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South Korea, Germany, Italy to screen Russian-made film Attraction 2 - director

"The pre-sales for the sequel to Attraction are two times higher than for the first part", Fyodor Bondarchuk said

ST. PETERSBURG, November 18. /TASS/. The screening rights for Attraction 2, a Russian film coming out in December 2019, have already been sold to South Korea, Germany and Italy, the film's director and producer Fyodor Bondarchuk said on Saturday during the seventh St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum.

"The pre-sales for the sequel to Attraction are two times higher than for the first part," Bondarchuk said. "And so far, we’ve closed only three territories: [South] Korea, Germany and Italy. And we are very pleased. If we’re talking about the first part [of the film], we had a contract with China for $2.5 mln, it is an unprecedented case."

Over four million people saw Attraction, a film telling a story of an alien invasion, in Russian cinemas, and total box office gross in Russia and CIS countries surpassed 1 bln rubles (about $15 mln). The Russian film was shown in over 80 countries worldwide.

Attraction 2 will include more action scenes, CGI and plot twists, the team working on the sequel stated during the forum.

About the forum

The seventh St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum took place on November 15-17. The forum included a business program and a festival part, aimed at local residents and tourists. The business part of the forum was divided into 14 sections dedicated to museums, theaters, cinema, circus, literature, tourism, folk art, preservation of cultural heritage and other spheres.

This year, Qatar and Italy received the status of honored guests of the forum. In total, guests from Russia and 101 foreign countries participated in the forum.

TASS served as the organizer of the Mass Communications section. It was also the official photo hosting agency and the general information partner of the exhibition. TASS photo reports can be accessed on the following website: culturalforum2018.tassphoto.com.