NMG Studio have signed a 3 years first-look deal with Videoprokat Studio (a Sergey Bondarchuck and Aleksey Kiselev company). Under the deal Videoprokat Studio will draft at least 30 projects (including at least 8 TV shows and 2 full-length motion pictures per year), and at least 6 of them will be assured for production.
Vyacheslav Murugov, Producer, Deputy General Director for Entertainment Broadcast, NMG: “Our collaboration with the Videoprokat Studio has already shown its effectiveness, and we are very pleased to have an opportunity to expand it further. It’s a lack of producers in the current market, and we do believe we were lucky to conclude a first-look deal with a rapidly growing studio, whose talent has already given us several hits. And we have no doubt they are able to make more.”
Videoprokat Studio and NMG Studio collaboration has already produced high-profile projects such as the first Fyodor Bondarchuk series, ‘PSYCHO’, and 8-episodes of ‘HAPPYEND’ – the first Russian show about the Webcam industry. The ‘BALLET’, a new joint project of Videoprokat Studio, NMG Studio, STS TV channel and IVI Online Cinema, is currently being filmed in Moscow. It is directed by Evgeniy Sangadziev, an Industry Film And Television School graduate, who also directed ‘HAPPYEND’.
Sergey Bondarchuk, Alexey Kiselev, Producers, Videoprokat Studio Founders: “From the beginning we set a fairly ambitious goal: to create a content in truly new quality and feel. That's why we do our best to attract bright young directors and screenwriters. The main criteria for a story to be picked by us is braveness and timeliness. We can now say that we earn a certain credibility by our projects, which allows us to build a strong partnerships based on mutual understanding as we have with NMG Studio. And we desire to move forward together.”
Anastasiya Koretskaya, Producer, Videoprokat Studio Minor Partner: "Our main value is honesty in all our projects, and our company is based on the same principle. That's why we manage to create projects that resonate with our audience. We explore non-obvious topics that no one has talked about, and take the viewer along. I'm sure that our collaboration with such a strong player as NMG Studio will bring tangible results for the industry."