$*4CONTENT$C0/5&/5R3EPORT&1035 $C 3FWJFXPGBVEJPWJTVBMDPOUFOUQSPEVDUJPOBOEEJTUSJCVUJPOJOUIОбзор новостей рынка производства и дистрибуции аудиовизуальногF$*4DPVOUSJFTо контента
Media¥¡ Resources ©ª¬©ª´ ¥Management¦¥¦« ØÆ»¹ÉØ №1 19 February, 2011
AnǺÁµÂÃÁºÅµalytical Article ÆÀ÷Ãź¹µ¿Ë½Dear Colleagues½ ¬¿¾ » ȾɻԾ ½ÆÁ ÆÇ»Ç¼Ç ¼Ç½¹ ƹŠɾ½¹ÃÏÁÁ ¨¾É»Ô ÆÇÅ¾É $POUFOU 3FQPSU »ÔÎǽÁË » ùÆÌÆ ИНОТЕ АТР АЛЬНЫЙ К We$POUFOU are proud3FQPSU to ÊɹÀÌpresentÊ˹ÄÇ you theÈÇÆØËÆÇ first issueÐËÇ »of a newÅ guideªË¹ÉÇ¼Ç through¦Ç»Ç¼Ç the ¼Ç½¹ productionÃÇËÇÉÔ and ƹÃÇƾÏËÇ distribution marÀ¹- FРЫНo r eО i gКn В i nУ vК eР s АИН t m eЕ n: t project»Ê¾ÅÔ ofºÌ½¾Å our companyÌʾɽÆÇ Á(MediaƾÌÊ˹ÆÆÇ ResourceËÉ̽ÁËÕÊØ Manage ¹- kets»¾Éѹ¾Ë in the оɾ½Ì CIS countries. ÈɹÀ½ÆÁÃÇ» Please ÈÇÖË visitÇÅ ourÌ ¾Ò¾ websit ɹeÀ mentÆÁŹØÊÕ) – aÈǽ¼ÇËÇ»ÃÇ regular analyticalÈ¾É»Ç¼Ç electronic»ÔÈÌÊù ǺÀÇɹ periodicalÆÇ andÎÇËÁÅ register ÈÇ¿¾Ä¹ËÕ for free ƹÑÁ trial ofÅ our ÈǽÈÁÊÐÁà CIS: Content¹Å Report.» ЦИФРin t ОВИЗАЦИ h e Uk r aЯ i n i aК nА К about»ÇÊ˾ audiovisual ÉÔÆù ÈÉÇÁÀ»Ç½ÊË»¹ content production Á ¹Ì½ÁÇ»ÁÀ̹ÄÕÆǼ and distri-Ç Feel¼Ç½Ì freeƹÂËÁ to commentʻǻ¾ÉÆÔ - yourÈÌËÕ commentsÁÊľ½ Çare»¹ËÕ crucially¾ÅÌÊ ÃÇÆ˾Æ˹»ÖËÇÅ¼Ç½Ì ÅÔÊɹ½ÇÊËÕ×ǺƹÉÌ¿ÁÄÁ ÌÈÇÉÊË»ÇÅ ËÉ̽ØÊÕƾÈÇÃĹ½¹ØÉÌìù¿½Ç¼Ç t e lОСНОВНО e v i s i o n mЙ a r ТР k e Е t Н (15)Д bution in CIS countries – CIS: Content Report. To- important for us. day,ÐËÇ ½¹¿¾when» European,ÆǻǼǽÆÁ¾ AmericanÈɹÀ½ÆÁÃÁ and ÉCIS¹ºÇ˹ production»ÇÅÆÇ Ê»ÇØ ½ÇÉǼ¹ ÆÇ Ï¾ÄÕ Ì Æ¹Ê Ç½Æ¹ s ɹÀ»Á»¹ËÕ Á Р АЗВИТИЯ ¼ÁÎÈÉǽ¹ÃÑƹÎÁ½¾ËÈÇÄÆÔÅÎǽÇÅ ¹½¹ÄÕѾ ùà ÌÄÌÐѹËÕ Ç˾оÊË»¾ÆÆÔ ÉÔÆÇà ¨Ç ÃÇÆØÅ ¼Ç markets become more integrated than ever before, Sincerely yours, we¼Ç»ÇÉÁËÊØ are prettyÊË¹Æ¾Ë sure that¾Ò¾ suchºÇÄÕѾ kind£¹Ã of industrialƾǽÆÇÃɹËÆ peri-Ç ÊÈǽ¹ odicalºÔÄÇÇËžоÆÇ is a necessary»Êľ½ÊË»Á¾ and usefulÃÉÁÀÁʹ tool forÇÊÆÇ»¹Ë¾ÄÕÆ all contentÇ Artem Vakalyuk producersÁÀžÆÁĹÊÕ andÃÇÆÓ×ÆÃËÌɹ distributors ÉÔÆù related ÈÇžÆØĹÊÕto the CIS counɹÊ- CIS: Content Report editor in chief triesÊ˹Æǻù media ÊÁÄ Á business. »ÇÀÅÇ¿ÆÇÊ˾ ÈÇÖËÇÅÌ É¹ºÇ˹ËÕ É˾ŹùÄ×à ½ÂǺŷÑÓÂÃÁºÅµInterview ½¾ÂÊË»Á˾ÄÕÆǾÊËÕÁºÌ½¾Ëƹ½Ð¾Å¨Ç½Ë»¾É¿½¾ Ĺ»ÆÔÂɾ½¹ÃËÇÉ TheÆÁ¾Å purposeËÇÅÌØ»ÄؾËÊØ of CIS: ConÃÇÄÁоÊË»Ç- ÊǺɹÆÆǼǻÖËÇÅ $POUFOU3FQPSU tent ÈÇÄÌÈɹÀ½ÆÁÐÆÇÅ ÆÇžɾŹ˾ÉÁ¹Ä¹ Report is to tell you ÆSºÅ¸ºergey¾¿ SµelyŵÇaµnov:º· monthly about the pro- We areµ ¹stillµÂÂо weaklyÁÃÁ integratedºÂÇ cesses ʾ¼Ç½ÆØÑƾ that occur ˾ž in the into theºÎº westernÃÆǵ filmÓÇÆ industry,Ô audiovisualÆÇžɹ ÅÔ content ÇÊ˹ÆÇ»Á pro- ºÅespeciallyµÆÄÅù whenµÂÂÐ itºÉ comes½ÀÑÁÐ to ductionÄÁÊÕ Æ¹ andǽÆÇ distribution ÁÀ ʹ ¿ÃÇÃÅк¶ÐÀ½Æü¹µÂйà marketsÅÔÎ ºÇľÀƾÆÆÔÎ in the CIS coun˾Å- the distribution of our projects. tries.Ç˾оÊË»¾ÆÆÇ So, in thisÃÁÆÇÁÆ and fur- ¿Å½¼½(18)Ƶ ther½ÌÊËÉÁÁ issues,sÉÔÆþ we willÃÁÆÇ keep track˾¹ËÉÇ» of what ¦¹ isÊËɹÆÁϹΠproduced and$POUFOU who is3FQPSU producing ÅÔ Æ¾ it in theǽÆÇÃɹËÆÇ CIS countries. È̺ÄÁÃÇ For this purpose»¹ÄÁÅƾÆÁØ our “Production”ÇËÇÅ ÐËÇ section¾½»¹ ÄÁ is ƾ designed ÇÊÆÇ»ÆÇ - for ®«¡¢£ª¥¢Categories yourÈÉǺľÅÇ convenience ÎÇËØ ÖËÌ we have˾ÅÌ ¹ÃËÁ»ÆÇ structuredÈǽÆÁŹ the pro- duced×˻ʾ projectsÃÇÅÌƾ byº¾ÀɹÀ genre, ПrР oОИЗВОДСТВО d u c t i o n (2): P : asÄÁÐƹ well asÊ̽պ¹ by production ƹÏÁÇ SСeЕ r Р i ИАЛe s ( 2) companies.ƹÄÕÆǼÇÃÁƾŹËǼɹ In the “Distri- bution”͹ rubricʽ¾É¿Á»¹×Ҿ we will tell FТЕЛЕФИЛЬМe a t u r e s (5) youɹÀ»ÁËÁ¾ about whereÁƽÌÊËÉÁÁ the CIS TТVЕЛЕШОУ s h o w s (7) producedÈÇÄÆÇ¼Ç contentžËɹ is soldƹ to.ÈÇÊËÊÇ»¾ËÊÃÇÅ However, we doÈÉÇ not АНИМАЦИЯ Distribution (9) onlyÊËɹÆÊË»¾ strive to provideØ»ÄؾËÊØ you ДОКУМЕНТАЛЬНЫЙ ПР ОЕ КТ withù˹ÊËÉÇÍÁоÊÃ¹Ø an overview of whatƾ Ci n e m a r e l e a s e s isλ¹Ëù happening ÃÁÆÇÀ¹ÄÇ» in the §½ con- К ИНОФИЛЬМ o v e r v i e w (13) tentƹÃÇ productionÉÔÆÇà ÈÉǽÇÄ¿¹ market, we want give you top- Д ИСТР ИБ УЦИЯ ¾Ë ÊËɾÅÁ˾ÄÕÆÇ É¹À An a l y t i c a l a r t i c l e (15) quality»Á»¹ËÕÊØ content ¡ ¾ÊÄÁ produc ÈÇ- КАДР Ы tion»Ç½Ç» industry ½ÄØ ÇÈËÁÅÁÀŹ analytics. In t e r v i e w (18) InÇËÆÇÊÁ˾ÄÕÆÇ addition, weÌ»¾ÄÁо want to Т ЕЛЕ ПО КАЗ familiarizeÆÁØ ÃÇÄÁоÊË»¹ our subscrib ÃÁÆÇ- ers˾¹ËÉÇ» with peopleÈÇÈɾ¿Æ¾ÅÌ who in- Т ЕХНОЛОГИИ fluenceƾ ˹à aÅÆÇ¼Ç lot and developËÇ ÈÇ the»Æ¾½É¾ÆÁ× CIS media industry,Êǻɾ ПРОКАТ В УКР АИНЕ so in every issue we will
žÆÆÔΠ˾ÎÆÇÄǼÁ À¹ Ç
presentÈÉÇÑÄÔ an ¼Ç½ interview Áž×ËÊØ with ÆÃ
О ТР АСЛЕВЫ Е »¾ top»Ê¾ÇÊÆÇ»¹ÆÁؽÄؼÇÉ industry professional. ¹ МЕР О ПР ИЯТИЯ ½ÇÊËÁ À¹ ÖËÇ ¥¾¿½Ì We˾ŠhopeÈÇÈÔ˹¾ÅÊØ that our ɹÀÇ prod- ľÊÁª
uctºÉ¹ËÕÊØ will be¾ÊËÕ a greatÄÁÊ»¾Ë help »in § yourÃÇÆϾËÇÆƾÄØ work and will be your ©ÁÊ
MeMediadia RResourcesesources ManaManagement.gement, ул.22 ZakrevskyЗакревско гSt.,о, 22, Kiev К и02660,ев, 02660, Ukraine Укр аина 1 Тwww.mrm.uaел.: + 380 44 Tel.: 459 +380-4610 (44)Фак с:459-4610; + 380 44 e-mail:459-4611 [email protected] [email protected] www.mrm.ua production production C production №1 19 February, 2011
involved in the whirl of hostilities. Vasyl Talash, 70-years old man, TV SERIES also has to take up arms to protect his little son.
