While cinemas worldwide have spent the better part of this year shuttered or operating at limited capacity, few film industries have felt the pain quite like Russia’s, which generates roughly 80% of its revenues from theatrical receipts, according to Evgenia Markova, head of the Russian film promotion bodyBut while local profits have plummeted, Russian producers continue to find growing interest from foreign buyers, with Markova pointing to strong sales at Mipcom and at the Key Buyers Event, a...
Filmed in St. Petersburg, “Major Grom” is the story of a police officer on the hunt for a mysterious, masked vigilante who goes on a killing spree in order to cleanse a world he declares to be “plagued by injustice.” Directed by Oleg Trofim , the film is produced by Artyom Gabrelyanov and Mikhail Kitaev — the producers behind blockbuster hits “T-34” and “Attraction” — and lensed by cinematographer Maxim Zhukov, who photographed the sci-fi hit “Sputnik.
In “Root of Evil,” the ancient evil that was defeated in the first film of the franchise rises again, and the existence of the magic world Belogorie is endangered. All Media is in talks with a number of distributors, says Zhanna Shakhshaeva, the company’s head of international, who expects to close deals on all international territories during AFM.