Full Moon 2024 will open with the premiere of Longlegs (directed by Osgood Perkins, USA, 2024) one of the most anticipated horror films of the year.

The famous Nicolas Cage is hardly recognizable in this chilling story, where he plays a serial killer obsessed with the FBI agent trying to catch him.

With an extraordinary success across the ocean, Longlegs is seen in its absolute premiere for Romania at Full Moon, to be distributed by Prorom and Transilvania Film in cinemas starting on September 6.

Full Moon Film Festival is organized by the Association for the Promotion of Romanian Film and presented by Transilvania International Film Festival.

For the first time in the history of the festival and Bran Castle, AIFF 8 organizes special screenings on June 7 and 8, in the castle courtyard.
The proposal of AIFF 8 is to reconnect the Romanian public, but also potential foreign tourists, with the beauty of the open-air cinema, accentuated by the unique setting and the breathtaking atmosphere of one of the most beautiful places in Romania.

"AIFF 8 continues its mission to offer the Romanian public films that are more than just entertainment, to mediate the dialogue of the public with the filmmakers, to cultivate the experience of watching cinema films as a social event, in the middle of the community and to use the cinema as an opportunity to connect and communicate with others, including by popularizing some social causes to which the festival donates, as every year, the proceeds from ticket sales.", says Cristian Mungiu, director of AIFF.

The Prorom title Hit Man (directed by Richard Linklater) will open the festival, on Friday, June 07, both at Cinema Elvire Popesco in Bucharest and outdoors, in the courtyard of Bran Castle.

Richard Linklater, one of the most important contemporary American directors is known to the public, among others, for the series Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013) and for the ambitious film project Boyhood (2014) filmed throughout 12 years.

Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater's sunlit neo-noir stars Glen Powell as strait-laced professor Gary Johnson, who moonlights as a fake hit man for the New Orleans Police Department.

Preternaturally gifted at inhabiting different guises and personalities to catch hapless people hoping to bump off their enemies, Gary descends into morally dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to one of those potential criminals, a beautiful young woman named Madison (Adria Arjona).

As Madison falls for one of Gary's hit man personas -- the mysteriously sexy Ron -- their steamy affair sets off a chain reaction of play acting, deception, and escalating stakes.

Co-written by Linklater and Powell and inspired by an incredible true story, Hit Man is a smart existential comedy about identity that premiered at Venice and was selected at Sundance.

Hit Man is distributed by Prorom in Eastern Europe.

Produced by the legendary Sam Raimi, Boy Kills World was scripted by Arend Remmers and Tyler Burton Smith.

The story takes place in a bizarre, dark dystopian universe and centers on a deaf and mute character, Boy (Skarsgård), who navigates this depressing world with his otherworldly imagination. Tragedy strikes when Boy’s family is brutally murdered. When his fight or flight instincts kick in, Boy finds himself on a life-threatening trek into the darkly forested jungle.

There, he meets a shaman (Yayan Ruhian) who takes Boy under his wing and launches him into a cutthroat coming of age journey where he encourages his new pupil to leave his youth behind and pick up the baton as a highly trained assassin.

Skarsgard and Rothe are joined in the cast by Yayan Ruhian, Andrew Koji, Isaiah Mustafa, Famke Janssen, Brett Gelman, Sharlto Copley, Quinn Copeland, twin brothers Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti, and Michelle Dockery.
Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi are producing Boy Kills World through Raimi Productions.

Roy Lee, Simon Swart, Wayne Fitzjohn, Alex Lebovici, Stuart Manashil and Dan Kagan are also producers.

Reza Brojerdi and Andrew Childs are executive producers.

Prorom will release Boy Kills World in cinemas from May 10 (Romania) and June 20 (Hungary).

Ariana Greenblatt has signed on to star in Now You See Me 3, the latest installment in the franchise about a group of magicians who rob banks and give the money to their audiences in the middle of their shows. The role Greenblatt will be portraying remains undisclosed at the moment.

The upcoming sequel is expected to shoot this year, while a potential release date hasn't been set by Lionsgate.

In Now You See Me (2013, directed by Louis Leterrier) an FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances, and reward their audiences with the money. The film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman and Common.

Now You See Me 2 (directed by Jon M. Chu) was released in 2016, and it followed the same ensemble cast that brought the first film to life.

Jesse Eisenberg is expected to return in the third installment, as the team comes together for yet another dangerous mission that will involve breaking the law while using magic in the process.

By joining the cast of Now You See Me 3, Ariana Greenblatt looks to continue a series of projects that have elevated her name in the industry.

Besides her previously roles in Barbie and the upcoming Borderlands, Greenblatt made her debut in the galaxy far, far away in Ahsoka, the Star Wars television series.

A release date hasn't been set for Now You See Me 3.

Source: Collider.com. Foto: Ariana Greenblatt in Borderlands.

The cast of Arthur the King is led by Mark Wahlberg and Simu Liu alongside Juliet Rylance, Nathalie Emmanuel, Ali Suliman, Rob Collins, Paul Guilfoyle, and Bear Grylls as himself.

Over the course of 10 days and 435 miles (700 km), an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light (Mark Wahlberg) and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur.

Based on an incredible true story, Arthur The King follows Light, desperate for one last chance to win, as he convinces a sponsor to back him and a team of athletes (Simu Liu, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Ali Suliman) for the Adventure Racing World Championship in the Dominican Republic.

As the team is pushed to their outer limits of endurance in the race, Arthur redefines what victory, loyalty and friendship truly mean.

Arthur The King is directed by Simon Cellan Jones and is based upon the book Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home by Mikael Lindnord.

Prorom released Arthur the King in Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia (on March 21), followed by Romania (on March 29), the Czech Republic and Slovakia (on April 11).

In this gripping crime thriller, Russell Crowe stars as Roy Freeman, an ex-homicide detective with a fractured memory, forced to revisit a case he can't remember.

As a man's life hangs in the balance on death row, Freeman must piece together the brutal evidence from a decade-old murder investigation, uncovering a sinister web of buried secrets and betrayals linking to his past.

With only instincts to trust, he faces a chilling truth - sometimes, it's best to let sleeping dogs lie. 

Directed by Adam Cooper, written by Adam Cooper & Bill Collage, Sleeping Dogs is based on the novel The Book of Mirrors by Romanian author Eugen Ovidiu Chirovici.

In addition to Crowe, Sleeping Dogs also stars Karen Gillan, Marton Csokas, Kelly Greyson, Lucy-Rose Leonard, Ellizabeth Blackmore, Thomas M. Wright and Tommy Flanagan.

Prorom will release Sleeping Dogs in Romania (March 22), Serbia, Slovenia (March 28), Hungary (April 18) and Croatia (April 25).