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in Events / 13.05.2021

The Protégé, starring Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson and Maggie Q, filmed in Romania has its world premiere on August 20

The film - directed by Martin Campbell and co-produced with Frame Film, the producers of the Las Fierbinți series - is one of the largest productions filmed in Romania in recent years.

Lionsgate released the first trailer for the action film The Protégé with Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson and Maggie Q, directed by Martin Campbell, filmed in Romania, and announced its release date: August 20, 2021.

Written by Richard Wenk, The Protégé (the working title was The Asset) is centered on the story of a young woman named Anna (Maggie Q), saved as a child by the legendary assassin Moody (Samuel L. Jackson) and trained to become one of the the best paid assassins in the world. When Moody is murdered, Anna searches for the killer to get revenge and everything turns into a game of seduction and domination against an enigmatic killer (Michael Keaton).

The production lasted for 10 weeks in Bucharest and Snagov from the beginning of January 2020 until the beginning of the March lockdown, with a team of over 200 Romanian technicians as well as over 100 extras.

In Bucharest, sets from Laos, Vietnam or London were recreated. Part of the action takes place right in Bucharest, for the first time the location for an action film of such caliber.

The cast also includes a series of Romanian actors, among them Florin Piersic Jr, Tudor Chirilă, George Piştereanu and Cosmin Dominte.

The Director of Photography for this film is David Tattersal, who worked with writer/director George Lucas for three of his Star Wars movies (Phantom Menace - 1999, Attack of the Clones - 2002 and Revenge of the Sith - 2005).

The Protégé has a team of internationally acclaimed producers, people who have been behind some of the most successful action films of recent years: Christopher Milburn and Moshe Diamant (Hurricane Heist), Robert Van Norden (Rambo, Last Blood), Arthur Sarkissian (Rush Hour).

From the Romanian side for Frame Film, the producers are: Andrei Boncea (Amen, Callas Forever, Joyeux Noel, California Dreamin', The Wanderers), Dragoș Buliga (Las Fierbinți, The Wanderers) and Gabriel Popescu (Bunraku, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot, Dark is Rising).

Prorom will release The Protégé in cinemas from Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia soon.




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in Events / 11.03.2021

Prorom secures rights for Official Competition, starring Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz

Prorom is proud to announce that it has acquired the distribution rights for the Official Competition in the following territories: Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Following the presentation of exclusive footage at the European Film Market last week, highly anticipated title Official Competition – reuniting Spanish stars Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz – has seized sales to major distributors for sales agency Protagonist Pictures and producer The Mediapro Studio.

Official Competition is a comedy about the fierce rivalry between two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos.

The film is directed by Argentinian duo Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, whose credits include 2016 black comedy The Distinguished Citizen, which played in Venice Film Festival Official Competition.

George Hamilton, head of sales at Protagonist, said: Official Competition has landed with amazing distribution partners all around the world and they are all just as excited as we are for the film’s launch later this year!”.

Axel Böhm, COO and Head of Acquisition, Sales & Marketing at Prorom said: „We are delighted to bring Official Competition to our audience in Central & Eastern Europe this year, and together with them we can’t wait to see the sparks fly between Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas on the screen!”.

Prorom will release Official Competition in cinemas soon.

Image ©ProtagonistPictures.com
Source: Variety.




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in Trailers / 19.10.2020

Das Perfekte Geheimnis: Are you ready to share your secrets?

We can easily say that nowadays everyone is attached to their phones. But have you ever thought what would happen if you would share every upcoming call, message, notification for one night with your friends?

Now you can see a scenario in the upcoming movie Das Perfekte Gehemnis directed by Bora Dagtekin (Fack ju Göhte 1-3)

The story is based on the original Italian movie - Perfect Strangers (2016), and there were quite a few remakes, almost every country provided their own version of the story. First there was the Italian version than came the Greek a few months later, after that Spanish, Turkish and also Mexicans, Swedes, Hungarians and many more.

Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyone can read it and listen to the phone calls. However, this leads to a lot of chaos.

You can see familiar faces like Elyas M'Barek (Fack ju Göhte), Florian David Fitz (100 Dinge), Jella Haase (Fack ju Göhte) and many more.

Das Perfekte Geheimnis will hit cinemas on October 22nd in Hungary.




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in Trailers / 13.10.2020

Sarah Paulson is the mom of your nightmares in the first trailer of RUN

Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story) and Kiera Allen have a unique relationship in the first trailer for the thriller RUN.

We have now received the first trailer for RUN – a new thriller from the visionary director Aneeesh Chaganty, who is well-know for his outstanding work in his first movie Searching.

They say you can never escape a mother's love... but for Chloe, that's not a comfort - it's a threat. There's something unnatural, even sinister about the relationship between Chloe (newcomer Kiera Allen) and her mom, Diane (Sarah Paulson).

Diane has raised her daughter in total isolation, controlling every move she's made since birth, and there are secrets that Chloe's only beginning to grasp.

Only a few knows that 17 years old Kiera Allen is disabled in real life too. She said the followings to Entertainment Weekly:

„I’ve said this before, even if the movie never came out and no one ever saw it, it would still have been a life-changing experience for me to have done it. It was just so incredible to be in that place with so many creative brilliant minds, and to have them put trust in me and to collaborate with me was a really exciting thing.”

Prorom will release RUN in Romania and Hungary on November 20th.




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in Events / 22.09.2020

Robert De Niro returns to comedy in The War With Grandpa

This weekend, Robert De Niro is back on the big screen with the family comedy The War with Grandpa.

Based on the novel written by Robert Kimmel Smith, which has sold over 1.5 million copies, The War With Grandpa is a hilarious family comedy featuring an all-star supporting cast: Uma Thurman, Jane Seymour, Rob Riggle, Oakes Fegley, and Christopher Walken.  

The producers chose director Tim Hill to bring the The War With Grandpa to the big screen.  Tim’s big screen credits include Hop, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.

Peter (Oakes Fegley) and his Grandpa Jack (Robert De Niro) used to be very close, but when Grandpa moves in with the family, Peter is forced to give up his most prized possession, his bedroom. Peter will stop at nothing to get his room back, scheming with friends to devise a series of pranks to drive him out. But, Grandpa doesn't give up easily and before long, it's an all out war!

Directed by Tim Hill and the screenplay was written by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember.

The film is produced by Marvin Peart, Rosa Peart and executive produced by Tre Peart.

The film is distributed by Prorom in the following territories: Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania.




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in Events / 11.09.2020

After We Collided: Now in cinemas!

The blockbuster After We Collided opens today in almost all cinemas from Romania.

After breaking records in the first running weekend in the Czech Republic (48,000 spectators in 3 days), Hungary (40,000 spectators) and Slovakia (30,000 spectators), After We Collided is ready to break records in Romania, where fans are looking forward to finally see it.

Most cinemas in the country have reopened and will play After We Collided starting September 11.

After We Collided is the film adaptation of the best-selling novel written by Anna Todd, After We Collided, and is the sequel of her best-selling novel After, which became an international hit after starting as a fan-fiction on the Wattpad platform.

The After series includes five books written by Anna Todd that have been read over 1.5 billion times on Wattpad. Simon & Schuster Publishing House has published four books in the series, which have since been translated and published in 40 countries.

The first film in the After franchise debuted as number one at the box office in 17 international territories when it was released in April 2019 and, since then, has accumulated over $70 million worldwide.

The second chapter is just waiting for the reunion with its base of loyal fans of "Afternators", but also to be discovered by moviegoers who were deprived of access to cinema for almost half a year.

After We Collided is distributed in Romania by Prorom and Ro Image.

Tickets can be purchased here:

http://bit.ly/AWCCinemagia

http://bit.ly/AWCCinemaCity




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