Media Murder for Monday

MOVIES

Looks like James Bond fans are going to have to wait a lot longer for another Daniel Craig film (or any other Bond, for that matter). Although the next installment was planning for a 2011 or 2012 release date, producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli say that production has been suspended indefinitely due to the "uncertainty surrounding the future of MGM and the failure to close a
sale of
the studio."

RKO bought a project they are calling a "Hitchcockian thriller" titled The Architect. It's based on a screenplay by Craig Stiles and is said to be more akin to North by Northwest than Vertigo or Strangers
on a Train.

Sherlock Holmes is still going strong—on video. The recent movie with Robert Downey, Junior in the title role has been leading the video sales charts for the past two weeks and the rental charts for three weeks.

TV

A&E announced the premiere of the new police procedural The Glades on July 13th. It's set in the fictional town of Palm Glade, Florida, and stars Matt Passmore an "attractive,
brilliant, yet hard to get along with homicide detective from Chicago
who after being wrongfully accused of sleeping with his former Captain's
wife is forced into exile."

The Hollywood Reporter provided a status report on various TV pilot shows vying for spots on the fall schedule. For NBC, a remake of Rockford Files from David Shore (House) is
considered a certainty, as is J.J. Abrams' spy drama Undercovers. For CBS, Hawaii Five-O's screening apparently wowed execs enough to seal a deal, and although the reception of the Criminal Minds spinoff wasn't as warm, the presence of Forest
Whitaker is probably enough to see it through. For Fox, the U.S. Marshalls drama Breakout Kings looks strong as
is  the Detroit-set crime drama 187 for ABC.

The Closer returns to TNT on July 12 along with the debut of the new series Rizzoli & Isles starring Angie Harmon (Law & Order) and Sasha Alexander (NCIS) as crime-solving friends Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles.

WEB/RADIO

Minnesota Public Radio interviewed actor and filmmaker Joel Edgerton whose new indie film The Square opened recently, "one of a new breed of
crime thrillers from Edgerton's Australian homeland."

NPR's Talk of the Nation chatted with author Christopher Rice about the "terrible cliches" of women in crime fiction. Among Rice's least favorites: the cop's wife who doesn't understand the demands of the job, the babe assassin and the ice-queen bureaucrat.