Belarusfilm, Di r e c t o r : Sergey Shulga. Art Cinema Group (belarus) Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 4. Ge n r e : drama. The German DIXI TV (RUSSIA) In late December 2010 Belarusian production companies Belar- usfilm and Art Cinema Group completed the production period of the historical series entitled The German. 8-episode series is «COMRADE STALIN» based upon the novel by Yuri Kostin. In the end of January, 2011 Russian production company DIXI TV started shooting period of four-episode historical movie Comrade Synopsis: Scientist Herbert Muller dies in Munich under strange cir- Stalin. The story is based on the documentary sources, but the film cumstances. War-time letters are missing from his private archive. itself offers nonofficial point of view on the events, that changed Trying to solve the mystery of his father’s death, Ralph uncovers a dramatically the life of a huge country. Film is commissioned by family skeleton, guarded for over 60 years, and sets off to Moscow Russian NTV channel. in search of the clues. Synopsis: The story happens in last three months of Stalin’s life, Di r e c t o r : Aleksandr Yefremov. and tells not about Soviet dictator himself, but about a “small man” Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 8 – KGB lieutenant Egor Kozlov. A young officer by chance appeared to be among the staff on Stalin’s country house and got an oppor- tunity to communicate personally with Stalin.
Belarusfilm (belarus) Di r e c t o r : Irina Gedrovich. Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 4. Ge n r e : historical. Everything We Need
In late January 2011 Belarusfilm Studio completed shooting pro- cess of four-episode love story Everything We Need. Company Russian World Studios plans to finish the production process in May 2011. (RWS) (RUSSIA)
Synopsis: On New Year’s Eve, storylines of a number of characters interweave against the background of the holiday frenzy. Charac- ters are very different in terms of their age, profession, and life val- Ivan and Tolian ues – a writer, a college girl, a hockey player and an attractive rail- way stewardess, a pattern wife and mother of two and her sudden In January 2011 Russian World Studios Company (RWS) fin- passion for a general, a lonely beauty and a businesswoman. ished shooting of 12-episode mystery comedy Ivan and Tolian. It is an adaptation of the Latin American format, purchased from a Chile-based production company. The Chilean version, Joaquin Di r e c t o r : Ivan Pavlov. and Talossa, narrates the story of two losers living in Santiago. The Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 4. Russian version is about two luckless self-taught detectives and Ge n r e : love story. was filmed in Yaroslavl.
Pr o d u c e r s : Yuri Sapronov, Andrey Smirnov, Dmitry Meskhiev. Belarusfilm (belarus) Di r e c t o r : Miroslav Malich. Ge n r e : mystery comedy. Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 12.
Talash
In mid-February 2011, Belarusfilm Studio finished shooting pe- Forward Film (RUSSIA) riod of four-episode drama Talash. The film is to be completed in May 2011. The story is based on the Dryhva novelette by Yakub Kolas. Hostages of Love Synopsis: The film is staged in 1919. The Polish Army returns to Belarusian Palessia region. Society is divided into several political Russian production company Centr Kiniproizvodstva (Film Pro- groups: some support the Communists, others prefer the policy duction Center) finished shooting of the Hostages of Love tele- of the Poles; still the rest oppose all the parties. Every family is vision series, commissioned by prodco Forward Film.
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 2 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] production production C production №1 19 February, 2011
Synopsis: Oleg and Katya had some close relationships and were go- Synopsis: The film begins with the story of a little girl, dying of star- ing to get married, but eventually they break up. Time passed, and they vation in the Siege of Leningrad. Katya is evacuated to Tashkent, a went their own life ways, forgotten each about other. Oleg is a success- relatively safe city which had become a temporary home for thou- ful lawyer, Katia – a prosecutor. By mere chance the old friends acciden- sands of Soviet people seeking refuge from the Nazi intervention. tally meet on vacations. It turns out that their old flame hasn’t died. The girl gets involved with local criminals and becomes a con artist operating at local bazaars. Di r e c t o r : Sergey Rayevsky. Ge n r e : love story Pr o d u c e r s : Aleksandr Buravsky, Valery Smetskoy, Anna Sobinevskaya. Di r e c t o r s : Vladimir Krasnopolsky, Valery Uskov. Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 12. Ge n r e : drama. Forward Film (RUSSIA)
Non-Stop Production (RUSSIA) Good Cop-4 Russian company Centr Kiniproizvodstva (Film Production Belaya gvardiya Center) finished shooting of detective series Good Cop-4, com- missioned by Russian production Forward Film. January 24, 2011 Russian Non-Stop Production Company start- ed the final shooting period of 10-episide film Belaya gvardiya Synopsis: The fearless Colonel Stepan Krucha and his detectives (The White Guard). Scenario is based on the novel by Mikhail Bul- solve dozens of the most complicated cases. gakov. Filming process takes place in Kyiv, Ukraine. The series is commissioned by TV-channel Russia-1. Di r e c t o r s : Viacheslav Padalka, Andrey Komkov. Ge n r e : detective story. Synopsis: The film is set in the winter of 1918-1919 in an unnamed city, clearly implying Kyiv. The city is occupied by the German army. The Turbins family – Doctor Aleksey Turbin, his younger brother Corporal Nikolay, and their sister Yelena – are involved in a series of Friends Production, dramatic events against this historical setting. Novy kanal (UKRAINE) Pr o d u c e r s : Aleksandr Rodniansky, Sergey Melkumov. Di r e c t o r : Sergey Snezhkin.
