Category Archives: Russian/Western Co-Productions

Russia Joins Eurimages: At Last!

Posted on March 1st, 2011

Strasbourg, France. March 01, 2011 – Russia has become a new member state of the Council of Europe Eurimages, a fund established by the Council of Europe in 1988 for co-production and distribution of European films. Russia’s membership will open the road for the promotion of its films in Europe and worldwide. Now Russian film-makers are […]

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Russia And France Create Academy of Motion Picture Arts

Posted on November 19th, 2010

French Minister of Culture Frederic Mitterrand announced that he was enthused by the idea of forthcoming project: a Russian-French Film Academy of Motion Picture Arts. At the conference of The Joint Russian-French Committee To Celebrate the Year of Russia in France and the Year of France in Russia Mitterrand stated, that the Academy is aimed […]

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Russian-US Co-Productions Launched

Posted on November 1st, 2010

A packages of US-Russian co-productions has been launched by Moscow-based Sony Pictures Entertainment Russia. On October 14, 2010 its crime action Close Enemy directed by Aleksander Atanesyan (starring Dmitry Dyuzhev and Evgenia Trofimova) co-produced with Moscow’s Angel Anima was released theatrically in Russia. Now in production is the third edition of the Russian franchise The […]

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Russian-Italian Co-Production Deal

Posted on October 22nd, 2010

Russian Federal Film Fund (RFFF) and Italian Cinecitta Luce (CL) inked a collaboration deal to launch co-productions

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US Film Star Launches “Message From The King” in Russia

Posted on March 10th, 2008

Hollywood film and show-biz star Djimon Hounsou launches a US-Russian big-budget action Message From The King (now in development). According to Rouslan Vitrinyuk, one of Russian producers, the premiere is scheduled for 2009-2010. “We’ll have a big international crew of  US and Russian professionals, top US movie stars, including some of his friends from Hollywood […]

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