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CПРОИЗВОДСТВО ПРОИЗВОДСТВО ПРОИЗВОДСТВО

Продюсер: Юрий Сапронов.режиссер: Артем Антонов.сцеНарий: Виктор Ольшанский, Михаил Бартенев.в ролях: Андрей Ильин, Анна Банщикова, Дмитрий Блохин, Ольга Калмыкова, Елизавета Кутузова, Юрис Лауциньш, Инна Степанова, Валерий Дьяченко, Татьяна Иванова.количество серий: 16. жаНр: детектив.

режиссер: Нурбек Эген.в ролях: Мария Машкова, Марат Башаров, Барбара Брыльска, Нина Русланова, Вениамин Сме-хов, Владимир Епифанцев.количество серий: 12.жаНр: мелодрама.

Продюсер: Денис Евстигнеев.режиссер: Павел Бардин.сцеНарий: Павел Бардин, Мария Сапрыкина, Александр Молча-нов, Андрей Бережанский, Ан-дрей Житков.в ролях: Александр Голубков, Али Алиев, Саера Сафари, Фар-

«МАЙОР ПОЛИЦИИ»

Российская кинокомпания «Всемирные Русские Студии» 30 января объявила о начале съемок нового 16-серийного детектива «Майор полиции». Съемочные работы пройдут в Санкт-Петербурге, Гатчине, Пушкине, Шлиссельбурге, Кронштадте, а также на питерской студии RWS.

Синопсис: Честный и принципиальный майор милиции Андрей Камышин из провинциального городка Тишинска кому-то очень сильно мешал. Ему «пришили» дело, поса-дили на три года, а потом, для верности, упрятали в пси-хиатрическую больницу. Спустя время приговор был пере-смотрен и отменен, а Андрей Камышин реабилитирован. За годы принудительной изоляции майор практически утратил связь с семьей. После долгих сомнений Камышин возвра-щается на службу в полицию и соглашается стать заме-стителем начальника УВД. Он собирает команду и ставит перед собой четкую цель – вытащить на свет корни крими-нала, опутавшего город.

«ЖИТЬ ДАЛЬШЕ»

Российская кинокомпания «Всемирные Русские Студии» 7 февраля приступила к съемкам остросюжетной 12-серий-ной мелодрамы «Жить дальше». Команда подготовила на-туру, подобрала и требуемым образом оформила объекты, которые расположатся преимущественно в Москве и Москов-ской области. Интерьерные съемки пройдут не в павильонах, а на квартирах. В первый съемочный день пройдут интерьер-ные съемки в районе станции метро Рижская. Время, отво-димое на съемочный процесс, весьма сжатое, нужно будет уложиться до июня 2013 г. Затем начнется монтирование, оз-вучивание, на что, как ожидается, уйдет не меньше года. Съе-мочный процесс ведется аппаратурой немецкой компании ARRI. Бюджет картины – $300 тыс. на 1 серию фильма. Проект готовится по заказу «Первого канала» России.

Синопсис: Это история молодой женщины Веры, которая в одночасье теряет высокооплачиваемую работу в банке, любимого человека и родную сестру. После чего она ре-шает кардинально изменить свою жизнь и идет работать в агентство по уходу за больными людьми. Каждая серия – это история очередного подопечного Веры. Чужие беды помогают ей переоценить собственную жизнь и понять, что все ее несчастья – неслучайны…

«САЛАМ, МАСКВА»

Российская кинокомпания «Русский проект» завершила работу над 16-серийной телевизионной драмой «Салам, Масква». Проект готовится по заказу российского «Перво-го канала». Съемки проводились в документальной мане-ре – подвижной камерой. «Этнические» персонажи сериала говорят на своем родном языке. Съемки проекта стартова-ли в феврале 2012 г. и закончились в сентябре. Съемочные работы прошли в Москве и Дагестане.

Синопсис: Главные герои сериала работают в отделе N, ко-торый создают при ОВД одного из московских районов для борьбы с преступлениями среди мигрантов, тех, кого москви-

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«РУССКИЙ ПРОЕКТ»

Нурбек Эген

Уважаемые коллеги!

Учитывая исторические и социальные особенно-сти Казахстана, телевидение по-прежнему оста-ется самым популярным средством массовой информации, впрочем, как и на всем остальном постсоветском пространстве. Современная сет-ка вещания крупнейших казахских телеканалов наполнена в настоящее время преимущественно иностранными сериалами (корейскими, турец-кими, российскими, американскими, китайски-ми и др.), телевизионными программами раз-влекательного и новостного жанров, в основном собственного и российского производства, а также достаточно большим количеством филь-мов, немало из которых снято представителя-ми современного казахского кинематографа. В сегодняшнем аналитическом обзоре редакция Content Report решила сфокусироваться на теле-визионном рынке Казахстана, который, развива-ясь достаточно стремительными темпами и явля-ясь третьим крупнейшим рынком постсоветского пространства после России и Украины, в послед-ние годы демонстрирует все большее тяготение к контенту локального производства.

По итогам осени 2012 года члены российской Ассоциации продюсеров кино и телевидения

наиболее значимым отраслевым мероприятием назвали Red Square Screenings. Главным идео-логом форума, целью которого является продви-жение фильмов производства стран СНГ в мире, является генеральный продюсер российской кинокомпании «Твинди», член Европейской ки-ноакадемии (European Film Academy, EFA) Евге-ний Гиндилис. В эксклюзивном интервью Content Report он рассказал и о других достижениях, как своих, так и компании, о приоритетных направле-ниях деятельности и планах на 2013 год, а также поделился опытом участия в проектах совмест-ного производства.

Вы традиционно найдете на наших страницах по-следние новости производства и дистрибуции ау-диовизуального контента в странах СНГ, обзоры последних новинок техники, информацию о не-давних кадровых перестановках на телеканалах и в кинокомпаниях, а также о грядущих конкурсах, фестивалях и других отраслевых мероприятиях.

Напомним, что в нашей новой рубрике «На рынке говорят…» представлена добытая из разных ис-точников информацию о готовящихся проектах, по тем или иным причинам официально непод-твержденная у производителей контента, либо же недостаточно полная.

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CONTENT REPORTCОбзор новостей рынка производства и дистрибуции аудиовизуального контента

МЕДИА РЕСУРСЫ МЕНЕДЖМЕНТ

ОСОБЕННОСТИ НАЦИОНАЛЬНОГО ПРОИЗВОДСТВА

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В нашей новой рубрике «На рынке говорят…» представлена добытая из разных источников ин-формацию о готовящихся проектах, по тем или иным причинам официально неподтвержденная у производителей контента, либо же недостаточно полная.

Помимо этого, в эксклюзивном интервью Content Report основатель и продюсер российской ком-пании «Триикс Медиа» Инесса Юрченко расска-зала о специфике работы компании на рынке производства телевизионных фильмов и сери-алов, опыте международного сотрудничества, проблеме нехватки профессиональных кадров, а также о планах на ближайшее будущее.



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ИНЕССА ЮРЧЕНКО: «О работе над

полным метром я пока даже и не

думаю. Это нужно вытянуть счастливый

билет, чтобы тебя и прокатчики не

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Media Resources Management, ул. Закревского, 22, Киев, 02660, УкраинаТел.: + 380 44 459-4610 Факс: + 380 44 459-4611 [email protected] www.mrm.ua1

тема номера слово редакцииУже в первые дни нового года нам, редакции Content Report, сразу стало понятно, что в 2011м все мы будем усердно и неустанно трудиться. Занимаясь подготовкой первого выпуска обзора новостей рынка производства и аудиовизуального контента в этом году, мы с радостью обнаружили, что даже в новогодние праздники работа во многих продакшнах идет полным ходом, а дальше, как говорится, станет еще больше. Как неоднократно было отмечено, вследствие кризиса основательно изменилась конъюнктура рынка, поменялась расстановка сил и возможностей, поэтому работать действительно есть и будет над чем. Подтверждением тому является количество собранного в этом (полупраздничном) номере материала.

В сегодняшней теме номера мы остановились на одной из самых болезненных тем отечественной киноиндустрии – рынке кинотеатров. На страницах Content Report мы неоднократно публиковали мнения о том, что едва ли не основной проблемой (хотя эту тему активно поднимают все, кому не безразлична судьба национального кинематографа), сдерживающей развитие индустрии «полного метра» на постсоветском пространстве, является катастрофическая нехватка кинозалов. Однако рынок продолжает стремительно развиваться. И если поводов для оптимизма относительно увеличения количества кинотеатров попрежнему не так много , то по внедрению современных технологий за прошлый год имеются все основания для гордости за это. Между тем попытаемся разобраться, есть ли свет в конце тоннеля?!.

Первый номер Content Report выходит в канун Старого Нового года, который (наконецто) завершает череду праздников, поэтому еще раз хотим пожелать нашим подписчикам в 2011 году найти свой верный путь и следовать ему с упорством, трудясь не покладая рук. У каждого своя дорога, но цель у нас одна – развивать и улучшать отечественный рынок. По коням, господа!

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Content Report

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Т Е ХН ОЛ ОГ И И (22)

ПР О КАТ В УКР АИ Н Е (24)

О ТР АСЛЕ В Ы Е МЕ Р О ПР ИЯ ТИЯ (29)

Review of audiovisual content production and distribution in the CIS countries

Media Resources Management

We are happy to present you the June issue of the CIS: Content Report where we tried to gather the most interesting up-to-date information about rap-idly developing content production and distribution markets of the CIS region. As far as most of the locally produced series and TV movies are further distributed and broadcast mainly inside the CIS territories, we picked up the most interesting and original projects with those script-ideas that have international appeal and may further travel abroad to Europe, Asia or the North America both as readymade product or for-mats. Besides there are a lot of full-length features recently launched into production in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries that for sure may have not only successful international distribution but also be the award winners and nominees of different international film festivals. Despite large portion of in-formation on the new movies, shows and series you’ll also find the detailed report on the recent distribution deals of the CIS partners.