Swallow’s Nest Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 10. In December 2010 Ukrainian Friends Production Company to- gether with Novy kanal (New Chanel) started shooting 60-episode sitcom Swallow’s Nest. PRO100 Film (RUSSIA) Synopsis: The series is set in Yalta, not far from the renowned Swal- low’s Nest castle. In addition, Swallow is the pet name of the main character, a little girl called Masha. The girl who had lost her mother is taken care of by neighbors and her mom’s friend. One day the girl decides to find her father. She has pictures and names of two Lzhesvidetelnitsa suitable candidates for this role. February 1, 2011 Russian prodco PRO100 Film Company started shooting 4-episode drama Lzhesvidetelnitsa (Perjurer-woman). Pr o d u c e r : Aleksey Goncharenko. Di r e c t o r : Kirill Kashlikov. Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 60. Synopsis: Irina has committed an indecent act: to get married a rich man she gave false testimony against an innocent person - a law student. After the wedding Irina and Oleg moved to another city. KoBura Film Production Meanwhile, the falsely accused Sergey spends a few months in prison, while his case is remitted for further examination. The do- (RUSSIA) mestic bliss didn’t last long: Irina’s husband grows cool towards her and starts cheating on her. One day Oleg and his mistress are found shot to death in the hall at his apartment. Quite naturally, Irina is the On the Sunny Side of the Street prime suspect. Imagine her horror when she recognizes Sergey, who is the investigator assigned to her case. January 31, 2011 Russian prodco KoBura Film Production Com- pany completed production of 12- episode drama On the Sunny Side of the Street. Scenario is based on Dina’s Rubina novel. The Di r e c t o r : Vladimir Dmitrievsky. Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 4. series was commissioned by TV-channel Russia-1. Ge n r e : drama.
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 3 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] production production C production №1 19 February, 2011
2В Studio (RUSSIA) Synopsis: The main character is a police major, Sergey the Rook Grachiov. During the course of a hostage rescue mission, Grach is shot in the head. He survived, but the doctors were unable to ex- tract the bullet. After the injury, Grach develops an ability to see the souls of the deceased who died a wrongful death. These people seek justice.
The Code of Honor-5 Pr o d u c e r : Rauf Atamalimbekov. Di r e c t o r s : Andrey Volgin, Maksim Kondratenko. This March, Russian production company 2В Studio starts shoot- Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 12. ing the second part of 16-episode detective The Code of Honor-5. Ge n r e : detective story. The series is commissioned by Russian NTV Channel.
Synopsis: General Golubev’s team is assigned to the most compli- cated cases. They will go through many ordeals – from exposing Forward Film (RUSSIA) a terrorist group and a Turkish gold smuggling fraud to arresting mafia bosses whom Interpol had failed to capture.
Pr o d u c e r s : Pavel Korchagin, Feliks Kleyman. Di r e c t o r : Georgi Nikolayenko. Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 16. Ge n r e : detective story. Cop Wars 6 Russian prodco The Panorama Studio, commissioned by For- ward Film, started shooting the sixth season of The Cop Wars detective series. Forward Film (RUSSIA) Synopsis: Roman Shilov, head of the homicide department at the St. Petersburg Central Internal Affairs Directorate, together with his team, will fight not only against the outlaws but also against their own colleagues, turncoat cops. Task Force 2 Pr o d u c e r : Ada Staviskaya. In January 2011, Russian Graffiti Film Production Company, Di r e c t o r : Sergey Rayevsky. e n r e detective story. started shooting the Task Force 2 detective series. Movie is com- G : missioned by Forward Film production company.
Synopsis: A true professional is not the one who works alone but the one who knows how to delegate. This is true for Col. Samokhin, Forward Film (RUSSIA) who is transferred to another department to become the head of a criminal police task force.
Pr o d u c e r : Yuliya Sobolevskaya. Di r e c t o r : Aleksey Shikin. Ge n r e : detective story. Assassin’s Profile Russian production company Centr Kiniproizvodstva (Film Pro- duction Center) finished the shooting period and started editing United Multimedia Projects and sound recording for the Assassin’s Profile detective series. Film is commissioned by Forward Film production company. (UMP) (RUSSIA) Synopsis: Crimes committed by serial killers, rapists, and deviants are usually the most complicated and intricate. They often become Grach cold cases – cases that remain unsolved. The Internal Affairs Min- istry creates a special profilers’ department for such cases. The In February 2011, Russian prodco United Multimedia Projects profilers’ task is far from simple. They have to learn to think like a Company (UMP) is to complete the shooting of 12-episode criminal to solve the most violent crimes. mystery detective Grach (The rook). Premiere is scheduled for February 2011 at the First Russian TV Channel. The project Di r e c t o r : Vladimir Koyfman. is based upon Greco 6-episode series (France; screenplay by Ge n r e : detective story. Philippe Setbon).
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 4 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] production production C production №1 19 February, 2011
Everest Film (RUSSIA) WeiT Media (RUSSIA)
Happiness is One Step Away Dubbing Actress
December 31, 2010, Russian prodco Everest Film Company In late December 2010 Russian prodco WeiT Media Company completed production of 12-episode drama Happiness is One finished shooting period of 4-episode drama Dubbing Actress Step Away. (Dublersha). Film is commissioned by TV-channel Russia 1.
Synopsis: 19-year-old Tasia lives with her mother in a small town Synopsis: A story of the tin sisters Rita and Lilia. They grew up in an or- in the country. Five years ago Tasia’s father had died, and her 40- phanage. Now they are in their late twenties, and it looks like they both year-old mother, the pretty Irina, moved in with Oleg in hope to find have good, though very different lives. Circumstances occur in which the his support. In spite of his reluctance to start a family, Irina gave two women have to swap their IDs and, consequently, their lives... birth to Vania. Oleg leaves Irina on the day Vania turns 6 months old. She ends up in hospital with a heart attack. The young Tasia Pr o d u c e r : Timur Vaynshteyn. has to take care of the baby on her own. Di r e c t o r : Igor Kechayev. Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 4. Pr o d u c e r : Yuri Glotser. Di r e c t o r : Vassily Mishchenko. Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 12. FEATURE FILMS Ge n r e : drama. Belarusfilm (Belarus)
Ryjik WeiT Media (RUSSIA) At the end of December 2010 the Belarusian film studio Belarus- film completed the production process of its 2-episodes children fea- ture film Ryjik (The Redhead).
Synopsis: In the fairy tale kingdom of Nedalia the evil magician Mor- Object 11 tis enchanted all the mirrors. The Nedalia inhabitants could no longer look at their reflections, not even in water, because if they did, they In December 2010 Russian production WeiT Media Company fin- would immediately disappear. It isn’t easy to defeat Mortis – only a ished shooting of Object 11 series. Film is commissioned by TV- person of royal blood can conquer him. And a 12-year-old mischie- channel Russia 1. vous girl named Redhead happens to become this hero.
Synopsis: The Object 11 special task force was formed back in Di r e c t o r : Elena Turova. Soviet times by the KGB for dealing with problems that cannot be Nu m b e r o f s e r i e s : 2. solved by standard methods. Object 11 was special unit because most of its members had supernatural abilities. During perestroika the task force was disbanded, but recently a decision was made to recreate it. Colonel Somov, who used to be the Object 11 head Russian World Studios (RWS), in the 1980s, is commissioned to get his people back together Studio Three T (Russia) and once again become their leader. Somov’s major weapon is his sharp mind. In every episode the group investigates a new com- plicated case. House on the Roadside Pr o d u c e r : Timur Vaynshteyn. Di r e c t o r : Vsevolod Aravin. In December 2010 the Russian production company Russian World Studios (RWS) and Nikita’s Mikhalkov production Studio Three T have completed the filming period of a feature drama House on the Rodeside.
Pr o d u c e r s : Andrey Smirnov, Yuriy Sapronov, Dmitriy Meskhiev, Ni- kita Mikhalkov, Leonid Vereschagin. Di r e c t o r : Anton Sivers.
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 5 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] production production C production №1 19 February, 2011
motherland, Ukraine. But the train carrying mother and son has BAZELEVS (Russia) been sent with the evacuation to the East. Knowing that she may die, woman constantly tells her son that he must find the street where they used to live and find the house with the tower.
Pr o d u c e r : Aleksandr Tkachenko. Di r e c t o r : Eva Neyman. Yelki 2 in 3D At the beginning of 2011 the Russian BAZELEVS company started shooting its feature comedy Yelki 2 in 3D (Christmas Trees 2 ). Central Partnership (Russia) Shooting of different New Year celebrations took place in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Velikiy Ustug, Chelyabinsk, Samara, Ka- zan, Perm, Novosibirsk, Astana, Alma-Ate, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Montreal and New York. Film release is planned for December 2011.
