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CONTENT REPORTCОбзор новостей рынка производства и дистрибуции аудиовизуального контента

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В сегодняшней теме номера мы остановились на одной из самых болезненных тем отечественной киноиндустрии – рынке кинотеатров. На страницах Content Report мы неоднократно публиковали мнения о том, что едва ли не основной проблемой (хотя эту тему активно поднимают все, кому не безразлична судьба национального кинематографа), сдерживающей развитие индустрии «полного метра» на постсоветском пространстве, является катастрофическая нехватка кинозалов. Однако рынок продолжает стремительно развиваться. И если поводов для оптимизма относительно увеличения количества кинотеатров попрежнему не так много , то по внедрению современных технологий за прошлый год имеются все основания для гордости за это. Между тем попытаемся разобраться, есть ли свет в конце тоннеля?!.

Первый номер Content Report выходит в канун Старого Нового года, который (наконецто) завершает череду праздников, поэтому еще раз хотим пожелать нашим подписчикам в 2011 году найти свой верный путь и следовать ему с упорством, трудясь не покладая рук. У каждого своя дорога, но цель у нас одна – развивать и улучшать отечественный рынок. По коням, господа!

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Review of audiovisual content production and distribution in the CIS countries

Media Resources Management

We are happy to present you the June issue of the CIS Content Report where we tried to gather the most in-teresting up-to-date information about rapidly devel-oping content production and distribution markets of the CIS region. As far as most of the locally pro-duced series and TV movies are further distributed and broadcast mainly inside the CIS territories, we picked up the most interesting and original projects with those script-ideas that have international appeal and may further travel abroad to Europe, Asia or the North America both as readymade product or for-mats. Besides there are a lot of full-length features recently launched into production in Russia, Ukraine and other CIS states that for sure may have not only successful international distribution but also be the award winners and nomi-nees of different interna-tional film festivals. Despite large portion of information on the new movies, shows and series you’ll also find the detailed report on the recent distribution deals with the CIS-partners.

Just as we promised in our previous edition, we will con-tinue the research of the film studios of Russia. Moscow has proven to be the film production capital on the territory of the CIS coun-tries, but still those studios situated in St. Petersburg (Russia) also have the great history and contributed largely to the development of film industry.

From May 2011, Ukrainian distributor Inter-Film com-pany entered new distri-bution markets of the CIS countries. Since that time, Inter-film is represented on 11 territories. So you will find our exclusive interview with Dmitry Kirienko, Inter-Film CEO, who told about the progress made outside Ukraine and the distribution market features on the CIS territories.

And one more thing we’d like to remind you. Planning you business calendar for 2012 do not forget to book time to visit the major event for television and media professionals in the CIS region - KIEV MEDIA WEEK 2012, September 11-14, 2012. Organized by Media Resources Management company, this unique me-dia industry project, one and only of a kind in the CIS and Central and Eastern Europe is a one stop desti-nation for five international media trade events.

Please do not forget that we are here to be your local source of information and analytics.

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Russian film studios:

st. PeteRsbuRg and

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FOCUS

DMITRY KIRIENKO «The main barrier for

major box-office scheme implementation on the territory of CIS is the

inability of the cinemas to provide an accurate data on the number of tickets

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INTERVIEW

DEAR COLLEAGUES

PRoduction: (2)SerieS (2)

TV moVieS (7)

TV ShowS (8)

FeaTure FilmS (10)

distRibution (15)

cinema distRibution YeaR 2012 in ukRaine (21)

focus (22)

inteRview (25)

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PRODUCTION PRODUCTION PRODUCTION

Director: Igor Chetverikov.Script: Valentin Zaluzhny, Igor Chetverikov.Genre: detective.

Director: Igor Zaitsev.Script: Grigoriy Manukov.caSt: Evgeniy Tsyganov, Alexei Bardukov, Maria Kozhevnikova, Pavel Derevianko, Lisa Arza-masova, Maxim Konovalov, Dmitry Shcherbina, Andrey Merzlikin etc.Genre: action.

Director, Script: Vadim Soko-lovsky.Genre: war drama.

Director: Andrei Kavun.caSt: Igor Petrenko, Andrei Panin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Mikhail Boyarsky. Genre: detective.

A DANCE OF DEATH

This May Belarusfilm production company started shooting 4-episode detective series A Dance Of Death. Filming that takes place in Minsk will last till the beginning of this August.

Synopsis: Captivated story deals with the adventures of the dis-trict policeman Kachura who is always involved in thrilling crimi-nal cases that he successfully investigates. He has excellent de-tective skills, smart mind and sympathy for unfortunate people.

RED MOUNTAINS

At the beginning of June Russian production company Central Partnership started shooting 12-episode action drama Red Mountains. Filming takes place in Moscow and its region but this September the shooting process will move to Odessa and Crimea (Ukraine).

Synopsis: Vladivistok, 1920. Ilya is a boy grown up by Japan military officer, and Arkadiy is a son of the White Guard colonel. These two boys pass themselves off as brothers. But the des-tiny prepares not a carefree life for both of them. At first boys fall in love with Zhenya, a daughter of Red Army commander and later become enemies as Arkadiy joins a fascists party and helps German occupiers and Ilya fights with Germans despite being a prisoner of the concentration camp.

LIEUTENANT KRYLOVA

Russian production company Central Partnership started pre-production of the 8-episode war drama Lieutenant Krylova. Shooting will commence later this year.

Synopsis: The scene is set in Saint Petersburg, Russia during the World War I. The country is on the edge of revolution. In those terrible, troubled days a schoolgirl Nina Krylova falls in love with a noble military officer Sasha but makes a crazy and crucial choice – goes to Women’s Battalion of Death. After a month of training Nina and her friends are ready to leave to the battlefront and to die for the Motherland. Young women fight equally with men. The battalion under the command of Maria Bochkaryova win the battle however despite victory soldiers don’t respect female defenders and don’t believe in their potential. The last time Nina takes part in assault on the Winter Palace in 1917. There she meets Sasha again...

SHERLOCK HOLMES

In the middle of May Russian production company Central Partnership finished shooting 16-episode detective Sherlock Holmes. Filming commenced last September and took place in Saint-Petersburg and its region.

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CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP

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Synopsis: Viewers will follow new images of famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Dr. Watson. The plot is divided into 8 parts each segmented into 2 series. It will be a story compiled of several short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including love-stories, political detective stories, mystic thrillers and others. In the 8th part all of the storylines will unite in one presenting the end of a novel.

proDucerS: Armen Davityan, Victor Mirsky.Director: Sergey Korotayev. Script: Vasiliy Popov, Dmitriy Ly-senko, Evgeniy Gorislavets. caSt: Sergey Gazarov, Igor Botvin, Anatoliy Khostikoyev, Ivan Ogane-syan, Sergey Sosnovsky, Maksim Drozd, Evgeniy Efremov, Sergey Strelnikov etc.Genre: criminal drama.

proDucer: Victor Mirsky.Director: Alexandr Budyonniy.Script: Julia Opaterna, Alexandr Budyonniy.caSt: Vyacheslav Razbegaev, An-astasia Makeeva, Mikhail Zhigalov, Dmitry Surzhikov, Victor Saraykin, Oleg Primogenov, Antonina Ma-karchuk, Stanislav Shchekin, An-drei Pavlenko etc.Genre: detective.

proDucer: Victor Mirsky.Director: Vitaly Vorobyov.caSt: Mariya Poezhaeva, Yuriy Borisov, Andrey Kazakov, Yuliya Rytberg, Yuriy Nazarov.Genre: melodrama.

THE TRAP

On the 2nd of June shooting of a new 24-episode criminal drama The Trap started. The project is co-produced by Ukrainian prod-co FILM.UA and Russian Central Partnership. Filming takes place in Kiev and its region.

Synopsis: Hard 1990s for the former USSR countries have passed. But people who once had a taste of the big time, do not miss their chance even now. One of the most important crimi-nal leaders in southern Russia, Vyacheslav Lebedev, nicknamed “Artist”, retires on a well-deserved pension, leaving his empire to his loyal deputies ... It was the circumstance which made lead-ers of other groups to decide that it was time for the revising the spheres of influence. And without preventing the war, not only the city but the entire region will drown in blood.

WEREWOLF UNDER THE LEE

Late May Ukrainian prodco FILM.UA Production finished shooting a pilot of the detective drama Werewolf under the lee. Filming took place in Kiev.

Synopsis: Hard 1990s for former USSR countries have passed. But people who once had a taste of the big time, do not miss their chance even now. One of the most important criminal lead-ers in southern Russia, Vyacheslav Lebedev, nicknamed “Artist”, retires on a well-deserved pension, leaving his empire to his loyal deputies ... It was the circumstance which made leaders of other groups to decide that it was time for the revising the spheres of influence. And without preventing the war, not only the city but the entire region will drown in blood.

MOTHS

On the 14th of May Ukrainian prodco FILM.UA Production start-ed shooting 4-episode melodrama Moths. Filming took place in Kherson and currently is continuing in Kiev.

Synopsis: A love story of two teenagers, Alya and Pasha, which unfolds against the backdrop of one of the largest man-made catastrophes of the XX century - the Chernobyl disaster. They were destined to meet in late April, 1986, in the Pripyat town. Like moths which tend to the fire, they tended to each other with-out noticing anything around. This film is about love, and nothing but love. Everything else is just a background.

