Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (born June 25, 1961) is a Russian-Kazakh director, producer and screenwriter who has worked on films, music videos and commercials. He is best known for the film Night Watch (2004) and its sequel Day Watch (2006), and the American films Wanted (2008) and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012). Bekmambetov was born on 25 June 1961, in the city of Guryev (now Atyrau). His father Nuruakhit Bekmambetov worked in the energy management of Guryevenergo in leading positions (according to Timur, he was the chief power engineer of Western Kazakhstan), mother Mira Bogoslovskaya was the deputy editor of the regional newspaper Prikaspiyskaya Kommuna, where she was in charge of the party building department. After graduation from school, Bekmambetov entered the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1979. Already in 1980 he left the institute (on the eve of the 1980 Summer Olympics he was deported from Moscow on the grounds of being "unreliable") and moved to Tashkent, Uzbek SSR to study at the Alexander Ostrovsky Theatrical and Artistic Institute, from which he graduated in 1987 with a degree in theater and cinema set design. It was during this period that Bekmambetov served in the Soviet Army, which inspired him to write Peshavar Waltz. Between 1992 and 1997, Bekmambetov was directing commercials and was one of the directors for Bank Imperial's award-winning popular World History ads. In 1994, he founded Bazelevs Group, an advertising and films production, distribution and marketing company. Bekmambetov's first feature, Peshavar Waltz, (1994) was a violent and realistic look at the war between the USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Afghanistan. The film was dubbed in English as Escape from Afghanistan and released direct-to-video by Roger Corman in 2002. Bekmambetov next produced and directed an eight-parts miniseries for television entitled Our '90s. Bekmambetov then returned to directing features, with Roger Corman produced The Arena (2001), which starred Karen McDougal and Lisa Dergan. The film was a remake of The Arena (1974 film) as the same name. In 2001, Bekmambetov directed and co-produced (with Bahyt Kilibayev) the film GAZ-Russian Cars. Timur Bekmambetov and director Iren Vanidovskaya. In 2004, Bekmambetov wrote and directed Night Watch (2004), a popular Russian fantasy film based on the book by Sergey Lukyanenko. The film was extremely successful in Russia, and at the time became its highest-grossing released ever, making US$16.7 million in Russia alone, more than The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Night Watch is also notable for establishing Konstantin Khabensky as a star. The sequel to Night Watch, Day Watch (2006), was likewise written and directed by Bekmambetov. The two films attracted the attention of Fox Searchlight Pictures, which paid $4 million to acquired worldwide distribution rights (excluding Russia and the Baltic states). Bekmambetov followed up Day Watch (2006) with The Irony of Fate 2 (2007). This sequel to the famous Soviet film The Irony of Fate (1971) is the one of the most profitable in Russian history, second to Avatar in total box office receipts. Hollywood directorial debut of Timur Bekmambetov, Wanted (2008), was an action blockbuster about a secret society of assassins, it was based on a comic-book miniseries of the same name created by Mark Millar and J. G. Jones. Bekmambetov has also produced a number of films in the U.S. and Russia. 9 (2009), the story of a rag doll in a post-apocalyptic world, was directed by Shane Acker and produced by Bekmambetov, Tim Burton and Jim Lemley. Bekmambetov also produced the action movie Black Lightning (2009), the first Russian-language superhero film, with Universal Pictures.

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