50 # Breakthrough rental begins in the West

The news spread quickly that two films had grossed over $5,000 at the international box office.

The KARBUSH Film Company’s phones are ringing off the hook, emails are abuzz, and social media is overflowing with messages. All the media outlets seem to have gone crazy (sarcasm), asking for interviews with Pavel Latushkin, and even radio stations have called, and articles have reached the national level.

At that time, digital sales of the film in Russia were also doing well.

But all of this ended in an instant, after Pavel and Sergey couldn’t come up with any news to continue to fuel interest and attract viewers.

Then the good news turned into the worst.

Distribution companies began to deceive and not pay the remuneration that was collected throughout the country from America and Canada for 1 year (namely 2016-2017).

Pavel hasn’t figured out yet and doesn’t understand how to protect his copyrights abroad, but the future belongs to the American audience (since there were sales and screenings of the series before, the project made money, and people liked the series)

This is where the screening of the two films ended, and Pavel stopped doing anything in that direction.

Pavel also held several test screenings, where viewers reported that after watching the films, it felt like it wasn’t the end, but as if they were watching not a film, but a separate episode of a series. These films are very similar to the series, or like excerpts from a series about specific characters.

After this, Pavel realized that it was necessary to add these two films to the first season, and these episodes would be a horizontal plot, a separate plot in two episodes.

So Pavel returned to editing in February 2017, began making a decent pilot episode, and then went about his personal business, as the series hadn’t had a truly genuine and decent pilot episode until now.