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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Cinema |
Predecessor | Imperial Film |
Founded | 1991 |
Founder | Timur Bekmambetov |
Headquarters | Moscow, Russia (Russian HQ) New York, US (International HQ) |
Key people | Timur Bekmambetov (founder) Yva Stromilova (general producer) Sergei Ageyev (executive producer) Pavel Perepelkin |
Products | Motion pictures |
Services | Movie production special effects |
Divisions | Bazelevs Distribution 3D Previz Studio |
Subsidiaries | Computer graphics advertising and film department |
Website | bazelevs |
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 .
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 .