Fledgling Russian sales agent Ant!pode Sales & Distribution has picked up international distribution for Oksana Bychkova’s Another Year (Esche odin god).
The film has its world premiere in Rotterdam’s Spectrum sidebar yesterday (Jan 28).
The €850,000 Moscow-set melodrama is based on Alexander Volodin’s play Do Not Leave Your Lovers and stars Alexey Filimonov, who appeared in Vasily Sigarev’s Live at Rotterdam in 2012, and newcomer Nadya Lumpova.
Bychkova’s previous feature films include Piter FM and Plyus odin as well as collaboration on the second instalment of Bazelevs’ New Year comedy franchise Yolki 2.
Ant!pode was launched at last year’s Cannes Film Festival with a line-up including The Geographer Drank His Globe Away, which has been nominated for six Golden Eagle awards, of which the winners will be announced at a gala ceremony in Mosfilm studios tonight.
The film has its world premiere in Rotterdam’s Spectrum sidebar yesterday (Jan 28).
The €850,000 Moscow-set melodrama is based on Alexander Volodin’s play Do Not Leave Your Lovers and stars Alexey Filimonov, who appeared in Vasily Sigarev’s Live at Rotterdam in 2012, and newcomer Nadya Lumpova.
Bychkova’s previous feature films include Piter FM and Plyus odin as well as collaboration on the second instalment of Bazelevs’ New Year comedy franchise Yolki 2.
Ant!pode was launched at last year’s Cannes Film Festival with a line-up including The Geographer Drank His Globe Away, which has been nominated for six Golden Eagle awards, of which the winners will be announced at a gala ceremony in Mosfilm studios tonight.
- 1/29/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
With only a fraction of the Us's screens, Russia is the seventh-largest global film market. And Hollywood expansion is forcing local cinema-makers to up their game
It was a film with no lead actor that laid claim to the Russian box office last year. Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky, the immensely popular Soviet-era singer-songwriter, poet, actor and man of protest, was always going to be the only person on stage when his biopic got made. The marketing campaign for Vysotskiy. Spasibo, Chto Zhivoy (Vysotsky, Thank God I'm Alive), which opened on 1 December 2011, kept shrewdly stumm about the identity of the actor behind the CGI and the $30,000 silicone mask used to resurrect a national hero (described to me as "John Lennon crossed with James Dean, but sounding like Dylan").
A mystery wrapped inside a dissident enigma, then, and Russians made it the top-grossing local movie of the year ($28m and counting). But they'd...
It was a film with no lead actor that laid claim to the Russian box office last year. Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky, the immensely popular Soviet-era singer-songwriter, poet, actor and man of protest, was always going to be the only person on stage when his biopic got made. The marketing campaign for Vysotskiy. Spasibo, Chto Zhivoy (Vysotsky, Thank God I'm Alive), which opened on 1 December 2011, kept shrewdly stumm about the identity of the actor behind the CGI and the $30,000 silicone mask used to resurrect a national hero (described to me as "John Lennon crossed with James Dean, but sounding like Dylan").
A mystery wrapped inside a dissident enigma, then, and Russians made it the top-grossing local movie of the year ($28m and counting). But they'd...
- 1/17/2012
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
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
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
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
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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