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Voronezh "Wolves and sheep" go into international hire

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Full-length animated film, created by animators Voronezh studio Wizart Animation, entitled "Wolves and sheep: The Beo-e Zuma transformation" is released on Thursday, April 28. The picture has a budget of more than $3.4 million, which corresponds to the level of the most cash domestic animation, writes "Kommersant. The creators of the cartoon, who managed to earn money abroad with the franchise "Snow Queen", said that they intend to expand the geography of international sales.

The premiere of the film was held last Saturday at the Voronezh cinema Star & Mlad. Children from eight boarding schools of the city and region were invited to it. According to the director of the cartoon Maxim Volkov, production of animation took five years: "This is a standard for the cartoon, for example, Disney. We studied in the process. The main stage of production took two years - from March 2014 to April 2016".

Wizart attracted another film company - STV Sergey Selyanov, who released an animated franchise "Three heroes" and the cartoon "Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf.

"About 200 people worked on the cartoon," said Maxim Volkov. - The main link is in Voronezh. We were also helped by animators from India, USA, we worked on the sound together with specialists from Scotland and New Zealand, the music for the picture was written by a French composer".

Producer Yuri Moskvin specifies that the budget of the film was about 230 million rubles. ($3.44 million). The studio actively presented the picture at all recent film markets. After the February European Film Market in Berlin, there were reports of sales in 30 territories and a simultaneous start with Russian distribution in the Baltic States, Turkey, UAE and the Middle East (a total of eight foreign countries). Moskvin at a press conference reported on the simultaneous start of rental in Mongolia and Romania. The producer assures that later the film will see almost all of Europe, and by the end of this year - "two-thirds of the world. Also Moskvin said that it is planned to continue "Wolves and sheep": "Now the script is being written, in 2018 may appear a new cartoon.

The "Wolves and Sheep" has a full English dubbing. The main role, a young wolf nicknamed Gray, voiced by Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter movie saga, the voice for the main female role proposed Ruby Rose, known in Russia for the role of Stella Carlin in the series "Orange - hit the season.

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