In our Profile director interview, we sit down with filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov, who believes that the screenlife format is the future of moviemaking.
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Could a third Night Watch movie happen? Director Timur Bekmambetov says yes, but only if he can use the Screenlife format.
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While Julia Fox's announcement might shock some, she's not alone. In fact, she's inspiring a wave of women to follow her lead.
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A new Ice Cube movie is in the works as a screen capture sci-fi thriller that will be produced by Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov.
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Timur Bekmambetov has signed a deal with Universal to bring audiences five more movies in the Screenlife format. Could a Wanted sequel be one of them?
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Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch) is issuing commands for remote filming during coronavirus so he can continue shooting his war movie V2. Escape From Hell.
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The producer of Searching, Timur Bekmambetov, is developing the aptly titled V2. Escape From Hell as the first vertical format blockbuster.
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Producer Timur Bekmambetov is developing 14 computer screen movies like Unfriended and Searching, and they're not just horror movies, either.
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Timur Bekmambetov's remake of Ben-Hur will be Summer 2016's biggest box office bomb with a projected loss of over $120 million.
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Watch the new Ben-Hur trailer and featurette. Toby Kebbell and Jack Huston star in Timur Bekmambetov's re-adaptation of the Biblical epic.
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It's inevitable the new adaptation of Ben-Hur will be compared to the 1959 film, especially when it comes to recreating the classic Ben-Hur chariot race.
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After the success of Monsters, we heard about a mystery Gareth Edwards project, an original sci-fi film. According to the producer, it could still happen.
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According to director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Night Watch), this summer's Ben-Hur remake isn't the summer action movie some audiences might be expecting.
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Director Timur Bekmambetov is a busy man these days, but he hasn't forgotten about Dusk Watch. He says the Night Watch sequel will happen at some point.
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A year and a half ago, Jack Huston landed the lead role in Timur Bekmambetov's Ben-Hur, and this could be his big break. Check out Ben-Hur first look.
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In conjunction with a debut at TIFF this weekend, the Hardcore trailer has arrived, showcasing the bonkers first-person action movie from Ilya Naishuller.
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Ben-Hur has cast Nazanin Boniadi in the female lead. Boniadi, who currently plays CIA agent Fara on Showtime's Homeland, will star opposite Jack Huston.
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Morgan Freeman joins Ben-Hur, becoming its first star. Timur Bekmambetov is directing the new adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel.
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The non-Frozen Snow Queen CG-animated picture is getting a sequel. Timur Bekmambetov is producing Snow Queen: Journey Continues.
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Paramount and MGM want Tom Hiddleston for their Ben-Hur remake. He'd be stepping into the same role portrayed by Charlton Heston in the 1959 version.
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MGM's Ben-Hur remake has set a release date of February 26, 2016. Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, EPs of History's The Bible miniseries, will produce.
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"Hold on to your nuts." That's the tagline for Squirrels, from producer Timur Bekmambetov and writers Daniel Antoniazzi and Ben Shiffrin. The film doesn't have a director at this point, but there's a sales/concept trailer for your viewing... pleasure? The film looks like it belongs in a zone somewhere between the classic old animal-oriented exploitation movies and…
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Eight months ago, MGM bought the rights to Ben-Hur, a new spec script based on the nineteenth century novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace. That news was so crazy, I had wiped it out of my memory. MGM didn't though, and now the project is progressing. The latest update is that Timur Bekmambetov, the director of…
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Universal's been taking their good sweet time on the sequel to 2008's Wanted, but fans needn't fret just yet. The studio (re)hired Derek Haas and Michael Brandt to write the script last year, and the former now says they're readying the second draft. As for big changes from the last film, Haas reveals the unsurprising…
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The low-fi indie Monsters gave director Gareth Edwards a big-screen career virtually overnight, and in addition to working on the new incarnation of Godzilla for Legendary Pictures he has been developing another follow-up project in relative quiet. Late last summer we got a few details on the movie, which was then untitled. We learned that…
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Two big film releases this week both feature historical settings in which a fantastic story takes place, but Brave and Timur Bekmambetov's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter couldn't be more different. This film is based on the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Dark Shadows screenwriter) in which Abraham Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) is…
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Let's do a little update on Mark Millar movies. First up, while we were doubtful for months about the chances of Kick-Ass 2 actually shooting and bringing the cast of the original film back together, turns out we were too pessimistic. Looks like the film will in fact go before cameras this year, with Jeff…
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