In our “Focus” we continue the cycle of articles dedi-cated to the current situation on cinema distribution markets of the post-Soviet countries. The region is developing rapidly both in terms of its market volume and the number of players on it led by such states as Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. In this issue of the

CIS: Content Report we focused on cinema distribu-tion markets of Azerbaijan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

In the exclusive interview to CIS:Content Report pro-ducer general of FILM.UA Group Viсtor Mirsky told about the trends in production industry development, growing requirements to the primetime content, de-tails of TV mini-series Inseparable shooting and pecu-liarities of co-production work as well as shared with us some information about the projects in production and postproduction and the strategy for the further group development.

And one more thing we’d like to remind you. Planning you business calendar for 2013 do not forget to book time to visit the major event for television and media professionals in the CIS region - KIEV MEDIA WEEK 2013, September 10-13, 2013. Organized by Media Resources Management company, this unique me-dia industry project, one and only of a kind in the CIS and Central and Eastern Europe is a one stop destina-tion for five international media trade events. Please do not forget that we are here to be your local source of information and analytics.

We wish a pleasant reading!

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CINEMA DISTRIBUTION MARKET IN THE CIS COUNTRIES:

AZERBAIJAN, MOLDOVA,

KYRGYZSTAN, TAJIKISTAN

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FOCUS

VIСTOR MIRSKY: “We’re just so

fascinated by our job that we often put our

heads in the lion’s mouth”

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INTERVIEW

DEAR COLLEAGUES

Production: (2)SerieS (2)TV moVieS (6)TV ShowS (7)FeaTure FilmS (9)

distribution (14)cinema distribution Year 2012 in ukraine (18)

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interview (23)

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тема номера слово редакцииУже в первые дни нового года нам, редакции Content Report, сразу стало понятно, что в 2011м все мы будем усердно и неустанно трудиться. Занимаясь подготовкой первого выпуска обзора новостей рынка производства и аудиовизуального контента в этом году, мы с радостью обнаружили, что даже в новогодние праздники работа во многих продакшнах идет полным ходом, а дальше, как говорится, станет еще больше. Как неоднократно было отмечено, вследствие кризиса основательно изменилась конъюнктура рынка, поменялась расстановка сил и возможностей, поэтому работать действительно есть и будет над чем. Подтверждением тому является количество собранного в этом (полупраздничном) номере материала.

В сегодняшней теме номера мы остановились на одной из самых болезненных тем отечественной киноиндустрии – рынке кинотеатров. На страницах Content Report мы неоднократно публиковали мнения о том, что едва ли не основной проблемой (хотя эту тему активно поднимают все, кому не безразлична судьба национального кинематографа), сдерживающей развитие индустрии «полного метра» на постсоветском пространстве, является катастрофическая нехватка кинозалов. Однако рынок продолжает стремительно развиваться. И если поводов для оптимизма относительно увеличения количества кинотеатров попрежнему не так много , то по внедрению современных технологий за прошлый год имеются все основания для гордости за это. Между тем попытаемся разобраться, есть ли свет в конце тоннеля?!.

Первый номер Content Report выходит в канун Старого Нового года, который (наконецто) завершает череду праздников, поэтому еще раз хотим пожелать нашим подписчикам в 2011 году найти свой верный путь и следовать ему с упорством, трудясь не покладая рук. У каждого своя дорога, но цель у нас одна – развивать и улучшать отечественный рынок. По коням, господа!

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Review of audiovisual content production and distribution in the CIS countries

Media Resources Management

We are happy to present you the October issue of the CIS Content Report where we tried to gather the most interesting up-to-date information about rapidly devel-oping content production and distribution markets of the CIS region. As far as most of the locally produced series and TV movies are further distributed and broad-cast mainly inside the CIS territories, we picked up the most interesting and original projects with those script-ideas that have international appeal and may further travel abroad to Europe, Asia or the North America both as readymade product or formats. Besides there are a lot of full-length features recently launched into production in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other CIS states that for sure may have not only successful international distribution but also be the award winners and nominees of different international film festivals. Despite large portion of information on the new movies, shows and series you’ll also find the detailed report on the recent distribution deals with the CIS-partners.

In our analytical article we would like to tell about KIEV MEDIA WEEK - a unique project for media market in the CIS countries and Central and Eastern Europe. The event took place on September 11-14 gathering more than thousand of television, movie and media business experts from all over the world. This year KIEV MEDIA WEEK presented high-level consolidation of four professional conferences, international content market and several special events in order to achieve synergy, learn about current trends of the international media business and create unified communication platform for media professionals worldwide.

Last month CG Event EURO 2012 international con-ference on computer graphics (CG) and visual ef-fects (VFX) took place in Kiev. Some of the reports on the main topic of the conference were presented by the specialists of one of the Russia’s largest and most recognizable post-production houses CG Factory (CGF, created visual effects for Chronicle (2012), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), Wanted (2008), etc.) that was the general partner of the event. According to Alexander Gorokhov, the founder and the head of CGF, one of the main rea-sons for his company to support the organizers was to announce the launch of its Ukrainian branch – CGF Kiev. In an exclusive interview to Content Report Al-exander Gorokhov told about the aim of foundation of the local office as well as the reorganization of the whole company and the state of the industry in CIS countries.

And one more thing we’d like to remind you. Planning you business calendar for 2013 do not forget to book time to visit the major event for television and media professionals in the CIS region - KIEV MEDIA WEEK 2013. Organized by Media Resources Management company, this unique media industry project, one and only of a kind in the CIS and Central and Eastern Europe is a one stop destination for five international media trade events. Please do not forget that we are here to be your local source of information and ana-lytics.

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PRODUCTION PRODUCTION PRODUCTION

Producers: Yuriy Volodarsky, Dmitry Kharitonov.director: Boris Kazakov.scriPt: Vladimir Bragin.cast: Aleksandr Vonta, Sergey Sasibov, Vladimir Gusev.number of ePisodes: 32.Genre: Historical Drama.

Producers: Mark Levin.director: Vadim Ostrovsky.scriPt: Aleksandr Borodyansky.Genre: Biographical Drama.

director: Stanislav Dremov.scriPt: Roman Volodin, Stanislav Dremov.cast: Anatoliy Rudenko, Glafira Tarhanova, Anatoly Kotenyov, Irina Rozanova, Alexey Anisch-enko, Mikhail Tarabukin, Irina Gorbacheva, Maria Lugovaya, Anastasia Aref’eva,Vasily Lanovoi, Ekaterina Vasilyeva.Number of episodes: 12.Genre: Action.

directors: Dmitry Kiselev, Victor Bozhinov.Genre: Detective.

STALIN’S DIAMONDS

Russian prodco AFL Productions is working on 32-episode historical drama Stalin’s Diamonds. Shooting will take place in Yalta, Sevastopol, Inkerman, Moscow and Perm oblast’.

Synopsis: There are several storylines: the first one is focused on the Yalta Conference (sometimes called the Crimea Confer-ence) – meeting of General Secretary Joseph Stalin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill; the second takes place in XVII century, when Ivan Mazepa and Kyrylo Rozumovsky are in search of diamonds; the third is a love story of two fellow soldiers and a young woman.

JUNA

Russian prodco Duet Production started working on 12-epi-sode biopic Juna commissioned by Channel One Russia. Shooting will start at the end of August and take place in Mos-cow, Tbilisi and somewhere in Ukraine. Premiere is set for Sep-tember 2014.

Synopsis: Eugenia “Juna” Davitashvili is a Russian faith healer. She claimed to have the power to cure cancer or knit broken bodies. It is said that Leonid Brezhnev, Robert De Niro and Fed-erico Fellini were among her patients, but is it true?

CLASSMATES

Russian group of companies Gamma Production has a 12-epi-sode TV action Classmates in a production period. Principal photography takes place in Saint Petersburg. Project is com-missioned by NTV channel.

Synopsis: The story about friendship, justice, family and human values.

BONES

Russian production company Good Story Media started shoot-ing 24-episode detective Bones, which is a local version of US TV series of the same name. Project is commissioned by CTC channel.

Synopsis: Lonely forensic anthropologist tries to investigate death causes and find the criminals by examining the bones of victims.

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DUET PRODUCTION

GAMMA PRODUCTION

GOOD STORY MEDIA

Dmitry Kiselev

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Producer: Ruben Dishdishyan.Director: Bakhtiyar Khudoinazarov.Script: Ilya Tilkin.Cast: Andrey Panin, Sergey Garmash, Tatiana Lyutaeva, Artur Smolyaninov, Daria Melnikova, Philip Yankovsky.Number of episodes: 8.Genre: War Drama.

Producer: Ruben Dishdishyan.Director: Andrey Maliukov.Script: Eduard Volodarsky, Ilya Tilkin.Cast: Vladimir Mashkov, Ekaterina Klimova, Andrei Smolyakov, Inge-borga Dapkunayte.Series: 8.Genre: Historical Drama.

Producer: Ruben Dishdishyan.Director: Ivan Shurhovetsky.Script: Dmitry Aleynikov.Cast: Yelizaveta Boyarskaya, Philip Yankovsky.Number of episodes: 8.Genre: Crime Thriller.

Producer: Sergey Sendyk.Director: Sergey Krutin.Cast: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Ele-na Ksenofontova, Arthur Vakha, Maria Shukshina, Ekaterina Volkova.Genre: War Drama.

MAJOR SOKOLOV’S HETAERAS

On the 10th of June Russian prodcos Mars Media Entertain-ment and Film Company Vvys wrapped up shooting 8-episode military drama Major Sokolov’s Hetaeras. It is in a postproduc-tion period now. Shooting took place in Yalta, Saint Petersburg and Vyborg. Premiere is set for 2014 on Channel One Russia.

Synopsis: Just before WW2, major Sokolov obtains an order to eliminate the members of a hostile sabotage party on the terri-tory of USSR. To do that he creates a women-only special intel-ligence cell…

RASPUTIN

On the 30th of May Russian production company Mars Media Entertainment started shooting 8-episode historical drama Rasputin. Filming takes place in Saint Petersburg.

Synopsis: Rasputin, a Russian mystic and advisor to the Ro-manovs, the Russian Imperial family, had been killed in 1916, and in 1917 interim government decided to create a committee to find out all the details of the murder.

