Bazelevs Company

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Bazelevs

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Cinema
Predecessor	Imperial Film
Founded	1991; 33 years ago (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

Bazelevs is a US-based production company founded by Hollywood director and producer Timur Bekmambetov. The company has been producing films such as Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted, 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 the summer of 2010 in Moscow, they filmed the Russo-American projects The Darkest Hour, in cooperation with 20th Century Fox, New Regency, Summit Entertainment and Kikoriki. Team Invincible in cooperation with Columbia Pictures, in the United States with Bekmambetov as a producer.

In 2015, the company have since released films in a new format titled "Screenlife" which each film is shot in the point-of-view of computer screens and smartphones.^[1] The first couple films released in that genre are Unfriended, Unfriended: Dark Web, Searching and Profile.