Big budget Russian scifi picture Inhabited Island - the latest from 9th Company director Fyodor Bondarchuk, based on a story by Stalker authors The Strugatsky Brothers - is one we’ve been following here with great anticipation for quite some time now. And with a pedigree like that - Bondarchuk is easily one of the best things going in Russia and the Strugatsky’s should need no introduction to serious Sf fans - why not? The film has toyed with its audience to a degree, releasing an initial trio of three very brief teasers a good while back then running in silence before beginning to trickle out longer trailers, each of which begins with largely the same footage before breaking some new ground. Well, with the Russian release of part one of this two part epic slowly drawing nearer the third of those trailers has just released and we’ve...
- 11/11/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
LONDON -- The powerhouse producers behind Russia's distribution boom celebrated another record boxoffice and home entertainment sales year Monday night at the 10th annual industry Blockbuster Awards in Moscow, organized by trade weekly Russian Film Business Today.
Sci-fi thriller Day Watch -- which opened 2006 with a stylish Jan. 1 Moscow premiere -- easily broke the ribbon for top-grossing film in Russia and the CIS former Soviet territories with a record boxoffice gross of more than $34 million.
By comparison, last year's winner, Afghan War drama 9th Company, took $25.6 million.
Day Watch, directed by Kazakhstan-born Timur Bekhmambetov and a sequel to 2004's Night Watch, also earned its producers, First Channel head Konstantin Ernst and his deputy Anatoli Maksimov, the Blockbuster producers of the year accolade at the awards ceremony held at Moscow's Renaissance Hotel.
The film single-handedly accounted for a sizeable chunk of Russia, CIS and Ukraine total 2006 boxoffice of $455 million, with newly combined distribution company 20th Century Fox CIS/Gemini breaking the $100 million ceiling to gross $106.09 million overall last year, representing a 25.7% market share.
Sci-fi thriller Day Watch -- which opened 2006 with a stylish Jan. 1 Moscow premiere -- easily broke the ribbon for top-grossing film in Russia and the CIS former Soviet territories with a record boxoffice gross of more than $34 million.
By comparison, last year's winner, Afghan War drama 9th Company, took $25.6 million.
Day Watch, directed by Kazakhstan-born Timur Bekhmambetov and a sequel to 2004's Night Watch, also earned its producers, First Channel head Konstantin Ernst and his deputy Anatoli Maksimov, the Blockbuster producers of the year accolade at the awards ceremony held at Moscow's Renaissance Hotel.
The film single-handedly accounted for a sizeable chunk of Russia, CIS and Ukraine total 2006 boxoffice of $455 million, with newly combined distribution company 20th Century Fox CIS/Gemini breaking the $100 million ceiling to gross $106.09 million overall last year, representing a 25.7% market share.
- 1/30/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Russia named 9th Company and Hungary selected White Palms on Tuesday as their respective candidates for best foreign-language film at the 2007 Academy Awards. The first feature from director Fedor Bondarchuk, Company is based on the story of a group of Soviet soldiers abandoned to their fate by negligent officers at the end of the Russian-Afghan war of the 1980s. Bondarchuk's film beat a field of 14 to be the Russian choice, finishing just one vote ahead of Pavel Lungin's film Ostrov (Island), Vladimir Menshov, head of the Oscar committee of Russia's national film academy, told state news agency RIA Novosti.
- 9/26/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Russia named 9th Company and Hungary selected White Palms on Tuesday as their respective candidates for best foreign-language film at the 2007 Academy Awards. The first feature from director Fedor Bondarchuk, Company is based on the story of a group of Soviet soldiers abandoned to their fate by negligent officers at the end of the Russian-Afghan war of the 1980s. Bondarchuk's film beat a field of 14 to be the Russian choice, finishing just one vote ahead of Pavel Lungin's film Ostrov (Island), Vladimir Menshov, head of the Oscar committee of Russia's national film academy, told state news agency RIA Novosti.
- 9/26/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MOSCOW -- Russia's second national film awards of the year, the NIKAS, voted Afghan war story 9th Company best film of 2005 in a ceremony televised nationwide late Sunday. The top award by Russia's 450-member national Academy of Cinematographic Arts followed that given in January at the rival Golden Eagles, which also chose Fedor Bondarchuk's action picture as best film. The film, based on the true story of a Soviet army platoon almost wiped out at the end of the Soviet-Afghan war in 1989 after being left to its fate by senior officers, was Russia's top boxoffice film last year, grossing $25.6 million.
- 3/21/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MOSCOW -- The producers and distributors of Russia's top-grossing boxoffice hits of 2005 gathered in Moscow on Monday night to celebrate the region's booming exhibition and home entertainment market in the industry's 9th annual "Blockbuster" awards, organized by trade weekly Russian Film Business Today. Afghan war drama 9-ya Rota (The 9th Company) -- released in September -- broke all boxoffice records to take $25.6 million in Russia, Ukraine, Kazhastan and other neighboring former Soviet states. That figure has already been eclipsed this year by Dnevnoi Dozor (Day Watch) -- the sequel to 2004 Russian hit Nochnoi Dozor (Night Watch) -- which was released at midnight Dec. 31 and has thus far taken $32 million in Russia and surrounding countries, Igor Burenkov, director of social affairs for producers the First Channel, said Monday.
- 1/30/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MOSCOW -- Russian fantasy film Day Watch (Dnevnoi Dozor) has broken boxoffice records in its home territory, taking in just short of $27 million in its first 19 days in release, distributors Gemini Film International said Thursday. Timur Bekmambetov's sequel to his Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor) -- which was snapped up for worldwide release by Fox Searchlight shortly after its summer 2004 release -- had taken in $26,928,914 in the first 19 days of the month following its carefully timed New Year's Eve premiere at Moscow's downtown Oktyabr cinema. That figure easily beat previous record holder 9th Company (9 Rota), Fyodor Bondarchuk's Afghan war drama that took in $25.6 million following its release in October, Gemini said.
- 1/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MOSCOW -- Russia's latest blockbuster action movie -- 9th Company, an Afghan war adventure based on a true story -- has broken domestic boxoffice records by taking in $9 million in the first six days since its release last week, distributors Gemini Film International said Thursday. Directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk, whose father, Sergei, was famed for his 1960s epics War and Peace and Waterloo, 9th Company (9-ya Rota) was released on 412 prints and drew 2.4 million viewers in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus between Sept. 29 and Oct. 5, a Gemini spokesman said. The third major Russian blockbuster to be released in the past 15 months, 9th Company beat the first-week figures for the previous record-holders: fantasy horror movie Night Watch, which was released in July 2004 and made $5.3 million in its first week, and costume drama Turkish Gambit, which pulled in $6 million in its first week when it opened in March.
- 10/6/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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