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Industry | Cinema |
Predecessor | Imperial Film |
Founded | 1991 |
Founder | Timur Bekmambetov |
Headquarters | Moscow, Russia (Russian HQ) New York, US (International HQ) |
Key people
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Timur Bekmambetov (Founder) Yva Stromilova (General producer) Sergei Ageyev (Executive producer) Pavel Perepelkin |
Products | Motion Pictures |
Services |
Movie Production Special Effects |
Divisions | Bazelevs Distribution 3D Previz Studio |
Subsidiaries | Computer Graphics Advertising and film department |
Website | Bazeelevs.Ru |
Bazelevs Productions (or Bazelevs Company; Russian: Базелевс) is a Russian production company, named after the Greek title for monarch and rulers of ancient Athens, Macedonia and Sparta: Basileus (Βασιλεύς).
The company was founded by Russo-Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov. The company has been producing films such as The Irony of Fate 2, Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted, Chernaya Molnya, Vykrutasy, The Darkest Hour, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Hardcore Henry and Ben-Hur remake.
The company was involved in producing the animated film 9, which was nominated for Best Animated Film in 2010 at the Producers Guild of America Awards 2009.
In winter of 2010–2011, the film Trees (Yolki) was the top among other Russian films at the box office over the past three years. In February 2011, the film Vyrkutasy (Lucky Trouble) won the main audience award – "Golden Taiga" which debuted at the festival in Khanty-Mansiysk.
In the summer of 2010 in Moscow, they filmed the Russo-American project The Darkest Hour, in cooperation with 20th Century Fox, New Regency and Summit Entertainment, with Bekmambetov as a producer.