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FILM.UA PRODUCTION, CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP

FILM.UA PRODUCTION

FILM.UA PRODUCTION

Victor Mirsky

Ingeborga Dapkunaite

Vitaly Vorobyov

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proDucerS: Victor Budilov, Alexei Kozlov.DirectorS: Pavel Simonov, Alexei Kozlov.Script: Piotr Smirnov, Anton Zinchenko, Sergey Stepanov, Levan Galustov Nikolai Golikov.caSt: Elena Dudina, Ilya Alek-seev, Arina Lykova, Dmitry Kochkin, Julia Safonova, Rina Grishina.Genre: action.

Director: Henrich Baranovsky.caSt: Pavel Delong.Genre: drama.

proDucer: Valentin Opalev.Director: Alexei Kozlov.Script: Karine Foliyants.caSt: Anastasia Mikulchina, Vladimir Zherebtsov, Alexandr Korshunov, Valery Barinov, Mariya Zvonareva, etc.Genre: melodrama.

proDucer: Mayra Karsakbaeva.caSt: Valery Zadarnovsky, Aru-zhan Dzhazilbekova, Lane Davies.Genre: action.

COAST GUARD

Russian prodco Gamma Production finished shooting 16-epi-sode action series Coast guard. Filming took place in Tuapse region. The project is commissioned by Russian NTV channel.

Synopsis: Story tells about a young officer who arrives in a small provincial town to serve in the Coast Guard. Andrey Vasylkov has just graduated from Marine Institute. He is sure that the time for new achievements has come. But despite adventures, danger and powder young romanticist faces rou-tine duties…

LONELINESS ON THE NET

Polish film director Henrich Baranovsky starts preproduction of 4-episode drama Loneliness On The Net based on the novel by Yanush Vishnevsky. Note that in 2006 Henrich Baranovsky had already shot the feature drama based on the same novel. Series is commissioned by Russian CTC channel.

Synopsis: Love full of passion and sacrifice is born in the virtual reality. Find out what a friendship, betrayal and death really are. A story of two lost, lonely people. A woman has theoretically ev-erything - a good job, a husband and a house. The only missing thing is love. A man who loved once before, passionately and selflessly, is depressed by the death that took it all away from him. They meet by chance in an internet chat. They made friends and after some time they decide that can’t live without each other anymore… They fall in love and their lives got complicated again.

A BEAUTY

In the middle of May Russian production company Mostelefilm finished shooting 8-episode melodrama A Beauty. Filming be-gan this March and took place in Moscow. The project is com-missioned by Russian Channel First.

Synopsis: Anna Koroleva is the most beautiful young woman in the town. She got used to the fact that everybody values nothing but her attractive appearance. Even local criminal leader Zhukov

THE RESCUER

Late spring Kazakhstan TV channel started shooting 12-epi-sode action series The Rescuer. Filming takes place in Almaty and later will move to the USA. The series premiere is planned for this autumn.

Synopsis: Series is based on the real story about ordinary of-ficers of EMERCOM (Emergency Control Ministry) who risk their lives every day in order to save lives of others. A man who comes to the USA from Kazakhstan in terms of an internship pro-gramme helps the rescue the whole unit. His experience amaz-es, because he is a veteran of war in Iraq at the same time being an officer of emergency service – 911.

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GAMMA PRODUCTION

HENRICH BARANOVSKY PROJECT

MOSTELEFILM

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falls under her charms, but Anna is inaccessible. In revenge Zhukov wants to teach her a lesson. But when a criminal group tries to scare her a young man Andrei comes to the rescue. Unexpectedly for everybody Anna falls in love with her new ac-quaintance. But very soon it turns out that the woman is preg-nant. Two men try to find out who is the father of an unborn baby. Andrei doesn’t believe Anna, so she makes an abortion but her thoughtless behavior and prejudice will lead to rather unhappy consequences.

Director: Stanislav Titarenko.caSt: Yegor Beroev, Alexei Kom-ashko, Igor Botvin, Alexandra Flo-rinskaya, Vitaliy Kovalenko, Julia Kudoyar etc.Genre: detective.

proDucer: Ada Staviskaya.Director: Andrei Elinson.caSt: Sergei Peregudov, Vladimir Matveyev, Mikhail Tryasorukov, Dmitri Averin, Olga Pavlovets etc.Genre: detective.

proDucer: Sergei Sendyk.Director: Alexandr Muratov.Script: Marina Sasina.caSt: Alexandr Domogarov, Ekat-erina Olkina, Vladimir Eremin, Gennady Matveyev, Julia Rutberg, Ivan Shmakov, Alexandr Sergeev, Eugeniy Berezovsky etc.Genre: detective.

COWBOYS

Russian prodco Navigator in coproduction with Forward-Film started shooting detective series Cowboys. The project is com-missioned by Russian NTV channel.

Synopsis: Stas Kovalsky is a family man and Igor Boytsov is a lone wolf whose life consists only of his job. Their interests are completely different as well as their lifestyles. However it doesn’t influence their work at the department for this couple represents two best investigators in Saint Petersburg. Both of them are en-ergetic and intelligent professionals. Their colleagues call them “cowboys” compiling this word of the 1st syllables of their names. Cowboys tandem copes with the most mysterious and difficult cases of the department but suddenly Boytsov falls in love and it changed everything…

SPECIAL FORCE AGENT – 4

Russian prodco Panorama in coproduction with Forward-Film started shooting 16-episode detective Special force agent – 4. The project is commissioned by Russian NTV channel.

Synopsis: The plot of a spy series reveals the secret work of the special force agent who copes with the most difficult tasks. His duties presuppose perfect intuition and excellent detective skills. He has to protect the state. Is he James Bond? No. He is Ignat Barabanov who catches the most dangerous international criminals.

CURE FOR DEATH

Russian prodco Pyramid finished postproduction of 16-episode detective Cure for death. Shooting took place last summer and autumn in Moscow. The project is commissioned by Russia 1 TV channel.

Synopsis: Evgeniya Kolesnikova is a special correspondent of the newspaper Nonsense, who carries out journalistic investiga-tions. But once the topic of her new article binds with her love-story line…

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NAVIGATOR, FORWARD-FILM

PANORAMA, FORWARD-FILM

PYRAMID

Stanislav Titarenko

Ada Staviskaya

Valentin Opalev

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proDucerS: Yuri Sapronov, Andrei Smirnov.Script: Asya Karev, Alex Alexeev.Director: Sergei Bobrov.caSt: Olga Arntgolts, Konstantin Soloviev, Nikolai Ivanov, Natasha Shvets, etc.Genre: detective.

proDucerS: Yuriy Sapronov, Dmitriy Meskhiev, Andrey SmirnovDirector: Andrey JunkovskiyScript: Marina Shykhaleeva, Alla GusevacaSt: Tatiana Arntgoltz, Alexander Skotnikov, Sergey Peregusov, Al-exander Polovtsev.Genre: melodrama.

Director, Script: Sergei Zhigunov.Genre: action.

LEAVING TO FIND YOU-2

On the 16th of May Russian World Studios prodco started shooting the second season of 12-episode detective drama Leaving to find you. Shooting will last till the mid august 2012. Premiere is planned for this fall on the Russian Channel First.

Synopsis: Four years have gone since the events taking place in the 1st season. Two brothers Demyrovy still work at criminal investigation department. Rita’s father has gone to a business trip but hasn’t returned. Young woman tries to find her parent but finally comes to the department asking for help. This case turns out to be very complicate and mysterious so in order to speed up investigation Rita decides to return to the department and search for her father in her free time. However woman hides some facts of her life from Demyrov family, and the truth is that she has given birth to a child whose father is one of two brothers.

VICTORIA

At the beginning of June Russian production company Russian World Studios finished shooting 8-episode melodrama Victo-ria. Filming started last September and took place in Saint-Pe-tersburg and Crimea (Ukraine).

Synopsis: Main character of this story is a happy mother and wife, a young woman Victoria, whose husband serves in a distant military garrison. A frequent visitor to their family is a childhood friend Yuriy, who is long time desperately in love with Victoria. Yuriy refused to have his career in the capital in order to be near his beloved. Life in the country is far from being quiet. Victoria’s husband is made redundant and he leaves to serve as a contrac-tor. Victoria knows nothing about his job but for the fact that he serves on the border with a neighboring state Shakhristan. Later Victoria learns that her husband went missing in the mountains, yet in a year her son also disappears. Rumours say that he was taken to Shakhristan. Together with Yuriy she sets off in search of her family to the oriental country full of dangers and adventures. She is far from thinking that her missing husband might be in-volved in the kidnapping of her son...

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

Russian Sergei Zhigunov’s Producing Centre starts working on the 8-episode action series The three musketeers based on the novels by Alexander Dumas. Currently the projects is in preproduction (casting will last till the beginning of July). Shoot-ing will start this August.

Synopsis: Set in the 17th century, the story recounts the ad-ventures of a young man named d’Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. After entering Paris, he suffers misadventure and is chal-lenged to a duel by each of three musketeers (Athos, Aramis and Porthos). Attacked by the Cardinal’s guards, the four unite and escape. They become inseparable friends who live by the motto “all for one, one for all”…

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Yuriy Sapronov

Sergei Zhigunov

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proDucerS: Daria Lavrova, Vlad Riashyn.Director: Vyacheslav Lavrov.Script: Ekaterina Kostikova.caSt: Valentina Talyzina, Alla Zakharova, Alexei Sekirin, Sergey Koleshnya, Alena Levkovich, Alex-ey Rakhmanov, Ivan Egorov etc.Genre: mystical thriller.

proDucerS: Galina Balan-Timkina, Vlad Riashyn.Director: Vladimir Yanoschuk.Script: Alina Semeryakova.caSt: Valery Nikolaev, Alina Ser-geeva, Ilya Glinnikov, Stas Boklan, Maria Zvonareva, Ian Sobolev.Genre: melodrama.

proDucerS: Vitaliy Bordachov, Vlad Riashyn.Director: Rustam Urazayev.Script: Sergey Kuzminykh.StarrinG: Eduard Fliorov, Mikhail Pavlik, Oksana Guliayeva, Anasta-sia Makeyeva, Yelena Korovchuk, Anatoly Kot, Igor Filippo etc. Genre: police procedural.

