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Row 19 will be Available on Digital, Blu-ray & DVD May 31 with Bonus Features Including an All-New English Dub. Here’s the trailer:

It’s terror in the air when several flight passengers suddenly suffer gruesome, unexplained deaths in the spine-tingling thriller Row 19,debuting on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD May 31 from Well Go USA Entertainment. A young doctor on board begins to suspect that the shadowy, terrifying force behind her own worst childhood nightmare may be back for blood. Row 19 stars Svetlana Ivanova (Cosmoball), Marta Timofeeva, Wolfgang Cerni (T-34), Ekaterina Vilkova, Anatoliy Kot and Victoria Korlyakova. The bonus features include an all-new English dub.

When several flight passengers suddenly suffer gruesome, unexplained deaths, a young doctor on board begins to suspect that the shadowy, terrifying force behind her own worst childhood nightmare may be back for blood.

Row 19 has a runtime of approximately 78 minutes and is not rated.

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"I'm starting to confuse reality with my nightmares." Well Go USA has revealed an official US trailer for a Russian supernatural thriller called Row 19 directed by Alexander Babaev. This already opened in Russia last fall and is getting a US release on VOD and disc to watch in May. A young female doctor with a 6-year-old daughter is on a night flight caught in a terrible storm. In a half-empty cabin, she faces the unexplained deaths of her fellow passengers, begins to lose her grip on reality and relives the worst nightmare from her childhood. Some evil force is back to finish what it started years ago. The movie stars Svetlana Ivanova, Marta Timofeeva, Wolfgang Cerni, Ekaterina Vilkova, Anatoliy Ko, and Victoria Korlyakova. This looks like it gets super intense once things get going. It's an English-language dub of the film, which sucks, but I guess they don't want...

Stars: Aleksey Chadov, Pyotr Fyodorov, Svetlana Ivanova, Lukerya llyashenko | Written by llya Kulikov | Directed by Egor Baranov

Leave it to the bloody Russians to show everyone how to make an epic alien invasion flick… Over the years I have become aware of the fascinating knack that our friends over in Russia have of making just the most outlandish awesome epic movies. Night Watch and Day Watch are two of my favorite “vampire” movies (I’m still not sure they are vampires) out there. Earlier this year Why Don’t you Just Die came out which was a hell of a good time and I refuse to apologies for getting some guilty pleasure from that semi super hero flick Guardians.

I think the reason they are so good at making these epic movies so well is because they either don’t care about budget or they are just amazing at stretching their budget…...

Row 19 is an upcoming, high flying thriller. Shot in Russia, this title involves a terrible storm on a one-way flight. On the flight, a female doctor and her six year old daughter experience a strange situation as an entity kills passengers one-by-one. The film's concept poster and short teaser are available here. As well, director Alexander Babaev (Bornless Ones) has developed this title, with James Rabb (Ark) acting as scriptwriter. Hosting a mostly Russian cast, the actors consist of: Svetlana Ivanova (The Blackout), Viktoriya Korlyakova (Live Bomb), Wolfgang Cerny and many others. This dangerous thriller is expected to release in 2020 (Russia) and other territories in 2021. The Central Partnership Sales House will be handling international distribution. There are no official release dates for North America, but this could change, later in the year. For now, a preview for Row 19 is available here. Release Date: 2021 Director: Alexander Babaev. Writer: James Rabb. Cast: Svetlana.

"Someone or something is plunging humanity into darkness..." Shout Studios has released an official trailer for a Russian sci-fi action thriller titled The Blackout: Invasion Earth, an extension of the original title The Blackout. So what's going on in this? Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside "the Ring" is shocking. There are dead everywhere: in stores, in cars, on roads, in hospitals and railway stations. Who or what is destroying all life on Earth? How long will the last outpost of mankind survive? Watch to find out! Starring Pyotr Fyodorov, Aleksey Chadov, Svetlana Ivanova, Konstantin Lavronenko, Lukerya Ilyashenko, and Kseniya Kutepova. Visually, this looks very cool (nice Blade Runner nod hanging off the building). But I'm not really sure what the heck is going on.

Sneak Peek the Russian-produced science fiction feature "Goalkeeper of the Galaxy", directed by Dzhanik Fayziev, starring Yevgeny Romantsov, Victoria Agalakova, Yevgeny Mironov, Mikhail Yefremov, Elena Yakovleva, Dmitry Nazarov and Svetlana Ivanova, opening in 2019:

"...in the aftermath of a galactic war, which took place in proximity to Earth, the Moon was destroyed and the planet's poles shifted. Now an enormous spaceship hovers over Earth. This is a stadium, which hosts sports events that resemble soccer but at mind-boggling speeds. The name of the game is 'cosmoball', with the fate of the planet depending on the result of the match between earthmen and aliens..."

