Watch Newsmakers (2009) Online
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- RUNTIME: 1h 47m
- COUNTRIES: Sweden,Russia
- Subtitles: Pусский
A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police incompetence is soon the lead story in every news bulletin. Public confidence in law and order now suffers irreparable harm. The head of the Moscow force welcomes a public search-and-destroy operation against these thugs, the brainchild of Katya, his PR director. She proposes that the capture of this dangerous gang be transformed into a live TV show of a kind never seen before. At this point she cannot know that the gang leader's life-and-death struggle with the police is destined to lead to a media duel. Besieged in a huge apartment block, the crooks hold hostage a father and his son and daughter. A massive special forces rescue operation is mounted but fails miserably. Read More
Watch Newsmakers online. Featuring Andrey Merzlikin and Yevgeni Tsyganov, Newsmakers is classified as Action and Thriller genre movie with an average rating across the web of 6. It is available for streaming online in the UK on 1 services such as Apple iTunes. The movie was filmed in Sweden and was released on 2009. Newsmakers was directed by Anders Banke. Read Less