Newsmakers
5.8
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.
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Cast
18 people
Andrey Merzlikin
Smirnov
Known for
Fortress of War
Bummer 2
Evgeny Tsyganov
Herman
Known for
Battle for Sevastopol
The Ninth
Masha Mashkova
Katya
Known for
McMafia
I.S.S.
Sergey Garmash
Killer
Known for
Brigada
Attraction
Maksim Konovalov
Kley
Known for
Bimmer
Mermaid
Aleksey Frandetti
Orda
Known for
Tsar
Pavel Klimov
Kolyan
Also in
KREMEN
The Last Warrior
Sergey Vesnin
Kon
Also in
About Loff
Artyom Semakin
Valery
Known for
Piter FM
Wolfhound of the Grey Dog Clan
Viktor Chepelov
Sanya
No other roles listed
David Stepanyan
Hamlet
Also in
The Saboteur 2: The End of the War
Две судьбы
Oleg Chernigov
Mikhalych
No other roles listed
Anders Banke Director · Chan Hing-kai Writer Yip Tin-Shing Writer
Budget $4M · United States release June 6, 2009 · Produced in Sweden, Russia
Box office
Budget
$4,000,000
Production
Illusion Film
Production
Kino Bez Granits
Production
Film i Väst
Production
llusion Film
Production
Sweden · Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Горячие новости
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Kazakhstan · May 7, 2009
Theatrical
Russia · May 7, 2009
Theatrical
United States · June 6, 2009
Theatrical
France
May 15, 2014 · Physical · DVD & Blu-Ray
July 20, 2022 · Digital · Prime Video
Germany
June 6, 2009 · Digital
Sweden
May 18, 2011 · Theatrical
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