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You Will Be Mine!
series
1+1 Production
Ukrainian prodco 1+1 Production has commenced shooting of
4-episode romance You Will Be Mine! The series premiere is
set on 1+1 TV channel in 2015.
Synopsis: A classical love triangle story. One woman and two
men: one rich, but icicle, and another poor, but loving. Whom to
choose?
Producer: Elena Vasylieva.
Director: Aleksandr Tymenko.
Script: Yaroslava Segal.
Cast: Stanislav Boklan, Valeriya
Khodos, Elena Stephanskaya,
Aleksandra Popova.
Number of episodes: 4.
Genre: Romance.
KGB Vs. MVD
series
Russian production centre Gorad started filming multi-episode
historical detective KGB Vs. MVD. The project is commissioned
by Russian Channel One. The series is produced by Movie Pro
company. Shooting takes place in Ivanteevka.
GORAD
Synopsis: In the 1970-80s wave of corruption sweeps across
the USSR. The most powerful politicians are involved, so KGB
becomes the only one government service which can stop this.
Producers: Ekaterina Gordetskaya, Andrey Rad’ko.
Director: Ilya Kazankov.
Script: Renat Khairullin, Yury Stukalin.
Cast: Karina Razumovskaya, Kyrill
Zaporozhskyi, Oksana Akinshina,
Sergey Gorobchenko, Sergey Burunov, Sergey Barkovskyi.
Genre: Detective.
Russia Bar
series
Ukrainian TV channel ICTV started working on new sitcom Russia Bar, an adaptation of the US TV series Cheers aired on NBC
from 1982 (11 seasons in total). The project is currently in preproduction period. Its premiere is planned for fall 2015.
ICTV
Producer: Andrey Partyka.
Director: Dmitry Surjikov.
Cast: Andrey Djedjula.
Format: Cheers.
Genre: Sitcom.
Synopsis: The show is set in a bar. Main characters are: a former
football player Vlad who works as a bartender, and a barmaid
Marta, postgraduate of Literature faculty, who seems to know
nothing about the real life.
Law and Order Avengers
series
Russian production centre Ivan wrapped up shooting on 4-episode romance detective Law and Order Avengers commissioned by Russia-1 channel. Filming started in August and took
place in Yaroslavl. The series premiere is set for 2015.
Ivan
Synopsis: Having once revealed the fraud Margarita and Georgy
decide to re-establish justice everywhere they can. They have no
money, no supernatural powers. But they are kind, concerned,
intelligent and full of ideas how to fight with the criminals without
breaking the law.
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Director: Anastasia Popova.
Script: Anastasia Demidova, Aleksey Demidov.
Cast: Vera Voronkova, Aleksandr
Ivashkevich, Andrey Zavodyuk,
Aleksandr Naumov.
Genre: Detective.
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The Black Pea Jackets
series
Russian prodco Lunapark started shooting 4-episode war drama The Black Pea Jackets. The project is commissioned by
Russian Channel One. Filming takes place in Crimea. Series
premiere is set for May 2015.
Lunapark
Director: Vitaly Vorobiov.
Genre: War drama.
Synopsis: It is the story of Soviet marines fighting Nazi in the region of the Kola Peninsula.
Attention, Moscow Is Speaking!
series
Mars
Media Entertainment
Russian film company Mars Media Entertainment is working
on 8-episode period-biographic drama Attention, Moscow Is
Speaking!. The project is currently in pre-production now. Principal photography is scheduled to start in early 2015.
Synopsis: This is the story of a Soviet radio announcer Yuriy Levitan, famous for his wartime reports of the battles on Radio Moscow, which usually began with “Attention, Moscow is speaking!”.
His voice announced battlefield victories, air raid warnings, and
the surrender of Germany to the Soviets on May 9, 1945. He also
announced the first public acknowledgment of Stalin’s death,
and the first manned space flight.
Producers: Ruben Dishdishyan,
Aram Movsesyan.
Director: Aleko Tsabadze.
Script: Sergey Yudakov, Aleksey
Gravitsky.
Cast: Konstantin Khabensky.
Genre: Historical drama, biopic.
The National Guard
series
President Film Ukraine
Alexey Shaparev
Ukrainian filmmaker Alexey Shaparev started shooting 12-episode drama The National Guard commissioned by 2+2 channel. The series is coproduced by President Film Ukraine prodco and 2+2 TV channel. The project will be aired in Ukraine and
Poland.
Director: Alexey Shaparev.
Script: Nikolay Rybalka.
Cast: Alexey Gorbunov.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: Everything began with the 2013-2014 Maidan, when
the drama heroes – the Berkut special forces’ men and the revolutionaries – ended up on opposite sides of the barricades. However, when the spring came the former opponents were enlisted
into the National Guard.
Shards of Happiness
series
PRIOR Production
Russian film company PRIOR Production started filming 4-episode romance Shards of Happiness. Shooting takes place in
Saint Petersburg.
Synopsis: Happy family, four charming children, love, peace and
harmony…And everything ruined in a flash, when wife dies in a
car accident. Her husband does not realize how to live further,
but he cannot lose heart as there is no one else to take care of
children.
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Producer: Rodion Pavluchik.
Director: Aleksey Prazdnikov.
Script: Ekaterina Latanova, Bella
Pribylova.
Genre: Romance.
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A Dog
series
Ukrainian film company PRO-TV is working on 28-episodes detective A Dog commissioned by ICTV channel. The series premiere is planned for spring 2015.
PRO-TV
Synopsis: Once Maksim was one of the best police investigators in the city. But then he lost his grip, left the service and tried
to work alone. Until he saves a dog, an aggressive canine, who
suddenly becomes his best friend and a partner. There is no case
they cannot solve together!
Producer: Artem Prikhod’ko.
Director: Nikolay Kaptan.
Cast: Nikita Panfilov, Olga Oleksiy,
Andrey Saminin.
Genre: Detective.
Nikita Panfilov
The Closer
series
Russian-Ukrainian production company Star Media wrapped up
shooting on 16-episode detective The Closer, a local adaptation of the US TV series, aired on TNT in 2005-2012. The project
is commissioned by Russian Channel One. Currently the series
is in post-production period. Filming took place in Gelendzhik.
Star Media
Synopsis: Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandra Kushnir is transferred
from an office in the city to a modest office in a seaside town,
where she heads up the crime investigation branch for Internal
Affairs. Initially, the male officers are wary of their new female
boss, however, Kushnir is good at her job, and after she successfully solves a number of serious crimes, she quickly wins the
respect of her new colleagues.
Producers: Darya Lavrova, Vlad
Ryashin.
Director: Dmitry Brusnikin.
Script: Vladimir Arkusha, Denis
Chervyakov, Sergey Stepanov.
Cast: Anna Banshchikova, Andrey Kazakov, Dmitry Kulichkov,
Vladislav Pavlov, Vladimir Nikolaenko, Eduard Chekmazov, Aleksandr Makogon, Denis Burgazliev.
Format: The Closer.
Genre: Detective.
Cossacks
series
Russian-Ukrainian production company Star Media is working
on 16-episode adventure detective Cossacks. Filming takes
place in Gelendzhik. The series premiere is set for 2015.
Star Media
Vlad Ryashin
Synopsis: Police major Yegor Daurskiy goes to a remote Cossack
village in the Krasnodar region to privately investigate the double
murder of his friend, a police colonel, and his wife. There he has
to deal with a local criminal gang under the command of crime
boss Suvorov. He also meets the local Cossacks and their chief,
Peter Lazarev, who are doing everything to resist the lawlessness
of local authorities and the criminal mayhem. Daurskiy succeeds
in solving his friend’s murder and bringing the guilty to justice.
Upon closing the case he goes back to Moscow and requests a
transfer to the Cossack village. Together with the Cossacks he
hopes to free the town from Suvorov and his gang.
Producers: Darya Lavrova, Vlad
Ryashin.
Director: Stanislav Mareev.
Cast: Evgeniy Sidikhin, Polina Sidikhina, Oleg Morozov, Vladislav
Dyomin.
Genre: Detective.
To Knockout Hitler
series
Russian film company Talan wrapped up shooting of 4-episodes spy detective To Knockout Hitler (Russian: Apperkot
dlya Gitlera). The project is commissioned by Russia-1 channel.
Filming took place in Saint Petersburg.
Talan
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Producers: Natalya Budkina, Andrey Antonov.
Director: Denis Neymand.
Script: Viktor Volkov.