SIGN OF THE TRUE PATH

In the middle of May Russian-Ukrainian prodco Star Media finished shooting and started postproduction of the 4-episode mystical thriller Sign of the true path. The project is commis-sioned by Russian Domashniy TV channel.

Synopsis: Private detective Makar is hired by Yevgenia Golts, owner of a chain of fashionable beauty salons, to find her miss-ing daughter Ellina after thirteen detectives had been unable to solve the case. The mysterious circumstances surrounding her daughter’s disappearance coupled with the complexity of the case immediately capture Makar’s interest, and he reopens the investigation despite the imminent threat to his life.

TEACHING GUITAR

This May Russian-Ukrainian prodco Star Media started shoot-ing 4-episode melodrama Teaching guitar. Filming takes place in Kiev. The project is commissioned by Russia 1 TV channel.

Synopsis: It’s a love story about musician Nikita and general’s daughter – Nina. Their relationship starts in the 1960’s. Their families and friends were against this love so finally couple de-cided to part. Nina marries a family friend who works as a dip-lomat. Nikita becomes a rich businessman. But despite all suc-cess both of them are unhappy. However after 10 years fate brings beloved together…

POLICE SPY

Early June Russian-Ukrainian prodco Star Mediа finished shooting 24-episode detective series Police Spy. Filming start-ed last Octoder and took place in Moscow. The project is com-missioned by Russian NTV channel.

Synopsis: Sr. Lt. Yuri Kozyrev who served in the front-line recon-naissance, was taken prisoner during the last days of the World War 2, and after the war was over he was sentenced to prison by Soviet authorities for that. His case was re-investigated, and in 1948 he is released from a GULAG camp, fully acquitted. He heads home to a small workers town near Moscow. He finds things changed there when he arrives: his father has been miss-ing during the war, his mother’s died, and his love Larissa’s got married to Volynsky, a well-to-do sales agent. Yuri finds a job of a guard at a storehouse. One day the storehouse Yuri is working at is attacked and robbed. The investigation makes Yuri prime suspect and he virtually becomes hunted for by the police…

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STAR MEDIA

STAR MEDIA

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Rustam Urazayev

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proDucer: Vyacheslav Murugov.Genre: sitcom.

proDucerS: Rostislav Maslovich, Lev Kapul.Genre: drama.

KITCHEN

Russian prodco Yellow, Black and White Group started pre-production of a new sitcom Kitchen. The project is commis-sioned by Russian CTC channel. Series premiere is planned for this fall.

Synopsis: the protagonist of the story is a culinary college grad-uate Maxim. His dream is to become a famous chief cook. So he leaves his town in order to get a job in a very popular Mos-cow restaurant owned by a show business star. However the res-taurant is divided between a chief cook and an art-director. The first one thinks that only cuisine is the primary conception of the restaurant activity, and the art-director insist on perfect service and atmosphere. Maxim knows what he is worth so the guy is always on the side of the chief cook. But lack of experience and excessive desire to assert himself lead to a chain of confusing situations…

THE JUDGE

Russian prodco Zanzibar Media (part of Yellow, Black & White Group) finished shooting a pilot of a new drama The Judge. Filming took place in Odessa (Ukraine). The project is commis-sioned by Russian CTC channel.

Synopsis: A leading character of the series is a young man of strict morals and principals who finds out that he was adopted by his deceased father and his biological parent is a criminal boss with a nickname Judge who controls the whole region. The pro-tagonist’s father is a member of another world which symbolizes all unacceptable to the main character. After their meeting the young man opens new horizons as he has no idea about criminal life…

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CAT FOR SALE

Russian production company Mediaprofsoyuz started work-ing on the TV drama Cat for Sale. This project is currently in preproduction, casting is under way. Shooting is planned for the second half of 2012.

Synopsis: Katerina is smart and ambitious. She always knows what she wants and is focused on her carrier. Once a charity girl Alina comes to her and asks if Katerina has a cat for sale. Of course she has not because the cat is only the matter for Alina to get acquainted with whom she supposes is her real mother. Katerina tries to find Alina’s parents but eventually she will un-derstand that she became attached to this girl and is not ready to leave her…

SAMURAI HONOR

Russian production studio Navigator in coproduction with Forward-Film prodco started shooting new TV detective Samurai honor. The project is commissioned by Russian NTV channel.

Synopsis: Captain Dymov is visited by his only daughter Polina. Being on service he used to communicate with the criminals and now he finds it very difficult to talk to her. Especially when Polina says that she wants to merry Yuriy who is linked to the criminal group of Alexandr Deryabin. The latter is the prime suspect in the double slaying. Dymov knows it very well as it is his own case under investigation. Suddenly someone kidnaps Polina and holds her to ransom. Dymov and Polina’s fiancé go to seek her…

TV Movies

TV Movies

proDucerS: Alexandr Kyshaev, Vladimir Ignatiev.Director: Ivan Krivoruchko.Script: Vladimir Ignatiev, Edina Umerova, Elena Rybakova.Genre: drama.

Director: Nadiezhda Yakusheva.caSt: Eugeniy Diatlov, Valeria Sukhacheva, Dmitry Lugovsky, Al-exandr Polovtsev, , Oleg Andreev-Rina Grishina etc.Genre: detective.

MEDIAPROFSOYUZ

NAVIGATOR

SOLSTICE

Early June Russian-Ukrainian group of companies Star Media started shooting TV romance Solstice. Filming takes place in Kyiv. The project is commissioned by Russian TV channel Domashny.

Synopsis: Mikhail with his wife Lena and daughter Dasha moves to Moscow from Yaroslavl. Soon he finds a job – in a daytime he works as the tutor in a rich family and in the night as a security in a small café. Once Mikhail and his family are invited to a guest night where he gets acquainted with a famo-ys opera singer – Masha. Being enchanted with her voice and later communication, Mikhail realizes that there is something bigger than just knowing each other. Mikhail and Masha start dating and the man becomes torn between his down-to-earth family and the high life…

TV Movies proDucerS: Galina Balan-Timkina, Vlad Riashyn.Director: Alexei Lisovets.Script: Elena Karavaeshnikova.caSt: Alexandr Kobzar, Olesya Zhurakovskaya Marina Kuklina, Mikhail Zhigalov, Dmitry Surzhikov, Anna Rasstalnaya ets.Genre: romance.

STAR MEDIA


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INTER

К1

LEAN-M

MUZ-TV

TV Shows

TV Shows

TV Shows

TV Shows

Director: Alan Badoev.Format: Red or Black.

Director: Alan Badoev.

Format: Plain Jane

proDucerS: Andrei Dimitrov, Olga Akimtseva.HoSt: Ksenia Sobchak.Format: America’s Next Top Model.

RED OR BLACK

Early June Ukrainian TV channel Inter announced casting for a new game show Red or Black based on the British company ITV Studios Global Entertainment format. The show will pre-miere this autumn.

Over the course of a week, seven people will face a life-defining moment as they are offered the chance to walk away with one million hryvnias. To win, all they need is luck on their side and to successfully choose the correct outcome, Red or Black? Guess wrong and they walk away with nothing.

SHOPPING MONSTERS

Ukrainian TV channel К1 announced casting for a new show Shopping monsters. Ukrainian prodco Studio Pilot is respon-sible for the project production. The show will premiere this Au-gust.

Every week for participating girls will compete in their shopping skills. Each one of them will receive UAH 3000 (€300) to buy for a certain period of time clothes, shoes and accessories to create a completely new style. Participants’ efforts will be esti-mated by both their competitors and professional stylists. The winner will get UAH 5000 prize.

PLAIN JANE

Russian production-studio Lean-M channel announced cast-ing for the reality show Plain Jane based on the American com-pany Sony Pictures Television format. The project is commis-sioned by Russian CTC channel and will premiere this fall. Note that Ukrainian adaptation of this format aired on TET channel last autumn. Note that two seasons of Ukrainian adaptation of this format already aired on TET channel: the first - last autumn, and the second - in spring 2012.

Each week a fashion expert, acting like a “fairy godmother,” takes one Jane and transforms her from inside and out with confidence building challenges and a head to toe makeover. It all culminates when she reveals her secret crush to the man of her dreams on a romantic date.

RUSSIA’S NEXT TOP MODEL - 4

In the middle of June Russian Muz-TV channel announced casting for the forth season of reality show Russia’s Next Top Model based on the America’s Next Top Model format of CBS Television Distribution company. Casting is taking place in 10 Russian cities and will be wrapped up in the middle of July. The show will premiere this autumn.

According to format show has from 9–13 episodes and starts with 10–14 contestants. Each episode usually begins with the contestants receiving training in an area concurrent with the week’s theme. Each episode one contestant is eliminated, though in rare cases a double elimination or no elimination was given by consensus of the judging panel. Makeovers are administered to contestants early in the season (usually after the first or second elimination in the finals), and a trip to an

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STB

STB

ТNТ

TV Shows

TV Shows

TV Shows

Format: Master Chef.

HoSt: Olesya Zhurakovskaya.coacHeS: Anita Lutsenko, Igor Obukhovskiy.Format: The Biggest Loser.

Format: The Bachelor.

MASTER CHEF 2

Ukrainian STB TV channel is launching into production the sec-ond season of a culinary reality show Master Chef, based on the British company Shine International format. Currently cast-ing is under way.

