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.

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Neeson is a bank executive who must find a way to save his and his children’s lives after discovering that someone has placed a bomb under their car. The bomb will activate if they decide to leave the car. The mysterious caller also frames him for the death of his best friend, which makes his situation more complicated.

Retribution is directed by Nimrod Antal (Vacancy, Armored, Predators) from a screenplay written by Christopher Salmanpour (based on the film El Desconocido written by Alberto Marini).

Joining Neeson are Matthew Modine, Noma Dumezweni, Jack Champion, Lilly Aspell, Embeth Davidtz and Arian Moayed.

The movie made 15.309 admissions in Romania and 6.547 in Bulgaria, generating a box office result of almost $ 161.000.

Prorom released the movie in Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria on August 25. In Hungary will be released on September 7.

The Amazing Maurice is directed by Toby Genkel from a screenplay by Terry Rossio, based on the 2001 novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett.

This story follows Maurice, a goofy streetwise cat, who has the perfect money-making scam. He finds a dumb-looking kid who plays a pipe and has his very own horde of rats, who are strangely literate.

The Amazing Maurice had its premiere at the Manchester Animation Festival on 13 November 2022, and It had its American premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

Prorom released the movie until now in Romania (130,331 admissions), Czech Republic (73,590 admissions), Slovakia (40,111 admissions) and Bulgaria (20,573 admissions), generating a box office result of almost $ 1.5 million (and still counting!).

As of 20 April 2023, The Amazing Maurice has grossed $4.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $15.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $20.1 million (source: boxofficemojo.com).

This is a strong result for a family movie. The film continues to play in cinemas.

The Wolf and The Lion has been successfully released also in many other markets. Among these, the results in Czech Republic (Prorom), Hungary (Prorom) and Spain (Tripictures) are very positive.

The film is still to be released in several territories, including Russia in December, Germany at Christmas, Italy in January and in the USA in Q1 2022.

In Romania the movie is playing in cinemas, distributed by Prorom and Ro Image 2000. It is available in two versions: dubbed and subtitled in Romanian.

Foto: © 2020 Mai Juin Productions - Galatée Films - Wematin Productions - Studiocanal - M6 Films / Photo Emmanuel Guionet.

Castille Landon (Fear of Rain) is directing both films, starring returning leads Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes Tiffin.

Sharon Soboil, who co-wrote After We Collided has written the screenplays for both the third and fourth films. Voltage Pictures is handling worldwide sales on the franchise.

Stephen Moyer (True Blood) has been cast as Christian Vance, Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion) as Carol, Chance Perdomo (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as Landon, Arielle Kebbel (John Tucker Must Die) as Kimberly and Carter Jenkins (Famous in Love) as Robert in the sequels to the New Adult romance franchise.

Frances Turner (The Man in the High Castle) as Karen and Kiana Maderia (The Flash) as Nora have also joined returning fan-favorites Louise Lombard (CSI) as Trish and Rob Estes (90210) as Ken Scott, in the new films.

The first film in the series, After, took nearly $70 million at the global box-office in 2019, with the follow up After We Collided having just surpassed $40M at the international box office since its opening on September 2nd, 2020 in select overseas territories. Further countries are set to roll out over the next few months.

Producers of After 3 and 4 (working titles) are Jennifer Gibgot (17 Again, Step Up), Brian Pitt, Wattpad’s Aron Levitz, CalMaple’s Mark Canton (Den of Thieves, 300) and Courtney Solomon (Cake, An American Haunting).

After first found success on Wattpad, the global entertainment company and world’s leading social storytelling platform, where the original story accumulated more than 1.5 billion reads, before becoming international best-selling books.

After We Collided continues to dominate the independent box office, having taken over $40M with over 5 million admissions from 32 markets that began opening from September 2nd. The sequel is currently outperforming the first film in a range of major territories, including Germany, Australia, Norway, Austria and Eastern Europe.

Open Road is releasing the film in the US on October 23rd.

Director Roger Kumble will be taking the lead behind the camera, and his resume is something of cult classic movie magic!

Kumble made his feature-film-directorial debut with 1999’s Sony Pictures box-office hit, Cruel Intentions, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair. His screenplay transposed the French novel Dangerous Liaisons to modern New York.

He followed with the Sony Pictures comedy The Sweetest Thing, starring Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Jason Bateman and Thomas Jane, and New Line Cinema’s Just Friends, starring Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris and Amy Smart.

He also directed Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symoné and Donny Osmond in Disney’s successful family-comedy College Road Trip.

Most recently, he has directed episodes of the television series Entourage, Suits, Pretty Little Liars, Revenge and Ringer starring Cruel Intentions actors Sarah Michelle Gellar and Sean Patrick Thomas.

After We Collided, the sequel to blockbuster After will start shooting soon, and the cast include Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Josephine Langford, Selma Blair.

Prorom will release After We Collided in 2020 in the following territories: Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia.