Timur Bekmambetov
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Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (born June 25, 1961) is a Russian-Kazakh director, producer, and screenwriter who has worked on film, music videos, and commercials.
He is best known for the film Night Watch (2004) and its sequel Day Watch (2006), as well as the American films Wanted (2008) and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012).
Early life
Bekmambetov was born on June 25, 1961, in the city of Atyrau, formerly known as Guriev. Nuruakhit Bekmambetov, his father, worked in management positions with GuryevEnergo. Timur recalls that he was the chief power engineer of Western Kazakhstan. Mira Bogoslovskaya, his mother, was deputy editor in charge of the party's affairs section at the regional newspaper Prikaspiyskaya Kommuna. He has Kazakh ancestry on his father's side as well as Jewish ancestry on his mother's side.
Bekmambetov joined the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1979 and then stayed at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1980, the eve of the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was arrested from Moscow on the grounds of being "unreliable" and moved to Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, to study at the Alexander Ostrovsky Theatrical and Artistic Institute, where he graduated in 1987 with a degree in theater and cinema set design.
Personal life
Bekmambetov is the current owner of Walt Disney's mansion in Los Angeles.
Bekmambetov is married to Natalia Fishman-Bekmambetova, a Russian urbanist who worked on the facelift of Moscow and the restoration of Kazan's Kazan.
Career
Bekmambetov began his work in the late 1980s as a production designer at Ilkhom Theater in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and at Uzbek national film studio Uzbek film.
Bekmambetov went from Uzbekistan to Moscow, Russia, where he began selling Russian-style Russian food. World History, the international broadcaster, is based on life accounts of the world's most influential figures (from Neron and Tamerlan to Napoleon, and the last Russian emperor Nicholas 2d) is still the best video advertising in Russia. He formed Bazelevs, an advertising and film production firm, in 1994. Its advertising division continues to produce advertisements for major Russian and international companies (in 2021, a commercial starring Apple's latest iPhone in the Hermitage Museum interiors was nominated for the Cannes Lions).
Peshavar Waltz (1994), Bekmambetov's debut, depicting the war fought by the USSR in Afghanistan. In English, the film was titled Escape from Afghanistan and then released by Roger Corman direct-to-video in 2002. Bekmambetov was asked by Corman in 1998 to direct his production of The Arena (2001), starring Karen McDougal and Lisa Dergan. The film was a remake of the 1974 gladiator exploitation film The Arena.
Bekmambetov wrote and directed Night Watch (2004), a Russian fantasy film based on Sergey Lukyanenko's book. The film was the first Russian production after the demise of the Soviet Union, earning US$16.7 million in Russia alone, thus defeating The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Bekmambetov's sequel to Night Watch, Day Watch (2006), was also written and directed by Bekmambetov, establishing a new record for the domestic box office, with more than US$26 million netting in the first two weeks. Fox Searchlight Pictures, which paid US$4 million to buy the worldwide distribution rights, but not Russia and the Baltic states), was attracted the Russian blockbuster epic. Empire magazine selected the tape in 2010 as one of the Top Films of World Cinema. Quentin Tarantino and James Gunn, two American directors (Guardians of the Galaxy), gave the film high marks.
Universal's action thriller Wanted (2008), an adaptation of Mark Millar and J. G. Jones' graphic novel collection, was Bekmambetov's debut in Hollywood. Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, and Morgan Freeman star Danny Williams, the action film earned over US$341 million worldwide, making it Universal's highest-ever grossing “R” rated film and received two Oscar nominations.
Bekmambetov produced an animation film entitled 9 (2009), starring Tim Burton and Jim Lemley, based on a rag doll in a post-apocalyptic setting directed by Shane Acker.
Bekmambetov produced the science fiction thriller Apollo 18, together with The Weinstein Company, and the science fiction film The Darkest Hour, directed by New Regency in Moscow.
Bekmambetov produced and produced the live-action adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's book Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, in 2012, alongside Tim Burton and Jim Lemley. The National Association of Theatre Owners named him as the 2012 International Filmmaker of the Year.
Bekmambetov was one of the decade's most influential Russian directors, according to Variety (Russian Edition).
Bekmambetov directed Ben-Hur, the fifth film version of Lew Wallace's book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. At the same time, he made the action film Hardcore Henry (directed by Nobody's Ilya Naishuller), based on the first-person perspective of a first-person shooter.
Bekmambetov produced the historical drama The Current War, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Holland, and Nicholas Hoult, which was released in 2017. Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse's 19th-century war of currents inspired the film.
Bekmambetov produced the WW2 action film V2 in 2021. Using the War Thunder game engine, Escape from Hell, with its aircraft combat scenes. The film was released in Russia both as a feature and as a subscription service as a smartphone-only vertical series.
Bekmambetov, the Marvel omics creator Stan Lee's unexplored works in the horror genre, will be brought to the screen in 2021.
Bekmambetov is the pioneer of screenlife filmmaking, reflecting people's lives as a result of mobile technology's advent. Viewers see the play play out from the characters' POV of the computers, tablets, or smartphones used by the characters in a screenlife film.
Universal acquired the teen horror Unfriended, Bekmambetov's debut filmlife film, in 2015, grossing $65 million worldwide with a budget of $1 million; three years later, Unfriended: Dark Web debuted.
Bekmambetov grew a whopping $7 million globally from John Cho's 2018 heist thriller, which saw more than $7 million worldwide.
He created the 10-episode series Dead of Night for Snapchat in 2019, with the story centered around a viral outbreak that has turned people into zombies. In the first month, it attracted more than 16 million viewers and was extended to the second season.
Universal and Bekmambetov announced a collaboration to partner on five Hollywood films in various genres in 2020.
Focus Features Unveiled Profile, Bekmambetov's first directorial feature in the screenlife style, in 2021, where a reporter follows a journalist to track a Jihadi recruiter to learn more about why and how European women join ISIS. Profile was named at the Berlin Film Festival in 2015 as a result of the 2015 nonfiction book In the Skin of a Jihadist by a French journalist Anna Erelle.
R#J, a Gen Z interpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, premiered at Sundance 2021 and took home a special award at SXSW, Bekmambetov's latest screenlife film, R#J, Bekmambetov's latest screenlife film, premiered at Sundance 2021.
Bekmambetov's Bazelevs was named one of the 2021 World's Most Innovative Companies thanks to the invention of the screenlife filmmaking process.