In this culinary reality show participate people without profes-sional culinary training, who want to demonstrate their culinary abilities to the nation. The main goal of the programme is to choose only 30 deserving amateur chefs from thousands of contestants, who will then, during a period of several weeks, compete to earn the name of the best chef in Ukraine. The par-ticipants will pass the casting by pleasing the professional chef judges’ taste buds with their dishes. The weakest contestants must permanently leave the project. At the end of the show, there must be one person left who will receive a prize of 500,000 hrivnas and a free education in Paris at Le Cordon Bleu.

THE BIGGEST LOSER

Ukrainian STB TV channel started shooting the second season of a makeover reality show The Biggest Loser based on the British company Reveille format. The show will premiere this autumn.

Overweight contestants of the show compete to win a money prize of 25,000 hrivnas. Contestants are housed on a ranch that offers plenty of space and exercise equipment. Thet are grouped into 2 teams, and each team is assigned a trainer. The team that has lost the least during that week must vote off one member of the team. When the number of contestants has shrunk to a smaller number, the teams are dissolved, and con-testants compete against each other, with the two people who have lost the least percentage of weight being the ones who can be voted on for elimination.

THE BACHELOR

Russian TV channel ТNТ announced casting for the reality show The Bachelor based on the American format from Warner Bros. and Next Entertainment. Casting will last till July. Show shooting will be held in September – December 2012. Note that Ukrainian STB channel is currently preparing the third season of the format local version (casting is under way).

The series revolves around a single bachelor (deemed eligible) and a pool of romantic interests, which could include a potential wife for the bachelor. The process culminates with hometown visits to the families of the final four women, overnight dates at exotic locations with the final three women, and interaction with the bachelor’s family and the final two women. In many cases, the bachelor proposes to his final selection.

international destination is scheduled at about two-thirds of the way through the season (usually with five or six contestants re-maining). In some versions of the show, like in the Russian one, the winner is determined during a live broadcast.

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AZERBAIJANFILM

ELDAR GULIEV FILM

CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP

GENNADIY KOSTYLEV FILM

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

DON’T DIE UNTIL REVENGE IS TAKEN

Early June Azerbaijanfilm n.a. J.Jabbarly film studio wrapped up shooting of the historical feature drama Don’t Die Until Revenge is Taken. Filming started in autumn 2011 and took place in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Germany.

Synopsis: Story details are still undisclosed. It is known only that the film is about German colonists, moved to Azerbaijan in the beginning of XIX century.

DERVISH NOTES (DƏRVIŞIN QEYDLƏRI)

Early June Azerbaijan film director Eldar Guliev started shoot-ing the feature thrilling detective Dervish notes (Dərvişin qeydləri). Shooting takes place in Azerbaijanfilm studio in Baku, in Salyan natural reserve in Shaki and in specially built fortress scale model in Pershyukul. Film is commissioned by the state Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Synopsis: Viewer is sent into the past, an epoch without the cell phones, autos and electricity. The main character is a dervish – an arrant Muslim pauper who wards off evil spirits. The main condition – anything he has, he must share with others. Other details are still undisclosed. It is known only that there will be some shots from our modern life in the end of the film…

DARK WORLD: EQUILIBRIUM

Russian film company Central Partnership started working on the fantasy feature Dark World: Equilibrium. Shooting is currently taking place in Moscow and will be completed this October. Film premiere is set for autumn 2013. Producers also plan to make a 12-part TV series version later.

Synopsis: We are not alone in this world. There are two sides of it – the Light and the Dark one. The latter is the home to the hungry frozen Shadows who come out from the Dark time to time. They used to feed on our vitality, love and happiness and their power is getting stronger and stronger. Soon the balance will be disrupted. A team of mystics tries to hold it but they will eventually fail where the real love is needed…

STRANGE LIFE

In the end of May Russian filmmaker and scriptwriter Gen-nadiy Kostylev started shooting his second feature film – comedy action Strange Life. Shooting takes place in Angarsk and Irkutsk. The project production budget is $100 000. Film is set to premiere at the end of 2012.

Synopsis: Unflagging interest in other people problems is the best way to find the real self. All our life we are masquerading, impersonating and finally forget who we really are…

Director: Oktay Mirkasimov.caSt: Ramiz Azizbeyli, Ayan Mir-kasimova, Fizuli Huseynov etc.Genre: historical drama.

Director: Eldar Guliev.Genre: detective.

Director: Oleg Asadulin.caSt: Mariya Pirogova, Pavel Priluchny, Makar Zaporozhskiy, Valeriya Lanskaya, Alexandr Ratnikov, Vladislav Abashin, Petr Semak etc.Genre: fantasy.

Director: Gennadiy Kostylev.Genre: comedy action.

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INGENERAL PICTURES

M. PRODUCTION

NAZIM ZOHRABOV FILM

KAZAKHFILM

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

WAKE UP WITH ME

Russian production company InGeneral Pictures starts work-ing on the feature romantic comedy Wake up with me. This project is currently in preproduction. Its production budget is $2M.

Synopsis: Film heroine is an ordinary girl who gets the chance to get over with the love disappointment but in a rather unordi-nary way. She has to live some time with all her ex’s, one by an-other. With each dawn following her birthday she finds herself in a bed with someone she once thought to be her soulmate. Just as in the time machine she will once again live through her old relations and passions, but after the series of mystical and fairy-tale events she will finally understand whom she really loves and that the reason of her dissatisfaction is linked to the need of change something inside her not the others instead.

THE IDEAL MAN

Russian prodco M. Production started working on the fea-ture romantic comedy The Ideal Man. This project is currently in preproduction. The project production budget is $1.5M. Shooting will start this summer.

Synopsis: It is a fresh perspective on the mythological history of Pygmalion, sculptor who fell in love with his own statue. After an-other vagary of her boss Valery decides to give her a good lesson – she creates a social network profile of the ideal man putting there the photo of Nikolai, rather handsome and charming but yokelish old truck driver with whom Valery got involved in a car accident. Af-ter some love letters bewinged boss flies to known to be false date, but having not met the ideal one face to face she goes in the state of melancholy. Working climate is getting worse and Valery tries to find the real Nikolai and make him the all women dream...

COSSACK FABLES

Azerbaijani film director and producer Nazim Zohrabov started working on the film Cossack fables based upon An-drey Belyanin’s book of the same name. Project is currently in preproduction, first casting calls for supporting roles and the crowd went out this May in Astrakhan.

Synopsis: Film consists of a many novels where main charac-ters are not only humans but also animals, supernatural being and even supernatural powers.

THE LEAVES MURMUR

Kazakhfilm n.a. Sh. Aymanov film studio has а new feature drama in a preproduction. It is the Serik Aprymov’s film with a tentative title The Leaves Murmur. Casting which started on the 7th of June 7 is under way. Shooting is planned for the sec-ond half of 2012.

Synopsis: Young sound engineer comes to aul, mounting vil-lage, to record the sounds for a film. What will he hear? What sounds and noises should he expect from this faraway civili-zation without lack of money and being constantly in a hurry? Maybe there he will find out his real self?

proDucerS: Ekaterina Gordets-kaya, Andrei Radko.Director: David Dodson.Script: Mariya Ozerenko, Daria Kalacheva.Genre: romantic comedy.

proDucer: Anna Eybozhenko.Director: Jaroslav Chevazhevsky.caSt: Sergei Puskepalis, Karina Andolenko.Genre: romantic comedy.

proDucer: Eugeniy Avdiyenko.Director: Nazim Zohrabov.caSt: Dmitry Pevtsov, Igor Kasi-lov, Khalil Musaev.Genre: fairy tale.

proDucer, Director, Script: Serik Aprymov.Genre: drama.

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NOVYE LYUDI

RAKURS


FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

GOOD KIDS COUNTRY

Russian film company Novye Lyudi (aka New People) started shooting the children’s feature Good Kids Country. Film is supported by the V krugu semji national programme and Ros-tekhnologii public corporation. The project production budget is $3M. Film, which will be in 3D, is set to premiere in winter 2013.

Synopsis: The lead character Sasha is a very bratty kid. She is not a wicked one, it’s quite the other way around – she is kind and always on her toes, but her disobedience drives the whole family into despair. Once her grandmother makes a wish that Sasha to change into a good girl, and a wish comes true but in a completely unexpected way. Bratty Sasha goes to the Good Kids Country for reeducation and a good specially taught one comes in her stead. New girl is always washing her hands, eat-ing on time and sleeping securely but is it that good?

TOMORROW I GO TO SCHOOL

Russian production studio Rakurs started shooting new chil-dren’s musical comedy Tomorrow I go to school. The pro-ject is produced with the financial support from the Ministry for culture. Shooting in Moscow is under way. Film premiere is set for 2013.

Synopsis: Pupishon is a curious young alien, who disobeyed his mother and suddenly came here on Earth. But it is not a sci-fi film. It happened so that the first people he saw using his spyglass were human children – Nastya and Knish. Pupishon wanted to find them and get acquainted but it is already 31st August and tomorrow Nastya and Knish have to go to school. Still, school is not a problem for Pupishon…

SEROVA STREET

Early June Russian film company Russian World Studios started shooting the new family feature with the tentative title Serova Street. Filming is currently taking place in St. Peters-burg. It will be wrapped up until mid-July.

