In this new “ripped from the headlines” thriller, an intrepid reporter goes deep, deep undercover to get to the heart of a controversial story. Oh, and there are no car chases or meetings in dark alleyways. But there is the “dark web”. That’s because, in the most modern take on the “get the truth out there” suspense saga, the heroine never really leaves her modest London “flat”. She’s online, and we’re watching her on her very own computer desktop as she bounces from social media sites to search engines to video “tele-chats”. Still, the danger is very real, along with the truly disturbing subject. And the whole thing truly hinges on the believability of the reporter’s fictitious Profile.
The year is 2014. As the monitor screen “fires up”, we hear the “key clicks” entering a search request for news stories concerning women from the US and Europe...
The year is 2014. As the monitor screen “fires up”, we hear the “key clicks” entering a search request for news stories concerning women from the US and Europe...
- 5/14/2021
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Profile Focus Features Reviewed by Tami Smith, Film Reviewer for Shockya Grade: B+ Director: Timur Bekmambetov Screenwriters: Britt Poulton, Timur Bekmambetov, Olga Kharina Based on: In The Skin of a Jihadist by Anna Erelle Cast: Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Christine Adams, Morgan Watkins Release Date: May 14th, 2021 Anna Erelle, a French journalist with a Parisian […]
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- 5/12/2021
- by Tami Smith
- ShockYa
Kazakh-Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov’s thriller “Profile” has been completed since 2018, when it was released at the Berlin International Film Festival. But the latest film from the director of “Night Watch,” “Wanted,” and the notorious 2016 remake of “Ben Hur” is only just now getting a theatrical release — on May 14 from Focus Features. Watch the U.S. trailer for the film below.
“Profile” follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself. The thriller is co-led by Valene Kane (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”) and Shazad Latif (“Star Trek: Discovery”). “Profile” is inspired by the 2015 nonfiction bestseller “In the Skin of a Jihadist” by a French journalist who now has round-the-clock police protection and has changed her name to Anna Érelle.
Much like the Bekmambetov-produced horror movie “Unfriended,...
“Profile” follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself. The thriller is co-led by Valene Kane (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”) and Shazad Latif (“Star Trek: Discovery”). “Profile” is inspired by the 2015 nonfiction bestseller “In the Skin of a Jihadist” by a French journalist who now has round-the-clock police protection and has changed her name to Anna Érelle.
Much like the Bekmambetov-produced horror movie “Unfriended,...
- 4/5/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
After producing Unfriended, Unfriended: Dark Web, and Searching, filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) has directed the new computer screen Pov thriller Profile (using Bekmambetov's Screenlife filmmaking format), which has been acquired by Focus Features and slated for a May 14th release.
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA March 23, 2020 – Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to the thriller Profile, a Berlin Film Festival sensation from Timur Bekmambetov, the director behind the intense Angelina Jolie-led thriller Wanted. Focus Features will distribute the film domestically and has set a release date of Friday, May 14, 2021. Universal Pictures will distribute internationally, excluding Cis/Russia. The sale was negotiated by WME.
Profile follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself. The thriller is co-led by Valene Kane (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story...
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA March 23, 2020 – Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to the thriller Profile, a Berlin Film Festival sensation from Timur Bekmambetov, the director behind the intense Angelina Jolie-led thriller Wanted. Focus Features will distribute the film domestically and has set a release date of Friday, May 14, 2021. Universal Pictures will distribute internationally, excluding Cis/Russia. The sale was negotiated by WME.
Profile follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself. The thriller is co-led by Valene Kane (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story...
- 3/23/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Focus Features has taken global rights to Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov’s thriller Profile, which made its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018 and won the Audience Award there. A theatrical release date of May 14 has been set. Universal Pictures will distribute internationally, excluding Cis/Russia.
Profile follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself. Profile stars Valene Kane (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) and Shazad Latif (Star Trek: Discovery) and is inspired by the 2015 nonfiction bestseller In the Skin of a Jihadist by a French journalist who now has round-the-clock police protection and has changed her name to Anna Érelle.
Profile plays out entirely on a computer screen in the Screenlife format, pioneered by Bekmambetov. It was written...
Profile follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself. Profile stars Valene Kane (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) and Shazad Latif (Star Trek: Discovery) and is inspired by the 2015 nonfiction bestseller In the Skin of a Jihadist by a French journalist who now has round-the-clock police protection and has changed her name to Anna Érelle.
Profile plays out entirely on a computer screen in the Screenlife format, pioneered by Bekmambetov. It was written...
- 3/23/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Timur Bekmambetov’s thriller “Profile,” which made waves at Berlin in 2018 for being seen entirely through a computer screen, has landed worldwide distribution from Focus Features.
Focus will release “Profile” in theaters domestically on May 14, 2021, while Universal Pictures will distribute internationally, excluding Cis/Russia.
“Profile” was shot using the Screenlife format, a platform pioneered by Bekmambetov that allows for the action to play out through webcams, computer screens, smartphones and social media windows. The technology has recently become more common in films like the horror movie “Unfriended” and the thriller “Searching” starring John Cho. Most recently, Bekmambetov was a producer on “R#J,” a new take on “Romeo & Juliet” for the TikTok era that also used Screenlife and premiered at Sundance.
The story of “Profile” follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in...
Focus will release “Profile” in theaters domestically on May 14, 2021, while Universal Pictures will distribute internationally, excluding Cis/Russia.
“Profile” was shot using the Screenlife format, a platform pioneered by Bekmambetov that allows for the action to play out through webcams, computer screens, smartphones and social media windows. The technology has recently become more common in films like the horror movie “Unfriended” and the thriller “Searching” starring John Cho. Most recently, Bekmambetov was a producer on “R#J,” a new take on “Romeo & Juliet” for the TikTok era that also used Screenlife and premiered at Sundance.
