Sarik Garnikovich Andreasyan (russian: Сарик Гарникович Андреасян; hy, Սարիկ Գառնիկի Անդրեասյան; born 1984) is a

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, producer and screenwriter who has worked on films and

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s. He is the founder of

Enjoy Movies Enjoy Movies was a Russian production company, founded in 2010 by an Armenians, Armenian director Sarik Andreasyan, his brother the producer Gevond Andreasyan and producer Georgy Malkov. The company is based in Moscow, Russia. The company's f ...

. In May 2017, Andreasyan left Enjoy Movies studio to start another studio, Bolshoe Kino (Big Movies in Russian). His early movies were mostly low budget

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. However, since 2015, Sarik began to move towards science fiction, action and dramas.

Reception

Most of Andreasyan's films were met with negative critical reception in Russian media, according to review aggregators Kritikanstvo and Megacritic. Notable exceptions are the drama ''Earthquake'' and anthology film duology ''Moms'', that received more positive reviews. Only two movies by Andreasyan were rated by

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, both American Heist and Guardians have a "rotten" rating. His early comedies, such as ''

The Pregnant The Pregnant (russian: Беременный, Beremenniy) is a 2011 Russian fantasy comedy film directed by Sarik Andreasyan. It stars Dmitri Dyuzhev, Anna Sedokova, Mikhail Galustyan and Ville Haapasalo. The Hindi remake rights are owned by T- ...

'' ($8.3M Gross), '' Moms'' ($7.8M Gross), '' What Men Do!'' ($11.3M Gross), were commercial hits. Andreasyan's recent high-budget movies, however, are considered box office bombs, according to various Russian media. This includes American Heist,American Heist (2015) - Financial Information
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- Вокруг ТВ. Andreasyan's disaster drama film Earthquake was selected as the Armenian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but was disqualified by the Academy.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Andreasyan, Sarik Living people Film people from Yerevan Russian people of Armenian descent Russian film directors 1984 births