Day Watch

Day Watch (2006)

Дневной Дозор

The second chapter in the epic fantasy trilogy

A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.

Date of release
2006-01-01
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (628)
Runtime
2h 26m
Genres
Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Director
Timur Bekmambetov
Collection
World of Watches Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $38.9M
  • Budget: $4.2M
  • Earned 9.3× its budget
  • Based on: Day Watch
  • Filmed in: Moscow and Russia

Day Watch is a 2006 Russian dark fantasy film directed and co-written by Timur Bekmambetov. It opened in theatres across Russia on 1 January 2006, the United States on 1 June 2007, and the United Kingdom on 5 October 2007. It is a sequel to the 2004 film Night Watch, featuring the same cast. Despite sharing its title with the second novel in the series, it is actually based on the second and third parts of Sergey Lukyanenko's novel Night Watch, the first part of which the 2004 film was based on.

Production

Roughly 20 visual effects vendors were used for the 800 shots using visual effects, compared to Night Watch's 400 effects; the main studio was the visual effects supervisor Vladimir Leschinski's Dr. Picture Studios. It took about a year to complete the visual effects.

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