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).

Bazelevs

Type	Subsidiary
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.ru

The company was founded by Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov. The company has been producing films such as The Irony of Fate 2, Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted, Black Lightning, Lucky Trouble, 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 winter of 2010–2011, the film Yolki was the top among other Russian films at the box office over the past three years. In February 2011, the film 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.

In 2015, the company have since released films in a new genre titled "Screenlife" which each film is shot in the point-of-view of computer screens and smartphones. The first couple films released in that genre are Unfriended, Unfriended: Dark Web, Searching and Profile.