Pr o d u c e r : Timur Bekmambetov. Di r e c t o r s : Timur Bekmambetov, Aleksandr Voitinskiy, Ignas Yoni- Battle with the Shadow 3 nas, Dmitriy Kiselev, Aleksandr Andryuschenko. The Russian film company Central Partnership is planning to finish the final shooting period of the action feature movie Battle with the Shadow 3 in February. Film Studio Lenfilm (Russia) Synopsis: Artem Kolchin retired from boxing and started working as a coach. His student recieves a serious injury during the match with South American boxer Cuerte. Artem suspects that Cuerte is using a banned fighting technique. In order to solve the mystery, he goes to Hong Kong to see his old friend Vagit Valiev, who knows something about Cuerte that no one else knows…
My Grandmother is a Witch Pr o d u c e r s : Aleksei Sidorov, Ruben Dishdishyan. Di r e c t o r a nd s c r e e n p l a y : Aleksei Sidorov. In December 2010 the Russian Film Studio Lenfilm started shoot- ing a children feature film My Grandmother is a Witch.
Synopsis: 12-year-old schoolboy Vasya lives in a provincial town Art Pictures Stuidio, Seven suburbs and dreams to get some special talent. Vasya lives an or- Arts Pictures, TPA Film dinary life, until his grandmother comes from the village. She turns (Russia, Great Britain) out to be a real witch. When his grandmother dies, she passes on her unusual abilities to Vasya, making him promise to use these abilities only in sake of other people. The Winter Queen Pr o d u c e r : Vyacheslav Telyanov. This spring the Russian companies Art Pictures Studio and Seven Arts Di r e c t o r : Sergey Karandashov. Pictures together with British production company TPA Film will start shooting the detective feature film The Winter Queen based on Boris Akunin’s novel Azazel. Movie production budget equals $35M. Shooting Channel 1+1 (Ukraine) process will take place in Budapest, St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Synopsis: St. Petersburg, May 1886. What made the talented young university student from a rich family shoot himself in front House with a Tower of the public walking in Aleksandrovskiy park? A grim mood and boredom – that’s the opinion of the St. Petersburg police head. On the 15th of January 2011 Ukrainian TV-channel 1+1 started But nevertheless he sends his new detective Erast Fandorine to shooting feature film entitled House with a Tower. Film is based find the details of this case. Erast’s investigation leads him to ter- on the short story by Friedrich Gorenstein. The movie will be filmed rorists who subsequently destroy his personal life. in black and white.
Pr o d u c e r s : Thomas Headman, Dmitriy Rudovskiy. Synopsis: The film takes place in wartime. Mother and her son try Di r e c t o r : Fedor Bondarchuk. to free, or at least to see their father, who has been arrested. Af- Ge n r e : Detective story ter several unsuccessful attempts, woman decides to return to her
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 6 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] production production C production №1 19 February, 2011
mat Date My Mom. The original version of the show aired on MTV. TV shows Three mothers with grown-up daughters and one young man will participate in each episode of the show. After dating with all three mothers, the young man will make a choice whose daughter he WeiT Media (Russia) would like to have a dating with. Meanwhile, mothers try to de- cide whether they would like this young man to date their daugh- ters or not. The host of each show will be its main participant.
Fear Castle Friends Production (Ukraine) In January 2011 Russian production company WeiT Media started shooting the adaptation of Endemol Panic Estate format. Fear Castle show (local working title of the Panic Estate format) is commissioned by the Ukrainian Novy Kanal (New Channel). First prize of the show is 5 million hrivnas (near 500 000 Euros). According to the format, the participants of the show (men and Aleksey Goncharenko women over 18) are looking for money hidden in different rooms of an old mysterious house. In every room a new «trial of fear» awaits Darkness Dating them: snakes, insects, closed spaces, guard dogs, dead animals, etc. As in the original Endemol format, participants of the show are Ukrainian production studio Friends Production is shooting a new solely teams, but the New Channel decided to place an emphasis dating show, entitled Darkness Dating. The project was commis- instead on families. sioned by Inter channel. Show casting has already started. Partici- pants: young men and women aged 20 - 45.
Fo r m a t : Estate of Panic (Endemol) Pr o d u c e r : Aleksey Goncharenko.
Star Media (Russia, Ukraine)
Novy Kanal (UKRAINE)
Female Logic IN SEARCH OF AN ANGEL Production company Star Media (offices in Russia and Ukraine) Ukrainian Novy Kanal (New Channel) TV-station is preparing its started the production process of the local adaptation of Pretty own original TV-project entitled In Search of an Angel. This is a Smart format (belongs to Dutch company Talpa). The show (lo- hidden camera format that shows the viewers a hidden side of life. cal working title is Female Logic) is commissioned by Ukrainian For example, how employees really spend their time at work. The ICTV channel. Casting took place in December 2010. Partici- new project will be about the search for a person, who does every- pants of the show: men aged 25 to 40, who are confident, love thing ideally in his job and will do exactly as he is instructed to. money and understand female logic, as well as women between 18 and 35, who are beautiful, confident and aren’t afraid of the camera. The show is planned to air in March 2011. Ho s t : Anna Sedokova. SAVIK SHUSTER STUDIO (UKRAINE) Channel TET (Ukraine) DREAM TEAM Ukrainian production company Savik Shuster Studio started the production process of a new football reality show Dream Team. Show is commissioned by Inter channel. The football Your Mother! team, which will be picked during casting, will play a match against the Ukrainian National Football team. At the end of December 2010 Ukrainian TVchannel TET started the Ho s t s : Savik Shuster, Evgeniy Koshevoi, Aleksei Mikhalichenko. production process of a new dating show entitled Your Mother!. The project was developed according to the Shine International for-
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 7 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] production production C production №1 19 February, 2011
STAR MEDIA (UKRAINE) STB CHANNEL (UKRAINE)
MAIDAN’S MASTER CHEF Production company Star Media (offices in Russia and Ukraine) Ukrainian STB TV channel is launching the production of a new cu- started producing a new dance show Maidan’s. Show is commis- linary reality show entitled Master Chef. The show is produced ac- sioned by Ukrainian Inter channel. Teams from 12 different cities cording to the British Shine prodco format. This is a culinary reality will participate in the project. The members will unite in one dance show, whose participants are people without professional culinary battle for a Humanitarian cause: to help their native town. Choreog- training, but want to demonstrate their culinary abilities to the na- raphers will create the dances, which the teams will finally perform tion. The main goal of the program is to choose only 30 deserving on Ukraine’s Independence Square (Maidan Nezalejnosti) in Kyiv. amateur chefs from thousands of contestants, who will then, during a period of several weeks, compete to earn the name of the best chef in Ukraine. The participants will pass the casting by pleasing the pro- fessional chef judges’ taste buds with their dishes. The weakest con- testants must permanently leave the project. At the end of the show, 1+1 CHANNEL (UKRAINE) there must be one person left who will receive a prize of 500,000 hriv- nas and a free education in Paris at Le Cordon Bleu.
CHANNEL TET (UKRAINE) WIFE SWAP 3 Ukrainian 1+1 channel has begun shooting process of the third season of its reality show Wife Swap. As in the second season, INFIDELITY THEORY the participants of the show will be Ukrainian and foreign families. According to the project two families change their mothers for one Ukrainian TET TV channel is producing a new reality show called week. The first three days women live according to the rules of the Infidelity Theory. The Infidelity Theory is a type of television de- new family, and the next three days they establish their own rules. tective agency, which, at the request of jealous husbands, wives On the seventh day both families meet in neutral territory to draw and partners investigates fidelity. This program’s clients are nor- their conclusions. mally typical young people who have doubts about their other half’s fidelity. The clients do not have any proof Wthat their partners are cheating. The suspect is then secretly followed. If the result of the treason investigation is affirmative the compromising evidence is 1+1 CHANNEL (UKRAINE) given to the client with the assumption that the investigation will continue with the aim of catching the other half red-handed. If the client agrees to continue the investigation, the second part of the program begins. If the investigation did not find evidence of cheat- ing, the episode does not go on air. The credits at the end of the VOICE OF THE NATION show give the viewer additional information about the personal Ukrainian 1+1 channel started the production process of lives of the couple. a new singing talent show Voice of the Nation by the for- mat of The Voice show owned by the Dutch Talpa com- Ho s t s : Andrey Merzlikin, Lyudmila Babir. pany. Ukraine and the USA will simultaneously become the Ru nn i ng t i m e : 1 hour. first countries to adapt this format after the Netherlands. Apart from vocalist participants, the main characters of the show will be four coaches – well-known professionals in the world of music, each of whom will represent a given musical genre that is INTER CHANNEL (UKRAINE) popular in Ukraine. The coaches will not change participants during the course of the show and will not limit the format of their work. The main goal is to emphasize and develop the participants’ talent with the help of their professional coaches. Casting, which began in January, will take place in several rounds. The first (pre-airing) round will be nation-wide. Those who pass through it will go to the next round, “blind auditions,” where the coaches will choose the participants of the show solely according to the participant’s voice. MAKE A COMEDIAN LAUGH Each coach will pick his team of vocalists, who he will work in all the Ukrainian Inter TV channel is launching the production process of proceeding rounds with. a new entertainment show Make a Comedian Laugh. The par- ticipants of the show in order to win a cash prize must make a pro-
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 8 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] production production C production №1 19 February, 2011
fessional comedian laugh. There are five rounds of the show and at the end of each round the participant has the right to take away won money and stop the game. Each round lasts 1 minute, during which at least one of the comedians must laugh. The prize for the first round is 1000 hrivnas, 2000 for the second round, 10,000 for the third, 25,000 for the fourth and for the fifth – 50,000 hrivnas. Ho s t s : Mikhail Galustyan, Vladimir Zelenskiy
STB CHANNEL (UKRAINE)
DANCING WITH THE STARS Ukrainian STB TV channel is launching the production process of a talent show Dancing with the Stars. First live air of the show will take place on February 26th. The participants will be the stars, who will be paired with finalists of the three seasons of the show Everyone dances! (So you think you can dance format). Every week one pair will leave the project. Out of four judges two will be professional choreographers. Pr o j e c t m a n a g e r : Natalya Franchuk. Ho s t s : Irina Borisyuk, Dmitriy Tankovich.
