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.

Wasp Network is a captivating and elegant political thriller, who is bringing you a veritable gallery of Cuban crooks and Cuban-American exiles, who have engaged in a complex battle and deeply nuanced by competing ideologies and changing loyalties.

Directed by Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper) and starring Penelope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez and Gael García Bernal, Wasp Network can be seen starting today in the Happy Cinema network and online on Play.HappyCinema.ro

An intense and sometimes brutal survival-adventure centering on a wealthy middle class American family, who travel to the vast wilderness of Kenya hoping for a dream vacation filled with excitement, bonding and a chance to fix the growing rifts within their family.

But when their safari vehicle is attacked by a rhino protecting her calf, the family is left stranded miles from help and their dream vacation turns into a nightmarish struggle for survival in a world where they are the bottom of the food chain.  

Endangered Species stars Rebecca Romijn, Philip Winchester and Jerry O'Connell. The screenplay is written by Isabel Bassett and M.J. Bassett, from a story by Paul Chronnell.

Prorom will soon release Endangered Species in cinemas and on VOD.

The world’s most lethal odd couple – bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) and hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) – are back on another life-threatening mission.

Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Bryce is forced into action by Darius’s even more volatile wife, the infamous international con artist Sonia Kincaid (Salma Hayek).

As Bryce is driven over the edge by his two most dangerous protectees, the trio get in over their heads in a global plot and soon find that they are all that stand between Europe and a vengeful and powerful madman (Antonio Banderas).

Joining in the fun and deadly mayhem is Morgan Freeman, in a surprise role.

Hitman's Wife’s Bodyguard, the sequel to the blockbuster Hitman’s Bodyguard is set to hit theaters this summer.

The poster for After We Fell, the third installment of the After series based on the popular books by New York Times best-selling author Anna Todd was released.

The poster is amazing and involves a very famous scene in the books.

In the third part of the After series, After We Fell, just as Tessa (Josephine Langford) makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes.

Revelations about her family, and then Hardin's (Hero Fiennes Tiffin), throw everything they knew before in doubt and makes their hard-won future together more difficult to claim.

Directed by Castille Landon (Fear of Rain) After We Fell will be released in cinemas this year.

In a dystopian Detroit, abandoned brick mansions left from better times now house only the most dangerous criminals.

Unable to control the crime, the police constructed a colossal containment wall around this area to protect the rest of the city. For undercover cop Damien Collier every day is a battle against corruption. For Lino, every day is a fight to live an honest life.

Their paths never should have crossed, but when drug kingpin, Tremaine kidnaps Lino's girlfriend, Damien reluctantly accepts the help of the fearless ex-convict, and together they must stop a sinister plot to devastate the entire city.

Brick Mansions, directed by Camille Delamarre (The Transporter Refueled), was written by Luc Besson, Bibi Naceri and Rudd Argonauts. In Brick Mansions stars Paul Walker, alongside David Belle, RZA and Catalina Denis.

Brick Mansions can be seen on Pro TV - Monday, April 12, at 22:30, and rerun on Thursday, April 15, at 00:00.