Cast: Anton Momot, Andrey Levin,
Polina Tolstun, Sergey Barkovsky.
production
production
production
Synopsis: USSR government sends Igor Myklashevsky, a very
good boxer, on the territory of Nazi Germany. Pretending a deserter he becomes a personal ‘gladiator’ of Standartenführer
Valter Schloss. Each victory on the ring makes him one step
closer to the #1 target – Adolf Hitler.
Genre: Detective.
The Ultimatum
series
Triiks Media
Russian film company Triiks Media started shooting multi-episode criminal drama The Ultimatum. The project is commissioned by Russian NTV channel.
Synopsis: Sergey Yarokhin is a homicide senior investigator. One
of the special-forces raids gives Yarokhin an opportunity to put
gang leader called Bull behind bars. But it appears that it is not
that simple to detain him there…
Producers: Inessa Yurchenko,
Sergey Shcheglov.
Director: Igor Draka.
Script: Anna Ulaeva, Eugeniy Kukarin.
Cast: Mikhail Tarabukin, Vera
Bakhankova.
Genre: Criminal drama.
Run For Your Life!
series
Triiks Media
Russian film company Triiks Media is working on 4-episode
criminal drama Run For Your Life!. The series is commissioned
by NTV channel. Filming takes place in Crimea with premiere set
for 2015.
Synopsis: 2013. Ukraine. Navy sailor Maksim Fadeev receives
the letter informing his grandfather is dead. So he goes to the
grandfather’s house in Crimea, and finds out that there is a powerful criminal gang financed by mogul Yury Gadzhalo. Maksim
decides to throw his weight behind local community and fight
back against the mobs.
Producers: Inessa Yurchenko,
Sergey Shcheglov.
Director: Aleksandr Yakimchuk.
Script: Andrey Tumarkin.
Cast: Aleksandr Fisenko, Evgeniy
Bakalov, Sergey Nikonenko, Kyrill
Polukhin, Egor Barinov.
Inessa Yurchenko
A Father to Grow Into
series
Yellow, Black and White
Russian group of companies Yellow, Black and White is working on new comedy series A Father to Grow Into, a local adaptation of Baby Daddy sitcom which airs on ABC Family. Shooting
takes place in Moscow. The project production is commissioned
by CTC channel.
Synopsis: The series follows 25 years old Slava, who gets the
surprise of his life when a one night stand leaves his baby at his
doorstep. Slava decides to raise his little girl with the help of his
brother Boris and his close friend Timur.
Producers: Vyacheslav Murugov,
Eduard Iloyan, Vitaly Shlyappo,
Aleksey Trotsyuk, Denis Zhalinskyi.
Director: Radda Novikova.
Cast: Yefim Petrunin, Aslan Bizhoev, Artem Loshchilin, Yana
Gur’yanova, Olga Tumaikina.
Genre: Comedy.
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A New House
series
Yellow, Black and White
Russian group of companies Yellow, Black and White started
shooting ne comedy series A New House (Russian: Stroyka).
The project is commissioned by Russian NTV channel. Filming
takes place in Moscow.
Synopsis: Maksim and Katya have been living together for 10
years. They have a son, a good spacious apartment and a car.
Everything seems to be perfect. Until they decide to build their
own house…
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Producers: Aleksey Trotsyuk, Eduard Iloyan, Vitaly Shlyappo.
Director: Roman Samgin.
Cast: Arten Grigoryev, Iryna Tarannik, Mikhail Policeymako, Valery
Garkalin, Ekaterina Vasylyeva,
Aleksey Maklakov.
Genre: Comedy.
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Bad Neighbour
TV Movies
Star Media
Russian-Ukrainian production company Star Media wrapped
up shooting on TV comedy romance Bad Neighbour. The project is currently in post-production. Filming took place in Kyiv.
The movie premiere is set for 2015.
Synopsis: 23-years-old Katya, a make-up artist from a small
provincial theatre, comes to a big city. She has a dream and believes it will come true! Of course, it will! It can’t be otherwise!
But it appears that she has one big problem…
Producers: Larisa Zhuravskaya,
Vlad Ryashin.
Director: Roman Barabash.
Script: Elena Isaeva, Olga Mikhaylova.
Cast: Anastasia Zadorozhnaya,
Ilya Iosifov, Ada Rogovtseva, Valeria Khodos, Zhanna Epple, Sergey
Kalantay, Taisiya Shipilova.
Genre: Comedy.
Of Personal Interest
TV Movies
Star Media
Russian-Ukrainian production company Star Media is working
on TV detective romance Of Personal Interest. Filming takes
place in Kyiv. The movie premiere is planned for 2015.
Synopsis: Tatyana escapes from the prison and tries to hide
in a remote village Pavlovka, in her late grandmother’s house.
There she meets Maksim and falls in love with him. But suddenly Tatyana finds out that her fiancé Oleg is looking for her and
decides to tell Maksim the truth. The problem is that Maksim is
not the person he claims to be…
Producers: Galina Hrapko, Vlad
Ryashin.
Director: Anatoliy Grigorev.
Script: Alla Zagorodnyaya.
Cast: Galina Bezruk, Kirill Zhandarov, Aleksey Nagrudnyy, Viktor
Kuznecov, Irma Vitovskaya, Valeri
Bassel.
Genre: Detective romance.
Vlad Ryashin
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
TV Movies
Ukraine TV channel is working on New Year’s musical film Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, an adaptation of a novel of
the same name by Lewis Carroll. Filming took place in Kyiv. The
movie premiere is set on December 31.
Ukraine
Director: Maksim Papernik.
Genre: Musical.
Synopsis: It will not be the classical story, but rather a new one
with the well-known characters and new storylines.
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The Voice Kids. 2
TV Shows
Channel One
Russian Channel One is preparing the second season of the vocal talent show The Voice Kids. It is the local adaptation of the
Netherlands-based Talpa format The Voice Kids. The project is
produced by Red Square company.
Format: The Voice Kids.
Hosts: Anastasia Chevazhevskaya, Dmitriy Nagiev.
Three judges/coaches, all noteworthy recording artists, choose
teams of 15 contestants (children 7-14 years of age) through a
blind audition process. Each judge has the length of the contestant’s performance (about one minute) to decide if he or she
wants that singer on his or her team. Later, week by week children compete in battle rounds and live performances, and the
viewers decide who is the weakest by sending SMS. There will
be only one winner.
The Illusion Empire: Safronov Brothers
TV Shows
Russian broadcaster СТС is working on new magician TV show
The Illusion Empire: Safronov Brothers. Russian company
Nautilus Media is responsible for the show production.
СТС
Host: Aleksey Chumakov.
This project unites the magicians working in different genres
from all over the country. Teleportation, levitation, ceiling and
walls walking and many other things. But what is the most important – Safronov brothers (world known Russian illusionists)
will finally compete against each other!
The Biggest Loser
TV Shows
Russian broadcaster СТС is preparing a new reality show The
Biggest Loser, a local adaptation of TV format distributed by
UK-based Shine International. The project is produced by
WeiT Media company. Show premiere is set for spring 2015.
СТС
Yuliya Kovalchuk
Format: The Biggest Loser.
Host: Yuliya Kovalchuk.
The show centres on eight overweight contestants attempting
to lose the most weight to become the Biggest Loser and win a
cash prize.
Beauty Queen
TV Shows
Domashniy
Russian Domashniy TV channel is working on new factual TV
show Beauty Queen. The project premiere is set for the beginning of 2015.
Host: Oksana Fyodorova.
In each episode, two contestants – ordinary TV viewers who
think they do really can dress with elegance – go shopping. They
have three hours to buy the evening, casual and theme dress,
but one is given a card with unlimited sum of money, and the
other – only 6 000 rubles (approx. $100). Jury decide upon who
made the best choice and the winner gets all he bought for free.
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The Apprentice
TV Shows
Ukrainian commercial broadcaster ICTV is preparing new reality
show The Apprentice – a local adaptation of the UK-based FremantleMedia format of the same name. The show is produced
by Friends Production and will premiere in fall 2015.
ICTV
Format: The Apprentice.
16 contestants from all Ukraine try to become the protégé of the
famous businessman and get the top-management job in his/
her company for at least one year term.
The Bachelor 5
TV Shows
Ukrainian STB channel is working on the fifth season of reality
dating show The Bachelor, a local version of the format of the
same name distributed by Warner Bros. International Television. The project premiere is planned for spring 2015.
STB
Format: The Bachelor.
The series revolves around a single bachelor who starts with a
pool of romantic interests (25 women) from whom the bachelor
is expected to select a wife. During the course of the season,
the bachelor eliminates candidates with proposing marriage to
his final selection. This time the bachelor is Sergey Mel’nik, the
football player.