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 9 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] distribution distribution C distribution №1 19 February, 2011 distribution
ICTV Ukrainian TV channel ICTV is likely to buy the America’s Most Wanted format from American production company 20th Century Fox. Several episodes of the original version of this program have already ap- peared in ICTV Extreme News program. There is already a Ukrainian scenario of the project and special production team that will go to the USA to familiarize with the original production process. It seems like Star Media prodco will be producing the Ukrainian version of the show. America’s Most Wanted is the longest running show in the history of Fox Television Network. The purpose of the program is to reveal the real criminals: murderers, killers, robbers, terrorists, rapists and fraudsters.
INTRA COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (ICI) Russian production and distribution company Intra Communications, Inc. (ICI) has entered into an ex- clusive agreement with the Russian group Red Media on distribution of all types of rights for all the terri- tories on following programs: Mom’s Kitchen TV show. Mom with two kids in her own kitchen cooks tasty and healthy children food. Children help her in this process together or one by one. Suite of products for children food is not very large, but nevertheless there are hundreds ways to cook even such mere dishes as casseroles or potatoes, and kids love that variety! And the most important is when children are ready to work with their mom, everything turns into an interesting game that unites the whole family! Ru nn i ng t i m e : 20 x 15 minutes. Pr o d u c t i o n : Russia, 2008-2011.
Simply delicious TV show. It is a program, where are familiarized with secrets of well-known and beloved home made dishes, new recipes of delicious and easy food, and traditional recipes updated with new in- gredients and interesting ideas. Running time: 51 x 15 minutes. Pr o d u c t i o n : Russia, 2007-2008.
LIDER TV Azerbaijani TV channel Lider TV has signed a contract with Russian distribution company Gala Media. The deal terms concerns acquisition of TV right to the Gala Media films catalog. The list of films acquired by Lider TV channel comprises 149 movies of different genres most of which are produced by New Regen- cy Pictures prodco. In addition to New Regency films the acquired package also includes: Martin Scors- ese’s thriller Shutter Island, both parts of Til Schweiger’s comedy Zweiohrküken (Hansom Boy), horror franchise Saw (parts 2-6), fantastic thriller Daybreakers and other movies.
ROCK FILMS Feature film Kray (The Edge) (by Russian production company Rock Films, directed by Alexey Uchi- tel) was taken for the U.S. and Canada cinema release by American independent distribution company Samuel Goldwyn Films. Release is planned for spring 2011.
Synopsis: After the World War II, a Russian locomotive engineer Ignat (a war hero, who fought for Berlin), appears in a Siberian village of exiles. But calm life is not for him – he dreams to drive a locomotive again, to feel the power of the machine, speed, freedom, risk and excitement. Nevertheless Ignat meets his fate in exiles village, and his destiny appears to be a German girl Elsa, who spent several years in the forest dugout. Producer: Konstantin Ernst. Di r e c t o r : Alexey Uchitel. Pr o d u c t i o n : Rock Films, Russia, 2010.
RUSSIAN WORLD STUDIOS (RWS) State Indian TV station Doordarshan has bought rights for India and 150 other countries (covered by the channel TV) to the series The Hindu from the Russian production company Russian World Studios. Doord-
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 10 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] distribution distribution C distribution №1 19 February, 2011
arshan is a part of the biggest India broadcasting corporation Prasar Bharati, owned by the government. The Hindu is Russia’s first series filmed in Bollywood in coproduction with India Take One Productions company. Producers: Yuriy Sapronov, Andrey Smirnov. Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 12 x 46 minutes.
STUDIO U7 Russian distribution company Studio U7 bought all types of rights for the CIS territories to the program The Greatest Ever (Canada- United Kingdom, 2006. Show was produced for the Discovery Channel). Show is a complex structures car competition. The Greatest Ever creators take the responsibility to name worthy contender in the following categories: sports autos, excavators, helicopters, bombers, motor- cycles, tanks, fighters, guns (eight categories, each - ten items). In each episode the miracle technique is being tested, and the spectators can see all the machines in action. Contests are sometimes quite un- usual. For example, a jet plane and a superbike Y2K will compete in speed (and a motorcycle will win). Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 8 x 60 minutes.
STUDIO U7 Russian distribution company Studio U7 acquired TV rights for CIS countries to Rhythm & Blooms series from the Canadian sales company Original Spin Media. Series is produced in HD standard. The program invites viewers on a tour of the most impressive botanical gardens of Canada and the USA. Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 38 x 30 minutes. Pr o d u c t i o n : Canada, USA, 2008-2010.
STV - TVIGLE MEDIA In February 2011 Russian film company STV sold the exclusive internet rights for its new animation Tri Bogatyrya i Shamahanskaya Tsaritsa (Three heroes and the queen of Shamahan) to Russian company Tvigle Media. In January the movie was already availablein other legal online cinemas. Cartoon is being now tested in HD- resolution of 720p and 1080p. On Tvigle.ru viewers can also see other movies produced by STV - I was not hurt, Dead Man’s Bluff, Fireman, Sword Bearer, Boomer, Brother, Morphine etc.
TET Ukrainian TET TV channel has picked up TV rights to Benidorm bastards both original show and format from German sales company SevenOne International GmbH. Primary TET will air the original version of the show, and soon it plans to produce its local adaptation. The main heroes of the show are dummy old people doing some odd things. Hidden cameras record other people reaction on these grandmothers’ and grandfathers’ actions and their strange behavior. Though it is a reality with elderly people, the most interesting is a youth reaction to the behavior of older.
TET Ukrainian TET TV channel bought TV rights for the territoryof Ukraine to Good night, guys! (Fool Around My Girlfriend) show from Russian production company WeiT Media. The show protagonist - single young man is left alone with four girls for a week. Only one of these girls doesn’t have a boyfriend. Young man’s main task is to guess which one out of four girls is free, though every girl will try to convince him that she is the one. Ho s t s : Anfisa Chekhova, Aliona Vodonaeva.
TOCHKA.NET Ukrainian web portal tochka.net has picked up internet rights (for its recently launched VOD platform) for movies and series from Russian production companies Central Partnership, Amedia and Lenfilm. The package includes about 400 movies from the Lenfilm catalog, about 800 hours from the Amedia catalog and more than 1200 hours of video from Central Partnership catalog. Lenfilm package is designed for fans of the Soviet classics (including comedies and art house movies from Gruziyafilm and Armeniyafilm stu- dios). Amedia and Central Partnership catalogs mostly include movies and top series of the last decade, mainly the projects of 2007-2009 release years.
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 11 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] distribution distribution C distribution №1 19 February, 2011
TOTAL CONTENT Russian distribution company Total Content acquired TV rights for CIS countries, Georgia and Ossetia to the dancing show The Best of Riverdance from the Australian sales company Beyond Entertainment Limited. Show is a mixture of traditional Irish dance with elements of tap dance, acrobatics, live music, fla- menco dancing etc. The main performer and choreographer of the famous show is Irish-American dancer Michael Flatley, who is twice Guinness Book of Records champion as the fastest tap dancer. Ru nn i ng t i m e : 100 minutes. Pr o d u c t i o n : Tyrone Pictures, Ireland, 2005.
