Russia's first homemade post-Soviet blockbuster movie hit, "Night Watch," is selling more tickets here than American feature films like "Spider-Man 2" and "Troy," and the director and producer proudly acknowledge relying on time-tested Hollywood formulas to produce that rare result.
"It was a concept," the film's director, Timur Bekmambetov, said in an interview, encompassing bloody and dazzling special effects (all-Russian programmers and postproduction, except sound), savvy demographics (Soviet-era actors cast alongside contemporary television stars) and a peculiarly Russian story line based on a popular science-fiction trilogy by Sergei Lukyanenko.
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