Shout! Studios, a multiplatform company which is part of Shout! Factory, has acquired all kinds of rights to the action–disaster film Ogon (No Escapes) in North America.
The blockbuster was released in Russian movie theaters on December 24, 2020, and has already made more than $10 million at the domestic box office.
Central Partnership (part of Gazprom Media) is handling the international distribution rights for the film.
Fire is the work of Nikita Mikhalkov's Studio TriTe, the television channel Russia 1, and Central Partnership. The film was shot in 2019, in what was in many ways an operation of unprecedented scale and complexity: for instance, the crew filmed genuine forest fires in Krasnoyarsk Territory. However, not a single living tree was harmed in the making of the film: the team bought trees that had already been cut down and used them to construct an extensive forest set.
The film's actors also showed their commitment, performing dangerous stunts without stunt doubles and acting while surrounded by genuine, blazing fire.
The team benefited from advice from members of the emergency services and Forest Protection Service, which also provided some incredible aircraft for the film: Mi-8 helicopters, Il-62 and An-26 planes, and Be-200 amphibians. The scene showing a forest fire being extinguished using a Be-200 amphibian was captured by six cameras at once.
Studio TriTe and Russia 1's previous box-office hit, the blockbuster Three Seconds, was the highest-grossing Russian film ever in China.
Audiences in the USA and Canada will have the chance to form their own opinion of this tale of heroism in the Fire and Rescue Service in summer 2021.
FIRE
Russia, 2020
Genre: Action/ Disaster
Production: Three T Studio, TV-channel Russia-1, Central Partnership with the support of FOND KINO
Director: Alexey Nuzhny
Screenplay by: Nikolay Kulikov, Alexey Nuzhny, Konstantin Meyer
DOP: Mikhail Milashin
Set designer: Sergey Agin
Music: Kirill Borodulev
Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Andrey Smolyakov, Irina Gorbacheva, Victor Dobronravov, Ivan Yankovskiy, Roman Kurtsyn, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Tikhon Zhiznevskiy, Anton Bogdanov
Synopsis
A heroic story about firefighters and rescuers. What we call an act of bravery is just a usual routine for them, if only one can get used to mortal danger and extreme risk. When people in distress seem to have nobody who may help them, rescuers come to fight against merciless forces of nature.
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