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Vertigo Films will release the movie in Spring 2009
Nicholas Winding Refn will direct the movie. His previous films include the highly controversial and acclaimed PUSHER Trilogy and Fear X with John Turroro.
BRONSON is the evolutionary journey of Mickey Peterson into Britain’s most notorious and dangerous living prisoner CHARLES BRONSON. Originally sentenced to 7 years in prison for burglary, Charles Bronson has been behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. Charlie has forged an outrageous reputation through violence, hostage taking and rooft protests to become a notorious figure in the British public’s conscious.
Taking the title role of BRONSON will be Bafta nominated actor Tom Hardy (Black Hawk Down, WAZ, RocknRolla) who has been described by critics as one of the most promising young actors today.
Widowed at a young age, Patty Montanari takes a page from the neighborhood Mafioso and turns to selling contraband cigarettes to support her sons. After she begins a romance with a mobster who gives her a restaurant to manage, Patty gets promoted even higher to a money currier for the family. Even though shes living the high life, she becomes disenchanted with the mob. And as everyone knows, getting out aint exactly easy, especially when youre working for the boss of one of New Yorks five biggest families. See how she tries to break free without losing her life.
Expert hostage negotiator Phoebe McNamara juggles her career with raising her young daughter and contending with her agoraphobic mother. When Phoebe is assaulted by an unknown assailant in her precinct, she can’t help but be deeply shaken. She later receives a series of mysterious threatening messages, and discovers she is the target of a psychopath out to destroy her personally and professionally. High Noon premieres Saturday April 4th at 9pm|8c on Lifetime.
The true story of 17 year old Anne Sluti, kidnapped by a deranged criminal and taken on a horrific six day multi-state journey, relying on nothing but her wits and courage to risk leaving clues for the police and manipulate her brutal captor. Eventually surrounded in a remote mountain cabin, Anne must attempt to negotiate her own release, caught between a murder/suicide bent killer and a gung-ho police force. Premieres Sunday February 15th at 8pm ET on Lifetime Movie Network.
