The Cinema Fund will allocate money for a new film adaptation of “Pinocchio” – Kommersant

The Cinema Fund will allocate funding for the production of a new film adaptation of “Pinocchio”, films about Alexander Pushkin (“The Prophet”), Peter I (“Birth of an Empire”) and the prequel to the franchise “The Last Bogatyr” (“The First Bogatyr”), reported press service state organization.

The press release states that the Cinema Fund has selected 9 films by leaders of domestic film production and 11 films by other film organizations, for the production of which money will be allocated.

Among the films that passed the selection are a new film adaptation of “Pinocchio” (produced by the film company “Vodorod 2011”), “Vasily” (Art Pictures Studio), “Gorynych” (STV), “Guantanamera” (Central Partnership), “The Ninth Planet “(STV), “The First Bogatyr” (“VBD Group”), “The Prophet” (“Central Partnership”), “The Birth of an Empire” (Nikita Mikhalkov’s Trite studio) and “North Pole-8” (“Central Partnership” ).

Edition “Around TV” at the end of May it reported that the film company “Vorodod 2011” plans to shoot a new film adaptation of “Pinocchio”, the screenwriter will be Andrei Zolotarev (the series “Trigger” and the film “Ice”), and his co-author will be Aksinya Borisova. According to Vokrug TV, the film will be directed by Igor Voloshin (sitcom “Olga”). The release date is still unknown.

Erdni Kagaltynov