Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: After a highly profitable collaboration with Bazalevs principal Timur Bekmambetov on the Screenlife film Unfriended ($1M budget, $65M WW gross), Universal and Bekmambetov have made a deal to partner on five more films shot in the format.Screenlife is a disruptive form of storytelling that eschews traditional cameras for methods that visually drive the narrative through stories that unfold from the POV of smartphones and computer screens, where most of us now spent the bulk of our waking hours.The relationship between studio and filmmaker began on Bekmambetov’s U.S.
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