When you think of Russian videos on YouTube, you’re probably thinking of dash cams or meteor impacts. With an upcoming initiative, the world’s top video site is adding some culture to that equation. Google has partnered with multiple production companies to launch Russian Cinema Week, which will run from November 28th to December 4th.
During that week, more than 200 Russian films will be available in full on YouTube. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the list of featured movies will include Leviathan, a drama that earned an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film; Yolki, a holiday film from Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov; and Legend № 17, a hockey biopic that took in $67 million at the box office.
Russian Cinema Week is first and foremost a showcase of foreign films, but it also has the potential to improve the perception of YouTube within the Russian government. On multiple occasions, the nation’s...
During that week, more than 200 Russian films will be available in full on YouTube. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the list of featured movies will include Leviathan, a drama that earned an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film; Yolki, a holiday film from Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov; and Legend № 17, a hockey biopic that took in $67 million at the box office.
Russian Cinema Week is first and foremost a showcase of foreign films, but it also has the potential to improve the perception of YouTube within the Russian government. On multiple occasions, the nation’s...
- 11/23/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
St Petersburg International Media Forum closes inaugural edition with world premiere of Serena.
Francois Ozon’s latest feature The New Girlfriend was voted as the Best of the Fest by the audience at the inaugural edition of the St Petersburg International Media Forum (Spimf) which closed on Friday evening with the world premiere of Susanne Bier’s Serena, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.
However, neither director Bier, nor any of the talent were in St Petersburg for the film, which Volgafilm will be releasing in Russian cinemas on October 30.
Although there was no formal competition for Spimf’s film programme, a jury of local film critics was formed to give awards for what they regarded as the best film and TV series showing in the 2014 line-up.
Australian film-maker Anna Broinowsky’s documentary Aim High In Creation, which screened in the Kor-kor sidebar about North Korean cinema, was named best film, while the Press...
Francois Ozon’s latest feature The New Girlfriend was voted as the Best of the Fest by the audience at the inaugural edition of the St Petersburg International Media Forum (Spimf) which closed on Friday evening with the world premiere of Susanne Bier’s Serena, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.
However, neither director Bier, nor any of the talent were in St Petersburg for the film, which Volgafilm will be releasing in Russian cinemas on October 30.
Although there was no formal competition for Spimf’s film programme, a jury of local film critics was formed to give awards for what they regarded as the best film and TV series showing in the 2014 line-up.
Australian film-maker Anna Broinowsky’s documentary Aim High In Creation, which screened in the Kor-kor sidebar about North Korean cinema, was named best film, while the Press...
- 10/12/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Timur Bekmambetov’s first outing as a director since his Hollywood film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter sees him going back in time again to the beginning of the First World War at the end of 1914.
Yolki 1914 is the fourth instalment of Bekmambetov’s New Year hit comedy franchise Yolki, which his production-distribution company Bazelevs launched in 2010.
Bekmambetov directed the first Yolki (aka The Six Degrees Of Celebration), which took $26m at the box office in the Cis territories in 2010/11.
Since then, Bekmambetov has only served as the producer on the following two Yolki films.
The first sequel Yolki 2012 – which posted $30m at the Cis box office in 2011/12 – took place on New Year’s Eve in 11 cities from small regional towns to Saint Petersburg and Moscow, and was directed by Dmitry Kiselev, Alexander Kott, Oksana Bychkova and others.
Kiselev, Kott, Alexander Karpilovsky and Olga Kharina directed the episodes of the third film Yolki 2014 which was released on Dec...
Yolki 1914 is the fourth instalment of Bekmambetov’s New Year hit comedy franchise Yolki, which his production-distribution company Bazelevs launched in 2010.
Bekmambetov directed the first Yolki (aka The Six Degrees Of Celebration), which took $26m at the box office in the Cis territories in 2010/11.
Since then, Bekmambetov has only served as the producer on the following two Yolki films.
