Before Night Watch planted Russia squarely on the international genre film map the reigning king of the Russian action box office was Antikiller, a hugely popular blockbuster based on a hugely popular novel about a former cop turned vigilante. The film starred Gosha Kutsenko, who has now become a familiar face to any fan of Russian genre film, and has since spawned both a successful sequel and a video game that proved popular enough to even succeed in territories where nobody had seen the source film or read the novel. And now they’re doing it again.
The third entry in the Antikiller series has been in the works for some time now - at one point Christopher Lee was to have a small part, though I don’t know whether that actually happened or not - and after a brief teaser that consisted of nothing but Kutsenko talking to the camera,...
The third entry in the Antikiller series has been in the works for some time now - at one point Christopher Lee was to have a small part, though I don’t know whether that actually happened or not - and after a brief teaser that consisted of nothing but Kutsenko talking to the camera,...
- 2/14/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Moscow -- Three film companies owned by well-known Russian producers have announced a merger, local media reported Monday.
Sergei Gribkov's Top Line Group, Yusup Bakhshiyev's Mb Prods. and Arnold & Gregor will form a new company, according to Russian business daily Kommersant. The move follows the government's unveiling of a new film financing plan under which production companies, rather than individual film projects, will be entitled to receive funding as of 2009.
The three companies have a total of seven films in production, and the new company plans to produce at least six features a year, Gribkov told Kommersant.
"The new company will be co-owned in equal shares by me, Bakhshiyev and producer Arkady Danilov," he added.
Mb Prods. co-produced Andrei Konchalovsky's criminal thriller "Antikiller," the first local film ever to pass the $1 million boxoffice mark, back in 2002, while Top Line's most successful picture was 2003's crime comedy "Don't Even Think About It!
Sergei Gribkov's Top Line Group, Yusup Bakhshiyev's Mb Prods. and Arnold & Gregor will form a new company, according to Russian business daily Kommersant. The move follows the government's unveiling of a new film financing plan under which production companies, rather than individual film projects, will be entitled to receive funding as of 2009.
The three companies have a total of seven films in production, and the new company plans to produce at least six features a year, Gribkov told Kommersant.
"The new company will be co-owned in equal shares by me, Bakhshiyev and producer Arkady Danilov," he added.
Mb Prods. co-produced Andrei Konchalovsky's criminal thriller "Antikiller," the first local film ever to pass the $1 million boxoffice mark, back in 2002, while Top Line's most successful picture was 2003's crime comedy "Don't Even Think About It!
- 9/8/2008
- by By Vladimir Kozlov
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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