Sing Like A Star
TV Shows
Ukraine TV channel is working on new vocal talent show Sing
Like A Star, an adaptation of Keep Your Light Shining format
from Turkey-based Global Agency. Produced by Friends Production the show is planned to premiere in 2015.
Ukraine
Format: Keep Your Light Shining.
Every episode, 7 contestants take to a circular stage in darkness
and prepare to sing a song in turns. With less than 30 seconds
to sing in the spotlight, they have to give it everything before
the light moves onto the next performer. At the end of the song,
the audience votes and the 4 lowest ranking contestants are up
for elimination. However, a jury of 3 celebrity singers can each
choose to protect 1 singer and place them in a safe zone. The
remaining contestants start with a new song, and one leaves
after every round. The competition continues until the last two
must face-off in a duet. The main prize is 100 000 hryvnias (approx. $7000).
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Racketeer 2. The Revenge
feature films
Akhan
Satayev Project
Kazakh filmmaker Akhan Satayev is working on new feature
drama Racketeer 2. The Revenge, the sequel to his previous
film The Racketeer. The project is currently in post-production.
Shooting took place in Karaganda, Astana, Almaty and Shymkent. Film release is planned for March 2015.
Synopsis: The main character of the first film – Sayat – was seriously injured and left to die, but now he is back. Back to take the
revenge and punish all the offenders.
Akhan Satayev
feature films
Azerbaijanfilm
Director: Akhan Satayev.
Cast: Sayat Isembayev, Zhan
Baizhanbayev, Asel Sagatova,
Farkhad Abdraimov, Aruzhan
Dzhazilbekova, Maksim Akbarov,
Azamat Satibaldi, Ayan Utepbergen, Dasten Shakirov.
The Red Garden
Azerbaijani state film production company Azerbaijanfilm has
wrapped up shooting on feature-length drama Red Garden
(Qırmızı bağ) commissioned by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Filming took place in Ganja and Shaki.
Director, script: Mirbala Salimli.
Cast: Gulzar Gurbanova, Maqsud
Mamedov, Tale Badyev.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: School teacher Abbas wants his wife Vafa to give birth
to a child. But she can’t. Their life changes when they adopt Orkhan.
The Old City
feature films
Azerbaijanfilm
Azerbaijani state film production company Azerbaijanfilm
started shooting feature-length drama Old City (İçəri Şəhər)
commissioned by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Filming
takes place in Baku.
Producer: Musfiq Khatamov.
Director: Ilqar Safat.
Script: Takhmina R. Jabrail, Ilqar
Safat.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: The love story between young woman and veteran of
Nagorno-Karabakh War on the background of the historical core
of Baku – the Old City, that is sometimes called The Tower.
Musfiq Khatamov
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Brave Rabbit
Pentacle
Russian prodco Brave Rabbit started working on new fulllength drama Pentacle. The project is currently in pre-production period. Shooting is scheduled to start in 2015 and will take
place in Crimea.
Director: Denis Bannikov.
Cast: Aleksandr Karpov.
Genre: Social drama.
Synopsis: Film centers on the magical seal that travels through
time and space. Finally it appears in hands of an ordinary Russian man. Insensible of the danger he opens Pandora’s box.
11:41
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Cinema
Concept Production
Aleks Shahbazyan
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Armenian company Cinema Concept Production started
working on full-length drama 11:41. The project budget is
about $2.5 million. The project is currently in pre-production period. Principal photography starts in January 2015 and will last
for half a year: shooting will take place in Yerevan, Gyumri and
Moscow. Movie premiere is set for 2015.
Synopsis: After the 1988 Armenian earthquake, also known as the
Spitak earthquake, a young mother and her one-and-a-half-year
child got buried alive under destroyed buildings. Seven long days
and nights she tries to do everything to save her baby, even feed
him with her own blood. On the eighth day they were found…
Producer: Aleks Shahbazyan.
Director: Artak Zilfimyan.
Script: Aleks Shahbazyan, Lusine
Manukyan.
Cast: Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Eugeny Sidikhin, Chulpan Khamatova, Rafael Kotandzhyan, Mkrtich
Arzumanyan, Sos Janibekyan.
Genre: Drama.
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The Leg of Lamb
feature films
Domrachev and Co.
Russian film company Domrachev and Co. started shooting
feature ethnic drama The Leg of Lamb. Filming takes place
Yoshkar-Ola. Film premiere is planned for May-June 2015.
Director: Vasiliy Domrachev.
Genre: Ethnic drama.
Synopsis: Retired marines’ major is reflecting on the meaning
of life with a lot of references to traditions and culture of Mari
people.
Vasiliy Domrachev
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Edelweis
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Tily and Toly
Russian film studio Edelweis finished shooting new comedy romance Tily and Toly. The project is currently in post-production
period. Filming took place in North Ossetia. The movie budget
totals $1.1 million with 60% provided by The Ministry for Culture
of Russia. Film premiere is set for 2015.
Synopsis: This is the story of the two neighboring villages – Ossetian Toly and Georgian Tili. Governments of these countries
try to divide their people with a national border, but they do not
want to. The locals dream of peace and conciliation.
Producer: Natalya Ivanova.
Director: Aleksandr Amirov.
Script: Vladimir Gutnov, Olga Pogodina-Kuzmina, Anatoliy Dzivaev.
Cast: Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Kakhi Kavsadze, Evklid Kyurdzidis,
Anatoliy Dzivaev.
Genre: Comedy romance.
Elusive
feature films
Enjoy Movies
Russian production company Enjoy Movies finished filming
new action movie Elusive. The project is currently in post-production period. Shooting took place in Moscow. Film release is
set on March 26, 2015. The Twentieth Century Fox C.I.S. has
picked up the distribution rights.
Director: Artem Aksyonenko.
Cast: Aleksandra Bortich, Denis
Shvedov, Ivan Shakhnazarov, Ilya
Malanin, Anvar Khalilulayev.
Genre: Action.
Synopsis: Night. A young woman involved in a car accident
needs surgery. Her friend Kira finds the man responsible for the
crash, but he is rich and has got everything lined up. So Kira asks
bully Fedor, handsome Artem and computer genius Eugeniy for
help.
Monday Begins on Saturday
feature films
Fetisov Teterin films
Boris Bobrovnikov
Russian production centre Fetisov Teterin films in a coproduction with Krok company is working on feature fantastic comedy Monday Begins on Saturday, an adaptation of a
1965 science fiction/science fantasy novel by Boris and Arkady
Strugatsky. The project is currently in pre-production period.
Preliminary movie budget is set at $2-2.5 million.
Producers: Boris Bobrovnikov,
Oleg Teterin.
Genre: Fantastic comedy.
Synopsis: The Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry, located in the fictional Northern Russian town of Solovets,
is portrayed as a place where everyone must work hard willingly,
or else their loss of honesty is symbolized by hair growing from
their ears. These hairy-eared people are viewed with disdain,
but, in a turn symbolic of Soviet times, many of them stay in the
institute because it provides them with a comfortable living no
matter what.
The main hero Sasha is a young programmer. When he was a
kid, he migrated with his parents to USA, and now Sasha wants
to visit his grandmother who lives in Solovets.
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The Ghouls
feature films
Russian production centre Gorad started working on new feature-length mystical film The Ghouls, the screen adaptation of
The Family of The Vourdalak by Alexey Tolstoy. The film budget is set at 120 million RUR (near $2.4 million).
Gorad
Producers: Ekaterina Gordetskaya, Andrey Rad’ko.
Script: Aleksey Timm.
Genre: Mystical.
Synopsis: XVIII century. Lavr, the confessor of Elizabeth of Russia, was exiled into a small Savior Monastery in the Carpathian
Mountains, land that became the subject of many legends and
myths. Land where evil resides…
Bagram
feature films
Igor Yankovskiy’ Project
Russian producer Igor Yankovskiy started working on new feature war drama Bagram. The project is currently in pre-production. Filming process will start in fall 2015.
Producer: Igor Yankovskiy.
Genre: War drama.
Synopsis: The Soviet war in Afghanistan seems to end – troops
are withdrawn. But Mujahideen fighters want the revenge and
prepare a trap.
Igor Yankovskiy
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Insightmedia
Andrey Suyarko
Alexander Dovzhenko. Odessa Debut
Ukrainian writer and filmmaker Konstantin Konovalov is working
on biographical feature drama Alexander Dovzhenko. Odessa
Debut, an adaptation of his own book The Director. The project
is currently in pre-production period. Filming will take place in
Odessa. The movie is produced by the production centre Insightmedia with the support of Odessa Film Studio and companies Postcontrol (Finland) and Cinema 7 film (Argentina).
