distribution of national films. CIS Сontent Report will continue to follow the situation
on cinema distribution market of the CIS territories.
Text: Alexander Zakhlyupaniy
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ALEXEY LAZARENKO:
“RUSSIAN TV MARKET IS THE
LEADER IN TERMS OF OUR
COMPANY INCOME. POLAND
HOLDS THE SECOND PLACE.
THE NEXT IS UKRAINE”
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In an exclusive interview to CIS: Content Report Alexey Lazarenko, chief sales officer of Eastern European
Acquisition Pool Gmbh (EEAP) and acting general director of A Company Distribution, companies that are
under control of based in Berlin international holding A Company Filmed Entertainment AG, told about
the peculiarities of distribution market in Russia and other countries and about the reasons of closure of
Russian company GALA Media & Film International (EEAP owns 100% stake). He also commented on the
business strategy and first results of operation of A Company Distribution, which entered Russian market
this year.
In an interview on the Ukrainian Content Market in September you mentioned that GALA Media &
Film International will be shut down. Why? And what company will perform its duties?
GALA Media & Film International will close in the nearest future. Company was established in 2006 to represent EEAP on the territory of Russia and the CIS countries. Due to financial terms parent company did not
enter the market itself – at the time it was much more comfortable to operate thru the Russian subsidiary. But
the situation changed and content buyers started to close deals directly with EEAP. Moreover both companies’ expansion led to the staff increase, and many functions in the sphere of TV rights sales duplicated. So,
it was decided to cut the expenses and sell all kinds of rights from the headquarters in Berlin.
What business line – distribution rights realization or content sales – is of the first priority for
EEAP? What is more profitable if taking into account the previous year income?
Our company did not manage the distribution independently. We had partners on the whole territory of
Eastern Europe. Several years ago EEAP launched its own distribution departments: we bought Budapest Film company in Hungary and opened Eeap Cz-Sk in Czech Republic and A Company Distribution in
Russia. Now we keep an eye on Poland. In the last two years quality of our film catalog improved and we
realized that it makes sense to distribute huge projects by ourselves. That is why we bet on the film distribution, but still, TV business is the main source of our income – about 75% comes from TV rights sales.
However, with the distribution of such movies like Cloud Atlas this ratio will gradually change.
From the very beginning EEAP cooperated with the CIS companies such as Gemini Film and Cascade
Film in different ways – under the terms of minimum guarantee payment or deduction from box-office.
Eventually sales volume rose to such an amount that we made a decision to put it into income statement.
As the result we launched our own distribution department A Company Distribution in Russia in 2012. On
the other hand EEAP approach to advertising and marketing of our own projects often differed from that of
our partners, so A Company Distribution will better fulfill our potential.
Alexey Lazarenko
A Company Distribution is still not fully stuffed – Cloud Atlas was released by a few people working with AR
Films and Kinotavr teams. So we are looking for new employees.
You are talking about recruitment, but due to GALA Media closure there will be a lot of proved
specialists fired. Is there no place for them in a new company?
They are all employed. Our holding includes Berlin-based Time Code Media Elements (TCME) which has a
subsidiary unit ТСМЕ.РУ in Russia. It works on logistics, delivery of film and TV content to the cinemas and
channels correspondingly. Some GALA Media workers joined ТСМЕ.РУ, others – A Company Distribution.
We appreciate our people.
Theatrical distribution year is coming to an end. How good it was for A Company Distribution? Can
you provide us with some figures?
A Company Distribution presentation took place within the framework of Kinotavr film festival in Sochi.
This year we had only one release – Cloud Atlas. In the opening weekend it was screened in more than
1400 cinemas of the CIS countries. After two weekends its box-office reached $16 mln. in Russia and
almost $2 mln. in Ukraine. There’s no other releases until the end of 2012.
What CIS distributors except Gemini Film and Cascade Film does EEAP work with?
Gemini Film and Cascade Film used to distribute our catalog on the whole territory of CIS except Ukraine
where EEAP is partnering local Gemini department for several years. Now all exclusive rights on the territory of Ukraine belong to B&H Film Distribution Company. We are very pleased with the Cloud Atlas distribution results in Ukraine and intend to continue our cooperation with B&H. Film distribution rights in other
CIS countries belong to Fox.
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In the first two weekends Cloud Atlas earned $25.8 mln. in US and $12 mln. abroad (except CIS
countries). How can you explain this? Is it a success of A Company Distribution on the territory of
CIS or may be the fail of Warner Bros. in the USA?
Firstly, the movie is really good. We understood it already after the first screening in winter 2011. May be
Warner Bros. management tried to release it like an ordinary blockbuster. They shouldn’t have done this
under any circumstances, because the film is definitely not for all – it has its special kind of audience. We
used another strategy in CIS – did some preview screenings and managed to capture a long weekend on
the1st of November. There were no huge premiere openings at the time. Moreover we realized that some
will find the film good, some – bad, but there will be no one indifferent, and expected a lot of talking about
Cloud Atlas in the Internet. Such film will sell well.
What releases will A Company Distribution place its bet on the next year?
In 2013 A Company Distribution plans to release 6-7 movies. The Butler (USA, 2013) directed by Lee Daniels is among them. We believe it will win an Academy Award in 2014. There is a pretty good cast with such
actors as Forest Whitaker and John Cusack, and popular musicians as Lenny Kravitz and Mariah Carey. We
do really compare it to Oscar-winning The King’s Speech (UK, 2010).
