EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has greenlit two new authentic ‘Ripped from the Headlines’ motion pictures for 2025 together with the Dascha Polanco-led (Orange is the New Black, Poker Face) thriller Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story and Woman within the Storage: The Laura Cowan Story starring Paige Hurd (Energy E-book II: Ghost), Brad James (Shirley) and Stephen Bishop (Moneyball).
In Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story, Marcela Borges (Polanco) and her rising household’s idyllic weekend shortly flip into each household’s worst nightmare when masked gunmen barge into their Florida suburban residence. With gunshots piercing their partitions, a newly pregnant Marcela, her husband, and their younger son are left with no alternative however to adjust to their captors’ calls for: give up $200,000 or their lives.
However with no technique of accessing that type of cash, Marcela faces insurmountable odds to guard her household from their violent captors and should make the life and loss of life choices to maintain her household secure.
The primarily based on a real story title premieres on January 11 and is produced by Cineflix Productions for Lifetime. Jeff Vanderwal government produces whereas Felipe Rodriguez directs from a script by Crystal Verge.
Paige Hurd with Actual Life Laura Cowan Whom She Performs in Film
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Woman within the Storage: The Laura Cowan Story is predicated on a real story, after her husband Shabazz (James) is arrested, Laura (Hurd) struggles to make ends meet. When a household buddy Musa (Bishop) presents to maneuver her and her youngsters into his residence briefly, Laura is relieved. She believes this kindness will give her time to get again on her ft.
In a single day, this blessing turns right into a nightmare when Laura and her youngsters endure in depth psychological and bodily abuse and are pressured into dehumanizing circumstances. Laura is repeatedly sexually assaulted by Musa and ultimately held captive along with her youngsters in a storage. She later discovers she shouldn’t be the one one he’s tormenting. Regardless of the darkish circumstances surrounding her, Laura manages to maintain her religion and paperwork her ordeal till she sneaks a be aware to the surface world, main authorities to her eventual rescue.
The movie will premiere on January 18 and is produced by Poke Prod for Lifetime and government produced by Sean Dwyer and Elizabeth Cullen. Manu Boyer directs from a script by Avery O. Williams. Cowan serves as co-producer on the film.
Polanco is repped by the Gersh Company, Liebman Leisure and Goodman Genow Schenkman; Hurd is repped by CMA Leisure and Buchwald; James is repped by J Pervis Expertise Company, Integral Artist and Goodman Genow Schenkman; Bishop is repped by Greene Expertise and Weiner Administration.