HEADHUNTERS

Russian prodco Mars Media Entertainment is working on 8-episode crime drama Headhunters. Principal photography is conducted in Saint Petersburg.

Synopsis: Timur and Rita are both ‘headhunters’, but Rita works as a recruiter looking for experts in different fields of science, and Timur tracks down dangerous criminals. Once their paths cross – they have to catch an ingenious chemist, who probably has found a cure for cancer…

PODOLSK CADETS

Russian prodco Pyramid film company started shooting 16-episode military drama Podolsk Cadets. Filming takes place in Odessa.

Synopsis: October 1941. World War II. Podolsk cadets were raised by the alarm, and for several days helped to protect the town from fascists. They gained time in order to take Moscow reserves, but many died.

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MARS MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT

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PYRAMID FILM COMPANY

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Director: Rauf Kubaev.Cast: Danila Kozlovsky, Sergei Makovetskii, Pavel Derevianko.Genre: Comedy.

Producer: Sergey Zhigunov.Director: Vyacheslav Krishtofovich.Cast: Yuriy Chursin, Ekaterina Vilkova.Number of episodes: 8.

Producers: Eduard Iloyan, Vitaly Shlyappo, Alexey Trotsyuk, Denis Zhalinsky.Director: Aleksandr Zhigalkin.Cast: Fyodor Dobronravov, Maria Aronova, Boris Klyuyev, Galina Petrova, Elena Shevchenko, Karen Badalov, Maria Gorban, Victor Dobronravov, Svetlana Malyukova, Dmitry Bykovskii, Sergey Belyaev.Number of episodes: 10.Genre: Sitcom.

THE TWELVE CHAIRS

Russian production company Russian World Studios started working on multi-episode project The Twelve Chairs, adapta-tion of a classic satirical novel by the Odessan Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov. It is in a preproduction period. Shooting will start in 2014.

Synopsis: This is a completely new interpretation – modern set-ting, modern protagonist - Ostap Bender and far more compli-cated confidence games.

THE WHITE DOVE

Russian prodco Sergei Zhigunov’s Producer Center started shooting The White Dove (tentative title), the screen adaptation of The White Dove of Cordoba novel by Dina Rubina. Principal photography will be conducted in Ukraine, Russia and Czech Republic.

Synopsis: Zakhar Cordovin is a schemer and maverick in the art world with a genius for counterfeiting. He creates ‘previously un-known’ works by great masters, preparing for every painting a complex back story to explain its sudden appearance. But Cor-dovin does not want money – it is a chance to show his apprecia-tion for the great artists who have come before him.

BROTHERS EXCHANGE

In June Russian prodco YBW Group started filming comedy series with a tentative title Brothers Exchange. The project is commissioned by Russia 1 channel.

Synopsis: This is the story of twin brothers, who met after 30-years separation on their father’s funeral. They are com-pletely different – one is a businessman, another alcoholic ex-con – but suddenly they swap places…

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RUSSIAN WORLD STUDIOS

SERGEI ZHIGUNOV’S PRODUCER CENTER

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Producer: Vyacheslav Murugov.director: Radda Novikova.cast: Fyodor Dobronravov, Victor DobronravovGenre: Sitcom.

director: Talgat Temenov.Genre: Drama.

TWO FATHERS, TWO SONS

Russian prodco YBW Group is producing new sitcom Two Fa-thers, Two Sons. The project is commissioned by Russian CTC channel. Premiere is planned for this fall.

Synopsis: The story about the conflict of the three generations – grandfather Pavel, his son Victor and grandson Vlad. When Vic-tor was ten Pavel left his mother, and they haven’t seen each other for 20 years. But now Victor has nowhere to go and asks Pavel for help.

RINGS IN THE WATER

Kazakh filmmaker Talgat Temenov started working on multi-episode drama with a tentative title Rings in the Water. The project shooting started in May 2013.

Synopsis: 1990s. USSR. Mukan, Rolan and Kasymjan are look-ing for their place in the world. They are all different: first one is a typical positive character from an ordinary poor family, who works out his own salvation, the second is a representative of a golden youth, who gets whatever he wants, and the third – a promising sportsmen who will cross the crooked step…

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TALGAT TEMENOV’S PROJECT

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FROM SCRATCH

Russian film company Mediaprofsoyuz started shooting new TV romance From Scratch. The project is commissioned by Russia 1 TV channel.

Synopsis: Anya Sinitsina lives in a little town, works in the de-partment store and dreams of more. She used to be in love with her gifted with literature talent classmate Anton Kremnev, but he preferred a reigning beauty of their school - Liza Fedorova over Anya. After the final exams he disappeared at all. Anya’s life has sharply changed after meeting her first love again. As it turns out, Anton has not taken to the literature and works as an ordinary guard and the most important – he asked her to go out! Gradually the young people develop their relations, the couple is going to get married but suddenly beauty Liza comes to the town… Will Anton be able to withstand the temptation? And how will the lives of those three people be going on?

BANKS OF LOVE

Russian prodco Russkoye finished shooting 2-episode TV romance Banks of Love. Filming took place in Yaroslavl. The movie is commissioned by Russia 1 TV channel.

Synopsis: Vera is responsible and lively village worker of those who can do any task. She is both the light-keeper, and game-keeper, and bee-keeper and reckless law-enforcement offi-cer. Vera is everywhere on time but she is unhappy in her pri-vate life. The husband betrayed her and kicking him away the heroine stays alone with her daughters. It seems that there will be no changes in Vera’s life but suddenly a doctor from the city arrives at the village. He noticed at once that there is not a commander in the skirt in front of him but a beautiful woman.

POOR LIZ

Russian-Ukrainian group of companies Star Media started shooting new TV romcom Poor LIZ. Filming currently takes place in Kiev.

Synopsis: The sergeant of the Canadian police Joe Sokoloff goes to the far-away Russia to fulfill the final request of his dear grandmother. But Joe’s first steps at the historical moth-erland were terrible – he was robbed in the train by “darling companions”. Having missed his train the 30-year fan of rodeo and country-music, who watches the world with joyous widely open eyes found himself in a little Kuban Cossack village with-out money and documents. Funny eccentric man in white cow-boy hat (the villagers at first perceived him such way) gets into the “strange world of the strange Russians”. Here new-born puppies are drowned, a fish hooked in a local river is served up and children are being slapped! But only in a few days Joe could understand those people, take them into his heart and fall in love with beautiful Cossack girl Liza. However, is there any future in that love...?

TV MOVIES

TV MOVIES

TV MOVIES

Producers: Aleksandr Kushaev, Vladimir Ignatiev.Director: Ivan Krivoruchko.Script: Elena Balandina, Ekaterina Guseva.Cast: Svetlana Martsynkevich, Timofei Karataev etc.Genre: Romance.

Producers: Aleksandr Kushaev, Irina Smirnova.Director: Andrey Selivanov.Cast: Anna Ardova, Yaroslav Boyko, Anatoliy Lobotsky, Karina Karpukhina, Alina Kiziyarova, Lyudmila Poshekhonova, Mikhail Levchenko, Natalia Asankina.Genre: Romance.

Producers: Vlad Riashyn, Larisa Zhuravskaya.Script: Elena Zueva, Leonora Paschenko.Director: Alexey Lisovets.Cast: Maria Mashkova, Anton Pampushny, Niele Serezhnikova, Aleksandr Danilchenko, Lina Bud-nik, Dmitry Lalenkov, Ekaterina Kisten, Lubov Timoshevskaya, Nikolai Boklan, Galina Korneeva.Genre: Romantic Comedy.

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GAUDI STUDIO

NTN

WEIT MEDIA

WEIT MEDIA

1+1

TV SHOWS

TV SHOWS

TV SHOWS

TV SHOWS

TV SHOWS

TV SHOWS

Starring: Nazar Zadneprovskyi, Yana Glushchenko, Lyubava Greshnova.

Producers: Konstantin Meladze, Alan Badoev.

Format: Saturday Night Live.

Format: 1 vs 100.Host: Yana Batyrshina.

ONLINEUkrainian 1+1 TV channel is working on sketch show Online. Shooting started on the 14th of May. This format shows us the funny and comic real-life situations connected with the usage of Internet, Skype, chats, blogs etc.

I WANNA SING IN V.I.A. ‘GRA’!Ukrainian producer Konstantin Meladze and Alan Badoev’s Gaudi Studio prodco prepare music reality show I wanna sing in V.I.A. ‘Gra’! Auditions will be held in Ukraine, Russia and Ka-zakhstan. It will air on Ukrainian 1+1 and Russian NTV channels. This project gives an opportunity for ordinary girls to become the new lead singer of the top-charting girls band V.I.A. ‘Gra’, known as Nu Virgos outside of Ukraine, Russia and other nearby countries.

THE SECRETS OF CRIMINAL WORLD 2Ukrainian NTN TV channel started working on the second sea-son of detective project The Secrets of Criminal World. Pre-miere is set for autumn.It will consist of several (probably ten) films devoted to crimes and investigation. Includes original photos, interviews, tapes.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVERussian prodco WeiT Media started working on local adap-tation of US live television sketch comedy and variety show Saturday Night Live, one of the longest running US shows ever, premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975. Rights for it had been picked up at the MIPCOM last year and will air on NTV channel.

THE ONE AGAINST ALL Russian prodco WeiT Media started working on One Against All, new local adaptation of Endemol-developed quiz show 1 vs 100. It is commissioned by Karusel channel. Previous Russian version already aired on TV Tsentr in 2007-2009.In this show one player is selected to play the game as The One against 100 other people, collectively known as The Mob. De-pending on the format of the game, the player can be selected randomly from the Mob, or selected independently. To win the game outright, the One must eliminate all 100 members of the Mob by answering questions correctly. To do that he has three helps – Poll The Mob, Ask The Mob and Trust The Mob.

CASH INUkrainian 1+1 TV channel opened casting calls for a new show Cash in. The programme premiere in set for this autumn. Contestants have to do different funny tasks trying to go better then the professional comedian. It may be dancing, singing, quiz games etc. The winner takes the money.