Film release is planned for 2016.
Producers: Vladimir Philippov, Andrey Suyarko.
Director, script: Konstantin Konovalov.
Cast: Sergey Babkin.
Genre: Biopic.
Synopsis: Long ago, in 1927 Dovzhenko released his first feature-length film – The Diplomatic Pouch. It tells the story of a
Soviet diplomatic courier who is killed in England. But before he
dies he manages to hand a pouch with the secret documents
over to an English worker. Driven by a strong feeling of class
solidarity the worker sends his teen son to his elder son Harry
who works as a boatswain on the ship Victoria which is about to
set sail for Leningrad. At the same time police inspector White
and a spy are after the pouch. The struggle unfolds between the
seamen eager to take the secret documents to their destination
in Leningrad and the representatives of the capitalist world hellbent on intercepting the pouch.
Shabdan Baatyr
feature films
Kyrgyzfilm
Kyrgyz film studio Kyrgyzfilm started working on new feature
period drama Shabdan Baatyr. The project is currently in preproduction period. Shooting is planned for 2015.
Director: Ernest Abdyjaparov.
Genre: Period drama.
Synopsis: Shabdan Djantaev (1839-1912), better known as
Shabdan Baatyr, was a politician and a military leader, who tried
to prevent the world repartition by the Kingdom of Great Britain
and the Russian Empire at all costs. He never put self first and
always thought about the people of his country.
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Ruslan and Lyudmila
feature films
Lunapark
Russian prodco Lunapark started working on feature fairy tale
Ruslan and Lyudmila, the first part of the Lukomorye trilogy
(all films will be in 3D). The project is currently in pre-production
stage. Filming is due to start in 2016. Movie premiere is planned
for December 2017.
Producers: Dmitry Nelidov, Ilya
Burets.
Director: Dmitry Venikov.
Script: Andrey Zhitkov.
Genre: Fairy tale.
Synopsis: Based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin it tells the story of the abduction of Ludmila, the daughter of Prince Vladimir of
Kiev, by an evil wizard and the attempt by the brave knight Ruslan
to find and rescue her.
Dmitry Nelidov
The Transformation
feature films
Magic Film
Russian film company Magic Film started shooting new feature
drama The Transformation. Filming takes place in Moscow
and Crimea.
Synopsis: After the death of his parents Maks finds out that he
can read minds of other people. One of these ‘mind adventures’
is connected with the beautiful artist Vera. She helps him to apprehend the real beauty of nature and the world around us, and
in return Maks shares his knowledge.
Tatyana Voronetskaya
feature films
The Ice-breaker
Russian film company Profit is working on drama the Icebreaker, based on real events. Principal photography is due to
start in March 2015. Preliminary project budget totals $10 million. The movie premiere is planned for the end of 2015.
Profit
Producers: Tatyana Voronetskaya,
Elena Belova.
Director: Tatyana Voronetskaya.
Script: Tatyana Voronetskaya,
Dmitry Sergin, Aleksandr Astremskiy.
Cast: Irina Gorbacheva, Mariya
Guzeyeva, Mariya Boltneva, Grigory Kalinin.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: 1984. The diesel-electric ship Mikhail Somov sailed
to deliver supplies to Arctic stations, but was iced up and stayed
trapped for 133 days.
Producers: Igor Tolstunov, Yuri
Khrapov.
Director: Nikolay Khomeriki.
Cast: Sergey Puskepalis, Pavel
Derevyanko, Anton Shagin.
Genre: Drama.
Escape from Moskvabad
feature films
Russian World Studios
Russian film company Russian World Studios is working on
new feature drama Escape from Moskvabad. Shooting took
place in Moscow. Movie premiere is set for 2015.
Synopsis: Masha Lastochkina moved to Moscow several years
ago and now she is working in The Federal Migration Service.
She exerts her best efforts to find and depart illegal immigrants,
not least because one migrant worker killed her close friend.
But suddenly her management decides to give Masha a partner
named Khasan. He is Tadjik…
Producers: Yuriy Sapronov, Aleksandr Repenko, Evgenyi Lein.
Director: Darya Poltoratskaya.
Script: Yusup Razykov.
Cast: Maria Mashkova, Nikita Panfilov, Mikael Djanibekyan, Djavakhir Zakhirov, Aleksandr Grishyn,
Artem Nasybulin.
Genre: Drama.
Pale City
feature films
Russkoe Vozrozhdenie
Petr Shepotinnik
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Russian film company Russkoe Vozrozhdenie started working on new feature thriller Pale City, an adaptation of a novel
of the same name by Igor Savelyev. The project is currently in
pre-production.
Director: Petr Shepotinnik.
Genre: Thriller.
Synopsis: Group of hitchhikers travel across the country. They
love freedom and the choice to decide where to go… until someone starts to kill them one after another. Only one hitchhiker left
now.
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72 Hours
feature films
Russian film company Sol has wrapped up shooting on feature
war drama 72 Hours. The project is currently in post-production
period. Movie premiere is expected on 9th May 2015.
Sol
Synopsis: Plot has two separate storylines – one about the Lyudinovo village, occupied by Nazi in 1941, and the other about
NKVD investigation of a certain Petrov case in 1956. This Petrov
and Dmitry Pronin – a traitor, sadist and the member of Hilfspolizei, who killed many people in Lyudinovo – may be the same
person. But investigators have only 72 hours to reveal the truth.
Director: Kira Angelina.
Script: Sergey Shelekhov, Anush
Vardanyan.
Cast: Lyza Arzamasova, Aleksandr
Zelskiy, Dmitry Labush, Anatoli
Gushchin, Aleksey Shevchenko,
Anastasiya Korolkova.
Genre: War drama.
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The Winter Song
feature films
Studio 99, Pierre Grise
Productions
Georgian film company Studio 99 in a co-production with
French Pierre Grise Productions started shooting new feature
war drama The Winter Song. Filming takes place in Gardabani
region with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection and the Ministry of Defense of Georgia. The film
will be released simultaneously in Georgia and France in spring
2015.
Director: Otar Iosseliani.
Genre: War drama.
Synopsis: Details are still unavailable. It is known only that the
film is not linked with some specified historical era – it is more
like an almanac of different periods with separate heroes and
storylines.
Duck Hunting
feature films
Talan, Amkart
Russian film studio Talan in a co-production with film company Amkart wrapped up shooting on new feature drama Duck
Hunting, the screen adaptation of a play of the same name by
Aleksandr Vampilov. Filming took place in Kaluga and vicinities
of Moscow. Movie release is planned for 2015.
Synopsis: Viktor Zilov is an engineer in a big company. Loving
wife, lots of friends, bright future… But suddenly Viktor loses his
will to live: he has come to detest his boring job and the petty
superior he must defer to; he feels betrayed by his friends; his
wife aborts the child who might have saved their relationship and
his marriage is falling apart; the new apartment they have wrested from the grudging bureaucracy seems more a tomb than a
home. Ultimately, suicide appears to be Zilov’s only alternative.
Producer: Natalya Budkina.
Director: Aleksandr Proshkin.
Script: Aleksandr Rodionov.
Cast: Evgeny Tsyganov, Chulpan
Khamatova, Dmitry Kulichkov,
Artem Semakin, Angelina Mirimskaya, Ekaterina Smirnova.
Genre: Drama.
The Stake on Love
feature films
Yellow, Black and White,
Central Partnership
Russian group of companies Yellow, Black and White in a coproduction with Central Partnership wrapped up shooting on
feature teen comedy The Stake on Love. Filming took place
in the USA and Russia. Movie premiere is planned for February
2015.
Synopsis: Kostya and David have known each other for many
years, but now their friendship is put to the test – Kostya wants
to marry Anne and David dreams to become the famous poker
tournament winner. And to do that they have to switch places.
Kostya will play and David will become a fiancé…
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Producers: Eduard Iloyan, Denis
Zhalinskyi, Rezo Gigineishvilli, Artem Mikhalkov, Irakliy Rodonaya.
Director: Artem Mikhalkov.
Cast: Andrey Burkovskyi, Ekaterina Shpitsa, Ovanes Azoyan, Aleksey Gorbunov, Aleksandr Revva,
Alla Mikheeva, Nikita Tarasov.
Genre: Comedy.
