A press conference was held in Moscow on Thursday, September 21, 2006 promoting APOCALYPSE CODE, previously titled BEAUTIFUL. The Russian film, directed by Vadim Shmelyov, stars  Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, Vincent Perez, Vladimir Menshov and Alexei Serebryakov. Producer Sergei Zhigunov announced that the film will likely be shown in 50 to 55 countries and will be released in cinemas between May and October 2007. Filming has taken place in France, Italy, Norway, Malasia, Russia and Ukraine. It may be screened at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Entirely financed by Russian funds, the films enjoys an impressive budget called "a director's dream" which allows limitless imagination. The story concerns four atomic bombs, ready to explode, which have been placed in four large cities around the world. A female Russian secret agent with the code name Beautiful is dispatched to decipher the codes held by three guards disseminated throughout the world to defuse the bombs. Vincent plays Louis Devier, a wealthy French banker who intends to explode the bombs.