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СТC

ТЕТ

TV SHOWS

TV SHOWS

TV SHOWS

Host: Paul Domaine.Format: Battle of the Choirs.

Format: MasterChef.

Hosts: Carolina Ashion, Vasilisa Frolova.

BATTLE OF THE CHOIRS Russia 1 TV channel renews the vocal talent show Battle of the Choirs for the second season. It will be premiered in autumn. The show features choirs from different cities and towns of Rus-sia competing for the title of The Best. There is no professional jury – TV viewers decide on who is the winner on their own by SMS voting.

MASTERCHEF Russian CTC TV channel started working on local adaptation of popular cooking game show MasterChef originally created by UK-based Shine International (Ukrainian version airs on STB TV channel). Premiere is set for this autumn. Participants are amateur cooks, who want to demonstrate their culinary abilities to the nation. The main goal of the program is to choose 15 deserving amateur chefs from thousands of contest-ants, who will then, for several weeks compete for the money prize and the title of MasterChef. Each episode the weakest is eliminated until the only one winner is chosen by judges.

BABES AND FRONTSUkrainian ТЕТ TV channel launches a new makeover show Babes and Fronts. Currently casting is underway. This show will help mousy persons to get dressed sharp and turn from Cinderellas into princesses.

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BAZELEVS, LUNAPARK

QUARTET И

KINOOSTROV

LIVANDIA ENTERTAINMENT

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

NOW A KISS!

Russian Bazelevs film company in coproduction with Lu-napark prodco finished shooting new feature romcom Now a Kiss! Filming took place in Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk and Di-vnomorskoe. Film release is planned for October 2013.

Synopsis: The main heroes of the story - the newly married couple Roma and Natasha - decided not to nickel and dime and make two weddings at once: one for the parents and relatives and another one for themselves and their friends. However, all the bride and groom’s efforts directed on the fact that abso-lutely different by character people should not cross went down the chute. Because of the heat of the wedding preparations - both parties were invited to the same resort town on the same day and time.

FASTER THAN RABBITS

On the 26th of July Russian Quartet И studio finishes shooting new feature comedy Faster than Rabbits. Film premiere is planned for 2014.

Synopsis: The quirky producer Garik after a heavy party with two friends by show-business found himself in highly unfriendly mysterious place. A transvestite, tipsy policeman and a call-girl soon get to the same “exorbitance”. In spite of their condition they try to think more or less soberly. The company concluded that they got in some space “beyond life” and they started wait-ing for the Last Judgment.

FIRE SHOT INTO SILENCE

Russian film company Kinoostrov started working on new fea-ture mystic drama Fire Shot into Silence. Currently the project is in pre-production. Principal photography starts on the 1st of August.

Synopsis: The movie plot is based on the story of young man Oleg who discovered a frightening talent – he can apprehend the death approach. The fatal gift becomes a curse for Oleg: no matter how he tries, he cannot prevent the fatalities. How-ever, Oleg’s skill is in-demand in the criminal environment and in the course of time he becomes an indifferent tool in the hands of the crime bosses. Oleg’s life changes when he accidentally meets violinist Nastya…

THE FOREST

Russian film company Livandia Entertainment started work-ing on new feature phyhological drama The Forest. Currently the project is in pre-production. Filming will take place in Ural and will start on the 15th of August.

Synopsis: This story touches upon the issue of inevitability of fate between two people. The heroes pass the agonizing route from hate to love and forgiveness, from wishes to die to under-standing the meaning of life and desire to live.

Producers: Sergey Svetlakov, Timur Bekmambetov, Ilya Bu-rets, Dmitry Nelidov.Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov.Script: Zhora Kryzhovnikov, Alexey Kazakov, Nikolai Kulikov.Cast: Sergey Svetlakov.Genre: Romcom.

Director: Dmitry Dyachenko.Script: Leonid Barats, Kamil Larin, Rostislav Hait.Cast: Igor Zolotovitskii, Leonid Barats, Alexander Demidov, Kamil Larin, Rostislav Hait, etc.Genre: Comedy.

Producer: Armen Adilhanyan.Director: Sergey Ustyan.Script: Natalia Medvedeva, Evgeniy Benilov.Cast: Maxim Lagashkin, Aleksandr Robak.Genre: Mystic Drama.

Producer: Ivan Lopatin.Director, script: Timofey Zhalnin.Genre: Psychological Drama.

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NEW PEOPLE, KINOROB

FEATURE FILMS

BATTLE OF SEVASTOPOL

Russian film company New People in coproduction with Ukrai-nian prodco Kinorob starts working on new feature war drama Battle of Sevastopol. The project is financially supported by the Ukrainian State Film Agency and by the Russian Ministry of Culture. The movie budget totals $5 million. The project is cur-rently in pre-production. Shooting will start this October.

Synopsis: This is a love story of sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko and general Nikolai Ostryakov. Lyudmila managed to neutralize 309 fascists, 36 of whom had also been snipers. She got a seri-ous wound in 1942 and after that she was recalled from the ser-vice. Later she went on the delegation to the United States and Canada. Lyudmila lived a long and intense life and in peacetime she got the profession of historian.

Producer: Natalia Mokritskaya.Director: Sergei Mokritsky.Script: Egor Olesov.Cast: Yulia Peresild.Genre: War Drama.

RAKURS

PC KARFOSS

TOR FILM PRODUCTION

FEATURE FILMS

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FEATURE FILMS

THE DAY OF YOUR BIRTH

Early June Russian prodco Rakurs started shooting new fea-ture children movie The Day of Your Birth. Filming takes place in Smolensk and its region.

Synopsis: The main hero of the movie – 12-year old city boy Genka. For the first time spends his summer holidays with his aunt who lives with her husband-forester and daughter Liza in the deep forest. Suddenly the summer heat changed into a powerful thunder storm that caused forest fire. The city boy Genka will have in a short time to go through the survival course in the extreme conditions, save his little sister who got lost in the smoky forest, help evacuate people from the village and finally celebrate his birthday – the day he has become a real man.

BUT STILL…

Russian producing centre KARFOSS starts working on new feature war drama But Still…. Currently the project is in pre-production. Filmmakers are looking for finance resources by means of crowdfunding.

Synopsis: After Belarus liberation it got clear in the village that all the men perished or went missing. The village was without the heirs. So, when a unit of Soviet soldiers took up quarters the women decided to ask them for their future – children. They came to the commander and explained everything to him… Those women had no other chances to become mothers. That scene is an illustrative episode of that war. In several years the village was full of children Georgians, Kazakhs, Russians and Tatars…

THE FOREIGN BODY

Polish director, screenwriter and producer Krzysztof Zanussi has finished shooting new feature drama The Foreign Body. The film is produced by Poland’s Tor Film Production in copro-duction with Polish Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabu-larnych, Italian Revolver Film and Russian Agency In the Family Circle. The Polish Film Institute and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage co-financed the project. Filming took place in Poland, Italy and Russia. The project premiere is set for 2014.

Producer: Vitaly Sidorenko.Director: Oleg Massarygin.Script: Valery Kozlov.Cast: Sergey Antonenko, Luda Dementieva, Ilya Dranikov, Marina Vorozhischeva.Genre: Children’s Film.

Producer, director: Anzhela Guseva.Script: Lyudmila Yefremova, Konstantin Silko, Anzhela Guseva.Cast: Yulia Aug, Vladimir Dybsky.Genre: War Drama.

Director, script, producer: Krzysztof Zanussi.Cast: Riccardo Leonelli, Victoria Zinny, Agata Buzek, Agnieszka Grochowska, Weronika Rosati, Chulpan Hamatova, Aleksandr Kovtunets, Mikhail Efremov.Genre: Drama.

Natalia Mokritskaya

Oleg Massarygin

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Synopsis: The movie tells us about the choice between the uni-versal human values and values of the modern society, colli-sion of corporative cynicism and teenage idealism. The movie events take place in contemporary Italy, Russia and Poland. Angelo is a young Italian participating in one of the movements of the Catholic Church. Suddenly for him his beloved girlfriend got grimly determined to become the nun. Angelo hopes that her sweetheart will change her mind.

BULLDOZERFILMS

GLAVKINO

DIRECTION KINO

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

FAST TRAIN “MOSCOW – RUSSIA”

Russian prodco Bulldozerfilms started shooting new feature comedy roadmovie Fast Train “Moscow – Russia”. Filming takes place in the Moscow region. The project budget totals $4 million. Film premiere is planned for January 2014.

Synopsis: Mila, American actress of Russian descent, flies to Vladivostok for the shooting of American blockbuster about the Russian airwomen of the Great Patriotic War. When she arrived at Moscow her agent arranged for the Hollywood star a flight with the hero of the Soviet Union – Gryzodub. However, Mila ac-quires a panic fear of height and the actress has to set out into the week-long journey from Moscow to Vladivostok by train. Serega has his own interest to arrive at the Primorye capital as soon as possible – the young man made a bet that he would make a photo with the Siberian tiger…

WW 1. THE DEATH SQUADS

Russian film company Glavkino in coproduction with Igor Ugol-nikov producing centre started working on the almanac dedi-cated to the World War I. First film from the almanac is entitled The Death Squads. Currently the project is in pre-production.

Synopsis: The movie will tell about the women military units that were formed by the Interim Government to raise the soldiers’ spirit. So, when the men refused to attack the women went to the frontline – the stronger sex was ashamed by that and the men also went to fight…

VIKING

Russian film company Direction Kino started shooting in Kare-lia new historical drama Viking. Filming will also take place in Ukraine and Norway and will wrap up in 2014. The project is fi-nancially supported by Russian Cinema Fund.

Synopsis: The movie events take place in the X century when the main character - Russ Prince Vladimir - had to revenge for his brother’s death. He will have to cover a long road from Scan-dinavia to the Crimea and during this journey to acquire his new identity and to change the world around. In the folklore he was called Vladimir the Red Sun, in history this prince is Rus baptizer canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1240 as the saint equal to apostles.

Producers: Igor Voloshin, Aleksandr Orlov, Sergey Svetlakov.Director: Igor Voloshin.Script: Sergey Svetlakov, Igor Voloshin.Cast: Margarita Levieva, Sergey Svetlakov, Ingeborga Dapkunayte, Pavel Derevianko, Maria Shalaeva, Maxim Golopolosov.Genre: Adventure Comedy.

Producers: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Igor Ugolnikov, Ilya Bachurin.Director: Dmitry Meskhiev.Cast: Maria Kozhevnikova.Genre: Drama.

Producer: Anatoly Maksimov.Director: Andrey Kravchuk.Cast: Yelizaveta Boyarskaya, Victor Verzhbitsky.Genre: Historical Drama.

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ORTHODOX

NEW WAVE PRODUCTION

FEATURE FILMS

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THE ADVENTURE

This June Kazakhfilm prodco started shooting new feature tragicomedy The Adventure based on the Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel White Nights. Filming takes place in Almaty.

Synopsis: This story is about a lonely dreamer who meets a beautiful girl in the city. The girl is looking for her sweetheart who went to the city and promised to come back but has not appeared. The dreamer falls in love with that girl and has almost achieved her love but here her beloved appears and the girl goes with him leaving the hero all alone…

SPY’S SOUL

Late May Russian film company Lenfilm in coproduction with Russia 1 TV channel started shooting new feature adventure drama Spy’s Soul. Filming currently takes place in Saint-Petersburg and later will move to London, Paris, Geneva and Egypt.

Synopsis: Lyubimov was the member of the KGB resident office in London in the first half of the 1960s on the official position of the Embassy Second Secretary. Nicknamed "Smiling Mike" by his London friends, the intelligence officer worked successfully as the Soviet diplomat sympathizing to the West. Together with his beautiful wife he was a frequenter at red-carpet receptions and and was closely connected with English political circles. In 1965 he was disclosed and declared persona non grata and or-dered out of Great Britain.

THE PRIEST-SAN

On the 22th of June Russian film company Orthodox started shooting new feature drama The Priest-San. Filming takes place in the Rostov region. The project budget totals $3 million. Film premiere is set for 2014.

Synopsis: The story’s protagonist Takuro Nakamura, baptized as father Nikolai, is the priest of the Japanese Orthodox Church who used to be a professional sportsman and now is the blood brother of one of the influential clans yakuza. Once he could

BABU

Belorussian film company New Wave Production wrapped up shooting new feature drama Babu. Filming took place in Minsk this May. The project was financially supported by the Belorus-sian state authorities.

Synopsis: The criminals kidnap nine-year-old Leila, daughter of Azerbaijani oil oligarch Ibrahimov. Their aim is to make the father waive the right from some kind of oil wells. The girl is tak-en from Azerbaijan to Belarus where she somehow managed to escape. Leila who stays alone in a strange country and even does not know the language is taken to the home of a compas-sionate old woman who even does not know what to do with the girl but still she takes care of her. However, the criminals soon find them and intend to kill the old woman…

Director: Nariman Turebaev.Cast: Azamat Nigmanov, Aynur Niyazova.Genre: Tragicomedy.

Director: Vladimir Bortko.Cast: Yulia Gorshenina, Roman Prytula, Aleksandr Bolshakov, Kirill Poluhin.Genre: Adventure Drama.

Producer: Lubov Kalinskaya.Director: Yegor Baranov.Script: Ivan Ohlobystin.Cast: Tagawa Cary-Hiroyuki, Ivan Ohlobystin, Igor Zhizhikin, Pyotr Fedorov, Ksenia Kutepova, Pyotr Mamonov, Kitano Takeshi , Nadezhda Markina.Genre: Drama.

Director: Andrey Grebyonkin.Cast: Tamara Mironova, Igor Denisov.Genre: Drama.

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not pass by the violence and helped an ordinary girl getting to grips with one of the groups hostile to his brother. The war of yakuza clans is imminent. Having become the hostage of the criminal skirmish the priest faces a lethal risk. Nakamura is sent to preach to little Russian village Glubokoye which is torn apart by its own conflicts.

COOL PRODUCTION

TENGRI PICTURES

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FEATURE FILMS

ANGEL’S MATTER

At the end of June Ukrainian prodco COOL Production start-ed shooting new feature drama Angel’s Matter. Filming took place in Kiev.

Synopsis: The movie is set in the world populated with the an-gels of good and evil. The love story with the hurdles of a poor musician nicknamed Mozart and a girl from the rich family. So she lives in an ivory tower but he has to face the cruelty and injustice of both rich people and scammers who cash in on the unknown talents.

FAKE

This May Kazakh prodco Tengri Pictures started shooting new feature drama Fake. Film budget is $200,000. The project pre-miere is set for next spring.

Synopsis: The movie will tell us about the pressing issue of dating and relationship in the social networks and their con-sequences. The plot is based on the relationship of two young people who met in the social networks and went in for the un-predictable adventure according to which they will spend to-gether two months in a strange city and after that would never meet again. The plan went to the went to pieces when love ap-pears in their relationship.

Producer: Lubov Kalinskaya.Director: Yegor Baranov.Script: Ivan Ohlobystin.Cast: Tagawa Cary-Hiroyuki, Ivan Ohlobystin, Igor Zhizhikin, Pyotr Fedorov, Ksenia Kutepova, Pyotr Mamonov, Kitano Takeshi , Nadezhda Markina.Genre: Drama.

Producer: Andrey Borodin.Director: Saltanat Murzalinova-Yakovleva.Script: Alexey Nuzhniy, Nikolai Kovbas.Cast: Anton Mitnev, Asya Ospanova, Fima Ivanov, Sanjar Madiev, Erden Telemisov, Azamat Ashimov, Alexey Kravchenko, Ingrid Olerinskaya.Genre: Drama.

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DISTRIBUTIONA COMPANY RUSSIAWithin the framework of Marche du film content market Russian dis-tributor A Company Russia – division of German A Company Filmed Entertainment picked up rights for such films, as Passengers, Pelé, Jane Got a Gun, Ballerina, and Take Down. TV rights on the territory of CIS went to A Company Film Licensing International, also a part of A Company Filmed Entertainment.

Passengers. A spacecraft is transporting thousands of people to a distant colony planet that has a malfunction in one of its sleep cham-bers. As a result, a single passenger is awakened 90 years before anyone else. Faced with the prospect of growing old and dying alone, he eventually decides to wake up a second passenger.

Pelé. Biopic will chart Pelé’s rise to fame from his impoverished youth to sporting superstardom. Pelé helped Brazil to their first ever World Cup victory in 1958 and was a part of two further World Cup-winning sides. Pelé is regarded as the greatest football player of all time by many fans and pundits. He scored 1,281 goals in a career spanning 1,363 games.

Jane Got a Gun. After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn’t seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband’s gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.

Ballerina. Set in 1879 Paris film follows the adventures of an orphan from Brittany who dreams of becoming a ballerina. She flees her or-phanage and goes to Paris where she passes for someone else to join the Opera as a ballet student.

Take Down. Students at a boarding school for rebellious rich kids take matters into their own hands after the campus is taken hostage by a group of criminals.

AMEDIA RUSSIA Amedia Russia announced multi-year deals with CBS Studios In-ternational, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution and НВО (HOMEBOXOFFICE), which gives it rights to broadcast current and future TV content of American partners on its linear channels and subscription video-on-demand service.

Package includes Vegas, Elementary, Beauty & the Beast, Ray Dono-van, House of Lies, Borgias and Gigolos from CBS and its cable chan-nel Showtime. As for Fox deal covers Sons of Anarchy, Homeland, American hor-rorstory, The Killing etc.As part of the agreement with НВО Amedia Russia will have rights on The Newsroom, Girls, Game of Thrones, True Blood, Boardwalk Em-pire and the forthcoming titles in the nearest five years.

Director: Brian Kirk.Cast: Keanu Reeves, Reese Witherspoon.Genre: adventure, sci-fi.

DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION

Directors: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist.Genre: biopic, sport.

Director: Gavin O’Connor.Cast: Natalie Portman, Rodrigo Santoro, Ewan McGregor.Genre: western, action, drama.

Directors: Eric Warin, Eric Sum-mer.Genre: animation, family.

Director: Jim Gillespie.Genre: thriller.

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INTER-FILM Ukrainian Inter-Film distribution company closed deal with Dream-Works for the exclusive film distribution rights on the territory of Ukraine. The first release will be the romantic comedy Delivery Man in October 2013. The slate also includes The Fifth Estate and Need for Speed.

Delivery Man. David Wozniak learns that as a sperm donor with the alias “Starbuck”, he has fathered 533 children. When 142 of them peti-tion the sperm bank to reveal his identity, David has to decide whether or not to come forward. Simultaneously, his own girlfriend is deciding whether he would make a suitable father.

The Fifth Estate. A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks found-er Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Dan-iel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website’s growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.

Need for Speed. An adaption of the popular series of video games by Electronic Arts. Fresh from prison, a street racer who was framed by a wealthy business associate joins a cross country race with revenge in mind. His ex-partner, learning of the plan, places a massive bounty on his head as the race begins.

CHANNEL ONE RUSSIABBC Worldwide (BBCWW), commercial arm of UK pubcaster The BBC has sold factual program The Incredible Mr Goodwin to Chan-nel One Russia. Germany (ProsiebenSat.1), USA (BBC America), Australia (ABC), Finland (MTV), Holland (VPRO), Iceland (Screen One), Denmark (TV3 - Viasat), Norway (Viasat), Spain (Antena 3) and Sweden (TV4) have also licensed the series.

Series stars Jonathan Goodwin who tackles feats of bravery and phys-ical strength with death defying stunts inspired by his vaudeville he-roes.

RUSSIAN REPORTRussian distribution company Russian Report has acquired drama Les salauds from Wild Bunch, international distribution division of indie distribution and production company Wild Bunch SA. Buyers in-clude IFC (USA), Victory (Benilux), Métropole (Canada), Artificial Eye (UK), Golem (Spain), Triart (Sweden), Camera (Denmark).

