Bazelevs Company
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).
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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 | 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 | bazelevs |
The company was founded by Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov. The company has been producing films such as The Irony of Fate 2, Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted, Black Lightning, Lucky Trouble, The Darkest Hour, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Hardcore Henry.
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 Yolki was the top among other Russian films at the box office over the past three years. In February 2011, the film 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 projects The Darkest Hour, in cooperation with 20th Century Fox, New Regency, Summit Entertainment and Kikoriki. Team Invincible in cooperation with Columbia Pictures, in the United States with Bekmambetov as a producer.
In 2015, the company have since released films in a new genre titled "Screenlife" which each film is shot in the point-of-view of computer screens and smartphones. The first couple films released in that genre are Unfriended, Unfriended: Dark Web, Searching and Profile.
List of films produced by Bazelevs
- The Arena (2001)
- Night Watch (2004)
- Day Watch (2006)
- The Irony of Fate: Continuation (2007)
- 9 (2009; under Bazelevs Feature Animation)
- Wanted (2008)
- Chernaya Molnya (2009)
- Apollo 18 (2011)
- Lucky Trouble (2011)
- Kikoriki (2011)
- Yolki (2010)
- The Darkest Hour (2011)
- Yolki 2 (2011)
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
- Gentelmen, Good Luck! (2012)
- The Snow Queen (2012)
- Yolki 3 (2013)
- Yolki 1914 (2014)
- Yolki 5 (2016)
- Yolki 6 (2017)
- Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll (2015)
- He's a Dragon (2015)
- Hardcore Henry (2016)
- The Age of Pioneers (2017)
- Fur-trees Last (2018)
- The Current War (2019)
Screenlife
- Unfriended (2015)
- Profile (2018)
- Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
- Searching (2018)