Currently in post-production for a 2026 release, the drama retells the true story of a youngster raised by ostriches in the Sahara.

The Desert Child follows Maistre’s hit Autumn and the Black Jaguar, which grossed $30M at the international box office, and upcoming release Moon The Panda, which hits French and Eastern Europe cinemas this April.

Moon the Panda will be released in Hungary (on April 10), Romania (on April 11), Czech Republic and Slovakia (on April 24) by Prorom.

„Over the years, our local audiences have truly fallen in love with Gilles de Maistre’s movies. So we are very happy that after Mia and The White Lion, The Wolf and The Lion and Autumn And The Black Jaguar, we can soon enchant children and adults alike with The Desert Child” says Axel Böhm, Co-Managing Director at Prorom.

As with most of Maistre’s previous features, which also include The Wolf and the Lion and Mia and the White Lion, the The Desert Child involves working with children and real-life animals, in this case ostriches and young Fennec foxes.

Prorom released all of this titles in Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia with a combined box-office of over $1.8M (source: box-officemojo.com).

The Desert Child is produced by StudioCanal and Catherine Camborde at Mai-Juin Productions, a Mediawan company. StudioCanal is handling international sales and will also release the film theatrically in France.

Source: Deadline.com.

Image©2025 - Mai Juin Productions – StudioCanal – Umedia Production.

Prorom bought two Spanish comedies from Latido Films (Who Is Who? and Babies Don’t Come With Instructions).

“Prorom is expanding the slate of European comedies with Spanish movies and we’re happy to have established a partnership with Latido Films for this purpose” says Axel Böhm, Co-Managing Director at Prorom.

”Berlin was good for us and the main takeaway is that the market is really fluid, changing continuously and nothing is permanent: our advantage is precisely that we handle great movies and have diversified our content and finally find the right buyer for the right film,” said Latido Films CEO Antonio Saura for Variety.

Marina Seresesky’s Paco León-starred Babies Don’t Come with Instructions, is a redo of Eugenio Derbez’s megahit Instructions Not Included.

Another Spanish comedy, Martín Cuervo’s dysfunctional family story Who Is Who (in photo), with Elena Irureta (Patria), Kira Miró (Everybody Does It) and Salva Reina (The 47), will also travel to Eastern Europe via Prorom.

Based on the short story by Stephen King and produced by James Wan (The Conjuring, Saw), The Monkey is a new journey into dark worlds from Longlegs writer and director Osgood Perkins.

When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. 

Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree, forcing the estranged siblings to confront the cursed toy.

Prorom released The Monkey in Romania and Bulgaria (on March 7), Hungary (on February 27), Czech Republic, Sloavakia, Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia (on February 20).

Elfie's world is turned upside down when she discovers the existence of a technically advanced Elfkin gang that, in stark contrast to Elfie's own clan, is second to none when it comes to fun and thrill-seeking. Can Helvi's friendship with Bo, the youngest gang member, reconcile the two Elfkin clans after more than 250 years?

The Super Elfkins / Die Heinzels 2: Neue Mutzen, Neue Mission is released from January 10 exclusively in cinemas distributed by Prorom and Ro Image.

In Hit Man, Glen Powell stars as a 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.

Hit Man is now available on Netflix.

"Massive thanks to the Golden Globes for so warmly welcoming a blatant gate crasher. Also to Scott Beck and Bryan Woods for spotting my need to kill, and to A24 for sponsoring it." Grant wrote.

Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (who wrote A Quiet Place and directed last year's 65), Heretic stars Grant as Mr. Reed, a man who is visited by two Mormon missionaries played by Chloe East and Sophie Thatcher. Although he seems nice and genial at first, he eventually reveals himself to be a sadistic atheist willing to go to great lengths to convince the women that God isn't real.

Heretic marks Grant's seventh nomination at the Golden Globes. He won his first for 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral, and he was most recently nominated for a lead role in the 2020 HBO series The Undoing.

Heretic is now playing in cinemas.