Captain on a container-ship, Marco Silvestri is called urgently back to Paris. His sister, Sandra, is desperate… her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter has gone adrift. Sandra accuses the powerful businessman, Edouard Laporte

Director: Ken Scott.Cast: Vince Vaughn, Cobie Smul-ders, Britt Robertson.Budget: $60 mln.Running time: 103 minutes.Genre: romantic comedy.

Director: Bill Condon.Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl.Budget: $55 mln.Genre: drama.

Director: Scott Waugh.Cast: Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots, Dominic Cooper, Kid Cudi, Rami Malek, Michael Keaton.Genre: over $120 mln.Genre: action.

Number of episodes: 5.Genre: entertainment show.

Director: Claire Denis.Cast: Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille.Genre: drama.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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responsible. Marco moves into the building where Laporte’s mistress lives with his son. What Marco hadn’t foreseen are Sandra’s shame-ful, secret manoeuvres… and his love for Raphaelle which could ruin everything.

CINEMA PRESTIGERussian distributor Cinema Prestige has inked pre-sale agreement on the Kim Ki-duk title Moebius with South Korean sales company Finecut. It covers the territory of ex-USSR excluding Baltic States. The film has also been sold to MFA+ Film Distribution (Austria, Ger-many and German-speaking Switzerland), Movies Inspired (Italy and Italian-speaking Switzerland), Ama Films (Greece and Cyprus), Bir Film (Turkey).

An unfaithful husband and father cuts off his own genitals to try to heal the wounds he has inflicted on his family, only to experience a more horrific sort of destruction…

SONY PICTURES TELEVISION RUSSIASony Pictures Television Russia, the part of international distri-bution and production company Sony Pictures Television (SPT), has optioned rights for a local adaptation of multi-episode crime drama New York from international distributor Dori Media Inter-national.

Originally produced by Dori Media Darset, TV series premiered on Is-raeli channel Yes.

The son of the head of a notorious crime family arrives in New York, es-caping his past and seeking a new future. He rejects the subservience of the badly exploited foreign workers and is determined to change it. In doing so he will find his true destiny.

SONY PICTURES WORLDWIDEInternational distribution company Sony Pictures Worldwide has struck a multi-territory deal for Foresight Unlimited’s Neil Bogart bi-opic Spinning Gold. It covers Russia, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Greece and Latin America. Project is in a preproduction now. The film shooting is set to start in early 2014.

It is the story of a poor kid from Brooklyn who went on to define the pop music culture of his time. In his day, Bogart, who died at the age of 39 in 1982, was credited with discovering and launching the ca-reers of a generation of superstars, including Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, Gladys Knight, KISS, Parliament, Donna Summer and the Village People.

Director: Kim Ki-duk.Cast: Cho Jae-hyun, Seo Youngju, Lee Eunwoo.Genre: drama, thriller.

Format: New York.

Cast: Justin Timberlake.Genre: drama, biopic.

Justin Timberlake

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STUDIO U7 Russian company Studio U7 has acquired multi-episode doc Angry Planet from Canadian producer-distributor Canamedia.

Each episode focuses on a different force of nature as the storm chas-er George Kourounis gets up close to investigate and document the most fierce natural phenomena the Earth has to dish out.

UNIVERSAL PICTURES INTERNATIONALInternational distributor Universal Pictures International has picked up rights on film Last Days on Mars for the territory of Russia, UK and Australia. A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars.

WESTDistribution company West has closed a deal with US Exclusive Me-dia on Metallica Through The Never for the territory of Russia and Baltic States/CIS. Rights also have gone to eOne (UK, Australia and New Zealand), Ascot Elite (Germany and Switzerland), Chrysalis and Seven7 (France), Pony Canyon (Japan), Precision Films (Spain), Lu-sumondo (Portugal), Front Row (Middle East), Nu Metro (South Af-rica), United King (Israel) and Tiglon (Turkey).

The story weaves together live concert footage with a narrative about a roadie on a life-changing mission.

Running time: 39 х 30 minutes.Genre: documentary.

Director: Ruairi Robinson.Cast: Liev Schreiber, Romola Garai, Elias Koteas.Genre: sci-fi, thriller.

Director: Нимрод Антал.Cast: James Hetfield, Lars Ul-rich, Kirk Hammett, Robert Tru-jillo and Dane DeHaan.Genre: musical.


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CINEMA RELEASES OVERVIEW CINEMA RELEASES OVERVIEW

UKRAINIAN THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION MARKET OVERVIEW

(NOVEMBER 29, 2012 – MAY 26, 2013)

Theatrical releases of 162 films took place in Ukraine in the period of November 29, 2012 – May 26, 2013. The gross box-office of these films totaled $51.9 million. 9.9 million tickets were sold. TOP-20 releases collected $35.7 million – 68.8% of the total amount. 6.2 million people bought tickets to watch the TOP-20 films, which is 0.7 million lower than in the previous year.

№ Title Distributor Release date Premier weekend Box Office, $

Total Box Office 29.11.2012 - 26.05.2013, $ Tickets sold

1 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey KNM 19.12.2012 1 388 677 4 048 630 563 403

2 Iron Man 3 B&H 02.05.2013 1 377 169 3 245 630 508 682

3 Oz the Great and Powerful B&H 07.03.2013 1 591 875 3 008 634 487 533

4 Three Warriors on Far Shores / Tri bogatyria na dalnikh beregakh (Rus) GK 27.12.2012 507 697 2 629 071 531 774

5 Life of Pi UFD 01.01.2013 822 160 2 571 046 382 638

6 Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters B&H 31.01.2013 922 501 2 423 512 394 177

7 The Croods UFD 21.03.2013 467 235 2 102 447 416 083

8 Oblivion B&H 11.04.2013 778 544 1 700 831 312 067

9 Jungle / Dzhungli (Rus) GK 29.11.2012 698 186 1 473 419 254 894

10 A Good Day To Die Hard UFD 14.02.2013 759 693 1 386 735 273 969

11 G.I. Joe: Retaliation B&H 28.03.2013 665 077 1 357 266 242 839

12 Fast & Furious 6 B&H 23.05.2013 1 253 605 1 318 012 265 293

13 Anna Karenina B&H 01.01.2013 535 537 1 286 377 265 426

14 Rise of the Guardians B&H 22.11.2012 631 611 1 133 143** 229 635**

15 Django Unchained B&H 17.01.2013 403 835 1 129 290 215 053

16 The Great Gatsby KNM 16.05.2013 542 631 1 124 543 187 951

17 Men’s Deeds / Chto tvoryat muzhchiny! (Rus) GK 28.02.2013 465 217 1 083 402 212 888

18 Jack The Giant Slayer KNM 21.03.2013 339 470 1 040 160 171 757

19 Mommies / S Novym godom, mamy! (Rus) GK 27.12.2012 193 900 824 924 164 556

20 Gentlemen Of Fortune / Dzhentelmeny, udachi! (Rus) AVR 27.12.2012 174 929 803 908 152 137

TOTAL ТОP-20: 35 690 980 6 232 755

Sources: BOOKER’S BULLETIN.* films released before November 29, 2012, box-office and admissions over a period of November 29, 2012 – May 26, 2013

Distributors:AVR – Aurora FilmB&H – B&H DistributionGK – Galeon KinoKNM – KinomaniaUFD – 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. The main barrier for major box-office scheme implementation on the territory of CIS is the inability of the cinemas to provide distribu-tors 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.

The so-called major scheme when distributor share income with cinema according to the pre set propor-tion is implemented only in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. That is why 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.

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. Lack of control stimulates piracy and quick outspread of film copies without any license, but local governments do not want change anything because people won’t have the place and opportunity to watch movies. Moreover, this issue is not of a great matter for the right holders themselves as the expenses for defense of rights may exceed the losses.

Today we present an overview of local cinema markets of Azerbaijan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. And we’ll try to estimate these markets taking into account the only indicator available – the level of cinema chain development.

Azerbaijan

The distribution of foreign and locally produced films in Azerbaijan is very complicated now as there are few cinemas in the whole country. National film industry development program for 2008-2018 is focused mostly on the modernization of Nizami cinema in Baku. Opened after a long reconstruction in December 2011 this four-screen theater had been given the status of cinema centre.

Two auditoriums – 500 and 80 seats – have all the necessary equipment to demonstrate films in 3D. The other two have 50 and 24 seats, and all four auditoriums equipped with a Dolby Digital 7+1 system.

Dostlug cinema is under reconstruction after which it will be granted status of the cultural center. It must be mentioned that its premises are currently used by Baku Municipal Theatre, so after repairs are made visitors will not only watch films but also stage plays.

According to the governmental prescription 11 cinemas had been privatized, but still, two of them – Araz and Azerbaijan – can be used for film screenings only. Both are under reconstruction.

Renovated in 1990s Azerbaijan cinema was the most popular in the country until 2010. It belongs to Azer-baijan International Film Company holding. There are three auditoriums with 117 (plus VIP-zone with an-other 25 seats and a bar), 150 and 53 seats. Two largest are used to screen 3D-movies.

In October 2010 Caspian Kapital company opened six-screen theater Park Cinema in the Park Bul’var mall. All of auditoriums have Dolby Surround EX sound system, and three of them equipped for 3D-films demonstration.

The last Baku cinema to mention is Venet with only one screen. There also several ‘minicinemas’, such as Face Book Mini Cinema, but they are actually nothing more than video halls.

The ticket cost for 2D-films varies from $4 to $9 depending on the screening time. As for 3D films, it rises up to $5-10.

Baku cinemas

Name Number of screens Number of seatsNizami 4 (two 3D) 654Azerbaijan 3 (two 3D) 345Park Cinema 6 (three 3D) 788

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Name Number of screens Number of seatsCinemalux one 3D 58Azerbaijan 3 (two 3D) 345TOTAL 15 (eight 3D) 1845

IMAX cinema with 382-seats hall and additional five auditoriums for 2D- and 3D-films is to be launched in Flame Towers in the nearest future.

There are no cinemas in other cities, but the things can get even worse as from 15 July 2011 all the films must have Azerbaijanian dubbing and the distributors don’t want to spend another thousands of US dol-lars for it.