Synopsis: This is a story about childhood friendship and grow-ing up, which takes place in Moscow in 1953. 12-year girl Tanya lives in a house on Serova Proyezd. She decides not to move to summer camp this year but to stay at home instead. Mitya’s family comes back from Magadan exile. He tells Tanya that there in Magadan they had left a dog named Hector. So children try to get him to Moscow and it happens so that they find out the deep-rooted Mitya’s family secrets along...

proDucer: Natalia Mokritskaya.Director: Olga Kaptur.Script: Anna Starobinets.caSt: Dasha Andreeva, Irina Pegova, Timothy Tribuntsov, Vladimir Grammatikov, Natalya Selezneva.Genre: children’s film.

proDucer: Vitaly Sidorenko.Director: Anna Artamonova.Script: Valery Kozlov.caSt: Sophia Mickiewicz, Alexan-dr Biryukov, Daniil Filenko, Ivan Shalyakin, Ekaterina Kopanova.Genre: drama.

proDucer: Yuri Sapronov.Director: Anna Chernakova.Script: Alexandr Adabashyan.caSt: Alexandr Adabashyan, Ekaterina Raikina, Glafira Tarkha-nova, Maria Ignatova, Natalya Tkachenko, Igor Gordin etc.Genre: family film.

STELLA

FEATURE FILMS THE NOT-SO-PLAIN STORY

Russian production studio Stella started working on the fea-ture drama The Not-so-plain Story. This project is currently in preproduction, casting is under way. The project production budget is $1.9M.

Synopsis: The story of relationship between an orphan of 14 years and a 45-years old man. A boy saved his life and a man in his turn helps him to find the meaning of life. Both stand at the parting and try to find the way out of crisis…

proDucer, Director: Fyodor Popov.Script: Anatoly Shatskikh.Genre: drama.

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VALERIYA GAI GERMANIKA FILM

YANA KONOFALSKAYA FILM

TRIKITA ENTERTAINMENT, LUMIQ STUDIOS,

BAVARIA FILM PARTNERS

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

FEATURE FILMS

YES AND YES

Early June Russian film director Valeriya Gai Germanika started shooting her new feature film with a tentative title Yes and Yes. Project estimated production budget is $200.000: funds were received from several entrepreneurs interested in film production investments. 22-days shooting currently takes place in Moscow.

Synopsis: Film is about modern artists’ life. It must be men-tioned that there will be cameos of several well-known Russian painters as Alexandr Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubosarskyi.

TALLINN-MOSCOW

Russian director Yana Konofalskaya started working on her new feature drama Tallinn-Moscow. It is supposed that the project will be a coproduction with Estonia and Finland. Shoot-ing is planned for spring-summer 2013 and will take place in all of the three countries. The project is currently in preproduc-tion, casting for male and female supporting roles is under way.

Synopsis: Story centers on 20-years old girl Piret. She lives in Estonia on the verge of its 20th Anniversary of Restoration cel-ebration. Piret is European and no one would be surprised to see her going abroad – to the West. However, being talented violinist she suddenly moves to Moscow to study at the acad-emy of music. Next half a year Piret’s life will be a journey into the three countries (Estonia, Russia, Finland). She’ll face a choice between two men, two perspectives and the will to turn her childish dream into reality to the violin accompaniment.

AMPHIBIAN MAN

Russian prodco Trikita Entertainment in coproduction with Italian Lumiq Studios and German Bavaria Film Partners started working on the feature science fiction drama Amphib-ian Man based upon Alexander Beliaev’s novel of the same name. The film will be in English. Shooting will take place in Malta, Italy and Germany in the end of 2012. The film produc-tion budget is $8M.

Synopsis: A boy named Ichtyandr was surgically altered by doctor Salvator to survive under the sea. Now he is able to live under water, but must keep his secret from the rest. The con-flict arises from his falling in love with a pearl-fisher’s beautiful daughter Guttiere. His secret is discovered and the girl’s stern father tries to exploit Ichtyandr for his ability…

proDucerS: Maxim Korolev, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Dmitry Ru-dovsky.Director: Valeriya Gai Ger-manika.Genre: arthouse drama.

Director: Yana Konofalskaya.Genre: melodrama.

proDucer: Yuri Krestinsky.Script: Sergei Bodrov.Genre: drama.

Sergei Bodrov

Valeriya Gai Germanika

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DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION

DISTRIBUTION

CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP

Russian company Central Partnership specialized in production of feature films and TV series as well as theatrical and TV distribution acquired Russian TV rights for 40 projects from the catalog of Dream Works Animation Studio. The deal concerns animated pictures Madagascar (2005), Shrek (2001), Kung Fu Panda (2008) and others.

CINEMA PRESTIGE

Russian distribution company Cinema Prestige acquired the CIS rights for the films Calm at Sea (La mer à l`aube, Germany, France, 2011), Barbara (Germany, 2012), Reality (France, Italy, 2012).

Calm at Sea. On the 20th of October 1941, three young communists shoot the German commander Hotz in the French port of Nantes. As a reprisal and deterrent, a furious Hitler orders the execution of a hun-dred prisoners, mostly communists and resisters. Among them, the 17 year old Guy Môquet, the son of a communist member of Parlia-ment. This real story, focusing on Môquet and his friends in the de-tainee camp, shows the conflicting interests between the German high commander Von Stülpnagel and his entourage in France, Berlin, and the puppet regime of Vichy.

Barbara. After being banished from Berlin for trying to obtain a travel visa, Barbara finds herself isolated in a gloomy Northern town where she works at the local medical clinic. Subject to constant supervi-sion and searches by a menacing GDR officer and unable to take so much as an evening stroll without looking over her shoulder, she quickly searches for a way to leave the Eastern bloc once and for all. But her yearnings are gradually transformed as she grows closer to the clinic’s head doctor, Andre, a gentle loner who’s forced to keep tabs on Barbara and whose intentions are never quite clear, though they appear to be good-natured. Their bond is further enhanced by a love of the profession that has them working overtime to care for two troubled patients: a rebellious teenage runaway, Stella, and a young man who attempted suicide.

Reality. Luciano is a Neapolitan fishmonger who supplements his modest income by pulling off little scams together with his wife Maria. A likeable, entertaining guy, Luciano never misses an opportunity to perform for his customers and countless relatives. One day his family urge him to try out for Big Brother. In chasing this dream his percep-tion of reality begins to change.

EURONEWS

International news television channel Euronews provided its Russian shareholder All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) with a free opportunity to use

Euronews’ programs Right On and Generation Y for broadcasting on VGTRK channels as well as producing their own programs and placing on the company websites.

Director anD Script: Volker Schlöndorff.caSt: Léo-Paul Salmain, Marc Barbé, Arielle Dombasle, Dominique Engelhardt, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Ulrich Mat-thes, Thomas Arnold.Genre: history, drama, war.

Director: Christian Petzold.Script: Christian Petzold, Ha-run Farocki.caSt: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zeh-rfeld, Rainer Bock, Jasna Frit-zi Bauer, Jannik Schumann, Christina Hecke, Claudia Geisler.Genre: drama.

Director: Matteo Garrone.caSt: Aniello Arena, Lore-dana Simioli, Nando Paone, Nello Iorio, Nunzia Schiano, Raffaele Ferrante.Genre: comedy, drama.

Genre: informational, educa-tional.

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Right On meets citizens across Europe who are fighting for their rights. The spotlight falls on a range of subjects, from the respect of basic freedoms to the protection of consumers, with experts also providing valuable insights. The program is aired twice a month with the support of European Commission Directorate General of Justice, Freedom and Security.

Generation Y is dedicated to exploring the prospects, innovative ideas and new possibilities that young people can have in a world that is in constant flux, in which creativity, confidence and mobility can be key to helping youth tread a successful path.

FILMS BOUTIQUE

Berlin-based international sales company Films Boutique special-ized in distribution of feature films has acquired international distri-bution rights for drama Dom – A Russian Family (Russia, 2011) produced by Russian companies CTB and Central Partnership. The feature tells a story of the Shamanovs family. In a large house in the middle of the steppes, the Shamanovs meet for a family gather-ing. When suddenly the eldest brother Victor appears after a 25 year absence, unspoken family conflicts come to light. Nobody suspects that Victor is escaping his dark past and that killers are looking for his hiding place.

FILM.UA DISTRIBUTION

Ukrainian company FILM.UA Distribution sold TV rights for some FILM.UA projects to The National State TV and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus. The deal concerns soap opera Hello, mother! (Zdrastvuj, mama!, Ukraine, 2011) (co-production FILM.UA and IS-TIL STUDIOS) and docudrama Mystic Stories (Mistichiskie istorii, Ukraine, 2012). Israeli Channel 9 has acquired TV dramas My New Life (Moya novaya zhizn, Ukraine, 2012), Waiting list (List ozhida-nia, Ukraine, Russia, 2012) (co-production FILM.UA and Shpil), In for a win (Schastlivy bilet, Ukraine, Russia, 2012) (co-production FILM.UA and ISTIL STUDIOS).

Hello, mother! The main character, Anna Nazarova, comes to Ukraine to her daughter’s wedding after six years spent in Italy. All these years she was sending money to her family. A surprise was made for Anna, when she saw her pregnant daughter Vika at the air-port. At the wedding she understands that nobody was waiting for her. Her husband Yura has another woman. Anna’s children Natalja and Nikolaj quitted the university and wasted money sent by their mother, and Vika invited her mother aiming to get a new apartment as a wedding present. Anna feels herself lost and unwanted in her «old new» life. She decides to return back to work in Italy. She moves to the village and waits for her documents to be processed. Anna plunges into unusual life with new meetings and relationships, which demands lot of strength and patience. But family problems don’t dis-appear that easy.

Mystic Stories. Each episode consists of two stories. All the stories base on real events reconstructed by shooting team and amateur actors. The stories are delivered in their original form, presented by direct participants of events or by psychics, who worked with them. Sometimes they may seem extremely dreadful or weird, or even fun-ny. However, that is life.

