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EXCLUSIVE: Last month Russian director Klim Shipenko and actor Yuliya Peresild became the first ever film crew to boldly go into outer space to shoot scenes for their upcoming project The Challenge. The duo blasted off to the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz on October 5 along with Russian cosmonaut…

Russia has always prided itself on being first for a number of space exploration milestones, and today it can count itself as the first country to launch a film crew into space. This morning at 1.55am PT, actor Yulia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko and veteran Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov blasted off to the…

If there's one thing a worldwide pandemic has taught us, it's that even in an increasingly globalized world, different countries have different approaches on how to handle a crisis, which ultimately lead to different outcomes. Pre-Covid, Russia was one territory that was seeing a boom in its distribution and…

EXCLUSIVE: Chernobyl the big-budget Russian action drama about the titular nuclear disaster, has been acquired by Capelight Pictures for North America and German-speaking territories, with the company partnering with MPI Media Group on the U.S. release. Moscow-based sales agent Central Partnership continued sales…

Here you can watch highlights from Deadline’s panel A Window Into Russia, which saw four of the country’s top executives join us to offer insight into the territory. The event ran during the Russian Key Buyers Event: Digital Edition, which was organized by Roskino with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Moscow…

Russia’s Key Buyers Event: Digital Edition, a virtual follow-up to last year's inaugural initiative hosted by national promotional body Roskino, has unveiled a program featuring new Russian works and a host of local and international speakers. Running June 8-15, the event will showcase more than 300 Russian projects…

A drama about the controversial final moments of the 1972 Munich Olympics showdown between the United States and USSR basketball teams has scored a new victory for Russia, becoming the highest-grossing domestic film of all time locally. Three Seconds (aka Going Vertical) has grossed 1.889B rubles (about $33M) since…

Lionsgate has sealed an output deal with Russian distributor Central Partnership for the distribution of Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment films in the territory. Central Partnership had previously distributed only Summit titles in Russia and the CIS including Now You See Me, Now You See Me 2, the Divergent…