Doctor Sleep
The continuation of the iconic Radiance, to many, seemed an idea of doubtful, difficult to implement or useless. But not Stephen King. A few years ago, the writer, after consulting with his fans, released a sequel to the 1977 novel titled "Doctor Dream."
King placed the adult Danny Torrens in the center of the story (Ewan McGregor plays in the film), who was unable to recover from the events at Overlook Hotel. Torrance works in a hospice and, thanks to his superpower (what was called the "radiance") helps people prepare for death. Once he meets a girl Abra who also has psychic abilities and needs help - she is persecuted by members of an ominous sect.
The picture was staged by Mike Flanagan, who had already filmed another King’s bestseller, The Game of Gerald, for Netflix. It is interesting that King already saw the "Doctor" and was more than pleased with him.
Breaking Bad (The Professor)
The second picture of the American director Wayne Roberst was first presented to the audience in October 2018, but she got to the Russian box office just now. At first, the film was called “Richard says goodbye,” which echoed too much with Roberts' debut, “Cathy says goodbye,” and only then was nicknamed “The Professor”.
In the Russian box office, the tape was called "Breaking Bad", which, obviously, was conceived as a reference to the famous series "Breaking Bad" (Breaking Bad).
The heroes of both tapes are diagnosed with cancer, but this is perhaps the only thing that combines the aforementioned paintings. Unlike the chemist Walter White, the professor of English literature, Richard Brown (Johnny Depp) does not take up the production of drugs, but ignores the first four stages of the Kübler-Ross model and immediately proceeds to the last - the adoption. After a conversation with the doctor, he decides to let everything go of his own accord and start living to the fullest.
Ninth
In different parts of gloomy Petersburg, the mutilated bodies of young city dwellers are continually found. Investigate mysterious murders entrusted to police colonel Rostov. He, in turn, decides to resort to the help of the British medium medium Olivia Reed, who is traveling around Russia with an occult tour. Heroes will face infernal evil.
The mystical detective in the scenery of 19th-century Gothic St. Petersburg is a new directorial project of the participant of the Cannes Film Festival in the student film contest Nikolai Khomeriki. The main roles in the Ninth went to Evgeny Tsyganov and Briton Daisy Head.
Success
Lisa suffers terribly from the impossibility of self-realization. She leaves the family, leaving her husband Artyom alone with her daughter Vita and financial problems, and goes to the USA to build a musical career. Meanwhile, Artyom is offered to earn extra money on a corporate party, but he does not know the words of a pop hit, and as a result, his daughter performs the song. The video of their performance gains a lot of views on the network and attracts an influential producer.
“Success” was directed by the director of the film “Status: Free” Pavel Ruminov. The director does not deny that the script contains a "microdosing of influence" of Robert Benton's Oscar-winning film "Kramer vs. Kramer". The role of the unlucky father-rocker (outwardly-spilled Kurt Cobain) Ruminov proposed to the star "I'm losing weight" Roman Kursyn. The film also played Julia Snigir, Maria Lobanova and Alexei Chadov.
New Year's repair
“New Year's Repair” - an adaptation of the play “The Brotherhood of Margarita” by Eduard Topol. He, along with the director of the film Arthur Pinhasov, was engaged in the adaptation of the script.
The plot focuses on the misadventures of the girl Margarita, who is vitally necessary to complete repairs in a new apartment in a day. By mistake, she does a mass mailing of a message asking to help all the contacts on the phone. So on the threshold of her house are a deputy, a Jewish teacher, an African American and an Armenian.
The roles in the tape were performed by Zoya Berber, Sergey Komarov, Irina Rozanova and Vadim Galygin.
Paradise Hills
The premiere of Paradise Hills, the first full-length film by Spanish director Alice Weddington, took place at the Sundance Festival in America. Then came the genre Fantasia International Film Festival (Montreal), Vancouver, Toronto and Spanish Sitges. Finally, the film got to international distribution.
The most remarkable thing about The Hills is its fantasy surroundings: it is not for nothing that Weddington spent years working with photos and videos in the fashion industry. It is impossible not to mention individual names from the cast - say, Emma Roberts, Milu Jovovich (this time in a villainous role) and Aquafin. But the film itself raises questions due to the straightforwardness of its message: according to the plot, the girls are sent to a secluded island "for re-education" so that they turn from bright personalities into the right ones, pleasing to society, like a carbon copy of fairies made. Girls do not want to become the best Instagram version of themselves and are plotting a riot.
The yard Big wave
For a long time, Russian surfer Seva Shulgin dreamed of conquering one of the most dangerous waves in the world - Jouse. On a wave high in a multi-story building, resorting to the shores of the island of Maui in Hawaii, only 15 people were able to ride. Shulgin realized his dream and became the first Russian surfer to conquer Jouse.
In the documentary “The Yard. The Big Wave ”Dmitry Bogdanov and Sergey Gilgenberg also depicted the stories of other Russian surfers - Yevgeny Novozheev and Sergey Verkhinsky. The geography of the filming process covers Hawaii (Maui island), the island of Mauritius and Morocco.