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December 10, 2006
The book “Time for Rage” was presented at the 69 Russian International Film Market, which took place in Moscow December 5 - 8, 2006. This book served as the basis for the movie of the same name. The continuation of a high-speed action “Velvet Revolution” (2005) promises to become even more explosive and unpredictable. Just like in the first movie, though the contrast between the characters of the protagonists does not facilitate their dialogue, it makes their tandem indestructible. Being together, they are really dangerous for powerful drug syndicates. In the second movie the fight between the DEA officers and the world’s drug mafia reaches an absolutely new level.
November 18, 2006
One of the main Ukrainian TV channels “Inter” started showing the director’s cut version of a Russian blockbuster “Velvet Revolution” on November 13, 2006. Four series of the movie were shown during the prime time (at 21:30) from Monday to Thursday right after the News. The share of the TV viewers exceeded 20 per cent. “Inter” is to be followed by Russian channels, with the main Russian TV channel “The First Channel” expressing the greatest interest in the movie.
October 27, 2006
The RFG film company will take part in the American Film Market – the world’s largest motion picture trade event, – which will be held in Santa Monica, California from November 1 till November 8, 2006.
Thousands of industry professionals from many countries converge annually at the American Film Market founded in 1981. This year the representatives of the RFG film company are to visit the AFM too and to present several of the company’s projects...
October 12, 2006
The 11th Pusan International Film Festival will take place October 12 – 20, 2006 in the city of Pusan, South Korea. Within the framework of this festival the Asian Film Market (the largest film market in South East Asia) will be held October 15 – 18, 2006, where the RFG (ROSPOfilm Group) film company presents its projects too. Besides that the representatives of the RFG film company will visit the largest traditional American Film Market in Santa Monica, USA, from November 1 till November 8.
September 11, 2006
The international film festival in Toronto is widely recognized as one of the largest and most successful film festivals in the world. Every year thousands of participants from all over the world take part in the festival, which runs September 7-16. The RFG film company is not an exception. It has presented its projects too: a mystical thriller “Viy”, which is expected to become a sensation of the year 2007, and a joint Russian - Georgian project “The Last Quest” directed by Archil Melikishvili and Nicoloz Aduashvili.
August 18, 2006
German has become another language, which the heroes (and antiheroes) of the Russian blockbuster “Velvet Revolution” have started speaking. The upcoming DVD release of this motion picture in Germany is scheduled for the end of August 2006. It is already known that the DVD, produced by the German company Legend Home Entertainment on the territory of Germany, includes not only the movie itself, but also a 30-minute documentary about how the “Velvet Revolution” was filmed and the soundtrack, written by composer Anton Garsia.
July 14, 2006
The Alma-Ata traditional international film festival “Stars of Shaken” is a tribute to the memory of the patriarch of Kazakh cinema, an outstanding actor and film director Shaken Aimanov.
For the first time the festival was held by the “Stars of Shaken” Producer Center in 2003. Since the year 2004 the second and the third film festivals were included in the program of city events and enjoyed the support of Alma-Ata Akimat. In 2005 the festival received the status of an international competition of young filmmakers.
June 23, 2006
A Masha Ozerenko motion picture “Nothing’s Ever Happened” has been selected for taking part in the program of the film festival “Open Cinema 2006”. Masha’s debut film is to compete in the “Laboratory of Discoveries” section, where works of young filmmakers of two film-capitals of the country – Moscow and St.-Petersburg (2003-2006) will be screened.
The history of the OPEN CINEMA began in 2004. And in the summer of 2005 the art-center “BEREG” found for the project the most precise and “exclusive” place – the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
June 8, 2006
The DVD with the director’s cut of “Velvet revolution” was released on June, 7 2006. The film lasts 4 hours, while the cinema version is only 2 hours long.
It’s quite obvious that the standards of timing for release version are not enough to show all the finer points of the characters’ interplay. And those are the points which help to appreciate the idea of the film authors. Meanwhile some cinema reviewers note that 4-hour is just right time for the spectators allowing them to follow all the smallest plotlines and discover the trans-border drug dealers’ machinations.
June 1, 2006
In May 2006 the film company RFG (ROSPOfilm Group) was awarded a diploma for its assistance in the organization of film screenings at the Moscow International Festival of Stunt Art and Cinematography “Prometheus”. At this festival, held under the guidance of famous Russian stunt master Igor Panin, the RFG film company presented such motion pictures as “Velvet Revolution” and “Jacked”. May 12, 2006
Fulfilling the order of the film company RFG (ROSPOfilm Group) the Studio VisualBeat Production continues to work on a computer game, whose heroes are the characters of the full-length feature film “Velvet Revolution”. This is an original third person 3D action game. The game follows the best traditions of such hits as “Max Payne” and “Hitman: Codename 47”. A special attention is paid to the cinematic realness of the events on the screen. This is achieved by means of numerous storyline prompts and “cine” special effects, for example, slow-motion and bullet-time, which are so much admired by fans of film-director John Woo.