Genre: informational, educa-tional.

proDucer: Sergey Selyanov.Director anD Script: Oleg Pogo-din.caSt: Bogdan Stupka, Sergey Garmash, Vladimir Epifancev, Ekaterina Rednikova.Genre: drama.

DirectorS: Jaroslav Lastovetskij, Galina Kuvivchak-Sahno, Olga Orehova, Oleg Filipenko.caSt: Stella Ilnitski, Vladimir Vinogradov, Sergei Shnirev, Elena Muravjova, Alexander Popov, Zoja Baranovskaja, Konstantin Koreckij, Ekaterina Kisten, Elizaveta Kurbanma-gomedova, Oleg Primogenov, Olesja Zhurakovskaja, Rimma Zjubina, Anna Kuzina, Jana Gluschenko. number oF epiSoDeS: 60.Genre: melodrama.

Duration: 44 min.

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The project involves various experts (psychologists, psychics, bioen-ergy specialists, doctors and even witches), who analyze events and comment on them. All the participants and experts have their own vi-sions of given events. The viewers are to conclude who is right and whether the stories base on some mystic things, or result from mere autosuggestion

In for a Win. The story began in the late 1980s, in a difficult time of perestroika. Three friends Peter, Tolya and Ilya were in love with the beautiful Elena. Each of them was ready to fight for her heart, but changes in the country, ruined their plans. Peter went abroad to be-come a writer. Tolya is concerned about his own career as a surgeon. Only Ilya is close to the Lena, as she is all alone with a dying child. Ilya wants to help the son of his beloved woman ... and decides to sell his kidney. At that time it seemed to be the only way out. Returning to the story twenty years later, we see how life of the ex-friends changed.

Waiting List. Every day someone dies and every time there is a choice, whether the death of one person could be a life-hope to another… For the doctors of transplant clinic every day is the battle for someone’s life, and their private worries could be a death sentence for an oper-ated patient, their high-skilled movements are ultimate and there is no room for private emotions. The bureaucracy and permanent sus-picion of law enforcements, personal dramas and excitement, doubts and fears have to stay outside the operating room, so that the doctors could catch the chance to save another life.

My New Life. Melodramatic story about how the world of 40-years old Slava ruins in a moment: her husband leaves her for young mistress, her daughter says Slava is guilty of ruining her private life and Slava’s best friend confesses in betrayal. Last 15 years Slava was busy with making her home cozy and the life of her closest people comfortable, believing they would be grateful to her. But now it seems like her family and friends see nothing to be proud of in Slava’s personality or things she’d done. Slava is in despair, but all of a sudden a man appears in her life. He would help Slava to start a new life, he would give her love and become the dearest man in the whole world.

GALA MEDIA AND FILM INTERNATIONAL

Russian company Gala Media and Film International specialized in TV distribution of feature films on the CIS territories added new proj-ects to its catalog. Among them are comedy in pre-production Agent: Century 21 (USA, 2013) and horror The Quite Ones (USA, 2013).

proDucer: Anatoly Chizhikov, Natalia Chizhikova, Sergei Ku-likov, Victor Mirsky.Director: Vitaly Moskalenko.caSt: Anna Miklosh, Alexei Fat-eyev, Denis Matrosov, Sergey Astakhov, Anton Feoktisov, Natalia Vasko, Konstantin Kore-tsky, Oleg Maslennikov, Dmitry Surzhiokov, Ada Rogovtseva. number oF epiSoDeS: 8.Genre: melodrama.

proDucer: Maksim Ukhanov, Victor Mirsky.Director: Andrey Chernykh.Script: Alla KrynitsynacaSt: Nikita Salopin, Mariya Ani-kanova, Daria Volga, Daniil Spi-vakovsky, Ivan Oganesian, Fedor Chernykh, Irma Vitovsky, Lesia Samaeva, Igor Savochkin, Rodion Galyuchenko, Alex Shemes, Olga Filippova, Roman Ageev. number oF epiSoDeS: 12.Genre: melodrama, drama.

proDucer: Victor Mirsky.Director: Oksana Bayrak.Script: Oksana Bayrak, Tatyana Skubayshevskaya.caSt: Larisa Shakhvorostova, Andrey Bilanov, Dmitry Miller, Re-gina Miller, Lyubava Greshnova, Igor Shvydchenko, Maria Valesh-naya, Vladimir Goryansky. number oF epiSoDeS: 4.Genre: melodrama.

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Agent: Century 21. Recent divorcee Mary Kay desperate to protect the two most important things in her life, her kids and her real estate agent job, agrees to take on an unpleasant task for her boss that ac-cidentally gets her kidnapped and tossed into the center of a Mexi-can drug war. Armed with little more than her maternal instincts and a streak of pure dumb luck, Mary Kay must overcome incredible odds and outsmart the FBI, various underground crime lords and an inter-national terrorist organization to come back home.

The Quite Ones. The story is inspired by true events. An unorthodox, but charismatic professor who uses controversial methods and leads his best students off the grid to take part in a dangerous experiment: to create a poltergeist from negative human energy. Carrying out their tests scientists awoke the demonic forces they have to fight with.

ICTV

Ukrainian TV channel ICTV acquired from British distributing company FremantleMedia the rights for local adaptation of reality competition show Recipe to Riches. The show, created by Temple Street Produc-tions was premiered in Canada on Food Network in 2011. Fremantle Media announced the acquisition of the format in February 2012.

Recipe to Riches starts with a cross-country search where a panel of food experts choose finalists in a new food category each week. The top three finalists in each category fight for their recipes to be chosen as the category winner and awarded the weekly cash prize. The win-ning products are then immediately made available in grocery stores nationwide, allowing viewers to taste the products before they cast their vote to decide the ultimate Recipe to Riches champion.

INTER

Ukrainian TV channel Inter signed a license deal with British distribu-tor FremantleMedia for local adaptation of the format Don’t Stop Me Now originally created by Magnum Media for Sky 1 in the UK.

Don’t Stop Me Now is a contest where ejecting the bad acts is as much fun as discovering genuine talent. Stand-up comics, singers and va-riety performers all try their hand at impressing the audience, who act as judge and jury. If the acts aren’t as good as they think they are, they will be literally ejected from the show and face a surprise exit via trap doors, smashing through walls and exploding stages! Every member of the studio audience has a voting keypad and the moment more than half of them have had enough, it’s all over for the performer. Those who make it through will line up for the final judgement, and the last act standing walks away with the prize money.

INTER, К1

Ukrainian company U.A. Inter Media Group has picked up rights to Spanish mystery drama series El Internado for broadcasting on TV channel K1 that belongs to Inter TV Group. The deal was signed with Spanish distributor Imagina International Sales. Original se-ries produced by Globomedia debuted on Spanish Antena 3 in 2007. Since then seven seasons of the show were aired. The format has been adapted in Russia A Media for CTC channel under the local title Zak-rytaya Shkola (Private School). Its second season aired in Ukraine on TET in 2011. A French version aired in 2009 (on M6 entitled L'Internat). It was also optioned by US network CBS.

Director: Adam Hashemi.Script: Greg Brooker.caSt: Cameron Diaz, Benicio Del Toro.Genre: comedy.

Director: John Pogue.caSt: Sam Claflin, Jared Har-ris.Genre: horror.

Format: Recipe to Riches.

Format: Don’t Stop Me Now.

DirectorS: Jesús Rodrigo, Alex-andra Graf, Marco A. Castillo, Miguel Alcantud.caSt: Marta Torné, Martín Rivas, Raúl Fernández, Yon González, Elena Furiase, Daniel Retuerta, Carlota García, Denisse Peña, Amparo Baró, Natalia Millán.Genre: mystery drama, thriller.

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El Internado tells about a boarding school called Laguna Negra. It’s a place where students and teachers live together. The Laguna Negra is an isolated place with many secrets and frightening stories behind its walls. Seven students are trying to discover the truth of all the Laguna Negra’s past finding films, things to prove their hypothesis about their teachers, secret halls.

ROSTELECOM

Russian telecommunications operator Rostelecom signed a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment concerning the Russian VOD-rights for the films of Twentieth Century Fox. As a result, the subscribers of Rostelecom VOD services have an opportunity to watch new films produced by one of the major studios in SD as well as HD quality. Among them are the most recent projects InTime, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The access would be given since the date of release on Bluray and DVD. More-over, many films from the catalog of Twentieth Century Fox Home En-tertainment including the most popular franchises such as X-Men, Die Hard, Ice Age, Night at the Museum and others are already available for subscribers. Rostelecom also has license agreements with Universal Studios, Warner Bros., Disney and Sony Pictures.

SONY PICTURES TELEVISION

International distribution and production company Sony Pictures Television (SPT) affiliated to Sony Pictures Entertainment is launch-ing international sails of the scripted series format The Eighties de-veloped specifically for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It is based on the Russian TV series originally developed and produced by SPT Productions Russia and production company Lean-M for the CTC network. In Russia The Eighties was premiered on CTC channel in January 2012. Ukrainian premiere took place on channel 1+1 in April, 5. The new format will be presented at NATPE Budapest taking place in the capital of Hungary on June, 26-28.

The Eighties, set in Moscow in 1986, follows a group of college stu-dents coming into adulthood, just as the Soviet Union itself faced dra-matic and sweeping changes. Freedom was most definitely in the air! For the first time, the youth of the nation could look to the West as a benchmark for the future. Eighteen year old Vanya and his friends tasted opportunity where once there was only restriction - and as the country grew up around them, so too did their hopes and dreams that life has more to offer than a factory job and endless evenings listening to forbidden songs in secret. Life, it seems, is full of love, of heart-break, of friends and adventures that echo through time.