Moldova

The whole Moldova distribution market is monopolized by Patria company. Its chain consists of six cine-mas – three in Chisinau (Patria-Multiplex, Patria-Loteanu, Patria-Riscani) and one in each of the following cities – Balti, Ungheni and Cahul.

Patria-Loteanu (formerly Patria-Centru) opened in 1999. It has two halls – 600 and 140 seats – with Dolby Digital Surround EX. In spring 2010 it had been modernized with system for digital and 3D-films screening, and in autumn 2011 Patria-Loteanu became a national cinematography centre.

The cinema in Balti opened on the eve of 2002 New Year after 12 years of neglect. The building had been restored and the only auditorium with 600 seats equipped with Dolby Digital Surround EX sound system (Patria-Cahul and Patria-Ungheni also have it).

The first multiplex (six screens) in Moldova opened in May 2009. As in Ukraine and Russia, it is situated in shopping mall MallDova. Two largest halls with 199 and 209 seats have digital equipment for screening 3D-films. All six auditoriums equipped with Dolby Digital Surround EX sound system and have THX Cinema Certification.

In spring 2011 Patria installed XpanD system for digital and 3D-films screening in the cinema in Riscani (420 seats).

Apart from Patria-owned cinemas there is another one movie theater in Chisinau – Flacara. Built in 1967 it has two auditoriums with 442 and 72 seats and also Dolby Digital EX system.

Tiraspol cinema opened in 1991 in the city of the same name. 19 years later it had been modernized to screen films in 3D (Barco-2000 projector, Dolby Laboratories3D-server, Dolby Digital EX sound).

We have to mention Autocinema – a drive-in theater in Moldova, where customers can view movies from their cars; such screenings are unlikely to be legal. Also there is Cinema Club demonstrating films with original sound track and simultaneous translation to Russian.

Moldova cinemas

Name Number of screens Number of seatsPatria-Balti 1 600Patria-Multiplex 6 (two 3D) 920Patria-Loteanu 2 (one 3D) 740Patria-Riscani 1 3D 420Patria-Ungheni 1 710Patria-Cahul 1 248Flacara 2 514Tiraspol 3 (one 3D) 655TOTAL 16 (five 3D) 4807

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There were 500 000 tickets sold in 2010 (according to the latest available report), but due to lack of gov-ernment regulation these numbers don’t look real. Moreover, there are no data available from Russian and Ukrainian distributors operating in Moldova. Admission fee is $2.5 for 2D-films and up to $8.5 for 3D, however the price may rise in the nearest future as the movie theatres are prohibited to show ads before and after the film screenings.

Kyrgyzstan

There are 38 cinemas assigned to the Department of the Cinematography by Ministry of Culture & Tour-izm of the Kyrgyz Republic. Six of them located in Bishkek, two in Osh, two in Naryn and one in each of another 28 inhabited locality. Some of them are either not operated as intended or are under reconstruc-tion. For example, Jubileyniy cinema in Jalal-Abad is rented by Philharmonic Hall, Mir is used by pharma-ceutical company. Saltanat closed in 1994.

But sometimes national cinemas are modernized at the expenses of lessees – e.g. Ala Too or October. The last one opened in 2005 was the first reconstructed in the whole republic. As for Ala Too, it became the first 3D-cinema in Bishkek; there are two auditoriums – with 360 (VIP-hall – 12 seats) and 159 seats.

One of Cinematica chain cinemas – Vefa – is located in the mall of the same name. It has two halls (both 85 seats) equipped with Dolby Digital Surround system. The other one – four-screen Cinematica – opened in December 2011 in Cosmopark mall. Auditoriums (with 205 seats each) had been equipped with Christie and Dolby systems, and two of them has projectors for screening 3D-films.

Apart from those cinemas of Cinematica chain there were other movie theaters reconstructed in Bishkek, for example five-screen Manas with BARCO digital cinema projectors and Dolby Digital Surround EX.

Bishkek cinemas

Name Number of screens Number of seatsAla Too (Cinematica chain) 2 (one 3D) 519October (Cinematica chain) 2 327Vefa (Cinematica chain) 2 170Cosmopark (Cinematica chain) 4 (two 3D) 820Manas 5 (one 3D) 780Russia 1 3D 300Movie Star 2 3D 240TOTAL 18 (seven 3D) 3156

Commercial movie theater demonstrates 8 films in a month on an average. Admission fee depends on the cinema and showing time itself, and varies in the range of $1.5-$4 for 2D-films, and $2-$5.5 for 3D-movies.

It appeared that there are small video halls almost in every village. Obviously, they violate copyright law using for screening a simple copies of DVDs, but this country is too small to draw the attention of foreign production companies and right holders. Still, we’d like to mention that locally produced pictures are as much popular as the Hollywood films, and from time to time they head the top list.

Moreover, locally produced films are distributed by their prodcos who share profit with the cinemas in the ratio 50/50. This cooperation stimulates the market, but it lacks government regulation. In the future all the distribution certificates will be given by the Department of the Cinematography and it will enforce a law about copyright.

Tajikistan

In 2010 the government adopted the new law on national film industry development for 2011-2015, and in 2011 Tajikkino received about $22 000 for film content acquisition, $11 000 for equipment and $175 000 for cinema modernization.

Total number of cinemas in the country – 58. 32 of them are in inventory of Tajikkino. Control over the rest had been given to local authorities and individual persons. Therefore, most of them are not operating as intended.

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In January 2010 Tantana company reopened the big auditorium of Jomi cinema in Dushanbe. It had been equipped with Dolby Surround system and servers and projector for 3D-films screening.

In October 2010 Tantana opened Javonon 3D cinema (formerly Molodejnyi) with 299 seats, which be-came the first 3D movie theater in Tajikistan.

Films from international festivals programs are shown in Ziodullo Shahidi Museum of Musical Culture in Dushanbe and Lahuti cinema in Kurgan-Tube.

The distribution certificate must be issued by Tajikkino without prejudice and outside influence. But it is not so actually. The prime factor for film to receive the distribution certificate it has to earn votes on the official site of the company. That is why the Tajiks prefer American major studios (Disney, Fox, Universal, Paramount, Warner) films to locally produced.

The other problem is the black chain of video halls demonstrating films without any permission.

Admission fee costs $3-5.5 for 2D-films and $4-6.5 for 3D. It is about 60 000 tickets sold every year ac-cording to official reports, but it seems that this number does not reflect the reality.

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In the exclusive interview to CIS:Content Report producer general of FILM.UA Group Viсtor Mirsky told about the trends in production industry development, growing requirements to the primetime content, details of TV mini-series Inseparable shooting and peculiarities of co-production work as well as shared with us some information about the projects in production and postproduction and the strategy for the further group development.

If you don’t mind let’s start from the last FILM.UA project premiere. In the end of April the Ukrai-nian Inter channel aired the 4-episode series Inseparable . What do you think of this movie?

In this case I can express only my own opinion. I believe that movie Inseparable is one of the best projects over the whole company's history of existence. I’d like to repeat – it’s only my opinion and it may differ from the viewers’ one. Nevertheless, the comments I’ve already heard and read completely justify my expectations. And the ratings are not the only thing that matters – we initially started this project with completely different expectations. Now we are looking forward to the Russian premiere on Channel One.

Production director Vitaliy Vorobyov was the one who worked on Inseparable. He had been also involved in the other big project of the company – The Bomber. Both TV series have a lot of CGI shots. Is it becoming a good tradition?

I have no doubts that the quality for the primetime TV series will be much tougher in the nearest future. And we want to be in the vanguard of this process. The Bomber, Inseparable, our new TV series The Sniffer and The Trap, which are in postproduction at the moment – that’s how I see the standards of the Ukrainian series in the short term. The cutting-edge computer technology is an integral part of this process. That is the reason why we have been actively developing Postmodern company, that is the part of our group. The Bomber, Chapay, Chkalov, Inseparable, Vasiliy Stalin. Our guys worked on all of these series, and I’m sure the same large-scale projects are waiting for us.

I’ll venture to remark that the computer graphics in The Bomber and Inseparable is much more complex than in any other locally produced TV series. Of course, the viewer with an everyday opportunity to watch the latest Hollywood movies in the cinema and on television does not catch it at once, but believe me – our colleagues-producers realize what it means and what efforts had been made to achieve such CGI level under current conditions of TV series production. Obviously it costs more and we earn less, but that is our strategy and there’s always more fish in the sea. Though, we would naturally prefer to earn as much as we can J

Still, production may not be focused only on expensive and as a result risky projects.

Definitely. I understand that and so do the channels we work with. That’s the reason why we try to diversify our portfolio. And let me tell you that I do not overestimate the significance of the new technologies, but a good plot still remains the main priority for us to search. Let’s take for instance the last year, which was a quite successful one for us. Dr. Baby Dust, My New Life, Lucky Ticket, The Road to Nowhere – all these projects aired on Russian and Ukrainian channels and showed good and even very good ratings – and we had just this very objective in the first place. However, nowadays it is not so easy to find, write the script and produce a romance of a high quality.

What FILM.UA premieres shall we see this year?

First of all, an extremely important project for our company – Chapay – already aired this February-March. We took active part in its production and I am very grateful to my friends form Favorit-Film and Central Partnership for that. The large-scale military scenes of World War I and Civil War were good and very im-portant experience for our production.

Inseparable have already aired on Ukrainian and Kazakh channels. And now we are waiting for the Russian premiere. I’ve already mentioned that.

I am also looking forward to another Russian premiere – TV series Waiting List – coproduction with Rus-sian Shpil company. And once again in this project we took a little step from the romance towards drama. Trying to give the viewer the hard time, refusing the standard clichés: good-bad, good-evil, white-black. This time everything is a little different. It is one of my most favorite projects, quite complicated. Script-writer Alla Krinitsina and director producer Andrey Chernykh did a good job. I would sincerely wish that

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Waiting List had success. The detective series The Sniffer and our coproduction with Central Partner-ship– crime drama The Trap – are in the final stage of postproduction. I believe that these projects will be a phenomenon as they are, let’s say so, non-standard representatives of the locally produced series. To be honest, I do not want to tell much about them now; I hope they will speak for themselves.

