MOVIES
A24 and DirecTV picked up all rights to the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Dark Places. The film is directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner and stars Charlize Theron as a woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child and is forced to revisit the events years later that left her life in shambles and put her brother in jail
Actor Henry Cavill's production company has chosen the action thriller Stratton for their first project. Based on an eight-novel series by Duncan Falconer (a pseudonym for an author who used his own military background to inform the lead character), the plot centers on John Stratton, an operative of the SBS who works with the Intelligence Detachment in Northern Ireland.
ARC Entertainment has picked up all U.S. rights to The Barber, a character-driven thriller directed by Basel Owies and starring Scott Glenn and Chris Coy. The film centers on Glenn, a suspect in a serial-murder case released due to insufficient evidence, an act that prompts the detective who locked him up, played by Thomas Calabro, to kill himself in despair. Twenty years later, the detective's son (Coy) tracks down the supposed killer, now working as a barber in a small town, to see if he can find out the truth.
Lotus Entertainment is getting behind director Sacha Gervasi’s thriller November Criminals, adapted from Sam Munson’s 2011 novel. The project stars Chloë Grace Moretz and Catherine Keener in the murder mystery about two teenagers thrown into the dangerous underbelly of Washington, D.C. when they investigate the murder of their friend while falling in love for the first time.
The heist thriller Idol's Eye, starring Robert De Niro, Robert Pattinson, and Rachel Weisz, was shut down just as filming was set to commence in Toronto. Benaroya Pictures says they decided to discontinue financing the motion picture after other producers on the project failed to meet financing deadlines.
Nice Guys, the detective drama starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe, has picked up international rights in most markets. The U.S. premiere is scheduled for June 17, 2016.
Rialto has acquired North American rights to Black Souls, a mafia drama from Italian director Francesco Munzi.
Matt Damon made it official by announcing he's returning to the Bourne franchise in 2016.
Tommy Lee Jones, Jessica Alba, and Michelle Yeoh have joined the cast of The Mechanic: Resurrection, the sequel to 2011's The Mechanic. The story centers on hitman Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) as he struggles to complete a list of assassinations of the most dangerous men in the world.
Udo Kier and James C. Burns have signed on to star in Courier X, a conspiracy drama that looks at supposed CIA involvement in the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800.
Naomi Watts is on board to star in the drama Shut In, the psychological thriller about a woman who discovers a shocking secret about her catatonic son.
Country music star Faith Hill completed filming on the indie crime drama Dixieland, where she played the mother of a young man, newly released from prison, who falls for the troubled girl next door and takes a big risk to give them a shot at a better life.
TELEVISION
CBS is developing American Gothic with Good Wife writer and executive producer Corinne Brinkerhoff. The murder mystery series is set in Boston and follows a prominent family who learn their recently deceased patriarch might have been a serial killer and one of their own his accomplice.
PBS’s “Masterpiece,” the long-running Sunday night British drama and mystery franchise, will expand by at least 20 hours next year, an approximate 50 percent increase. The new hours start January 18, with the additional shows being broadcast either before or after the program’s traditional time slot of 9 p.m. Eastern time. Starting off the expanded schedule is the six-part mystery Granchester, and Wolf Hall, adapted from two Hilary Mantel novels, follows in April, with other imports later in the year.
Mark Gordon is adapting Ingrid Thoft's family legal drama book series, Fina Ludlow, for ABC, with The Glades creator Clifton Campbell penning the script and serving as showrunner. The untitled drama is described as a sophisticated and emotionally complex family drama set in the Ludlow family business: a high-powered law firm in Chicago, Ill. The story is told through the black sheep of the family, 31-year-old Fina Ludlow, the brash, intelligent, hot-mess daughter who left Harvard Law School and becomes the firm's brash and controversial legal investigator.
Fox is developing The System, described as "a character driven crime procedural," executive produced by Jason Winer and written by award-winning playwright Jon Caren (The Recommendations) in his first TV effort.
The team behind ABC Family’s series Pretty Little Liars is creating a new show, The Perfectionists, based on the latest young-adult book series by Sara Shepard. The Perfectionists is a murder mystery that features five girls who plot the perfect revenge on a handsome womanizer ruins their lives. But when he's murdered and they didn't do it, they try to find out who did.
A&E IndieFilms and BBC Storyville are teaming up w
ith Vice Media's Films division and UK production company Raw to produce a documentary about the online illegal drugs marketplace, the Silk Road.
NCIS has cast Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager) playing Rebecca, the never-before-seen ex-wife of Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
Justified has cast Lost star Jeff Fahey for the show's final season. Fahey will play Zachariah Randolph, a man "weathered and a little shaky, a man beaten down by hardship and drink."
Marcia Gay Harden is joining the cast of How to Get Away with Murder for an unnamed mutli-episode arc during the second half of Season 1.
NBC announced midseason finale dates for several of its shows, including The Blacklist, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Law & Order: SVU, and Mysteries of Laura.
CBS announced the dates for what is saying is the seventh and last season of The Mentalist.
TNT released premiere dates for Rizzoli &Isles (February 17), Perception (February 17), and Cold Justice (January 9).
Cinemax’s Emmy-winning series Banshee will return for its 10-episode third season January 9. The series stars Antony Starr as Lucas Hood, an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pa., where he continues his criminal pursuits while enforcing his own code of justice.
Although the return of Orphan Black is still three months away, fans can enjoy a trailer for Season 3 to tide them over.
PODCASTS/RADIO/VIDEO
Michael Connelly joined CBS This Morning to discuss his latest Bosch novel, The Burning Room.
On Late Night with Seth Meyers, Joe Hill stopped by to chat about his novel Horns.
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