April 25, 2006
Alexander Yakovlev speaking about the Award for the Most Charismatic “Antihero”: “Receiving my first award at the age of 60 I recollect how I acted in the film “The Red and the Black” by renowned Soviet film director Sergey Gerasimov. Looking at me with his arch ironic smile he said: ‘You know, Alexander, I look at you and I recollect actor Fite, who played fascists and negative characters all his life. He received his first award at the age of 80. I am afraid, you will share the same fate’”.
April 24, 2006
The 8th International Festival of Detective Films and TV programs on law-enforcement themes “DetectiveFEST” (“Law and Society”) took place April 19-23rd, 2006 in Moscow. The motion picture “Velvet Revolution”, which participated in the competitive program, has received three prizes in three nominations: a special prize in the category “The World Without Drugs” and the MAIN AWARD in the category Best Detective Film. Besides, actor Alexander Yakovlev has received the Award for the Most Charismatic “Antihero” (Sors).
April 20, 2006
The movie companies RFG (ROSPOfilm Group) and Step By Step Film in co-production with the Czech film company ANKOR-film continue to work on the mystical thriller “Viy” (based on the book of the same title written by N.V. Gogol).
This motion picture is expected to become “the most scary Russian movie”. Oleg Stepchenko, the director of the movie, says the following about this new Russian project: “Imagine that there’s a place on the earth – a certain abnormal zone – where even the air is impregnated with evil spirits. At night all the people living there shed their outer coverings and transform into ugly monsters: different reptiles, chimeras, griffins. Their bodies are covered in fluff similar to the one of the newly born chickens. Even this incarnation makes them look awful like hell, and we can only guess what they will look like when they become fully fledged. Now imagine, that Providence has directed you into this cancer pesthole of the earth. That’s what I answer, when asked what the movie “Viy” is about”.
March 31, 2006
Cinematographer Maria Solovieva (the movie “Velvet Revolution”) has been awarded the Professional Prize of the third exhibition “Cinema Production Service” in the nomination “Bravery In The Profession”. Unfortunately, this day (March 30th) Maria was filming, therefore the award was accepted on her behalf by Tatyana Plakhova, the representative of the Russian Guild of Cinematographers. The winners in other categories are: film director Karen Shakhnazarov; producer and head of one of the Russian TV channels Constantine Ernst; film director Timur Bekmambetov; the “Filmotechnic” company (Oscar winner – Scientific and Engineering Award). March 16, 2006
On March 23rd, 2006 the ceremony of awarding the Motion Picture Arts Award “The White Square” for Best Cinematography in a full-length feature film released in 2005 is to be held in Moscow’s Theatre “New Opera” in the “Hermitage Garden”.
The Motion Picture Arts Award “The White Square” was established in 2004 and is justly considered to be a unique ceremony, because this is almost the only day of the year, when cinematographers themselves are brought into focus as the main characters of the event.
March 14, 2006
The upcoming video and DVD release of the “Velvet Revolution” in Japanese is scheduled for May 2006. Particularly for this purpose the Russian movie has been dubbed into the Japanese language. This is not the first dubbing of the “Velvet Revolution”. Last year the film was specially translated and dubbed into English for the business screening, which took place in one of the theaters in Hollywood. Taking into consideration the fact that the distribution rights to the movie have been sold not only to the countries in Western and Eastern Europe, but to China, South Korea and other countries of the South-East Asia as well, one can only guess what other languages the heroes of the Russian blockbuster will start speaking. March 2, 2006
The pre-production has begun on the motion picture “Time For Rage”. This project is a continuation of the blockbuster “Velvet Revolution”. The screenplay of the movie has been written by Alexey A. Petrukhin. The screenplay of the first “Velvet Revolution” was also based upon his idea. The co-authors of Alexey A. Petruhin are Dmitry Ivanov and Milana Kasakina. The leading roles in this movie will be played by Alexey Kravchenko and Alexey A. Petruhin.
February 16, 2006
The motion picture “Velvet Revolution” will be shown at the Russian film festival “Literature and Cinema”, which is to be held from February 24 until March 4 in the city of Gatchina, Leningrad region. The movie will be screened in the out-of-competition program “Panorama” on February 24, 2006.
This is already the twelfth festival of motion pictures, produced in Russia and the CIS countries. The movies at the festival are united by the fact, that all of them are based on some literary work. Thus, for example, the book “Velvet Revolution”, written by actor Alexander Karpov, is his debut as a writer.
January 31, 2006
The “Velvet Revolution” motion picture won the professional movie and video industry the “Blockbuster” Award in the “Tops at the Box-Office” category at the Award’s IX Ceremony. This movie grossed 7.2 million dollars at the box office (in Russia and the CIS).
The award was given to the commercial director of RFG (ROSPOfilm Group) film company and to the co-producer Gennady Remizov, as well as to Peter Besedin – the distribution manager of “Karoprokat” film company, which distributed the movie in Russia and the CIS.
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