STB

Ukrainian TV channel STB signed a license agreement with British formatdeveloper ITV Studios Global for production of the Ukrainian versions of the show based on format Come Date With. The format was also sold to Viasat Broadcasting (Sweden and Latvia) as well as W Network (Canada). Originally commissioned by Channel 4 in the UK, Come Date With Me was the highest rated program in its slot for three months among adults 16-34 years old and exceeded the chan-nel average by 44%.

Come Date With Me combines the features of the cooking and the dating shows. Men must compete against each other to win the heart of a woman who’s looking for a date – or vice versa – but instead of

Format: The Eighties.

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being in the sterile environment of a studio, they do the wooing in their own homes. The would-be dates’ lives are laid bare as they put their homes and their cooking prowess to the test, with their rivals on hand to pour scorn on their efforts.

STUDIO U7

Russian distribution company Studio U7 acquired the CIS territo-ries TV rights for the series The Secret World of Gardens (Canada, 2009). Using macro lenses and time-lapse photography, the authors explore the extraordinary secret life concealed in a common garden. Stunning cinemtaography guided by a team of scientific advisors re-veals the ecology of chipmunks, sap suckers, weevils and leafhop-pers. From defense strategies against predators to the exotic mating rituals of blossoms, this series allows to witness the cycles of life and interactions within the ecosystem throughout the year in a backyard garden.

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2012 Ukrainian Theatrical Distribution Market OverviewTotally 139 movies were released in the first six months of the cinema distribution year (December 1, 2011 – May 27, 2012) in Ukraine. It is necessary to mention that TOP-20 released films gathered in the Ukrainian cinemas over $35.4 million (at the same time the gross box-office of all the movies screened in the 1st cinema distribution half a year totaled approximately $50.5 million). Comparing to the same period of the last year total Ukrainian box-office increased for more than $10 million. At the same time the number of releases which gathered in the cinemas more than $2 million during this 6 months totaled to 9 projects. 6 out of TOP-20 releases in Ukraine are Russian produced projects. John Carter with $2.84 million remains the most successful release in Ukraine in 2012 so far.

CINEMA RELEASES OVERVIEW CINEMA RELEASES OVERVIEW

№ Title Distributor Release date

Premier Weekend

Box-office, $

Total Box-office

01.12.2011 – 15.04.2012 , $

Tickets sold

1 John Carter B&H 08.03.2012 1 516 394 2 841 963 461 283

2 Vysotsky: Thank God I'm Alive (Rus) GK 01.12.2011 1 043 068 2 766 176 636 524

3 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows KNM 29.12.2011 446 490 2 622 380 566 102

4 Rzhevskiy vs. Napoleon (Rus) UFD 26.01.2012 1 154 732 2 522 216 457 712

5 Yelki 2 (Rus) UFD 15.12.2011 796 715 2 396 742 526 064

6 The Avengers B&H 03.05.2012 866 867 2 348 739 381 717

7 8 First Dates (Rus) UFD 08.03.2012 1 161 641 2 119 590 458 378

8 What Men Still Talk About (Rus) IF 29.12.2011 504 363 2 087 767 425 944

9 Battleship B&H 19.04.2012 1 001 478 2 011 019 442 582

10 Ivan Tsarevich i Seryy Volk (Rus) CNG 29.12.2011 301 820 1 814 600 355 334

11 Men in Black III B&H 24.05.2012 1 738 541 1 738 541 279 195

12 Wrath of the Titans KNM 29.03.2012 808 061 1 671 189 271 873

13 American Reunion B&H 05.04.2012 481 609 1 143 421 251 345

14 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol B&H 15.12.2011 525 176 1 119 503 234 247

15 This Means War UFD 16.02.2012 481 796 1 113 858 245 341

16 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo B&H 05.01.2012 374 309 1 037 197 215 697

17 Dr. Seuss' The Lorax B&H 15.03.2012 426 422 1 036 924 213 123

18 Titanic 3D UFD 05.04.2012 363 889 1 032 866 160 180

19 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island KNM 09.02.2012 374 035 1 019 826 164 472

20 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance IF 23.02.2012 535 118 979 893 161 282

Total ТOP-20 35 424 410 6 908 395

UKRAINIAN THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION MARKET OVERVIEW

(DECEMBER 1, 2011 – MAY 27, 2012)

Source: Bulletin kinoprokatchka IF - Inter Film B&H - B&H Distribution KNM - Kinomania CNG - Cinergy UFD - Ukrainian Film DistributionGK – Galeon Kino

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Just as we promised in our previous edition, in this article we will continue the research of the film studios of Russia. Moscow has proven to be the film production capital on the territory of the CIS countries, but still those studios situated in St. Petersburg also have the great history and contributed largely to the develop-ment of film industry.

LENFILM STUDIO

Established in 1918 studio retained its name given in 1934 up to the present time. In 2004 Lenfilm became an “OAO”, Russian partial equivalent of the western type of joint-stock company form of ownership (here-inafter company names are given with their corresponding forms of ownership according to the State Law of the Russian Federation). More than 1500 films (feature, documentary, TV) had been produced here.

In 2001 the audio studio DOLBY SURROUND was opened and three years later the whole studio had been repaired and technically modernized.

The main studio (4 ha.) with the three stages is situated in the centre of St. Petersburg. Sound stage №1 (477 m2) is equipped with the water tank and is used for the stage sets not higher than 5,5 m. Sound stage №2 (843 m2) also with the water tank is higher – 9 m. There is a chromakey in it. The largest sound stage №4 is of an area 1100 m2 and 8 m height (two balconies at 4,4 m and 7,5 m). Yet there is another one sound stage – №5 (1000 m2) but it is under reconstruction now. Studio also works on short films and video ads, dubs foreign films.

The other Lenfilm studio branch (7 ha.) is located in Sosnovaya Poliana, Krasnosel’skyi rayon. Here are situated: 3-storied office building, cinelab (founded and operated with the joint company Sirus-film), two stages of an area 1100 m2 (both removed from operation in 1997 up to now), auto collection (47 units of historic and antique cars), fireworks facility, back lot and the motor depot with the car and truck fleet and the special auto transport: 5 light trucks, 4 camera trucks, 2 truck units, 2 wind machines trailers. Studio services also include leasing and manufacturing of contemporary, historical and antiquarian costumes and props, supplying trailers and promo shootings, hiring out of stage-production resources, leasing of garderobes and property-rooms, dry-cleaning, ironing, starching. About 250,000 costumes made in total.

The Special effects department provides with the graphical film-setting, titles production on fiction and neutral backgrounds, optical (blow-up) printing, production of internegatives of image and leaders, image restoration, front- and rear-projection, traveling matte and cartoon services, transferring negative and positive (35 and 16-mm) film to Betacam-SP , Super-VHS, DVD, VHS (Bosch and Marcony film scanners), and also 8 and 8-Super mm to VHS. Lenfilm production capacity is several dozens of full-length feature films year, shot mostly by those production companies which rent studios’ stages and equipment.

The next two state film studios have no much to boast of a large area, but they provide with the A to Z pro-duction cycle nevertheless.

ST. PETERSBURG DOCUMENTARY FILM STUDIO

The official foundation date is 1932, but due to some archive materials its history may be traced back to 1914–1918. Hundreds of films, covering every aspect of Russian and foreign history in the 20th Century, have been created on the studio chronics. Only in the period of 1957-1997 film studio produced 950 docu-mentary films (about 500 hours) and many news films and movie magazines amounting to 900 hours.

Being under the full control of the government St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio is located in a five-storied building with a total area of 5281 m2. The ground floor (1511,34 m2) is the place for several offices, as well as two sound stages: “Belyi zal” (450 m2) – for concert band music recording, and “Krasnyi zal” of an area 270 m2 and 10 m height – for interior shooting. Administration offices, editing rooms, sound re-cording studio, motion picture camera and lighting equipment store, rooms for film crew and other supple-ment facilities are on the other floors.

LENNAUCHFILM

Established in 1933 under the name of Kinofabrica №1 Techfilm it is considered as the oldest film studio engaged in science, educational and documentary films production. In April 2006 it was renamed into OAO “Lennauchfilm” film studio.

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Lennauchfilm owns four production facilities providing with the whole range of film production services. There are two sound stages (№2 and №3), sound recording studio, scenery and technical design facility, animation facility for cartoon, puppet and plasticine animation, trick department equipped for cine photo-micrography, close up and time lapse photography.

Sound stage №2 is 4,5 m height and has the usable area of 225 m2 (15 х 15), two 63 Amp phase supply. Sound stage №3 is slightly bigger – usable area 240 m2 (12 х 20) and 7 m height, four 63 Amp phase sup-ply. Both stages equipped with the make-up rooms.

Stationary chroma key screen 12 x 3 x 7 m (with the round off edges) may be used in any colour. Studio production capacity reaches up to 140 documentary and science films a year. Lennauchfilm allows stages and equipment for rent.


Founded in 1998 Vsemirnye Russkie Studii (Russian World Studios, RWS), is one of the largest film and television production and distribution companies in the Russian market and among the countries of CIS.

Since 2007 RWS has been a subsidiary of JSFC Sistema, one of the largest diversified holding companies in the country. The same time it became a ZAO (eq. closed joint-stock company). RWS operates two stu-dios – in Moscow and in St. Petersburg.

The total area of the studio in St. Petersburg is 11,000 m2, including 4,000 m2 of office, make-up and ward-robe facilities, cafeteria and other supplementary facilities. There are six sound-proof stages (four – 750 m2 and two – 350 m2) 8,5 m height. Sound pressure level up to 120 dB.

All sound stages equipped with the top lift hoist systems and polymeric covered floors. There is a water tank for water shots and Wi-Fi internet connection on the premises of all sound stages.

