Central Intelligence is a 2016 American buddy action comedy film directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and written by Thurber, Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen. The film stars Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart as two old high school classmates who go on the run after one of them joins the CIA to save the world from a terrorist who intends to sell satellite codes. The film premiered at the Regency Village Theater on June 10, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 17, 2016 by Warner Bros. Pictures and in international markets by Universal Pictures.