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“Trigger,” a Russian drama centering on a psychologist, Artem, who practices “provocative therapy” – a method that forces clients to confront their problems in a shocking, sometimes brutal way – had its world premiere at Mipcom on Sunday. Variety spoke to its star, Maxim Matveev.

Psychologist Sergey Nasibian acted as a consultant on the show, and as well as sharing past cases, he employed the same “provocative” therapeutic methods on Matveev as are shown in the series. “It was a nice experience because I had the opportunity to feel what Artem’s clients feel like when they have a conversation with him,” Matveev says. “This method is really cool and it works, and through this encounter [with Nasibian] I could understand why I became an actor.”

Matveev says there are some similarities between an actor and a psychologist as both have to get inside the mind of someone else, and adopt different personas. “With each client,...

Some 14,000 international TV executives, including around 5,000 buyers from over 100 countries, will be cruising down the Croisette in Cannes this weekend for the annual Mipcom market.

The sun is set to shine in the south of France and the major international distributors, including the Hollywood studios, will hope this helps shift their latest high-end dramas and non-scripted entertainment formats.

The Americans will be back in town, having largely given Mip TV in April a miss, with high-profile buyers from the FAANGs joining traditional buyers from the broadcast networks and cable stations. The likes of Apple’s Morgan Wandell, Hulu’s Craig Erwich, Amazon’s Cj Yu and Euro chief Georgia Brown, Facebook’s Toby Faulkner and Mina Lefevre and YouTube’s Luke Hyams are expected to be joined by Fox’s Rob Wade and teams from Bravo, FX, A+E Networks, Nat Geo and Discovery.

Hollywood talent chief Ari Emanuel will be...

Sneak Peek "Goalkeeper of the Galaxy", a Russian-produced science fiction feature directed by Dzhanik Fayziev, starring Yevgeny Romantsov, Victoria Agalakova, Yevgeny Mironov, Mikhail Yefremov, Elena Yakovleva, Dmitry Nazarov and Svetlana Ivanova, opening in 2019:

"...in the aftermath of a galactic war, which took place in proximity to Earth, the Moon was destroyed and the planet's poles shifted. Now an enormous spaceship hovers over Earth. This is a stadium, which hosts sports events that resemble soccer but at mind-boggling speeds. The name of the game is 'cosmoball', with the fate of the planet depending on the result of the match between earthmen and aliens..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Goalkeeper of the Galaxy"...

An insufferable love story set in St Petersburg pre-1917 and Paris today, this regressive, saccharine film may have made serious rubles, but it has no merit

So soaked with sentimentality, bogus emotion and cliche, to watch it is to feel as if one is being pelted by a spongiform romance novel soaked in alcopop, this St Petersburg-Paris set drama is the very embodiment of the Russian notion of “poshlost”, a kind of corny vulgarity that Nabokov dissected at length in his book on Gogol. It’s a depressing sign of the times, along with the election of Donald Trump and the vote for Brexit, that this rubbish was one of the highest-earning films in Russia recently. Former Eurovision contestant Dima Bilan plays with equal woodenness two different characters in two different time periods, who both fall in love with Svetlana Ivanova’s simpering blonde princess and her descendent.

During the 1917 Russian revolution,...

Russian actor-turned-director Vuriy Vasilev’s second project The Heritage of Love attempts to combine war-torn Russia during the Revolution and modern day Paris, but sadly misses the mark at every turn. As we are introduced to Andrey (Dima Bilan) and Vera (Svetlana Ivanova) two love stories emerge, separated by three generations and 100 years. Initially, such […]

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The Russian distribution sector is gaining a new player with the launch of Dreamteam.

Mark Lolo, who exited his post as president of the distributor-producer Central Partnership a year ago to pursue his “own projects”, is joined at the head of the new venture by another seasoned professional, Andrei Tereshok, formerly CEO of the Kronverk chain of cinemas which has screens in Russia and Ukraine.

With one release planned a month from next January, Dreamteam’s first title will be on Jan 1: Dmitri Dyachenko’s comedy Faster Than Rabbits (Bystree, chem kroliki), featuring the comedy troupe Kvartet I who also appeared in Dyachenko’s 2010 film What Men Talk About (O chyom govoryat muzhchiny), a Russian, male answer to Sex And The City.

This will be followed on Feb 13 by the world premiere of Armen Gevorgyan’s romantic comedy Unreal Love (Nerealnaya Lyubov) with Gosha Kutsenko and Marina Alexandrovna.

Amonth later it will release Gazgolder, described as “a musical...