The story of “Profile” follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in...
- 3/23/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Thriller inspired by2015 non-fiction French bestseller In The Skin Of A Jihadist.
Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights to Timur Bekmambetov’s thriller Profile, the 2018 Berlinale Panorama selection about a UK journalist who infiltrates an Isis cell.
Focus negotiated the deal with Endeavor Content and will release the film in the US on May 14, with Universal Pictures distributing internationally outside Cis/Russia.
Valene Kane stars as the reporter and Shazad Latif plays the recruiter she tries to expose on social media while trying to avoid getting sucked into a life as a militant extremist.
The thriller was inspired by...
Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights to Timur Bekmambetov’s thriller Profile, the 2018 Berlinale Panorama selection about a UK journalist who infiltrates an Isis cell.
Focus negotiated the deal with Endeavor Content and will release the film in the US on May 14, with Universal Pictures distributing internationally outside Cis/Russia.
Valene Kane stars as the reporter and Shazad Latif plays the recruiter she tries to expose on social media while trying to avoid getting sucked into a life as a militant extremist.
The thriller was inspired by...
- 3/23/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Strand to focus on ‘major challenges of visual productions in the fantasy genre’.
Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) will focus on ‘major challenges of visual productions in the fantasy genre’ for the Nifff Extended programme at its 18th edition this summer (July 6-14).
Newly-announced speakers at the symposium will include Jan Harlan, executive producer for Stanley Kubrick, writer-directors Timur Bekmambetov and Olga Kharina and YouTube creator François Theurel (who goes under the name Le Fossoyeur de films).
Special events include ‘Focus On Avengers: Infinity War’ featuring the film’s VFX supervisors, and ‘Bazelevs: From Film to Screen Movies’, in which...
Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) will focus on ‘major challenges of visual productions in the fantasy genre’ for the Nifff Extended programme at its 18th edition this summer (July 6-14).
Newly-announced speakers at the symposium will include Jan Harlan, executive producer for Stanley Kubrick, writer-directors Timur Bekmambetov and Olga Kharina and YouTube creator François Theurel (who goes under the name Le Fossoyeur de films).
Special events include ‘Focus On Avengers: Infinity War’ featuring the film’s VFX supervisors, and ‘Bazelevs: From Film to Screen Movies’, in which...
- 5/23/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The first in his inventive series, Unfriended, grossed more than $60m.
Timur Bekmambetov, whose Profile premiered in the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama strand last week, is preparing a slate of new “Screen Life” movies.
The director-producer is plotting to release up to six over roughly the 12 months, including adaptations of Cyrano De Bergerac and Romeo And Juliet, and an online variation on a Hangover-style comedy.
The filmmaker behind such big budget affairs as Wanted and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and the recent remake of Ben-Hur now sees the computer as the new frontier for filmmaking.
“Obviously, we live on screens…the most important and dramatic events are happening on screen,” the Russian-Kazakh director told Screen.
“This ’Screen Life’ is not a genre. It is a language,” Bekmambetov continued. He is working with Cyprus-based financiers Dossor on the slate.
’Screen Life’ films unfold on computer screens. Bekmambetov is in Berlin with the latest in the cycle, Profile, in which...
Timur Bekmambetov, whose Profile premiered in the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama strand last week, is preparing a slate of new “Screen Life” movies.
The director-producer is plotting to release up to six over roughly the 12 months, including adaptations of Cyrano De Bergerac and Romeo And Juliet, and an online variation on a Hangover-style comedy.
The filmmaker behind such big budget affairs as Wanted and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and the recent remake of Ben-Hur now sees the computer as the new frontier for filmmaking.
“Obviously, we live on screens…the most important and dramatic events are happening on screen,” the Russian-Kazakh director told Screen.
“This ’Screen Life’ is not a genre. It is a language,” Bekmambetov continued. He is working with Cyprus-based financiers Dossor on the slate.
’Screen Life’ films unfold on computer screens. Bekmambetov is in Berlin with the latest in the cycle, Profile, in which...
- 2/21/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Timur Bekmambetov’s first outing as a director since his Hollywood film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter sees him going back in time again to the beginning of the First World War at the end of 1914.
Yolki 1914 is the fourth instalment of Bekmambetov’s New Year hit comedy franchise Yolki, which his production-distribution company Bazelevs launched in 2010.
Bekmambetov directed the first Yolki (aka The Six Degrees Of Celebration), which took $26m at the box office in the Cis territories in 2010/11.
Since then, Bekmambetov has only served as the producer on the following two Yolki films.
The first sequel Yolki 2012 – which posted $30m at the Cis box office in 2011/12 – took place on New Year’s Eve in 11 cities from small regional towns to Saint Petersburg and Moscow, and was directed by Dmitry Kiselev, Alexander Kott, Oksana Bychkova and others.
Kiselev, Kott, Alexander Karpilovsky and Olga Kharina directed the episodes of the third film Yolki 2014 which was released on Dec...
Yolki 1914 is the fourth instalment of Bekmambetov’s New Year hit comedy franchise Yolki, which his production-distribution company Bazelevs launched in 2010.
Bekmambetov directed the first Yolki (aka The Six Degrees Of Celebration), which took $26m at the box office in the Cis territories in 2010/11.
Since then, Bekmambetov has only served as the producer on the following two Yolki films.
The first sequel Yolki 2012 – which posted $30m at the Cis box office in 2011/12 – took place on New Year’s Eve in 11 cities from small regional towns to Saint Petersburg and Moscow, and was directed by Dmitry Kiselev, Alexander Kott, Oksana Bychkova and others.
Kiselev, Kott, Alexander Karpilovsky and Olga Kharina directed the episodes of the third film Yolki 2014 which was released on Dec...
- 3/11/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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