Media Murder for Monday

MOVIES

Millennium Films has acquired the rights to Eliza Graves, a Joseph Gangemi screenplay based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether." The thriller will be directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist) and centers on a new doctor who arrives to apprentice at a mental institution where he falls in love with a patient under stange circumstances.

The Tom Hanks-produced JFK feature film Parkland has signed Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton, and Jacki Weaver in leading roles. The film revolves around the chaotic events aat Parkland Hospital in Dallas the day President Kennedy was assassinated.

Bryan Callen has been cast in the Universal Pictures project Ride Along, playing Miggs, a wily and somewhat sketchy undercover cop. He joins fellow cast members Ice Cube (as another tough undercover officer), Kevin Hart (playing Cube's future brother-in-law), John Leguizamo and Laurence Fishburne. The studio has set a January 17, 2014 release date for the film.

There's been a change at the helm of William Goldman's film adaptation of his 1985 crime thriller Heat, set to star Jason Statham. It was originally going to be Brian de Palma, but Simon West (Con Air, The General's Daughter) will now serve as director.

Collider has a new trailer for the documentary West of Memphis, about the investigation behind the "West Memphis Three" trio of innocent men who were wrongly convicted of murdering three young boys in Arkansas in 1993.

TV

Crimespree has a trailer for the upcoming third season of Luther, starring. Idris Elba. The airs in the States on BBC America.

Chloe Sevigny and James D'Arcy have signed on to star in A&E's crime drama Those Who Kill. Sevigny will play a detective who possesses a deep understanding of the serial killers she hunts, and D'Arcy will play a forensic profiler and Sevigny's partner. Glen Morgan (X Files) wrote the script for the pilot, which is based on the Danish series Den Som Dræber.

ABC has ordered a pilot titled Coup, with some heavy-hitters attached: Mad Men co-executive producer Chris Black wrote the project, and feature director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) will serve as executive produce and director. Coup centers on a young American man whose wife is taken hostage in an overseas coup, and who must join forces with a dangerous mercenary to get her back.

ABC also bought Black Friday, a drama written by screenwriter Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down). The thriller centers on a man who finds himself in the center of a perilous event where he is responsible for the safety of others and works to uncover the conspiracy behind it all.

Mike Colteri is joining the Fox midseason serial killer thriller The Following in the recurring role of FBI bureaucrat Nick Donovan. The series revolves around a deranged serial killer and the retired FBI profiler Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) who is hunting him down.

Dark Knight actress Monique Gabriela Curnen has signed on for a recurring role in The Mentalist as an agent who works in the gang division of the CBI, alongside a police tactical team.

Shooting has begun on a TV movie based on Quebec crime writer Louise Penny's debut novel Still Life. Nathaniel Parker, who plays Inspector Thomas Lynley in the long-running British crime series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, is starring as Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec.

The Discovery reality show Mythbusters is planning a Breaking Bad-centric episode with appearances by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. Among the gruesome myths to be tested: an event from the show's first season, in which Paul’s Jesse Pinkman used hydrofluoric to dissolve a body in a bathtub instead of using a plastic container.

USA cancelled both Fairly Legal and Common Law but has renewed Burn Notice for a 13-episode seventh-season. Meanwhile, USA announced the return dates for Suits, White Collar and Necessary Roughness in January 2013.

PODCASTS/RADIO/VIDEO

Elizabeth Foxwell notes that BBC Radio 4 is airing a new series, "Foreign Bodies: An Investigation into European Detectives", that looks at mystery fiction in an international context.

Patricia Cornwell joined MSNBC's Morning Joe to talk about her latest novel, The Bone Bed.