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US-based international distribution company AMBI Distribution has
pre-sold rights to romantic comedy All Roads Lead to Rome to Revolutionary Releasing on the territory of the CIS and Scandinavia. The
film is co-produced by AMBI Pictures and Paradox Studio. Shooting is
underway.
All Roads Lead to Rome. Maggie is an uptight, single mother and
college writing teacher from New York City. In an effort to reconnect
with her troubled teen daughter Summer, she decides to embark on a
journey to a Tuscan village where she frequented in her younger days.
Upon arrival, Maggie runs into Luca a handsome former lover who
is still a bachelor and lives with his eighty-year-old mother Carmen.
Summer (missing her “bad boy” boyfriend in NYC) and Carmen (secretly planning a wedding against Luca’s wishes to Marcelino, her one
true love in Rome) impulsively steal Luca’s car and race off to Rome.
Maggie and Luca quickly pursue allowing the two mismatched couples to spend some time together and develop a new understanding
of each other.
Director: Ella Lemhagen.
Producers: Andrea Iervolino,
Monika Bacardi, Silvio Muraglia.
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker,
Claudia Cardinale, Paz Vega,
Raoul Bova, Rosie Day.
Genre: Romantic comedy.
CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP
EuropaCorp’s sales team has sold action-thriller The Transporter
Legacy to Central Partnership on the territory of Russia. It is the reboot of ‘Transporter’ franchise and is internationally co-produced by
French EuropaCorp and Chinese Fundamental Films. Its premiere is
set for June 2015.
The Transporter Legacy. Film is set in France’s criminal underworld
and stars Ed Skrein as Frank Martin, a mercenary who delivers anything for money. But once he breaks his own rules and sets off to take
down a group of ruthless Russian human traffickers.
Director: Camille Delamarre.
Producer: Luc Besson.
Cast: Ed Skrein, Loan Chabanol, Lenn Kudrjawizki, Radivoje Bukvic, Ray Stevenson,
Anatole Taubman, Gabriella
Wright, Cédric Chevalme.
Genre: Action, thriller.
DARO FILM DISTRIBUTION
Denmark-based international distributor TrustNordisk has pre-sold
Kenneth Kainz’s fantasy movie Skammerens datter to Daro Film
Distribution on the territory of Russia and the CIS countries. Produced by Danish Nepenthe Film it will be the first part of film quadrilogy based on the book cycle Skammerens børn by Lene Kaaberbøl.
Skammerens datter/The Shamer’s Daughter. Pic tells the tale of
Dina, who has unwillingly inherited her mother’s supernatural ability and is able to look straight into the soul of other people. When her
mother is wrongfully accused of horrible murders, Dina sets off to uncover the truth but she finds herself embroiled in a dangerous power
struggle with her own life at risk.
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Director: Kenneth Kainz.
Producers: Eva Juel Hammerich, Frederick Howard,
Nina Lyng.
Cast: Rebecca Emilie Sattrup, Jakob Oftebro, Allan
Hyde, Maria Bonnevie, Lado
Hadzic, Adam Ild Rohweder.
Genre: Fantasy, adventure.
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KiT
Ukrainian distribution company KiT has added to its catalogue eight
feature-length movies – Austrian comedy Der Weihnachtshund and
its sequel Zwei Weihnachtshunde, British drama On Expenses,
biopic The Best of Men and historical drama Breaking the Mould,
Australian criminal drama A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne and American romance Affinity.
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Der Weihnachtshund. Max hates the Advent season, Christmas in
Vienna in particular, and generally speaking, the season horrifies him.
He would fly to the South Seas, if it were not for a minor problem called
Kurt, Max’s dog, who of course has to stay behind. Therefore Max
looks for somebody willing to look after his dog. Katrin sniffs a chance
here: she hates Christmas too, the Christmas party at her parents in
particular, including the advances made by her fiancé Aurelius - who
is absolutely perfect, or so it seems. Year after year, she looks out
for loopholes to stay away from the Christmas disaster, but alas! As
Katrin’s father is extremely allergic to dogs, a dog would be a great opportunity. Things no doubt take a different turn than originally planned.
Director: Michael Keusch.
Producers: Burkhard W.R.
Ernst, Niki List, Birte Dronsek.
Cast: Nadeshda Brennicke,
Florian Fitz, Gunther Gillian,
Katharina Stemberger.
Duration: 90 min.
Genre: Comedy.
Zwei Weihnachtshunde. When their best friends get married, Max
and Katrin wonder whether they themselves would be ready for such
a step. At first, the prospects are bleak: Max not only fails to live up to
Katrin’s parents’ standards, but is also constantly on the go to save
money for his own restaurant – a surprise he has in store for Katrin on
Christmas Eve. Offering nothing but paper-thin excuses, Max brings
home, as a new partner to his dog Kurt, the sweet little dog Trixie, who
Kurt completely falls for. But then Katrin finds out that Max meets Trixie’s attractive owner on secret dates. When Katrin is offered a new job
in London, she is about to put her career before her relationship. For a
happy ending to occur under the Christmas tree, help from a second
Christmas dog is badly needed.
Director: Lenard Fritz
Krawinkel.
Producers: Burkhard W.R.
Ernst, Niki List, Birte Dronsek.
Cast: Nadeshda Brennicke,
Florian Fitz, Gunther Gillian.
Duration: 90 min.
Genre: Comedy.
On Expenses. The film documents the true story of American journalist Heather Brooke’s attempt to get expenses claims of Members of
Parliament released under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and
Speaker Michael Martin’s battle to prevent it.
Director: Simon Cellan Jones.
Producers: Stephen Wright,
Tony Saint.
Cast: Anna Maxwell Martin,
Brian Cox, Alex Jennings, Tim
Pigott-Smith.
Genre: Drama.
The Best of Men. Based on real events film describes the pioneering
work of Dr. Ludwig Guttmann with paraplegic patients, which led to the
foundation of the Paralympic Games.
Director: Tim Whitby.
Producers: Harriet Davison,
Matthew Read, Tracie Wright.
Cast: George MacKay, Bee Bee
Sanders, Leigh Quinn, Eddie
Marsan, Ben Owen-Jones.
Duration: 90 min.
A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne. The film is based
on alleged events surrounding the death of Caroline Byrne in June
1995. At the time, the police initially wrote the case off as suicide, but
contradicting evidence soon began to arise, and suspicions were directed towards her boyfriend, Gordon Wood. The case became one
of the longest running in Australian history, and a trial convicting Wood
for the murder of Byrne did not come to a close until November 2008,
when he was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Director: Tony Tilse.
Producers: Greg Haddrick, Rick
Maier, Des Monaghan.
Cast: Garry McDonald, David
Lyons, Cariba Heine, Tiriel Mora,
Gyton Grantley, Heather Mitchell.
Duration: 94 min.
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Breaking the Mould. Film tells the story of the development of penicillin in the 1930’s/40’s, by a group of scientists in Oxford at The Dunn
School of Pathology.
Director: Peter Hoar.
Producers: Charlotte Bloxham,
Pier Wilkie, John Yorke.
Cast: Dominic West, Denis
Lawson, Oliver Dimsdale, Joe
Armstrong, John Sessions, Kate
Fleetwood.
Duration: 80 min.
Genre: Historical drama.
Affinity. Affinity is set in Victorian England; the story of an upper-class
woman, Margaret, who becomes an official “Visitor” to a woman’s
prison; however, she becomes emotionally attached to one of the inmates, Selina. As the story progresses through Selina’s shady background, and Margaret’s dislike of her home life; a plot to break out of
the prison develops. But just what the plan is, and who is in charge is
yet to be discovered.
Director: Tim Fywell.
Producers: Adrian Bate, Andrew
Davies, Patrick Irwin.
Cast: Zoë Tapper, Anna Madeley,
Domini Blythe, Amanda Plummer,
Mary Jo Randle, Caroline Loncq.
Duration: 120 min.
Genre: Drama.
LUXOR ENTERTAINMENT
Berlin-based distributor Picture Tree International has sold rights to
the autobiographical drama The Pilgrim to Russian Luxor Entertainment on the territory of the CIS and Baltics.
The Pilgrim — the Best Story of Paulo Coelho. A chronicle of Paulo
Coelho’s rise from his troubled life to become one of the most influential writers in Brazilian history.
Director: Daniel Augusto.
Cast: Júlio Andrade, Ravel
Andrade.
Genre: Biopic.
MEGA
Ukrainian TV channel Mega (part of Inter Media Group) has acquired
35 hours of documentary and factual content from TCB Media Rights.
