Bazelevs Company

Bazelevs Productions (or Bazelevs Company; Russian: Базелевс) is a Russian production company, named after the Greek title for monarch and rulers of ancient Athens, Macedonia and Sparta: Basileus (Βασιλεύς).

The company was founded by Russo-Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov. The company has been producing films such as The Irony of Fate 2, Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted, Chernaya Molnya, Vykrutasy, The Darkest Hour, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Hardcore Henry and Ben-Hur remake.

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 winter of 2010–2011, the film Trees (Yolki) was the top among other Russian films at the box office over the past three years. In February 2011, the film Vyrkutasy (Lucky Trouble) won the main audience award – "Golden Taiga" which debuted at the festival in Khanty-Mansiysk.

In the summer of 2010 in Moscow, they filmed the Russo-American project The Darkest Hour, in cooperation with 20th Century Fox, New Regency and Summit Entertainment, with Bekmambetov as a producer.

List of films produced by Bazelevs

• The Arena (2001)
• GAZ - Russian Cars (2003)
• Night Watch (2004)
• Day Watch (2006)
• The Irony of Fate: Continuation (2007)
• 9 (2009; under Bazelevs Feature Animation)
• Wanted (2008)
• Chernaya Molnya (2009)
• Apollo 18 (2011)
• Vykrutasy (2011)
• Kikoriki (2011)
• Yolki (2010)
• The Darkest Hour (2011)
• Yolki 2 (2011)
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
• Gentelmen, Good Luck! (2012)
• The Snow Queen (2012)
• Yolki 3 (2013)
• Yolki 1914 (2014)
• Hardcore (2014)
• Yolki Loxmatye (2015)
• Unfriended (2015)
• He's a Dragon (2015)
• Hardcore Henry (2016)
• Ben-Hur (2016)

See also

• Central Partnership

External links

• Official Website
• Bazelevs Company in imdb