The company currently owns more than 1500 hours of diverse content; including in-house projects, co-productions, and third party productions. The RWS catalogue offers a wide range of products in various genres and formats including TV series, feature films and television movies.

LENFILM XXI

In May 2010 it was decided to set up OAO Lenfilm XXI – a joint venture between ОАО Systema Mass-media and FGUP VGTRK with the charter capital of 116 mln rubles and share of at least 25% belonging to the State.

Now the construction of the Lenfilm XXI studio complex on the premises of above mentioned RWS St. Petersburg studio with a total area of 65 000 m2 is under way. There should be one sound stage 2000 m2 with the water tank, two sound stages – 400 m2, two sound stages – 200 m2, office and administration building (12 500 m2), synchronized sound and noise effects recording studio, control, editing and recorder room, film laboratory, hotel with 80 rooms (3+ stars), cafeteria, concert hall, multi-level parking, and scenery, props and supplementary facilities (4 000 m2). Studio complex is being developed by the two American architects – Scott Carter (known for the project of stages now used by Walt Disney Studios, DreamWorks Studios, Hollywood Center Studios etc.) and David Jacobson from the Nadel Architects company.

Finally, we would like to shed some light on the situation in other regions of the Russian Federation. Unfor-tunately, film production outside Moscow and St. Petersburg is not so well.

For example, in 2010 film company Yugra-film, which produced 13 full-length films and more than 10 TV dramas, ceased to exist. It was based on the television and radio broadcasting company Yugra in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Now its stage of an area 500 m2 and 7 m height is used for TV programmes production.

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SVERDLOVSK FILM STUDIOS

Established in 1943 film studio is based in Yekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk). Under the brand name Distribution Group STRANA various directions of the company are involved in film and TV production and distribution on the territory of Russia and the CIS countries.

In 2006 studio had undergone reconstruction and modernization of the production facilities and equip-ment. Now Distribution Group STRANA provides with the cinema and TV content distribution, location scouting and management, crew cast, transfer, accommodation, transport and catering, pavilions and primary equipment (shooting equipment, light, sound) rent, costumes, arms and stage props, action ve-hicles, special effects on film set, video editing on film set, postproduction & VFX, workrooms, internet, makeup rooms, dressing rooms, meeting rooms, security, medical services etc. Besides local culture development fund brings in investments for film production and organizes festivals.

There are two sound stages (700 m2 and 400 m2, both 15 m height), vehicle park including special auto transport (one light truck, two make up trailers, one motor home), props, costume, fireworks and other facilities. There is also an armory.

Distribution Group STRANA presents the collection of feature films, animation and documentaries that have been produced by Sverdlovsk Film Studios since its foundation in 1943 until present. Comedies, melodramas, historical, adventurous and children – all genres are represented in the catalogue. Through the use of new computer technologies many animated and feature films have been restored.

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From May 2011, Ukrainian distributor Inter-Film company entered new distribution markets of the CIS countries. Since that time, Inter-film is represented on 11 territories. In an exclusive interview to CIS:Content Report Dmitry Kirienko, Inter-Film director, told about the progress made outside Ukraine and the distribution market conditions on the CIS territories.

As we know Inter-Film company distributes films on 11 territories of CIS. Do you have your own offices there or work with the associated contractors?

Inter-Film with the main office in Ukraine has distribution divisions in Georgia, Moldova, Belarus, Azerbai-jan and Kazakhstan. These offices financially support film promotion on the given territories and provide local cinemas with the film copies. In this case, we apply the box office scheme and share income with cinema according to the pre set proportion. It is so-called major scheme used by the most distributors be-cause of its transparence, and our goal is to implement it in all the territories we work in. Copyright holders are interested in this too.

Some territories like Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Armenia do not apply major scheme, but in the future they will, and we will do our best for it. Earlier cinemas were the distributors themselves, they used to buy rights, screen the films and sometimes pass on copies to other cinemas. It was not too easy to break this scheme in Moldova, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, but we did it and we will carry on elsewhere. The main barrier for major box-office scheme implementation on the territory of CIS is the in-ability of the cinemas to provide with an accurate data about the number of tickets sold. That is why we have to agree on the minimal financial guarantee inclusion.

What about competition and market saturation? Who are the main CIS market players – local distributors or the Russian ones?

Let me put some clarity into it. The role of the local distributor can not be understated in case it had bought the rights not from initial copyright holders but from the Russian companies instead. For instance, besides Meloman company which releases films from Sony Pictures and Walt Disney there are other four local distributors in Kazakhstan. The latter distribute the films of the independent studios.

It can be said that the market is equally developed in all CIS countries, except those where the so-called “fixed distribution” scheme is used. It means that theatres pay to distributor a fixed sum of money for the rights and earn the 100% of an income in return. In this case theatres must be pretty sure to get paid money back, but they have the weather – they can screen the film wherever and in a whatever way they like. It does hurt the market. Box office scheme allows film right to all theatres at once widening the mar-ket and filling all the free niches equally. As the market develops only when someone changes the rules of the game, we are the one who does it here [on the CIS territory]. But for those focusing on the “four-wall distribution” money return is the main goal.

What kind of storage media do the theatres of CIS prefer to work with?

It depends on the film itself. The so popular now 3D projects are used on the digital media only. The are also a lot of 35 mm film movies, but as a whole – digital media is a frontrunner in the CIS countries.

Hence, the situation with modern equipment in theatres is not so disastrous as it seems to be. Can you provide the details?

There are many municipal theatres in Uzbekistan, that screen films including national ones on DVD. By the way, national films are very popular there. However, there is only one 3D cinema located in Tashkent and only four fully functional cinemas (with the exception of municipal DVD screening rooms) working with titles produced by the major film studios.

There are six modern cinemas (‘Patriya’ monopoly) in Moldova, five in Georgia, two or three in Tajikistan and only one in Armenia. We managed to dent the market in Azerbaijan, more precisely in Baku, there are three-four cinemas there and the construction of several new is under way. Belarus has 10 theatres (with two or three digital screen and equipment for 3D-films) and most of them are under control of regional and municipal branches of ‘Kinovideoprokat’ unitary enterprise.

The state or municipal authorities own many theatres, except those in Moldova, Kazakhstan and Kyr-gyzstan. It does not mean however that they are worse equipped than commercial ones. For example, “Nizami” state cinema has everything except perhaps gold decorations. That all depends from attention paid by the countries governments to the film production and distribution sectors and also from the state financing of course.

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Inter-Film distributed about 20 films in Ukraine in 2011. There were much more in Kazakhstan at the same time. What about the other territories?

It depends on rights we have on one or another territory. For example in Kazakhstan we distribute Dream-Works Animation, Paramount Pictures and Central Partnership (CPSH) films. In Ukraine – only CPSH. In Belarus – Universal, film slate of which is pretty good this year. In Georgia and Azerbaijan – Paramount Pictures, CPSH and Warner Bros. CPSH rights are applicable on all territories except Belarus.

The CIS countries plus Russia total box-office sum is accessible to all, but what are the box-office figures of the CIS countries without Russia?

You get that right, it all goes into the Russian box-office. The copyright holders, who are mostly the Russian companies or the foreign companies’ offices on the territory of Russia, choose on how to provide the data for themselves. We do have the data but according to the terms of agreement with the copyright holders can not provide it to the third parties. Moreover when calculating the total box office sum we do not take into account the separate countries but the releases of separate distributors on the whole territory, taken in order to report directly to the right holders. That is why there is no accurate data at the time; we still have to calculate it.

Well, may be you can name the most successful Inter-Film movies of the 2011-2012 season?

In terms of box office the most successful were the Paramount Pictures films ‘Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol’, ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ and the DreamWorks Animation ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’. It should be mentioned that the film releases on the territory of Ukraine are bound to the Central Partnership com-pany rights. ‘The Three Musketeers’ (about $1 mln), ‘Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance’ ($1 mln) and the Russian ‘What Else Men Talk About’ (more than $2 mln) did a very good job in Ukraine too.

What CIS country is of the first priority for you? Which is the most profitable one?

In 2011 our releases in Ukraine amounted $5 mln (we have already reached this mark in May 2012 and are very proud of it). Still, we got $9 mln in Kazakhstan box office in 2011 (mostly due to ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ and ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’) and $3 mln in 2012. The rest of CIS countries brought in about $2 mln in 2011 in total. So, in terms of the revenue the main business is done outside Ukraine. Unlike Kazakhstan it is far more troubled as for dubbing in part or dealing with the state bodies in whole.

But according to the Kazakhstan Law films should be dubbed into the state language either, am I right?

We have broken the ice. In years to come they will be dubbed or at least subtitled in Kazakh. The first at-tempts were not successful ones – financed by the government dubbing failed to turn heads. That is why obligatory dubbing took backseat. For example, ‘Cars 2’ animation film dubbing was worth $100 000, but after all it attracted three times less viewers than the Russian version. The audience is not ready to hear Kazakh voiced-over heroes yet. The dubbing is sometimes important in Georgia and Azerbaijan but the Russian language still fits best.

Have you thought about the distribution of films in those CIS countries where they had been pro-duced? Have you received the proposals of cooperation with the local production companies?

All CIS countries except Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, even if succeed to revive the production, usually deal with TV films not movies. Almost all Kazakhstan films are shot on the state film studio Kazakhfilm, that distributes them itself on the local market. It is unprofitable to buy them for international release because they lack potential.

The similar situation is in Kyrgyzstan, where the studios work directly with the theatres (two-three at once) providing them with the equal rights. As for Ukraine, we are negotiating on the matter of local distribution of some Ukrainian films. However, until the definite agreement I have to keep their titles a secret.

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