Few weeks ago the second season of Dr. Baby Dust started in Ukraine. The results of the first season were a surprise even for me. And I hope for another success. In Kazakhstan the project is on air and already showed quite good ratings. In this case I’d like to say a special thanks to my co-producers – Yuriy Morozov and Vladimir Issat and to thank ISTIL Group for assistance and support.

This autumn we are going to see another project by Oksana Bayrak who I have been working with for many years. No doubt, Oksana has some secrets and this year her fans will see 16-episode project with working title Late Regret. The postproduction is underway, but until September the series should be ready.

We also take part in two large-scale projects of our friends from Russian Favorit-Film Company. Projects Vanga and Vasiliy Stalin are in the final phase of postproduction. As you can see form the titles both are bi-opics. The first one is about the life of the most famous prophetess of the 20th century – Vanga, the second one is the story of a difficult and quite contradictory life of one of Stalin’s sons – Vasiliy.

You have said many times that the priority of the company is the filling up of your own library. In this context we’d like to ask about how the copyright of coproduced projects is shared?

Just as we agreed upon. Though, as a rule, we work 50/50. Sure, if there are more than two partners – we apply other ratios. But it is a rare exception.

And who do you cooperate with this year? Spring-summer is a season of new projects’ launches.

Right, the projects I have mentioned above had been started last year and now they are either finished or in the final postproduction phase. So, this year we have been working with the new projects.

The House with the Lilies we are working on together with Favorit-Film Company is in the production al-ready. It is the family saga whose filmmaker is one of the most famous masters of the Soviet cinema – Vladimir Krasnopolsky. It is a very good script by the authors who I highly appreciate – Maria Bek and Elena Boyko. Cast: Dasha Moroz, Olesya Sudzilovskaya, Sergei Makhovikov, Nikolai Dobrynin, Victor Ra-kov, Denis Matrosov, Anna Gorshkova and other good actors and actresses. Alongside with the Master touch, I hope, project will provide us and broadcasting channels with good ratings.

The success of the last year TV series The Road to Nowhere inspired us and our partners from Intra-Film for two new projects. This May we started preproduction of 12-episode series with tentative title Skittish Little Thing and 8-episode drama So Far, So Close (working title). Those series are easily understandable, clearly structured primetime stories.

Director Aleksandr Berezan is already in Thailand with his team. The greater part of our new 4-episode series will take place there. We have not thought about the title yet. We’ll try to make a good action.

The youth romantic comedy Lonely under the Contract (working title) is in the preproduction. This project is co-produced with Novy Kanal (New Channel). Igor Storchak is the one responsible for it on behalf of our group.

I’d like to focus on another project that we are planning this year. We have set quite an ambitious goal to try to show the world of Soviet fashion of 60-80-ies of the last century. Last year our editor Olesya Luky-anenko told me a story about the most known fashion model of the Soviet Union – Regina Zbarskaya. I must admit that I have not even imagined how interesting and dramatic life of this woman was. She was accused of spying, Western press nominated her as ‘the most beautiful weapon of the Kremlin’, she had admirers and haters. Intrigues and jealousy pursued her everywhere. Still, she also was not an angel. She was a difficult person. Thousands of men worshipped her, but her personal life was far from being happy. In general we could not pass by such a story with such an interesting historical setting. It will be a good and high-quality movie. We are very ambitions in this case.

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ries The Sniffer and it was a positive experience. I think this year we will have 2-3 pilots.

What are they about if it’s not a secret?

The pilots should be done there, where the channels want to be on the safe side because there is an ef-fect of irregularity, novelty and extravagance. In this case the ideas always exceed the capabilities. And somebody has to take risks. Naturally, this somebody is the producer who has an ambition not only to earn money, but also to make something interesting. We have such an ambition. That’s why this year I want to produce a pilot of comedy series and probably – I haven’t decided yet – of an action thriller, however, not quite standard one, with the elements of comics.

In the recent years the Studio has given attention not only to the series but also to the television programs. How are things going this year?

Our interest to the television programs is natural: as you have correctly noted, we are the Studio: that means we have our own stages, all the necessary technologies etc. Of course, this kind of content is also in our target list.

It’s true that we are aimed more at cyclic daily or weekly broadcast. But as for large-scale TV shows we prefer to be exclusively as a service company as the energy costs are huge, and the ratio production-prof-itability, as a rule, is quite doubtful, let’s say so. As for me I do not like the one-time product, our priority is forming the library of rights and we try to select the product according to our aims.

Few weeks ago the shooting of the 6th season of Mystical Tales started – a project that we produce in close cooperation with Ukrainian STB and Russian TV-3 channels. If I’m not mistaken we have already produced about 100 episodes.

Recently we have started another project, but with the social incline – Fear in Your House. We coproduce this project with Inter TV channel. In this program we will try to talk about a serious problem in our society – violence in the family. You cannot even imagine how painful this topic is.

We’ll continue our judicial shows – Legal Proceedings and Domestic Proceedings – both are long-runners on Ukrainian TV. Judging by excellent figures of 18+ viewers of Inter we’ll become old and still produce these programs J

And of course, we started the new project with the most prominent doctor of the whole Soviet Union – Doctor Komorovsky as a host. I’ll open a little secret – next year our Doctor Komorovsky’s School will be changed a little…

There are several more projects in development. I hope that one of our most important formats will be relaunched, though we’ll wait a little with the details…

FILM.UA Group opened its own animated unit recently. Are you satisfied with its work? Are the channels interested in this type of content?

We find animation very attractive. The first attempts have been done in 2010-2011 already, and the results showed that we can move in this direction. Motion Capture technology that we installed at the Studio last year gave us an opportunity to do another step forward. Our first animated series – Fairy Rus – is the co-production with Kvartal-95 where we are responsible in for technology and production. It is already on air.

But, of course, it’s a poor soldier that never wants to become a general. That’s why our purpose is a full-length animated movie. And the decision has been taken already. Egor Olesov, our animated unit manager, offered to turn our attention to the well-known fairy tale by A.S. Pushkin Ruslan and Lyudmila. It seemed to be a very good idea for me. Without doubt, we are going to adapt the original material, add modern humor and new heroes including those from other fairy tales. We’ll make the story interesting and not only for children, but the whole family. We have already started the work on the script and the anima-

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ploring some specific issue. Russian projects can’t afford it. For example, Russian producers may ask me to make the ocean like they saw it in The Perfect Storm (2000). And I have to explain them that a group of 100 programmers described the behavior of physical phenomenon during a year. Then the results of their work were set into the interface of the program that created such a storming ocean. And the funds spent for the researches are equal to the whole budget of Russian project.

CGF closely cooperates with Timur Bekmambetov who invested heavily in the FilmLanguage (Kinoyazyk) technology. Do you take part in the researches of his company Bazelevs?

We do cooperate with Bazelevs in some researches. But this cooperation is rather sketchy. Actually we do not delve into the study. As for the FilmLanguage I know that Bazelevs have some results that are different from the declared objectives but still…

There is information in the Web that you are going to launch your own projects as a producer. Is that true?

I have some ideas. I have knowledge and skills that would be sufficient to launch a project. And the com-pany is strong enough to realize it. We just need to try and move on if it works.

In the nearest future we’ll decide on the range of projects that would be interesting to work on. At the same time we are going to separate company’s activity as a producer from providing postproduction services which is our core business. Most likely postproduction department will accomplish orders for our projects otherwise there will be a risk of failing in both areas.

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tors have offered some concepts. By and large, the process has started.

What about the documentary films?

Guys from Signal Red company are responsible for that. The contract on the distribution of the cycle The Great Dreamers signed this year with one of the greatest global sellers of the documentary content – company Off the Fence – we regard as our big success. By the way, only a couple of months have passed, but we received the first results: actually, we are getting the data about the sales in those markets which we could not dare dream about before.

Moreover, not so long ago my colleagues returned from Amsterdam where they discussed new projects with the Off the Fence management. We can see the interest from the large western partner. And believe me, those gentle people do not spend their time if they do not see any potential. Of course, it inspires us because we not only make the sophisticated documentary projects with the cutting-edge computer tech-nologies, we are the first in the CIS to do this systematically and purposefully, being as a matter of fact the pioneers in this direction. By the way, we like to be the pioneers J

We can also see the growth of interest in the documentary projects from the major Russian and Ukrainian channels. The Great Dreamers has already been sold to Russia, and I think this year Signal Red will have much work to do for Ukrainian market as well.

We also consider, let’s say so, a more serious documentary movie. It was a pleasure to work with Ser-gey Bukovsky on the movie Ukraine. When the Countdown Began. I’d like to say a special thanks to the Ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk: we got access to the most restricted and interesting informa-tion about the events in 1991. Such projects cost a lot. And I’m sure that we will continue producing the similar documentary projects in the future.

FILM.UA has often produced the projects without the previous commission from TV channels, i.e. at your own cost. Not the pilots – completed projects. Even Inseparable, as far as we know, had been launched without preliminary agreements with the TV channels. Is this strategy justified? It is quite risky...

Inseparable is a separate issue. I understood that it was a complex product, a drama, and it would be difficult to sell it judging only by the script. But here some other mechanisms had been activated. I just wanted to make it on irrational level, without explanations and logic. Then we came to agreement with Vi-talii Vorobyov, with whom we had already produced The Bomber. He was caught by this project and I got the necessary creative support. Moreover, the whole group was working over this project with appalling commitment – everybody was carried away by this story.

We have information that the Inseparable budget exceeds 1.5 million dollars. Is it true?

Yes.

But it is a huge sum of money for the 4-episode film in Ukraine…

You only live once. Yes, this movie is not supposed to return the investments quickly, we knew it from the start. But I have already mentioned that we had some different tasks. I think that this movie was a new step in our development, for everyone here in FILM.UA. The Bomber was the other important step in due time. Now we have Inseparable. The Sniffer and The Trap set to be premiered this autumn are going in the same

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