Among titles it bought: documentary film Treblinka: Hitler’s Killing
Machine co-produced by Furneaux Edgar and GME, Like A Shot-produced mini-series Inquisition, another mini-series Twisted History
from WAGTV, mini-series Australia’s Deadliest and film Australia’s
Deadliest: Shark Coast from Seven Network.
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Treblinka: Hitler’s Killing Machine. Forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls has been granted unprecedented access to excavate
one of history’s greatest crime scenes: Hitler’s secret extermination
camp in the Polish village of Treblinka. Here, between 1942 and 1943,
900,000 Jews were sent to their deaths, but for 70 years, all evidence
of the camp and its victims had vanished... until now. Follow the quest
to unearth the processing rooms, gas chambers, and mass graves Hitler tried to erase from existence and journey into the dark heart of the
Nazi’s Final Solution.
Duration: 1х60/1х90 min.
Inquisition. In more enlightened times, it is almost impossible for us
to understand the power and influence of religion in years gone by.
It was the cornerstone of every life. It touched almost every aspect
of everyday existence. Next to the royalty, the clergy were the most
powerful people in the land. To deny them was folly. To deny their God
meant almost certain death. In those long gone days, a Heretic was
considered to be an agent of the devil. He was to be hunted down and
punished. It was the Inquisition that did the hunting and the punishing. If the Inquisition accused a man of heresy, he was presumed to be
Durtion: 4х60 min.
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guilty. It was for him to prove he was innocent. Every possible method
was employed to extract a confession. The eyes and the ears of the
Inquisition were everywhere…
Twisted History. History doesn’t travel in straight lines. The truth is far
weirder and more fascinating than anything you learned at school. The
most iconic events of the modern era – the Moon Landing, the Roswell
Incident, the death of Martin Luther King Jr. - are all the product of
small things - chance meetings, friendships, collisions of ideas and
crazy stories. These are the connections that make history.
Durtion: 4х60 min.
Australia’s Deadliest. Australia is a country abundant in picturesque
beaches, rainforests and rivers but these vast and beautiful landscapes are home to some of the most deadly animals in the world.
These predators can kill a human in seconds. These are the stories of
people across the country who have had close encounters with these
dangerous creatures ranging from Box Jellyfish that can paralyse the
cardiac muscle in seconds, the Brown Snake that can stop blood clogging in minutes, the Saltwater Crocodile known for its death roll, to the
expansive jaws of the Great White shark. Those who survived an animal
attack bear the scars of their deadly encounter.
Duration: 12х30 min.
Australia’s Deadliest: Shark Coast. The Great White Shark has
been responsible for 5 fatalities in less than 10 months. These terrifying events are replayed through the eyes of the victim’s families, witnesses and survivors.
Duration: 1х60 min.
RUSSIAN REPORT
Russian distributor Russian Report has acquired rights to Canadian
drama Le règne de la beauté from eOne’s Séville International. The
film will be distributed on the territory of Russia and the CIS.
Le règne de la beauté. Luc, a brilliant young architect with remarkable talent, lives a peaceful life with his wife Stephanie in the stunning
area of Charlevoix. Beautiful house, pretty wife, dinner with friends,
golf, tennis, hunting… a perfect life, one might say! One day, he accepts to be a member of an architectural jury in Toronto. There, he
meets Lindsay, a mysterious woman who will turn his life upside down.
WIZART ANIMATION
Russian toon house Wizart Animation has closed a raft of deals within
the framework of American Film Market. It has sold The Snow Queen
(2012) to Discovery Networks Latin America for its Discovery Kids
network across the region (excluding Brazil), and The Snow Queen 2
(2014) to Transformer Inc. in Japan. OneVision Ent. has acquired
both Snow Queen films for Indonesia. At the same time an upcoming
Sheep and Wolves (2015) has been picked up by RIALTO for Australia
and New Zealand.
The Snow Queen. Wishing to create a New world – where clearness
of lines replaces emotions and the polar wind cools human souls, the
Snow Queen is trying to find and destroy all artists and their successors.
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Director: Denys Arcand.
Producers: Daniel Louis, Andrea Puig, Denise Robert.
Cast: Éric Bruneau, Mélanie
Thierry, Melanie Merkosky,
Marie-Josée Croze, Mathieu
Quesnel, Michel Forget.
Duration: 102 min.
Genre: Drama.
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The film represents fascinating travel of Gerda trying to find her brother
Kai on the boundless spaces of the fantastic country bewitched by the
Snow Queen. During this travel Gerda faces difficult obstacles and
finds new friends…
Directors: Vladlen Barbe ,
Maksim Sveshnikov.
Producers: Olga Sinelshchikova, Timur Bekmambetov, Sergey
Rapoport, Aleksandr Ligay.
Cast: Anna Shurochkina, Ivan
Okhlobystin, Galina Tyunina,
Dmitriy Nagiev, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Lyudmila Artemeva,
Yuriy Stoyanov, Anna Ardova.
Duration: 76 min.
Genre: Animation.
The Snow Queen 2. After the Snow Queen is vanquished, our hero,
a troll named Orm returns to his native Troll City and to a life of being a
rank-and-file coal miner. The life of simple trolls is filled with hardships
and injustices, and Orm wants out! A few strategic lies and he could be
marrying the Princess and become the King of Trolls... But with each
lie out of Orm’s mouth, the Snow King – Orm’s heartless reflection,
which dreams of enveloping the world in a blanket of eternal frost –
grows more powerful. In this extension of Hans Christian Andersen’s
classic tale, The Snow Queen, we meet our old friends, Kai, Gerda, the
weasel Luta, and, of course, the troll kingdom – featuring one rather
ordinary princess, a band of bored soldiers, and one extraordinary love
story of a king and his lost love...
Director: Aleksey Tsitsilin.
Producers: Timur Bekmambetov, Yuriy Moskvin, Vladimir
Nikolaev.
Cast: Ivan Okhlobystin, Anna
Shurochkina, Anna Khilkevich,
Aleksandr Uman, Igor Bortnik,
Aleksey Likhnitskiy, Roman Yunusov, Aleksandr Gudkov.
Duration: 80 min.
Genre: Animation.
Sheep and Wolves. Interested only in merry-making and chasing
sheep, the young wolf Grey is afraid of responsibility and has no desire
to become the leader of his pack. Grey is convinced that all a wolf really needs is a spot in the sun and a sheep or two in the belly. That is,
until Grey wakes up one morning in the skin of a ram and finds himself
surrounded by a flock of sheep...
Director: Andrey Galat.
Producers: Sergey Selyanov, Yuriy Moskvin.
Genre: Animation.
Cinema releases overview
Cinema releases overview
UKRAINIAN THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION MARKET OVERVIEW
(JANUARY 1, 2014 – NOVEMBER 30, 2014)
Theatrical releases of 287 films took place in Ukraine starting from January 1, 2014. The gross box-office of these films totaled $75.61
million. About 17.96 million tickets were sold for the premieres of the 2014 theatrical year. TOP-20 releases collected $41.64 million
– 55.07% of the total amount. 51.64% of the cinema-goers – near 9.27 million – bought tickets to watch the films you see in the table
below.
№
Movie
Distributor
Premier Date
Premier Box-office, $
Total Box-office
(01.01 - 30.11.2014), $
Tickets Sold
(01.01 - 28.09.2014)
1
Viy (Rus)
UFD
30.01.2014
1 620 416
4 638 645
850 356
2
Transformers: Age of Extinction
B&H
26.06.2014
1 395 808
3 274 316
695 096
3
Love In Big City 3 / Lyubov v bolshom
gorode 3 (Rus)
UFD
02.01.2014
944 049
3 138 371
590 656
4
Noah
B&H
27.03.2014
1 163 127
2 692 621
584 201
5
47 Ronin
B&H
01.01.2014
842 237
2 680 457
419 154
6
Maleficent
B&H
29.05.2014
895 300
2 382 281
587 253
7
Lucy
B&H
21.08.2014
770 773
2 251 017
636 896
8
Guardians Of The Galaxy
B&H
31.07.2014
686 248
2 108 825
510 697
9
300: Rise of an Empire
KNM
06.03.2014
913 770
2 068 391
352 563
10 Dracula Untold
B&H
02.10.2014
666 687
1 842 118
518 228
11 Rio 2
UFD
20.03.2014
602 532
1 787 531
478 066
12 How to Train Your Dragon 2
UFD
12.06.2014
530 187
1 716 319
467 994
13 Interstellar
KNM
06.11.2014
531 635
1 701 347
473 380
14 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
B&H
14.08.2014
911 642
1 559 226
422 337
15 Hercules
B&H
24.07.2014
748 237
1 525 473
344 466
16 Edge of Tomorrow
KNM
05.06.2014
447 563
1 408 628
295 835
17 The Amazing Spider-Man 2
B&H
24.04.2014
571 862
1 298 622
291 464
Some Like It Cold / V sporte tolko
18
devushki (Rus)
UFD
06.02.2014
518 001
1 261 484
286 871
IF
13.03.2014
529 719
1 182 867
236 910
B&H
13.02.2014
671 026
1 117 044
230 483
TOTAL ТОP-10:
27 077 042
5 745 100
TOTAL ТОP-20:
41 635 583
9 272 906
19 Need for Speed
20 RoboCop
Sources: Ukrainian Film Distribution, kino-teatr.ua
Distributors:
B&H – B&H Distribution
IF – Inter-Film
KNM – Kinomania
UFD – Ukrainian Film Distribution
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There are a total of 16. 2 million television households and approximately 24 million television sets in use in
Ukraine. Ukraine is a kind of unique country in Europe from the point of view of the national-wide analogue
terrestrial TV nets quantity: there are 15 channels of that kind in the country.