Another premiere is a comedy action movie starring Cameron Diaz and Benicio Del Toro. Its tentative title
is Agent: Century 21 (USA, 2013).
A really huge project is a fantasy I, Frankenstein (USA, Australia, 2013) with $70 mln. budget. We rely on it
like we did with a Cloud Atlas movie. It will be a massive action film, made by the same team that worked
on Underworld (USA, Germany, UK, Hungary, 2003), with vampires and werewolves.
Also I have to mention Machete Kills (USA, 2013) starring Danny Trejo, Mel Gibson, Jessica Alba, Charlie
Sheen, Michelle Rodriguez, Antonio Banderas and Lady Gaga. We saw some materials and they were even
better than we expected. The picture is different from that in the first part. Looks like a James Bond movie,
good and expensive.
Another one is Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (USA, 2013) produced by Aleksandr Rodnyansky.
Cooking shows are very popular now, that’s why we included Weinstein company untitled comedy with
Bradley Cooper playing a cook. Also we have a thriller A Walk Among the Tombstones (USA, 2013) starring
Liam Neeson and a horror The Quiet Ones (US, 2013) from the producers of a The Woman in Black (UK,
Canada, Sweden, 2012).
Among other releases – romantic melodrama Can a Song Save Your Life (USA, 2013) with Keira Knightley
and Mark Ruffalo, a comedy The Late Bloomer (USA, 2014) starring Elijah Wood, an action movie The
Guardian (Germany, 2012) with Til Schweiger, and a comedy action The Coup (USA, 2013) with Owen
Wilson and Pierce Brosnan.
May be another one release in February-March 2013 will be The Dyatlov Pass (USA, Russia, 2013). Exact
date is not confirmed yet. We believe it will do well in Russia.
It could be that some of the abovementioned films will premiere not in 2013, but 2014, because they are
still in preproduction. Moreover, Kino Bez Granits, which is also a part of A.R.Films holding, is responsible
for a limited release of art-house and festival films.
How do the holding companies cooperate with each other? Does participation of Aleksandr
Rodnyansky or any of his companies as a producer of the project mean that EEAP works with the
authors or the sales agents under the special conditions?
EEAP has the right of first option. It may be said that the movie will automatically end up in our catalog, but
we pay for it – minimum guarantees – just like the others do. And sometimes we even pay more than the
others, as it often happens between family members. We do not get film for free, that is for sure.
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Having experience in TV rights sales on the European and CIS territories can you tell about the
pricing? What is the price gap for the same content between Europe and Russia for example?
What is the reason for it?
Russian TV market is the leader in terms of our company income. Poland holds the second place. The next
is Ukraine. Price differs everywhere, but I won’t tell the exact figures. It depends on country population,
TV and ad market development stage. Each channel has its own price limits formed by share and rating.
It should be noted that Polish pay TV market is better developed that the Russian one, so it brings more
cash. But with the new Russian market entrants like HBO and Viasat the situation started to change. Everything is changing. NTV and Russia 1 TV channel almost don’t have imported film content. Channel One
Russia still has some premieres on weekends but the competition is improving. Majors are changing their
strategies, making them more flexible: they used to sign long-term output deals on the huge package of
films and TV series, but now they switch to one-time deals on the separate titles. Foreign films are moving
from the central TV channels to the cable ones. And the price there is ten times lower.
Tell please about EEAP participation in American Film Market (AFM) which was held in Santa Monica from October 31 till November 7, 2012: acquisitions, sales, etc.
AFM is the place where we buy, not sell. We used to sell only on the TV content markets, but still, it is possible that soon EEAP will be presented on the film markets as a seller; the number of coproduction deal
has increased and we consider taking part in some Russian projects.
For example the one with a tentative title Antaliyagrad. Idea belongs to producer Alexander van Dülmen.
Russian Non-Stop Production company is coproducing the project. In October this project was granted
€20 000 by German-Russian Co-Development Fund (established by the German Federal Film Board (FFA),
Mitteldeutschen Medienförderung (MDM), Medienaboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Russian Cinema
Fund in June 2011). It is thought to be a comedy with famous German and Russian actors (supposedly Til
Schweiger and Fedor Bondarchuk) and we hope it will succeed at least in two European markets – Russia
and Germany.
Do you sell the distribution rights to Russian projects? May be there were some partnership proposals from the local production companies?
A while ago EEAP picked up rights to the drama Betrayal directed by Kirill Serebrennikov on the territory of
some Eastern European countries. For now it is the only example of work on the Russian projects.
Another piece of good news – our holding has launched its distribution company in Vietnam – A Company
Vietnam, which will distribute films (the first release will be Cloud Atlas) and sell TV rights. It’s a huge market with population about 90 mln people and new cinema multiplexes sprout there like mushrooms after
the summer rains.
Vietnam TV market is attractive, but closed. Fortunately the local department is headed by the former general director of the Hanoi largest state film studio – Nguyen Van Niem. He is well-connected when it comes
to TV and film business. We would like to buy TV rights on the territory of Vietnam and are highly interested
in Russian films and TV series. We have no deals closed yet, but first of all we’ll try to work with the content
of Aleksandr Rodnyansky’ and Sergei Melkumov’s companies. Time will tell.
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