TOTAL CONTENT Russian distribution company Total Content acquired TV rights for CIS countries, Georgia and Ossetia to the films package from the British production and distribution company Goldcrest Films International. The films catalog include: musical feature Absolute Beginners (production: United Kingdom, 1986), dra- ma Another Country (production: USA, UK, 1984), feature drama The Bitch (production: United Kingdom, 1979), horror thriller Black Rainbow (production: United Kingdom, 1989), drama Cal. Diary of a terrorist (production: United Kingdom, 1984), and more than a dozen of other features.
WALT DISNEY RUSSIA Walt Disney Russia company signed a deal with Russian telco CenterTelecom for the broadcast of 40 feature films produced by Walt Disney Pictures on its Domolink TV online platform. The package includes some premieres of 2010 - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Toy Story 3, and You Again. The video library of CenterTelecom will be expanded significantly soon. In March subscribers of Domolink TV will be able to watch Tron: Legacy, Tangled, and other movies. New films will appear online in the day of their official DVD release in Russia.
1 +1 Ukrainian 1+1 TV channel acquired 20-episode lyrical comedy Amanda O from production com- pany Star Media (offices in Russia and Ukraine). The series is based on the format of Argen- tine company Dori Media. The movie tells about the star named Amanda, who at the peak of her popularity suddenly is exposed to accusations. Running away from prying journalists she loses consciousness. And when she wakes up, she finds herself in a dirty city outskirts, where a cou- ple of drunk men take her for a prostitute. Hiding from them, she runs into one random house... Producers: Viacheslav Murugov, Vlad Ryashin. Di r e c t o r : Ivan Shurhovetsky. Nu m b e r o f e p i s o d e s : 20.
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 12 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] Cinema releases overview C №1 19 February, 2011 2010: Ukrainian Cinema Distribution Market Overview
Distributors have earned 46% more than last year The 2010 film distribution year appeared to be rather successful for Ukrainian distributors. According to Bulleten Kinoprokatchika periodical (Film Distributor’ Bulletin), the total box office of Ukrainian cinemas in the period between 30 November, 2009 and 28 November, 2010 amounted to 613.961 million hrivnas, or $77.307 million. In comparison with last year, this year general distribution gross increased in its hrivna equivalent by 46% (in 2009 the total box office amounted 420 million hrivnas).
3D movies hit the biggest jackpot. Not only was attendance enthusiastic for Avatar, Shrek Forever After and Alice in Wonderland, but the tickets themselves for 3D movies were more expensive. This allowed Avatar to earn 67.83 million hrivnas, or $8.419 million, and over one and a half million Ukrainians went to see James Cameron’s creation. Taking the second place in the TOP-10 by box office in Ukrainian cinemas Shrek Forever After brought 31.801 million hrivnas, or $4.13 million into the cinemas and animation dis- tributor B&H Film Distribution pockets. In total over 857 thousand Ukrainian cinema viewers have seen the story about the friendly green ogre. The leaders trio completes another 3D movie (also released by B&H) - Alice in Wonderland, that gathered 27.782 million hrivnas, or $3.481 million, in Ukrainian cinemas. Over half a million viewers saw this film in theaters.
These films, as well as MegaMind, The Last Airbender, and Resident Evil: Afterlife provided B&H Film Distribution Company with uncontested leadership among Ukrainian distributors: total box office of this company releases made 266.192 million hrivnas, or $33,531 million last year. The Gemini company took the second place by box office with its films collecting 126.226 million hrivnas ($15.874 million). And Ki- nomania distribution company secured third place with the box office of 98.96 million hrivnas ($12.368 million).
BOX OFFICE TOP-10 IN UKRAINE, 2010 (30 November, 2009 - 28 November, 2010)
AVGGROSS per ONE GROSS B.O. COPY DISTRIBU- RELEASE № TITLE TOR DATE Hrivnas ADMIS- Copies $ M HRIVNAS $ (M) SIONS (M)
1 AVATAR GEM 17.12.09 136 67,083 8,419 1,501 493 300 61 900
SHREK FOREVER 2 B&H 20.05.10 103 31,801 4,013 0,857 308 700 39 000 AFTER ALICE IN WONDER- 3 B&H 11.03.10 87 27,782 3,481 0,685 319 300 40 000 LAND LOVE IN THE BIG CITY 4 2/ Lyubov v bolshom KVC 04.03.10 119 20,895 2,618 0,665 175 600 22 000 gorode 2 (rus) HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HAL- KNM 18.11.10 119 19,000 2,394 0,553 159 700 20 100 5 LOWS: PART I
CLASH OF THE 6 KNM 08.04.10 104 17,501 2,209 0,433 168 300 21 200 TITANS
7 MEGAMIND B&H 28.10.10 96 13,895 1,756 0,352 144 700 18 300
THE LAST AIR- 8 B&H 08.07.10 79 13,819 1,748 0,346 174 900 22 100 BENDER
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 13 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] Cinema releases overview C №1 19 February, 2011
AVGGROSS per ONE GROSS B.O. COPY DISTRIBU- RELEASE № TITLE TOR DATE Hrivnas ADMIS- Copies $ M HRIVNAS $ (m) SIONS (M)
RESIDENT EVIL: 9 B&H 16.09.10 98 13,704 1,731 0,307 139 800 17 700 AFTERLIFE
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: 10 GEM 08.07.10 97 13,301 1,683 0,436 137 100 17 300 ECLIPSE
TOP-10 UKRAINIAN DISTRIBUTORS, 2010 (30 November, 2009 - 28 November, 2010)
MARKET SHARE GROSS B.O.
NUMBER № DISTRIBUTORS of RELEASES YY to YY ADMIS- % HRIVNAS (M) $ (М) PRINTS CHANGE SIONS (M)
1 B&H 43,22 -1,90% 266,192 33,531 7,751 2616 40 2 GEM 20,49 -0,38% 126,226 15,874 3,416 1292 26 3 KNM 15,93 +2,70% 98,096 12,368 2,788 846 13 CP + 9,11 -0,09% 56,118 7,071 1,695 748 18 CP/IF
4 Include. CP/IF 4,85 +0,14% 29,880 3,781 0,871 450 11
Include. CP 4,26 -0,22% 26,238 3,290 0,824 298 7
5 KVC 3,89 -0,20% 23,933 2,998 0,764 202 3 AVR / 6 2,58 -0,12% 15,909 2,003 0,497 242 12 PRD MTP + MTP/LUX 1,52 +0,08% 9,346 1,178 0,268 276 16
7 Include. MTP/LUX 1,2% +0,10% 7,550 0,952 0,221 225 14
Include. MTP 0,29 -0,02% 1,795 0,225 0,047 51 2
8 CAE 1,44 -0,08% 8,862 1,118 0,252 162 5 9 JRC 0,84 +0,02% 5,196 0,655 0,175 143 4 10 CNG 0,66 -0,02% 4,083 0,511 0,158 130 4
So u r c e : Bulleten Kinoprokatchika periodical (Film Distributor’ Bulletin). Ex c h a ng e r a t e : 1UAH=$0.1312.
Key for distributors’ names: AHT – ArtHouse Traffic, AVR – Avrora Film, B&H – B&H Film Distribution Com- pany, CAE – Cascade Film Ukraine, СNG – Cinergia, CP – Central Partnership Ukraine, GEM – Gemini Film Ukraine, JRC – JRC Film, KNM –Kinomania, KVC – Kvartal Cinema, LUX – Luxor, MLT – Multiplex, PRD – Paradise, PRF – Profit Cinema International.
The Ukrainian film distribution market grows every year, both in box-offices and in its number of screens. This is due to the digital technology development and the entry of a number of 3D films on the Ukrainian market. There are currently around 310 cinema screens in Ukraine, 180 of which are in multiplexes, while digital screens equipped with 3D sets amounts to 95. Another important factor of market development is growing income of the population, so that, as the Ukrainian director Vladimir Tikhiy put it, “the viewer no longer has to choose between buying a ticket to the cinema and food for his family.”
As for the situation among the distribution companies themselves, the statistics shows that the number of films released is not a guarantee for success. The company Kvartal Cinema, having released only three films in 2010 took a confident 5th place in the TOP-10 of distributors.
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 14 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] Analytical Article C Analytical Article №1 19 February, 2011
It is fairly difficult for foreign media investors to both adapt to and understand the realities of business in Ukraine. The start of the financial crisis has only exacerbated the situation with foreign investments Analytical Article in the Ukrainian television Industry. Prior to the economic crisis, the Ukrainian television and television related markets (content delivery market, cable networks, satellite TV) experienced the annual ap- pearance of one or two new foreign investors. Since the end of 2008, the Ukrainian television market has added only one company with foreign capital, the DTH platform Digital Fly Ukraine. Meanwhile, Fo r e i g n i n v e s t m e n t three investors from abroad have left the market: the American media corporation, Central European in t h e Uk r a i n i a n t e l e v i s i o n Media Enterprises (CME), cut its ties with unprofitable at that time 1+1 TV Group; Istil Group belong- ing to Mohammad Zahoor (British/Pakistani businessman) disappointed in pay satellite TV market m a r k e t and quit the shareholding structure of the DTH platform Poverhnost Plus (though Istil continues to run business of TV content production); and at the beginning of 2011 the Hungarian media company Fi- bernet sold its Ukrainian asset - largest cable provider in Dnepropetrovsk SDS Falstap. Unfortunately, it should also be noted that in the last few months there are no signs of any large western media groups or investment funds considering entry into the Ukrainian market. The topic of this CIS: Content Re- port analytic is overview of foreign investors still confident in the Ukrainian television industry.
SigmaBleyzer, Providence Equity Partners One of the most successful television projects with foreign investments in the Ukrainian market is clearly Volia group (cable TV provider) belonging to the international investment company SigmaB- leyzer and Providence Equity Partners fund. Aside from Kiev cable providers Volia Cable, IVK and Kievan Telecommunicational Networks, the Volia group includes cable television providers in the 18 largest Ukrainian cities. The Volia project started in Kiev in 2000 with the financial support of SigmaB- leyzer. The exact amount of the initial investments in the start-up of this project was never made pub- lic, but by 2006 Volia had already become the largest cable TV provider in the Nation’s capital (Kiev) and was already in the process of planning its conquest of regional markets.
At the beginning of 2011 it became evident that Volia had begun a second wave of expansion into the Ukrainian regions, having bought the largest Dnepropetrovsk cable TV provider SDS Falstap from the Hungarian company Fibernet. Experts have estimated the deal to be worth between $4 to $6 ml. Ac- cording to the Ukrainian cable TV market insiders in the nearest future a large number of mega-deals, in which Volia is the buyer, will become public knowledge.
PPF Investments Analyzing foreign investments in the Ukrainian cable TV market it is impossible not to mention the Czech investment fund PPF Investments. Regardless of the fact that the fund’s main playing field is the banking sector, even during the pre-crisis times, it was interested in Ukrainian cable TV providers. The Czechs’ entry into Ukraine began in March of 2007 with the establishment of the fund’s Ukrainian daughter company Odeko. Overall, the Czechs have acquired more than 20 small telecommunication companies, the majority of which are cable TV providers, though there are also some Internet provid- ers. The Czech fund prefers not to disclose amount of their investments, but experts on the market, judging primarily by the number and sizes of the acquired companies, agree that PPF Investments have invested no less the $5 mn into the Ukrainian market.
Modern Times Group The Swedish media corporation Modern Times Group (MTG) launched a pay satellite TV service on the Ukrainian market in the spring of 2008. It was the first DTH platform in Ukraine – Vision TV (brand - Vi- asat). From then till the present, the subscriber base of the satellite provider has increased to almost 40,000. Although MTG is a public company, it does not publish data on the number of its subscribers in Ukraine. Ukraine is reported to be on the same level with the Baltic regions, where Viasat has had a historically strong position and a solid subscriber base. The overall amount of investments in the Ukrainian DTH-platform has not been made public. However, in the summer of 2010 it became known that for the 35% of Vision TV, which MTG acquired in February 2010 from the Austrian Strong Media Group, the Swedish investor paid €11.25 million. Therefor, the entire company was evaluated at €32.14 Million. However, analysts estimate that the market value of the Ukrainian service Viasat has signifi- cantly inflated, as one subscription of the provider was bought at €900 (on the market of cable TV the general cost of one subscriber wavers between $100-200 depending on the city and development potential). Currently Modern Times Group holds 85% of Vision TV and the company is considering the purchase of the remaining 15% from Strong Media in the future.
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 15 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] Analytical Article C Analytical Article №1 19 February, 2011
Yes, BSkyB Speaking on foreign investments the most controversial company on the Ukrainian pay TV market is the satellite DTH platform MYtv, launched by the company Digital Fly Ukraine in the period of the global economic crisis at the beginning of 2010. Controversy arose not around foreign capital’s pres- ence in the company, but rather around its actual investors. For nearly a year executives of Digital Fly Ukraine have kept this strictly secret. The official owner of Digital Fly Ukraine is the company Kesongs Enterprises Limited. However the head of DFU Albert Feldman has once noted that the investors of the project are a group of individuals and legal entities who have experience in developing telecom projects in Israel, India, Romania, Great Britain and USA. In the market it is assumed that in reality standing behind DFU is the Israeli provider of pay satellite TV Yes and British satellite corporation Brit- ish Sky Broadcasting Group. The amount of initial investments in the project MYtv has also not been disclosed though competitors value it at $20-25 million. As of the end of 2010 the subscriber base of the provider listed not more than 2,000.
IVL The absolute majority of Ukrainian free-to-air TV channels belong to Ukrainian investors (though many are registered officially through various offshore firms). The only exception is the channel TVi launched in 2008, whose investors were two Russian businessmen: Vladimir Gusinskiy and Konstan- tin Kagalovskiy. Their companies Iota LP (owned by Mr. Kagalovskiy) and New Media Holding Group (owned by Mr. Gusinskiy) founded the joint enterprise IVL in April 2008, which became the official own- er of the Ukrainian channel. However, at the end of 2009 a number of disagreements arose between the investors. As a result a lawsuit was filed in court in New York according to in which Iota accused Vladimir Gusinskiy of “assuming complete control” over TVi after Iota had invested $11.3 million in the project on the conditions of equal partnership. The result of the lawsuit is still pending. However, the lawsuit has revealed the amount invested in TVi is $23 million.
Gone from the market Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME) In July of 2009 the American media corporation Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME) fi- nally decided to concentrate its efforts on the television markets of other European countries and left Ukrainian market after several years of attempting to transform its Ukrainian assets (1+1 TV group) into a profitable business. CME came to an agreement with Ukrainian businessman Igor Kolomoyskiy to sell him 49% of the corporation’s Ukrainian assets (1+1, City and Kino TV channels) for $100 million in cash. In addition, according to the agreement, 100% of the television channel TET which belonged to Mr. Kolomoyskiy at the time joined the 1+1 group. The Ukrainian businessman also received an op- tion for the purchase of the remaining 51% of CME’s Ukrainian assets for $300 million in cash. The option was successfully carried out by his company, Harley Trading Limited, in the spring of 2010.
Although CME called the sale of its Ukrainian assets a “successful deal,” the corporation received only $400 million for 100% of the 1+1 Ggroup, having bought 40% of it for $328.7 million two years earlier. It seems that CME actually sold 60% of the assets for only $70 million.
Fibernet At the beginning of 2011 it became known that one more foreign investor – the Hungarian cable pro- vider TB FN Cable Holding (TM FiberNet), has decided to bid farewell to its Ukrainian business ven- tures. In 2006 the Hungarians acquired two cable networks in Dnepropetrovsk – Faldstap and SDS, the total subscriber base was approximately 135,000 (the companies were unified under one brand, SDS Faldstap). Up until now SDS Faldstap had the second largest subscriber base after Volia. At the beginning of 2011 it became known, however, that SDS Faldstap had been sold to its main competitor - the Volia group. As we have already stated, analysts value this deal between $4 to $6 million.
Istil Group Another causality in Ukrainian television business happened to British/ Pakistani businessman Mo- hammad Zahoor. In August 2009 his Istil Group acquired 40% of the Poverhnost TV group for $60 mil-
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 16 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] Analytical Article C Analytical Article №1 19 February, 2011
lion (the group included satellite DTH provider Poverhnost and a number of niche satellite television channels). In April of 2010 a share of Istil in shareholder capital of Poverhnost reached 55%. However the satellite television platform soon ran into problems. In particular, the provider could not pay off its debts for rental of transponder capacities on the satellite Eutelsat W4. As a result in August of 2010 it completely stopped broadcasting TV channels leaving around five thousand of its subscrib- ers without access to a service which they had already paid for. This caused Istil to review its plans with regards to Poverhnost. The result was that in August of 2010 Istil sold its 55% of Poverhnost to the founder and head of the latter Mr. Viktor Samoylenko. Nevertheless, Istil Group has not com- pletely left the Ukrainian media industry. It now owns the Ukrainian production company Istil Studios, a majority stake in one more television production company Ledocol Istil and the English-language newspaper Kyiv Post.
