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Timur Bekmambetov is leaning in heavily on what he calls ScreenLife storytelling, a disruptive format which eschews traditional cameras for methods that visually drive the narrative through stories that unfold from the POV of smartphone and computer screens, where most of us now spend the bulk of our waking…

EXCLUSIVE: Marginalized by a version rushed for the 2017 Toronto Film Festival weeks before Harvey Weinstein’s banishment and The Weinstein Company’s implosion, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War has a new cut and the kind of second chance that most prematurely premiered festival films never get. Upstart 101…

In a late development before final bids are due Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware for the assets of The Weinstein Company, director Timur Bekmambetov and his Bazelevs banner have petitioned the court to block the disposition of either The Current War or Apollo 18 until required payments of $800,000 to his…

EXCLUSIVE: Director-producer Timur Bekmambetov’s production company Bazelevs is launching a pitch contest that will see winners get a special mentoring session and a greenlight on a feature film or series by Bazelevs . The Screenlife Project is accepting submissions through May 1 and is looking for pitches in feature…

EXCLUSIVE: Timur Bekmambetov, the Russian-Kazakh director best known for directing James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie action flick Wanted, is back in Berlin to show his latest drama, Profile. Watch an exclusive clip above. The film is making its world premiere as part of the festival's Panorama section, tomorrow…

Out in Park City, there may  be no one who’s having a better go at Sundance than Search filmmaker Aneesh Chaganty, whose feature directorial debut won the 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize and was swooped up by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions in a $5 million deal, one of the first of the festival. And the…

Sev Ohanian is having a good Sundance Film Festival. This morning Search, the thriller he co-wrote and produced, landed the biggest money of the festival so far with a $5 million worldwide rights deal from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. And at a Park City ceremony, Ohanian was awarded the Sundance Institute…

EXCLUSIVE: In the biggest deal on the ground at the Sundance Film Festival so far, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions paid $5 million for world rights to Search, an innovative Aneesh Chaganty-directed thriller that stars John Cho and Debra Messing, and turns the computer screen into a cinematic canvas. The film…

Lexica Films, the foreign language label of Covert Media, has boarded international sales for Timur Bekmambetov's Russian language adventure thriller Spacewalk and will shop the project to buyers in Cannes. Dmitry Kiselyov directs from a script by Yuri Korotkov, Sergei Kaluzhanov, Irina Pivovarova, Dmitry Pinchukov…

BAFTA this evening opened applications for the BAFTA Breakthrough Brits, an initiative that celebrates and supports the UK's future stars of film, TV and games. To mark the start of this year's scheme, helmer Christopher Nolan turned up at BAFTA's London headquarters to chat with former Breakthrough Brits honorees and…

The Timur Bekmambetov-produced Wizart Animation animated film Snow Queen: Journey Continues is back with a 3D sequel, a star voice cast and a December release in more than 10 countries. The voice cast: Sharlto Copley, Bella Thorne, Isabelle Fuhrman and Sean Bean. Thorne will also sing an original song for the…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM, Paramount and Timur Bekmambetov set a February 26, 2016, release date on an epic remake of Ben-Hur; have they found their chariot driver in Tom Hiddleston? I hear that he's the one the studios are courting to play Judah Ben-Hur in the adaptation of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Chris…