The first sequel Yolki 2012 – which posted $30m at the Cis box office in 2011/12 – took place on New Year’s Eve in 11 cities from small regional towns to Saint Petersburg and Moscow, and was directed by Dmitry Kiselev, Alexander Kott, Oksana Bychkova and others.
Kiselev, Kott, Alexander Karpilovsky and Olga Kharina directed the episodes of the third film Yolki 2014 which was released on Dec...
- 3/11/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
A feature debut (we’re not counting the portmanteau “Yolki,” co-directed with Timur Bekmambetov, among others) so self-assured as to really only ever be marred by show-offiness, Latvian/Lithuanian co-production "The Gambler," which plays in competition at the Marrakech Film Festival, marks director Ignas Jonynas out as one to keep an eye on. Taking a skewed, and ever so slightly surreal, story about a team of emergency medics who develop a highly successful and lucrative game involving betting on when patients are going to die, and basing the odds on complex and arcane analyses of the medical information to which they have access, the film, to its credit, is less interested in this high concept than it is in its lead character, the bearlike Vincentas (Vytautus Kaniusonis), his moral descent and eventual redemption. It would be a difficult trick for even a more experienced filmmaker to strike the right balance here,...
- 12/8/2013
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Wme signed Chinese filmmaker Eva Jin, who just directed Sophie’s Revenge, a film whose star Fan Bingbing has also signed with the agency. Jin recently teamed with Timur Bekmambetov for a Russian-Chinese remake of Bekmambetov’s Yolki. Aside from Sophie’s Revenge, the Chinese actress Bingbing also starred in Shaolin and Buddha Mountain, latter of which won her Best Actress at the 2010 Tokyo Film Festival. She most recently starred in the Korean War epic My Way, which has become arguably Korea’s biggest ever movie release. Bingbing is managed by Fbb Studios’ Timothy Mou.
- 3/29/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
After years of blockbusters and special effects eye candy, it looks like Timur Bekmambetov is ready to pull a bit of a Garry Marshall. Bekmambetov and Chinese filmmaker Eva Jin are the first two filmmakers to sign up for the remake of the Russian hit "Yolki" ("Six Degrees Of Celebration") whose sequel "Yolki 2" is currently blowing up the box office in its homeland. The remake will take place around the Chinese New Year, centering on a little girl who is eager to get a message to the President, and decides to use the popular Kevin Bacon theory to get the job done. Six handshakes will connect people across eight stories and time zones that will see the story span from a lowly migrant right up to the President himself. Heartwarming and inclusive! Bemambetov and Jin will be joined by six other directors each taking a segment/storyline in this Chinese/Russian co-production.
- 12/23/2011
- The Playlist
I bet you didn’t know about the Russian version of New Year’s Eve. Although that movie isn’t quite the same as the one in America. Timur Bekmambetov is no stranger to the weird, strange, and perplexing. In fact he’s made a name for himself in that department. Now the filmmaker will collaborate with Chinese filmmakers for a remake of Yolki, aka Six Degrees of Celebration, a film that Bekmambeotv originally directed. According to Deadline, the movie will be a remake that is based Bekmambetov’s film that is about “eight different Russians – from eight different time zones – and how their destinies intersect one New Years Eve.
The site says the new movie will feature eight stories “connected by a young orphan girl who must deliver a message to the President and whose only hope is to use the theory of “six degrees of separation” – that all people on Earth,...
The site says the new movie will feature eight stories “connected by a young orphan girl who must deliver a message to the President and whose only hope is to use the theory of “six degrees of separation” – that all people on Earth,...
- 12/23/2011
- by Mike Lee
- FusedFilm
Talk about the question on everyone’s mind this holiday season! Deadline Kaluga reports that Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov will answer that very question – sort of, in a way, considering he’s already answered it twice already. Bekmambetov is now set to team up with Chinese filmmaker Eva Jin to launch a Russian and Chinese remake of Russia’s own wildly popular anthology film, Yolki. Bekmambetov previously directed his own segments in both Yolki (also know as the more appropriate Six Degrees of Separation) and its very successful sequel, Yolki 2. Yolki 2 was recently a big winner in its native Russia, pulling in a stunning $7.8m gross over its opening weekend. The original Yolki was “Russia’s most successful local movie in the past three years.” The first film “tells the stories of eight different Russians – from eight different time zones – and how their destinies intersect one New Years Eve.” The...
