Timur Bekmambetov

Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Night Watch) and his production company Bazelevs are teaming up with ZQ Entertainment to bring Stan Lee’s horror works to the screen. The first two entries in the new cinematic universe will be Sawbones and Carnival of Killers, with Lee’s POW! Entertainment executive producing. Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer will pen the script for Carnival of Killers, while Matt Greenberg will write Sawbones.

Stan Lee’s horror and thriller world is finally getting its own adaptation on the big screen. Film creator Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Searching) will be using his creative vision along with his production company, Bazelevs, to bring Lee’s underworld universe to life, Deadline reports. Partnering with CCA...

Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Night Watch) and his production company Bazelevs are teaming up with ZQ Entertainment to bring Stan Lee’s horror works to the screen. The first two entries in the new cinematic universe will be Sawbones and Carnival of Killers, with Lee’s POW! Entertainment executive producing. Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer will pen the script for Carnival of Killers, while Matt Greenberg will write Sawbones.

Russian-Kazakh multi-hyphenate Timur Bekmambetov has teamed up with MarVista Entertainment, Endeavor Content and Pulsar Content on a slate of feature films in his pioneering Screenlife format that will be presented to buyers at the TIFF market. Bekmambetov told Variety during the Toronto Film Festival, that the rapid growth, critical recognition and box-office success of Screenlife films – which take place almost entirely on smartphones and computer screens – prove the format is “more than just a gimmick.” “It is the first time the presence of Screenlife movies at a major film market is so prominent,” he said. “Just a few years ago,...

Timur Bekmambetov, the Russian writer-director-producer behind such pics as 2004’s “Night Watch” and 2008’s “Wanted,” has just started shooting his latest production, the English-language sci-fi thriller “Resurrected” in L.A. with Dave Davis (“The Vigil,” “True Detective”). Up-and-coming Russian director Egor Baranov, whose credits include the Russian B.O. hit trilogy “Gogol”...