Roskino’s second Doors International Travelling Film Market (Sept 25-29) welcomed a slew of new international buyers.
Doors was held as part of the St Petersburg-based Message To Man International Film Festival.
Of deals in play, the UK’s Stealth Media Group is in talks for a package of Doors titles including Betrayal (Izmena), Break Loose (Vosmerka), Kicking Off (Okolofutbola), The Major (Mayor) [pictured], Metro and Thirst (Zhazhda). Mitch Mallon of Us VOD distributor Rlj is in talks for a Us VOD deal for Metro and a Russian catalogue of films, and Brazil’s Habanero is considering several titles for Latin American distribution, including The Major for Mexican distribution. Also, Digital Media Rights is launching its second year of partnerships with Roskino, Hulu and Amazon to promote Russian films digitially. Deals are expected to be confirmed by Afm.
The 27 executives and companies who attended included Jiten Hemdev from India’s Star Entertainment, Michael Cowan of the...
Doors was held as part of the St Petersburg-based Message To Man International Film Festival.
Of deals in play, the UK’s Stealth Media Group is in talks for a package of Doors titles including Betrayal (Izmena), Break Loose (Vosmerka), Kicking Off (Okolofutbola), The Major (Mayor) [pictured], Metro and Thirst (Zhazhda). Mitch Mallon of Us VOD distributor Rlj is in talks for a Us VOD deal for Metro and a Russian catalogue of films, and Brazil’s Habanero is considering several titles for Latin American distribution, including The Major for Mexican distribution. Also, Digital Media Rights is launching its second year of partnerships with Roskino, Hulu and Amazon to promote Russian films digitially. Deals are expected to be confirmed by Afm.
The 27 executives and companies who attended included Jiten Hemdev from India’s Star Entertainment, Michael Cowan of the...
- 10/7/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The first trailer has been released for the Russian crime drama Break Loose, directed by Alexey Uchitel, of Russia’s 2010 entry for the foreign language Oscar The Edge. The film will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September as part of the Contemporary World Cinema section. The film is based on the Russian novel Vosmerka by Zakhar Prilepin, which draws comparisons to Training Day and Goodfellas. Set amidst the amoral criminal underbelly of Russia during the last days of 1999 – after Glasnost and before Putin – Break Loose is described as an explosive crime drama about crooked cops, smooth talking mobsters, and a femme fatale who will all do anything to survive.
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- 9/4/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
It's Russian government billy clubs-a-plenty in the first trailer for the latest from The Edge director Alexey Uchitel. From its opening scene featuring a gritty, take-no-prisoners gang brawl inside a hot and sweaty Russian nightclub, Alexey Uchitel's new crime drama explodes onto the screen. Breathlessly paced, Break Loose hurtles us into a violent rivalry between two groups of street thugs, and offers a classic story of love and camaraderie in a dangerous milieu. Herman, Lykov, Shorokh, and Grekh are the best of friends. Having each done their service in the army, they now serve as operatives in Omon, the Russian special police force. By night, they troll the crime-ridden streets, looking for whatever excitement is to be had. When a simple misunderstanding with the...
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- 8/28/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Wide Management has acquired world sales rights to Russian crime drama Break Loose, directed and produced by Alexey Uchitel.
The film will have its world premiere in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema section.
Break Loose is based on the autobiographical best-selling Russian novel Vosmerka by Zakhar Prilepin, and tells the story of a police operative who falls for a ganster’s moll.
Uchitel’s Rock Films produced. The Wide deal excludes Russia and the Cis, where Rock Films has already sold the rights to Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs Distribution (which will launch in early 2014).
The sales deal was negotiated by Loïc Magneron, President and founder of Wide Management, and Olga Aylarova on behalf of Rock Films.
“Loïc Magneron of Wide Management is impressive in his knowledge of the market trends and the buyers but even more impressive in his individualized handling of each film and each filmmaker,” said co-producer Kira Saksaganskaya.
“This powerful...
The film will have its world premiere in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema section.
Break Loose is based on the autobiographical best-selling Russian novel Vosmerka by Zakhar Prilepin, and tells the story of a police operative who falls for a ganster’s moll.
Uchitel’s Rock Films produced. The Wide deal excludes Russia and the Cis, where Rock Films has already sold the rights to Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs Distribution (which will launch in early 2014).
The sales deal was negotiated by Loïc Magneron, President and founder of Wide Management, and Olga Aylarova on behalf of Rock Films.
“Loïc Magneron of Wide Management is impressive in his knowledge of the market trends and the buyers but even more impressive in his individualized handling of each film and each filmmaker,” said co-producer Kira Saksaganskaya.
“This powerful...
- 8/28/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The Contemporary World Cinema section of the Toronto International Film Festival often gives the attendees an opportunity to see the kinds of ideas and methods that are being used by filmmakers outside the Us. It also gives filmmakers a chance to tell stories that may otherwise not gain attention outside of its setting, giving filmgoers a look at some unfamiliar characters and tales. One such feature this year is the newest film from veteran Russian director Alexey Uchitel, whose latest feature, titled Vosmerka, or Break Loose, is a crime drama set in Russia during 1999. The first trailer for the film, screening at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, has now been released, and can be seen below.
(Source: Indiewire)
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- 8/28/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Watch the exclusive debut of the thrilling trailer for "Break Loose," a muscular and violent Russian crime drama by Alexey Uchitel, director of Russia's 2010 entry for the foreign language Oscar "The Edge." Starring Alexey Mantsigyn, the film will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September as part of the Contemporary World Cinema section. Here's the synopsis:Based on the Russian novel "Vosmerka" by Zakhar Prilepin, the film suggests "Training Day" meets "Goodfellas" in the wildly unpredictable and dangerous Russia of the not-too-distant past. Set amidst the amoral criminal underbelly of Russia during the last days of 1999 - after Glasnost and before Putin - "Break Loose" is an explosive crime drama about crooked cops, smooth talking mobsters, and a femme fatale who will all do anything to survive.
- 8/27/2013
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
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