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 17 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] Interview Interview C Interview №1 19 February, 2011
Famous Russian director, scriptwriter and producer Sergey Selyanov told CIS:Content Report about the current and planned projects of the film studio CTB, and animation studio Melnitsa, as well as about the Interview issues of Russian government film funding, and international distribution of Russian content.
As one of Russia’s best-known producers, Sergey Selyanov has been responsible for the production of more than 60 films, as well as award-winning animation and documentaries. In 1992 he founded the CTB Sergey Selyanov: film company, which is now one of the largest in Russia. In recent years his reputation has spread to an international level with the success of Gulshat Omarova’s Native Dancer, Sergey Bodrov’s epic Mongol We are still weakly and Alexey Balabanov’s Cargo 200. integrated into the western film industry, especially Mr. Selyanov, tell us please about the projects that STV film studio is working at now and those projects that have recently been finished. When are you planning to release them? We also know when it comes to the that your company received government funding to promote several projects after their shooting distribution of our projects. process was already completed. Tell us more about that.
We really received governmental financial support for some of our projects. But I wouldn’t try to divide this money into funding for production and funding for promotion: it was given in one general package. If we are going to talk about the governmentally supported projects, then our feature Supermanager, or the Scapegoat of Fate, which we have just finished working on, is definitely one of them. We will probably re- lease it in March 2011. The movie Samka (Female) production process was completed at the beginning of December 2010. We have plans to release it in late February or March 2011. We have also finished shoot- ing process of our Bablo (Money) feature directed by Kostya Boosov. In addition we also recently finished the Home feature shooting process. It is our coproduction with Central Partnership film company.
Tell us about your animation projects. As far as I understand, you are working with Melnitsa ani- mation studio, and quite successfully you have recently released Tri bogaturia i Shamahatskaya tsaritsa (Three heroes and the queen of Shamakhan) animation. There are some rumors about your new Sherlock Holmes animation…
We are quite happy with the results of our Tri bogaturia i Shamahatskaya tsaritsa release (CIS territories box office amounted till February 13, 2011 a little bit more than $20 million, - CIS:Content Report). We have a number of animation projects in development right now. These are such animated films as The Fortress and Sherlock Holmes. We also have a Sinbad project and several concepts, which are still without titles. We have grand plans for animation, and our subsidiary company Melnitsa plans to develop this field actively. We are still not really sure whether Sherlock Holmes or some other project will be released, but the Fortress production decision is 100% affirmative. Now we have enough facilities and experience to produce simultaneously two big animation projects.
Right now Ukraine is planning to introduce tax benefits for television and cinema producers, like the ones in Russia (zero VAT and so on). How much do those benefits help you in Russia, and how much does government funding help you?
All benefits, of course, are helpful. But notwithstanding all that is done by the government the situation with movie production is still very difficult as well as we still have to do something to develop theatrical Sergey Selyanov infrastructure and have sufficient number of cinema screens in the country.
For this moment almost all Russian feature films that did not receive state financial support were unprofit- able. At if our government wants Russia to be a country with strong film industry, it should increase na- tional filmmakers support. The government is a very important player on this market, and after the crisis its role has significantly increased. We should percept the government support as a powerful industry development instrument, but not as a kind of social benefit for everyone who has started producing and shooting films. Speaking about Ukraine, I think that government funding is definitely needed, including such important measure as a tax credit.
Let’s talk about international distribution. Your company films are mostly oriented on the CIS markets, but how are the things with your releases in Europe and Asia going?
Naturally, we want to be present outside CIS, but this not always makes sense from the financial point of view. I mean that with regards to some films when you calculate expenses for shipping and subtitling/ dubbing you would not make any profit. Here, in Ukraine, it turns out that our theatrical features distribu-
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 18 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] Interview Interview C Interview №1 19 February, 2011
tion costs equal our profits from this distribution. So arises a quite logical question - does it make sense to do this? Sometimes we do it (I mean we release our films in Ukrainian cinemas), sometimes we don’t. For us it’s important that our films were present on the local CIS markets. But if we are talking about our potentially successful from the financial point of view features, of course Ukraine is a very important ter- ritory for us.
In the Western countries all this distribution system works in other way. But without argument we (meaning CIS film producers) are still hardly integrated in the western film industry, especially when it comes to the distribution of our projects. Actually, we are weakly integrated into international industry by any means.
But there your content is really good, and there is numerous Russian diasporas oversees... Is the problem only in distribution tools?
The diasporas aren’t able to provide profits that could be interesting for local distributors. For example a German distributor who buys our film does not rely on the Russian speaking 4-5 million audience in Germany. Distributors buy films for all Germans. But for them, unfortunately, it’s not substantial, rather it’s their alternative plans for distribution of unusual and alternative kind of content. Talking about inde- pendent and indi films they are more or less have found their own niche on the global film market: this kind of content is widely presented on the European market, and all over the globe. But any way this market is rather small though it have its audience in Europe, Asia and America just because there are people who consider it important to watch something special including something from Russia.
But still we have something to be proud of at least by Russian standards. Our film Mongol was sold to international markets and released there. It was sold to 70 countries and get there rather good box office (international territories box office reached $26 million plus $6 million Russian box office, production bud- get – $18 million). Generally, action features are sold better because they have a pretty big market, which basically consumes all these projects. War films, for example, also have their market.
As for international support and promotion of Russian films, we still hope for the creation of some kind of special organization, which would systematically deal with all the necessary issues for better global pro- motion and distribution of Russian content. I think that some accomplishments will be made. With Ameri- can movies domination in the most territories, this all can seem not sufficient enough, but even after the Americans there is still about 20%-30% of the local market left. And this is something worth fighting for.
What are your plans for the coming year? Is it possible that you will reexamine where you place your emphases? For example, you are doing more animation. Is this a strategic move for you?
In general, I like animation, and I want to develop it as much as possible. This does not mean that I’ve for- gotten about feature films. Movies are my life, but animation is really marketable trend now. Of course, this does not mean that you will get some profit having produced a good (from your point of view). Certainly, you need to target the viewer. But if we talk about the return of investment, animation now is more stable and predictable than the features. In addition, it is a wonderful kind of art and activity, and people who cre- ate animation are really lucky guys.
Are you planning to cooperate with the Hollywood majors, as, for example, Timur Bekmambetov Sergey Selyanov did (CEO of BAZELEVS prodco)? Such coproduction could be useful for the further American and European markets distribution…
It is not so easy as it might seem. Timur has done well, we are all proud of him. But what can I say, I’ve worked with them (the majors – ed.). First of all, they don’t need you as an equal partner. If you came with a good project, they would be interested. And they would either offer to just buy it from you or to work in this configuration: let’s invest in fifty-fifty, but you will not receive any profits from the world distribution, you’ll only take CIS. Investing half of the sum into (even if it is a small production budget by Hollywood standards) $30 million project on their conditions you would not even recover your costs. I am not talking about any profit in this case at all. That’s the way the world movie industry works, and if they (majors) are participating in the project, they are looking for a way to grab all the possible profits. Once we held nego- tiations with one of the divisions of Universal about a possible remake of our action features Brother and Brother 2, they wanted to buy the rights. We held talks for 2 years and didn’t sell anything because the terms that they were offering, to put it softly, were not at all interesting for us. They are using the might-is-
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 19 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] Interview Interview C Interview №1 19 February, 2011
right principle, and they know that they are really powerful, and you simply don’t exist next to them. Yes, this is the way the world works, but this doesn’t mean that you have to bow to them – why should you?
You said that the $30 million production budget is small by Hollywood standards. What is the “small” budget of a feature film in Russia?
For a wide distribution of more or less noticeable film, with the rare exception, its minimal production budget is $2-2.5 million. It’s assumed that the more the better, but the budget is not a crucial factor of success. Success depends more on the story and idea of the feature. There are exceptions, when some low budget films sometimes gather a really significant box office. As an example I can quote Brother and Boomer features, that were quite cheap in term of production.
CONTENT REPORT Cis: Content report is a trademark of Media Resources Management, Ltd. Copyright belongs to MRM Company. In case of use of any materials or information from Cis: Content report interactive link to http://mrm.ua/en/project/regular/ciscr/subscribe is a MUST. Editorial team: Artem Vakalyuk, Olesya Anastasieva, Victoria Yarmoschyk. In case of any questions please contact us: Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected]
Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 20 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected]