A $90 million fantasy from Tango&Cash director, Andrey Konchalovsky - The Nutcracker in 3D – has just had its world premiere at Hollywood’s landmark Grove cinemas in Los Angeles.

­With the star of Barton Fink, John Turturro, and one of America’s most promising young actors, Elle Fanning, in the limelight, the ambitious adaptation of the classic tale promises to be a box-office family hit in Russia and abroad.  

“I don’t know yet what kind of a film we’ve got here – it’s just ‘off the oven’ and too hot to judge right now” said the film’s director, just before the premiere. “I’m looking forward to hearing what children will say about it, because first and foremost this film is for them. But it looks wonderful in the 3-D format and I hope audiences in Russia and across the world will be laughing when we expect them to; crying where we expect them to, and get scared as well – a fairytale is supposed to be frightening.”

The 3-D extravaganza will be released around Christmas this year, on up to a thousand screens in Russia alone.

Set in the 1920s in Vienna and based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s famous novel, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, it revolves around a little curious girl and her truly special doll, coming to life and facing the dangerous Rat King.