Ukrainian TV channels
landscape overview
Private TV broadcasters owned by Ukrainian tycoons play the lead role on the local market. There are four
dominant TV Groups in Ukraine: StarLight Media (belongs to Viktor Pinchuk, operates STB, ICTV, Novy
Channel, M1, M2 and QTV channels), Inter Media Group (belongs to Dmitry Firtash, runs Inter, NTN, K1,
K2, Mega, Enter-film, MTV Ukraine, Pixel channels), 1+1 Media (owned by Igor Kolomoiskiy, operates 1+1,
2+2, TET, PlusPlus channels), and Media Group Ukraine (belongs to Rinat Akhmetov, runs TRK Ukraine,
Football, Football+, Donbas, Sigma TV, Sphere TV, 34 Channel and NLO TV channels). Government-owned
TV channel First National is not so popular, as private broadcasters. Nevertheless it belongs to TOP-15
most popular TV channels in Ukraine.
TV shr in Ukraine, November 2014 (aud 18+, all Ukraine)
16,00 15,02 14,00 11,26 12,00 9,41 10,00 9,04 7,60 8,00 4,87 6,00 3,56 4,00 2,88 2,66 2,00 0,00 INTER 1+1 CHANNEL UKRAINE STB ICTV NTN NEW CHANNEL TET 2+2 1,67 K1 Source: Nielsen
Terrestrial TV market 2010 – 2015
Currently both analogue and digital terrestrial television continue parallel broadcasting in Ukraine. This
transitional period started in 2011 when DTT multiplexes provider Zeonbud finally deployed its net. The
company has invested US$134 million (€100 million) in rolling out its network. Zeonbud employs four multiplexes to offer viewers a total of 32 channels, 28 of which are national and four regional and local. These
multiplexes now reach 95% of the population. The DTT platform operator Zeonbud has launched its DTT
services using the DVB-T2 standard and has become the first Eastern European DTT platform to make use
of DVB T2.
Such situation when both analogue and digital terrestrial broadcasting takes place does not satisfy the
interest of national-wide analogue TV channels, because they carry double financial charge. Nowadays
there are 15 national-wide analogue broadcasters in Ukraine.
National-wide analogue TV channels (ATT)
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ATT Frequencies Owned
Date of establishment
Inter
405
Oct 1996
Ukraine
107
2002
1+1
421
Aug 1995
STB
70
June 1997
ICTV
94
June 1992
New Channel
92
July 1998
First National / Era
488
Feb 1939
TET
87
Jan 1992
2+2
26
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ATT Frequencies Owned
Mega
28
Date of establishment
Mar 2010
NTN
84
Nov 2004
K1
27
June 2005
5 channel
74
Sep 2003
Tonis
27
1989
M1
48
Dec 2001
Currently there are 215 local and regional TV channels that have ATT licenses. But almost half of these
channels do not have its original programming (or have just couple of hours of its original broadcast) and
simply retransmit the signals of other TV channels.
Ukrainian television market will change dramatically after the analogue terrestrial switch off that is planned
for summer 2015. The number of digital terrestrial TV nets that will have national-wide coverage will increase to 29, id est will almost double. Currently more than 5.4 million households watch TV due to terrestrial (both ATT and DTT) services. DTT share increased almost to 2.5 million households in 2013 and
continue to grow.
National-wide Digital TV channels (DTT)
Channel
Media Group / Owner
Digital Multiplex
Inter
Inter Media Group
MX 1
Ukraine
Media Group Ukraine
MX 1
1+1
1+1 Media
MX 1
STB
StarLight Media
MX 2
ICTV
StarLight Media
MX 1
New Channel
StarLight Media
MX 2
First T2
Government
MX 1
TET
1+1 Media
MX 2
2+2
1+1 Media
MX 3
Mega
Inter Media Group
MX 3
NTN
Inter Media Group
MX 1
K1
Inter Media Group
MX 1
5 channel
Express-Inform, NMB
MX 2
Tonis
Tonis LLC
MX 3
Enter Film
Inter Media Group
MX 1
M1
StarLight Media
MX 2
112 Ukraina
112 Ukraina
MX 5
Business
Atigo Media Group
MX 3
Dobro
Atigo Media Group
MX 3
Goldberry
Goldberry LLC
MX 5
Vintage
Korona Sunrays LLC
MX 5
XSport
Totveld LLC
MX 3
Zoom
Inter Media Group
MX 2
Bank TV
Bankivske Telebachennia LLC
MX 5
Esculap TV
Aspera 2011 LLC
MX 5
K2
Inter Media Group
MX 2
Kinotochka
Media Group Ukraine
MX 2
NLO TV
Media Group Ukraine
MX 3
Pixel
Inter Media Group
MX 3
Pay-TV market
Ukrainian Pay-TV market volume grew annually 7-8% in terms of subscribers and 10-12% in terms of PayTV operators revenues (but for this year).
Cable is the most widespread television platform in Ukraine accounting by the end of 2013 for over
5.9 million subscribers (36% of the total television households). The penetration of cable TV has risen near
6% comparing with the results of 2012. The terrestrial platform yet remains the second most widespread
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television platform in Ukraine and is used by 5.4 million television households. Satellite TV coverage in
2013 grew more than 200 thousand households and reached 4.7 million homes (near 29% of the total
television households). The majority of satellite households prefer to receive FTA channels and not to
pay DTH operators for the service. However, the constant growth of the cable and satellite platforms has
eroded the terrestrial platform’s market share which has decreased from 75% in 2007 to 63% in 2009 and
to 33% in 2013.
All services on the terrestrial platform are currently free-to-air including DTT service from Zeonbud, private operator of 4 out of 5 DTT multiplexes in Ukraine. The rest 2% of the households use IPTV and OTT
platforms to watch TV.
TV signal reception type in Ukraine, 2013
2% 2% 29% 36% 29% 36% Cable Terresr/al Cable Satellite IPTV / OTT 33% Terresr/al Satellite IPTV / OTT 33% Source: National Broadcasting Council of Ukraine, E&C Consulting
Totally there are more than 200 cable operators in Ukraine. TOP-10 cable operators account for almost
40% of the total market.
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Cable TV operators’ revenues count for almost 90% of the total Pay-TV market volume in Ukraine. The
point is that there are only three DTH platforms operators (Viasat, NTV+ and Xtra TV) and their Pay-TV
subscription base remains rather low (near 300 thousand households in total). Overall during 2014 the
number of pay TV users in Ukraine has diminished 500-700 thousand or about 20-28% according to offi-
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cial data. The subscription TV market volume has shortened also in money terms – about 5%. Predictable
decline (from $380M to less than $300M) of the volume of the Pay-TV market in Ukraine in 2014 is connected with the Ukrainian national currency depreciation in 2014.
TV Advertising market
From the advertising point of view Ukraine is the second largest market in the CIS region after Russia. The
total volume of its TV ad market grew 14% in 2013 and amounted $555 million (4.94 billion UAH), plus
$62.5 million of TV sponsorship (data provided by All-Ukrainian Advertising Coalition).
This year it is possible to count the volume of any market in Ukraine only in the national currency – hryvnia.
Advertising market is not exception. The main reason of this “impossibility” of making any predictions and
analysis of the market volume in foreign currency (USD or Euro, for instance) is highly unstable hryvnia – in
January-November 2014 depreciation of the Ukrainian national currency relative to USD reached 50% and
we still cannot be sure that this is really the end of the hryvnia drop.
