Family together: watching new items with loved ones

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Thunder: Difficult Childhood

The most family holiday cannot do without a joint cozy movie screening. With the advent of the New Year, Kinopoisk will give viewers the long-awaited prequel Major Grom, which will be the first digital release of 2023. The spectacular backstory will unfold 20 years before the events of the original film in St. Petersburg in the 90s and reveal the relationship of young Igor Grom with his father. While Grom Sr. is hunting for the boss of the criminal world Anubis, Igor and his best friend Ignat are looking for ways to earn money and get involved in dubious adventures. Director Oleg Trofim and producer Artem Gabrelyanov returned to work on the BUBBLE Comics movie universe, and the cast included Kai Getz, Sergey Marin, Alexei Vedernikov, Daniil Vorobyov, Irina Rozanova and Vladimir Yaganov. The film will be released on January 1 at 20:23 exclusively on the service.

Operation Fortune: The Art of Winning

Guy Ritchie is back on the big screen with a new comedy thriller starring Jason Statham. According to all the canons of Hollywood, the fate of mankind hangs in the balance, and only the elite intelligence officer Orson, nicknamed “Fortune”, can rectify the situation. However, such a difficult and important task is beyond the power of one Mi-6 agent. The hero will have to unite with the best operatives of the Five Eyes international alliance in order to stop the spread of deadly weapons that can disrupt the world order. And a well-known film actor organizes a convincing cover for a dashing group. Statham was joined on set by Aubrey Plaza, Hugh Grant, Cary Elwes and Josh Harnett, and the action-adventure is scheduled to release on January 5 in cinemas around the country.

Cheburashka

Cheburashka and Crocodile Gena appeared on the screens 53 years ago and have since become favorite characters for several generations of children and adults. Already on January 1, a rethinking of the story of the eared hero will be released in cinemas with the support of the START service, the Soyuzmultfilm studio and the Russia 1 TV channel. Dmitry Dyachenko, who directed two episodes of the popular franchise The Last Hero, directed the film. According to him, viewers will find a fascinating story about the search for family and friends, which will appeal to parents who grew up in the Soviet Union and their children. According to the story, a small animal from an orange grove will meet a new friend, Gena. Only this time he will not be a crocodile, but a gardener performed by Sergei Garmash. An updated version of the hero was created using modern computer technologies Motion Capture and Full CG. Actress Olga Kuzmina, known for her role as Nastya in the popular television series Kitchen, gave her voice, facial expressions and movements to Cheburashka.

One of us

The long-awaited film adaptation of the cult game “The Last of Us” will soon reach television screens. The HBO channel rarely disappoints viewers and releases some of the most talked about projects of recent years. The authors carefully treated the original source and paid great attention to the detailed study of locations, references and Easter eggs. Fans have already highly appreciated the first shots and teasers of the series and are looking forward to an exciting immersion in their favorite universe. The action will unfold in a post-apocalyptic world where the smuggler Joel meets a 14-year-old girl named Ellie. She is immune to the virus that turned the inhabitants of the planet into zombies. Only the secret of her immunity can become the key to survival and save humanity from extinction. The voice actors of Joel and Ellie from the original game played in the series, and the characters themselves were performed by the stars of the cult Game of Thrones – Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. The authors of the project were Craig Mazin, who shot Chernobyl, and Neil Druckmann, who is responsible for the idea and development of the game.

Fandorin. Azazel

Plus Studio and Nurbek Egen, who previously managed to work on “Major” and “Sherlock in Russia”, they are preparing to release a series based on the novel by Boris Akunin “Azazel”. In the center of the conspiracy detective will be the novice detective Erast Fandorin, who conducts his investigations using modern technologies and robotics. Events will unfold in an alternative year of 2023, where Tsar Nicholas III shares control of the country with the hero of Yevgeny Stychkin, Prime Minister Dmitry Orlov. In the story, Fandorin learns about the strange suicide of a young millionaire in front of the people of Petrograd and suspects that the case is much more complicated than it seems at first glance. From that moment on, the detective played by Vladislav Tiron takes on his first serious investigation. The showrunner of the project was Alexandra Remizova (Trigger, Patient Zero), and the mini-series will be released in January exclusively on Kinopoisk. The producers promise that both fans of the original source and those who get to know Fandorin’s detective adventures for the first time will be interested in following the updated story.

Belle and Sebastian: The New Generation

A relaunch of the touching story of friendship between a boy and a dog from French director Pierre Coret. At the center of the family film will be 10-year-old Sebastian, who is sent on vacation to his grandmother in a mountain village. There he feels lonely until he meets a huge white dog that has been mistreated by people. The boy is ready to do anything to protect his new four-legged friend. True friendship and affection develops between Sebastian and Belle, and a vacation at Grandma’s turns into an exciting adventure. The film is set to open in theaters on January 1st.

Fir-trees-needles

The romantic comedy directed by Alexander Barshak brought together a star cast, which included Pavel Priluchny, Oscar Kuchera, Garik Sukachev, Alina Alekseeva and others. The festive film will immerse the audience in the atmosphere of New Year’s Moscow, where the characters now and then get into various adventures. Landscape designer Katya delivers Christmas trees all over the city and does not want to get acquainted with the young man imposed by her mother. To avoid this meeting, the girl agrees to help her neighbor and meet his uncle from Chicago. From that moment on, the most amazing day of the year will begin for her – Katya will meet the wrong uncle, hide from bandits and truly fall in love. The film will premiere in theaters on December 29.

The Witcher: Origins

Netflix expands its witcher universe based on the cult books of Andrzej Sapkowski. The service will present a prequel very soon The Witcher and tell new details of the origin of Ciri. The action will unfold 1200 years before the events of the original series, and the focus will be on the Conjunction of the Spheres – a magical cataclysm, as a result of which monsters arrived on the Continent. The catastrophe erased the borders of several worlds, including the reason for the appearance of the first witchers. The audience will not see Geralt of Rivia, but events will not do without familiar characters, because the bard Dandelion will be the narrator of the story. The fantasy series will premiere on December 25.

Major in Sochi

One of the most popular Russian TV series returns to the screens with the second feature film. On December 22, Kinopoisk subscribers will be able to see the continuation of the Major and briefly plunge into the atmosphere of the picturesque resorts of Sochi. It was there that the hero of Pavel Priluchny moved with his daughter Sonya. Igor Sokolovsky decided to open his own eco-hotel, but from the very beginning, everything does not go according to plan. A pogrom is staged at the hotel, and a local Sochi bigwig plans to demolish a residential area in order to build a winery. Moving from the metropolis, the major decided to start a new life, which means that he will have to solve problems without the use of force and old favorite methods. Will Igor be able to become an exemplary father and restore justice for ordinary residents of the city?

Relatives

Based on the novel of the same name by Octavia Butler, the mini-series produced by Hulu and FX will take viewers 200 years into the past. Aspiring writer Dana James moves to Los Angeles, but before she has time to settle down in a new place, she finds herself in a mystical situation. A woman travels back in time to an early 19th century plantation where slavery still exists. There she saves a boy drowning in a river and is transported back to reality. Jumps in space and time turn Dana’s life into complete chaos, and returning back each time is more and more difficult. On the plantation of the wealthy Weylin family, she must fight for her survival and learn the shocking secrets of her family’s past. The release of the first series will take place on December 13.