Media Murder for Monday

MOVIES

Fifty Shades Of Grey star Jamie Dornan has been cast as the lead in The Siege Of Jadotville, playing Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan in the geo-political thriller.

Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness) will join Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds, Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Oldman in the thriller Criminal, about  a dead CIA operative's memories are implanted into a dangerous convict in hopes that he will stop a diabolical plot.

Dakota Fanning is joining Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly in American Pastoral, the adaptation of Philip Roth's novel about a former legendary high school athlete whose daughter rebels by commiting a deadly act of political terrorism during the Vietnam War.

As The Hollywood Reporter noted, the release of Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman: The Secret Service, starring Colin Firth, is being pushed back to February 13, 2015, which puts it in a head-to-head battle with Fifty Shades of Grey.

A trailer was released for Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett's thriller The Guest, about a soldier whose desire to help out a fallen comrade's family may not be as altruistic as it seems.

TELEVISION

Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss is a front-runner to play the female lead in Season 2 of HBO's True Detective, playing either the wife of Vince Vaughn's character or the ex-wife a character played by Colin Farrell, depending upon which rumor you believe.

BBC’s popular six-part crime drama Happy Valley is set to premiere in the U.S. and Canada on Netflix on August 20. The series stars Sarah Lancashire as a dedicated police woman in a small town whose world is turned upside down when the man she thinks is responsible for her daughter’s death is released from prison. Also in the cast are Tommy Lee Royce, Steve Pemberton, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan, and Joe Armstrong.

Adam Campbell will guest-star in a flashback episode of NCIS playing a younger version of Ducky (David McCallum) this season.

The first six episodes of Sequestered are now available on Crackle, with the second six coming on October 14. The show centers on the trial of a man who is accused of kidnapping and killing the son of a governor. When one of the jurors is attacked outside of a bar, the rest of the jury is sequestered inside of a hotel with very limited access to the outside world.

Lie to Me's Monique Curnen is joining the cast of Person of Interest as Detective Fusco's (Kevin Chapman) new boss.

James Van Der Beek has signed to play a lead role in the spinoff series CSI: Cyber, playing FBI Agent Elijah Mundo, an expert in battlefield forensics.

Aussie David Hoflin (Crossbones) and Julian Works (The Unauthorized Saved By The Bell Story) have joined the cast of ABC midseason drama American Crime.

Ryan Hansen has been added to the cast of Kate Walsh’s new NBC comedy Bad Judge, playing the role of a psychiatrist who has an on-again, off-again relationship with Walsh's hard-living, sexually unapologetic judge.

PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO

NPR chatted with author Lawrence Block about his Matthew Scudder series and evoking the "Sights, Sound And Grime Of 1970s New York."

The latest Crime and Science Radio show welcomes attorney-author Alafair Burke about "The Criminal Justice System, Real and Imagined."

THEATER

Benjamin Walker (star of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) has landed the title role in the upcoming U.S. premiere of American Psycho the musical, in the role created first by Christian Bale on film and more recently on the London stage by Matt Smith (Doctor Who). The story is based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis.

Cate Balnchett is set to star in Jean Genet's The Maids, inspired by the real-life Papin sisters, servants who murdered their employers in 1933 France. The play is being brought to New York by the Sydney Theatre Company to play City Center as part of the Lincoln Center Festival, August 6-16.