Ukrainian TV advertising market during last several years grew annually not less than 10-15%. But this
year we see several objective reasons preventing the stable growth of the market. First of all we should
take into account the temporary loss of a significant part of our territory that led to the 5% decrease of the
number of the Ukrainian households. Military conflict at the east of our country also influences a lot the
future expectations of the advertisers, who are eager to cut and shorten their advertising budgets preferring to wait for better times.
According to All-Ukrainian Ad Coalition this year the local TV ad market cannot expect for the growth
or even for staying flat. Coalition predicts 12% drop of the market volume in national currency (from
4.94 billion UAH to 4.36 billion UAH)
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Egor Borschevsky:
“Today Ukrainian visual
effects are as good as
those used in US and
European TV projects”
Today we can hardly ever see the commercial film project made without visual effects, and the services
provided by VFX-studios are becoming more and more important at the market. In an exclusive interview
to CIS: Content Report Egor Borschevsky, the director of Ukrainian VFX-studio Postmodern Digital told
how to make the movie with optimum quality of visual effects without exceeding budget limits, about the
role of the VFX-producer and VFX-supervisor, and about new projects and general trends in industry.
How do you assess the current state of the post-production industry in Ukraine?
First of all, we need not to equal the concept of “visual effects studio” with the concept of “post-production
studio”. These two areas are very different now. It`s some sort of tradition to name the visual effects studio
a “post-production house”, but actually it’s a completely different type of work - the studio of visual effects
enters the project at the early stage of the production process.
The industry of visual effects in Ukraine faces difficulties for several reasons. Firstly, we do not have a
healthy film production market. The most of the visual effects we make for commercials and music clips,
and 90% of the companies that produce visual effects are focused on this market. But that is quite another
matter and completely differs from ours, though it seems that we do the same thing. In advertising you
have the short-term projects with the different software used and different type of specialists involved.
Therefore, there are only a couple of studios that do really work on the visual effects for films.
But today Ukrainian visual effects are as good as those used in US and European TV projects. But can’t say
the same about the films. There`s a lack of Ukrainian specialists who can do the job within the same time
limits as, for example, the Hollywood specialists are used to.
How does the process of making visual effects for the film project works? What are the duties of
the VFX-producer?
It is crucially important to attach the VFX-producer at an early stage, as the film producer may not have
enough skills to assess the real stage of involvement of computer graphics into the project. That is, in fact,
the reason why VFX-producer should always be assigned to it at the pre-production stage already. The
VFX-producer and VFX-supervisor can recommend the best options to solve some specific problems, for
example, where is it possible to use the digital locations or how to optimize the creative tasks related to
digital characters.
Egor Borschevsky
How does the VFX-producer co-operate with the producer? What should the last know to make
his film project with the best visual effects?
They need to work together in close contact just like the VFX-producer and the VFX-supervisor do. For
the producer it is important to understand that it`s always possible to make it better, but the quality means
money. He must assess all the creative risks, because sometimes it happens that well-planned scene is
badly designed and does not meet the general idea. Accordingly it needs more work and additional costs.
Visual effects artists may be bringing a piece of work to perfection for many hours and that it is the matter
of money as well. The producer has to choose the right moment to say ‘stop’ to get good quality and stay
within the budget limits.
How does the actual budget relate to the planned one? What are the causes of discrepancies, if
any?
The actual budget for CG-shots is almost always bigger than planned. The main reason for the production budget increase is different interpretation of the terms and conditions and the objectives. Besides,
sometimes producers try to save money on visual effects at the stage of pre-production. And this leads
to the opposite result. Furthermore there will be some creative experimentation. In general it depends on
relationship between VFX- and film producer, on their dialogue.
Has your studio ever lost revenues?
Yes. In fact, we had no profit from our first project, but we knew it will be that way, and this work helped us
to enter the market. The same happened to Inseparable. We have put a lot of money in it and the project
hardly brought back enough to cover the costs, but it received several prestigious awards at international
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festivals for the best VFX. This helped in future and gave us access to new important clients. This approach
is common in our business as, for example, the studio Framestore, which made Gravity, had two unprofitable projects in fact, and only Gravity saved it from bankruptcy.
How does the amount of work on the visual effects for a particular project is planned?
Usually the studio sets the production cost of one hour. There was an unfortunate incident with the company Rhytm & Hues that created the visual effects for the Life of Pi movie. It went bankrupt on this project
despite the fact that it won an Oscar. The problem was that the amount of work in the process of filming
grew two-three times than it was thought. For a studio with two or three thousand workers it is a complete
disaster.
We are now talking about the human recourses. But what about the technical aspect of the matter?
In most cases, of course, the output depends on the human factor. Problems with the lack of render farms
or special software often occur in the advertising business. You have a week to do the task and sometimes
you just do not have enough time to finish the rendering.
What about the Ukrainian market, is there a lack of specialists in the industry?
Yes, it is a shortage, actually.
What are the causes?
A lot of specialists work in the game industry now. Also, in my opinion, people do not want to learn. I look
on people who I work with and their age is 34-35, but earlier the average age was about 26-27. These are
people who have learned back then. The influx of young specialists is very small. Of course it does exist,
but we have to gather the team from all over Ukraine. This is a paradox, because it is quite highly paid
work. For a few months I can prepare a specialist who will get an average salary of one thousand dollars.
It`s quite high due to Ukrainian standards.
What is your criteria when you choose a new team member?
In general, our specialists are experts who are diligent and able to self-educate. Professionals who come
to me and show a diploma of an online school, show very good results. They differ from those self-taught
ones because they already have some systematic knowledge. If this person has the experience in some
major projects, then of course his work is quite expensive.
What would you recommend to young professionals for training?
Self-education is the most important thing. Actually, we have plans to open the school for VFX-specialists.
I can`t provide you with the details, but I think we`ll manage to do that in six months.
How much time does the Ukrainian market need to reach the level of Hollywood movies. What
knowledge and experience local experts must have?
It depends on what kind of project you are talking about. For example to make such a movie as The Avengers Ukraine needs 10-15 years. But this is true only for such full-length blockbusters. If we take some
television projects, it can already be done by several studios. As for the amount of work – there are only
200-250 highly-qualified specialists in Ukraine. Whereas in contrast such companies as the American
Method Studios have the state of eight thousand people.
Ukrainian studios used to work close with the Russian companies. Has the situation changed?
No, it hasn`t. Because it all depends on personal and professional relationships. And it works with production too - everything depends on the successful co-operation on previous projects.
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to work
in video
games
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market.
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the USA or China?
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Russia?
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results?
(Kinoyazyk) technology. Do you take part in the researches of his company Bazelevs?
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do cooperate
with Bazelevs
in somemarket.
researches.
this
cooperation
is rather
sketchy.
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with Chinese
European
I workBut
with
Chinese
clients,
but to
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visual
effects
specialists.
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Indian
specialists
are
cheap
and
fast,
but
the
exunderstanding
of this
fact came
to
Russian filmmakers and developed into a strong tendency.
from
the
declared
objectives
but
still…
perience shows that what is cheap is not always the best. Even large companies with offices in China and
India, for example Technicolor, often have problems with quality.
There is information in the Web that you are going to launch your own projects as a producer. Is
that
true?
What is the world’s most successful project in terms of visual effects?
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have some
ideas. I have
and skills
that
be sufficient
launch
a project.
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comin Moscow.
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prize.we are going to separate company’s activity as a producer from providing postproduction services
time
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promising
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otherwise
be a riskUkrainian
of failing project
in both areas.
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over the previous two years. We also created on-line resources providing sales agents, distributors, festiIn
opinion what
trends willwith
prevail
in the fieldon
of the
visual
effects
the next five
years?
valyour
programmers
and producers
the information
projects
andwithin
their producers
as well
as video
materials. So we did one more step on our way to the international market.
The undertone is the mix of rendering technology and game engines. Also there will be a converge of
movies and games. The expensive actors appear in games, leaders of the music charts write soundtracks
for the games. Budgets grow and they start to work with the professional scriptwriters. More and more
elements of filmmaking are borrowed by the gaming industry.
And the movies are getting more digitalized. They are becoming more like computer games in action
scenes. The entire film industry is changing. This is what the movie luminaries such as Lucas talked about.
Only blockbusters will be left in movie industry – such as 135th Transformers and 45th Spiderman. They will
stay in theaters for a long time, while tickets will cost much more. And more serious movies will go into the
small screen. We can see it already.
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