MOVIES
Kingsman: The Secret Service did well enough at the box office that the spy thriller is apparently close to getting a sequel. It's still uncertain at this point, however, who from the first movie's cast and production team will be involved with the new project.
The classic 1970s thriller Don’t Look Now, based on Daphne du Maurier’s short story, is being remade by Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona, the team behind the Liam Neeson-starring Non-Stop, with StudioCanal. The story revolves around two parents (played in the original film by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) grieving the death of their daughter who encounter two sisters – one of whom claims to be clairvoyant and informs them that their daughter is trying to contact them to warn them of danger.
Michael De Luca has sealed a deal to exec-produce Dukes Of Oxy, based on an article in the April 23 issue of Rolling Stone by Guy Lawson about a pair of teen high school wrestlers from Florida who built a multimillion-dollar business smuggling OxyContin and other painkillers. Elgort, who starred recently in The Fault In Their Stars, is also in line to play one of the two drug dealers.
Avatar's Sam Worthington is joining Gerard Butler in the cast of Relativity Studios’ crime drama Den of Thieves, which Christian Gudegast will direct from his own screenplay. The heist movie follows a notorious crew of bank robbers who target the Federal Reserve in Los Angeles, right under the nose of a rogue sheriff’s deputy.
TELEVISION/DIGITAL
Sarah Jessica Parker's company Pretty Matches Productions and producer Karen Rosenfelt (The Devil Wears Prada, Twilight) are developing an MTV show based on Megan Abbott's novel The Fever. The book follows a group of adolescent girls who mysteriously begin to fall ill with a strange fever, symptoms of which include convulsions and foaming at the mouth.
The UP network’s first original scripted series Ties That Bind has signed its cast, including Luke Perry, Kelli Williams, Jonathan Scarfe, Dion Johnstone, Mitchell Kummen Natasha Calis, Rhys Matthew Bond, and Matreya Scarrwener. The program centers around Allison McLean (Williams), a tough and experienced police detective, mother and wife in suburban Seattle who arrests her brother (Perry) for aggravated assault and has to take in his four children.
After four seasons, ABC's "twisty, soapy mystery" series Revenge is getting the axe. The producers tried to reassure fans that a proper sendoff was fully expected, providing closure for fans who have invested years in the drama's mythology and characters.
BBC 4 has bought the rights to several more Nordic crime series, including Follow the Money, a Danish eco-crime thriller set in a world of corporate crime, and Trapped, the first Icelandic crime drama to air on the BBC.
Endemol Shine Studios has optioned U.S. remake rights to French cop drama series Engrenages (a/k/a Spiral) to be developed as a project for Showtime. Engrenages is sometimes called the "French version of The Wire."
HBO has optioned screen rights to Marlon James’ novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings for a series adaptation. The novel was inspired by the real-life incident when gunmen attacked Bob Marley’s house in 1976 and chronicles the lives of a host of characters, from slum kids to drug lords and the CIA.
Season five of Homeland will shoot on-location in Germany, becoming the first American television series to shoot a full season entirely in Germany. The new season will pick up two years after Carrie Mathison's (Claire Danes) tenure as Islamabad station chief, where is in a self-imposed exile in Berlin, estranged from the CIA, and working for a private security firm.
Evan Handler (Californication) is set to star in a 10-episode digital series titled The Analyst. Handler will play a CIA analyst targeted by an unknown enemy as he navigates the increasingly murky, dangerous world of financial espionage
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
The latest podcast from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is Marilyn Todd's “The Wickedest Town in the West” (EQMM June 2013), which was one of the winners of the 2013 EQMM Readers Awards.
THEATER
The 2015 Tony Award nominations include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, up for Best Play. Based on Mark Haddon's book, the story follows the mystery surrounding the death of a neighbor's dog that's investigated by young Christopher Boone, who has Asperger's.
Artistic directors Craig Hall of the Canadian Vertigo Theatre of Calgary announced the lineup for the 2015-16 season of the theatre's main stage BD&P Mystery Series, which he says "will be like tuning into on oldies radio station." He's bringing back classics like Peter Colley's I'll Be Back Before Midnight, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap and Jeffrey Hatcher's The Turn of the Screw while throwing in a world premiere of the Ellery Queen thriller Calamity Town and a new take on Sherlock Holmes.
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