Echo Bridge Secures Rights to New Lifetime Film

LOS ANGELES, October 29: Echo Bridge Entertainment has taken on
the distribution rights to Lifetime Movie Network’s Taken in Broad Daylight, based on the true story of the abduction
of a Nebraska teenager.

Taken in Broad
Daylight chronicles the abduction of Anne Sluti and the ensuing nationwide
manhunt by the FBI. Currently in production, the film stars James Van Der Beek
(Dawson’s Creek), Sara Canning (Smallville) and LeVar Burton (Star Trek: The Next Generation). It will
air on Lifetime Movie Network in February 2009.

Dan March, the executive VP of Echo Bridge
Entertainment, said of the deal: “We are pleased to have championed this film
with Lifetime Movie Network and to be distributing this inspiring true story to
the overseas market. This is a key step in our movement towards the development
and/or co-production of original programming; a key strategy to our growth.”

—By Mansha Daswani