- 12/23/2011
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Russia and China are collaborating on a new project, but you won't be hearing the talking heads on CNN deconstructing. Instead, Deadline says Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) is collaborating with Chinese filmmaker Eva Jin (Sophie's Revenge) for a joint remake of the Russian film Yolki (Six Degrees of Celebration). Bekmambetov was one of several Russian directors to contribute to the original film, which is comprised of different linked vignettes. The original version of Yolki told the intersecting stories of eight different Russians whose lives intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve. So, yeah, it was basically a Russian version of New Year's Eve (pictured above). Only their version didn't include Ashton Kutcher, so that's a small comfort. In the remake, the holiday will be shifted to center around Chinese New Year, but the basic structure and premise will remain the same. The title refers, of course, to the...
- 12/23/2011
- cinemablend.com
Need help puzzling out that headline? Here you go: Yolki, aka Six Degrees of Celebration, is a Russian film that is about "eight different Russians – from eight different time zones – and how their destinies intersect one New Years Eve."(Ok, so maybe it isn't quite the Russian version of New Year's Eve, if only because it doesn't have Bon Jovi and Robert De Niro, but close enough, I think.) The original film was co-directed by Timur Bekmambetov, better known in the Us for his Night Watch films, as well as Wanted and the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. He was also one of the directors who contributed to the sequel, Yolki 2, which just opened in Russia last weekend. Now a Chinese remake of Yolki is brewing, with a plan to center the story around the Chinese New Year. Bekmambetov will direct part of that, too. Deadline [1] says the new...
- 12/23/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Let’s talk a bit about film industry in the Bric countries. More precisely, it is one of the first partnerships of its kind; Russian-Chinese collaboration on a new version of the 2010 Russian hit comedy Yolki. Therefore, Timur Bekmambetov and Eva Jin are the first two directors among several filmmakers who will direct segments of [...]
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- 12/23/2011
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Deadline reports that Timur Bekmambetov and Eva Jin are the first two directors to sign on for Six Degrees of Celebration, a remake of the 2010 Russian hit Yolki. While the original film, which Bekmambetov was a director on, told vignettes that took place on New Year’s Eve, Garry Marshall scorching that Earth has made a switch to Chinese New Year necessary.
Things are also being adjusted on the side of plot, with the transition going from eight Russians to “a young orphan girl who must deliver a message to the President and whose only hope is to use the theory of ‘six degrees of separation.’” (You’re familiar with that idea, right? Yeah, you’re familiar with that idea.) Other filmmakers will get on board twixt now and the start of production, which is being planned to accommodate a 2013 release.
I might be no fan of, let’s say,...
Things are also being adjusted on the side of plot, with the transition going from eight Russians to “a young orphan girl who must deliver a message to the President and whose only hope is to use the theory of ‘six degrees of separation.’” (You’re familiar with that idea, right? Yeah, you’re familiar with that idea.) Other filmmakers will get on board twixt now and the start of production, which is being planned to accommodate a 2013 release.
I might be no fan of, let’s say,...
- 12/23/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: In one of the first partnerships of its kind, Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov is teaming with Chinese filmmaker Eva Jin (Sophie’s Revenge) on a Russian/Chinese remake of Yolki (Six Degrees of Celebration). They will be among several filmmakers who’ll direct segments of the film. The deal comes after Yolki 2 topped the box office in Russia last weekend with $7.8 million gross. The 2010 first film became Russia’s most successful local movie in the past three years. Yolki tells the stories of eight different Russians – from eight different time zones – and how their destinies intersect one New Years Eve. The remake will be framed around the Chinese New Year. There will be eight stories connected by a young orphan girl who must deliver a message to the President and whose only hope is to use the theory of “six degrees of separation” – that all people on Earth,...
- 12/23/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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