New Line has bought Spy Guys, a spy-action-comedy described as " Ocean’s 11 meets Mission: Impossible," in which a CIA agent is framed and becomes an enemy of the state while attending a friend's wedding in Europe.
A movie project titled The Prototype, based on a short film, is being developed by FilmNation Entertainment. It centers around an experimental drone soldier being hunted by the FBI’s elite Critical Incident Response Group after it escapes from a top-secret military base and goes on the run.
Academy Award-winning actress Melissa Leo has joined the cast of Prisoners, based on a screenplay by Contraband writer Aaron Guzikowski. It follows a small town carpenter named Keller (Hugh Jackman) who takes the law into his own hands when police can't find his kidnapped daughter, putting him on a collision course with a detective assigned to the case.
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Homeland was a big winner in the 2012 Emmy Awards handed out last night, picking up nods for Best Drama and Best Actress (Claire Danes), Best Actor (Damian Lewis), and Best Writing (Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff). Aaron Paul also won Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for his role in Breaking Bad, and Tim Van Patten won the Best Director Award for Boardwalk Empire.
As Omnimystery News notes, tonight sees the premiere of the third season of Hawaii 5-0 and the fifith season of Castle, as well as the second episode of the eighth season of Bones.
Sopranos star James Gandolfi may to return to television in the pilot Criminal Justice, a New York-set crime drama loosely based on the BBC series of the same name created by Peter Moffat.
Homeland producer Howard Gordon has sold a supernatural police procedural drama to Fox, titled Vigilant. It follows a social outcast in her 20s who creates a vigilante persona to tackle police and government corruption.
Fox is also developing a modern take on Hamlet, titled America’s Son, which is "part juicy soap, part paranoid political thriller." The plot follows a renegade JFK Jr. type who returns home to D.C. after his presidential-hopeful father's fatal car accident to discover the death was no accident, and makes it his mission to avenge the murder.
FX has given the green light to an untitled project from playwright/screenwriter Stephen Belber, which is a New York-based thriller chronicling a murder and cover up
The CW has an intriguing project in development that is an updated version of Alice in Wonderland in which an adult Alice is a police detective who discovers a hidden world just beneath the surface of the Los Angeles streets.
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This isn't a podcast but rather an online video that's a lot of fun. Fabrice Mathieu produced a mashup of 50 classic noir films and works them around an original premise: what if our shadows had independent existences? All of this in only 7:47.
Another interesting online video comes from Open Road Media, with authors like Joseph Wambaugh and Ken Bruen talkng about their previous jobs in "Writers Before They Were Writers."
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