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Cosmoball, also known as Goalkeeper of the Galaxy (Russian: Вратарь Галактики, romanized: Vratar Galaktiki) is a 2020 Russian 3D superhero space opera film written and directed by Dzhanik Fayziev is inspired by the world's fiction classics, based on the animated series Galactik Football, with the participation of the television channel Russia-1 and tells about the film is set in the future, a post-apocalyptic city in a world inhabited by an intergalactic war that has shifted the planets poles. Above the city towers a huge alien ship - it's a stadium, resting the planet's fate in the hands of the willing and capable Cosmoball players defending the Earth, and the fate of the planet depending on the result of the match between earthlings and aliens.
Andrey Rubanov also participated in the writing of the script, and among the producers are Sergey Selyanov and Innokentiy Malinkin. It stars Yevgeny Romantsov as Anton a goalkeeper to the national team, alongside Viktoriya Agalakova, Maria Lisovaya, Ivan Ivanovich, Liza Taychenacheva, Yevgeny Mironov, and Elena Yakovleva in supporting roles.
Location filming began on June 2, 2017, and principal photography locations including at the Mosfilm Studios are produced together with a team of professional stuntmen, special effects masters and artists, promise to make the Cosmoball fans across the Galaxy as the most technologically complex work, with shots taking place at Mosfilmovskaya Street in Moscow, and will last until mid-September 2017. The film required a wide use of computer-generated imagery to portray the rare alien races and space monsters.
Cosmoball is scheduled to be released in Russia by the STV Film Company on August 27, 2020, in 2D, RealD 3D formats and distributors will perform "Nashe Kino".