Bazelevs Company

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Bazelevs
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryCinema
PredecessorImperial Film
Founded1991;33 years ago (1991)
Founder Timur Bekmambetov
HeadquartersMoscow, Russia (Russian HQ)
New York, US (International HQ)
Key people
Timur Bekmambetov (founder)
Yva Stromilova (general producer)
Sergei Ageyev (executive producer)
Pavel Perepelkin
ProductsMotion pictures
ServicesMovie production
special effects
Divisions Bazelevs Distribution
3D Previz Studio
Subsidiaries Computer graphics
advertising and film department
Website bazelevs.ru

Bazelevs is a US-based production company founded by Hollywood director and producer Timur Bekmambetov. The company has been producing films such as Night Watch , Day Watch , Wanted , The Darkest Hour , Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Hardcore Henry .

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The company was involved in producing the animated film 9 , which was nominated for Best Animated Film in 2010 at the Producers Guild of America Awards 2009.

In the summer of 2010 in Moscow, they filmed the Russo-American projects The Darkest Hour , in cooperation with 20th Century Fox, New Regency, Summit Entertainment and Kikoriki. Team Invincible in cooperation with Columbia Pictures, in the United States with Bekmambetov as a producer.

In 2015, the company have since released films in a new format titled "Screenlife" which each film is shot in the point-of-view of computer screens and smartphones. [1] The first couple films released in that genre are Unfriended , Unfriended: Dark Web , Searching and Profile .

List of films produced by Bazelevs

Screenlife

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  2. Opam, Kwame (13 January 2015). "This new horror movie is about everything miserable in online culture". The Verge. Retrieved 3 February 2024.