MOVIES
Game of Thrones director Neil Marshall has been signed to direct EuropaCorp’s upcoming revenge drama The Sentence, a futuristic thriller where a victim is granted 24 hours to take revenge against the person who murdered someone close to them.
Tommy Lee Jones has joined the cast of Universal’s upcoming Bourne sequel (that returns Matt Damon to the franchise), playing a superior officer at the CIA.
Daniel Radcliffe will take the lead role in Imperium, playing a young FBI agent who goes undercover to find and stop white supremacists trying to make a dirty bomb. It’s based on the real-life experiences of Michael German, an FBI undercover agent who spent years inside United States neo-Nazi and militia groups.
While making the rounds to promote his latest Mission: Impossible movie, actor Tom Cruise told Jon Stewart on the Daily Show that another installment is in the works and “We’ll probably start shooting it next summer.” If so, the movie might be released in theaters as early as 2017.
Sherlockian Peter Blau is arranging a screening of William Gillette's long-lost Sherlock Holmes film at the Landmark Bethesda Row theater on September 26. Gillette, a celebrated actor, wrote and starred in a Sherlock Holmes stage play that was popular for decades, but until now it was believed that only photos and a brief audio recording had survived.
San Francisco's Castro Theater will present Elliot Lavine's I Wake Up Dreaming 2015: Hot Summer Noir on five consecutive Thursdays, August 6 through September 3. The films include rarely-screened gems all in 35mm studio prints, starting with Ride the Pink Horse, based on the novel by mystery writer Dorothy B. Hughes.
The third and most involved trailer yet was released for Black Mass, starring Johnny Depp as iconic criminal Whitey Bulger.
TELEVISION
BBC America is taking on a new adaptation of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently series for television, penned by Chronicle writer Max Landis. However, the new production will be set in the U.S. instead of Britain, with the clairvoyant private eye relocating his Detective Agency to San Diego.
BBC America also ordered two additional new series: The political thriller Undercover, about the first black woman to hold the highest-ranking public prosecutor role in the UK who learns her husband has been lying to her for years; and Thirteen, a five-part mystery thriller from Marnie Dickens (The Musketeers, Ripper Street), centered on a woman who escapes the cellar that has been her prison for the past 13 years and has to re-learn how to live a normal life.
The upcoming season of Banshee, which is set to begin filming soon for broadcast on Cinemax in 2016, is likely to be the show's last. Banshee centers on a mysterious ex-convict (Antony Starr) who assumes the identity of a murdered small Amish country town sheriff and then learns the town is full of dangers, warring factions and secrets.
AMC renewed the mafia drama Making of the Mob for a second season to premiere in 2016 and focus on the Chicago crime syndicate, which famously included Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel.
Longmire executive producer Greer Shephard teased the upcoming fourth season of the series that is moving to Netflix, which picks up with Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor) learning who killed his wife and setting out to avenge her death.
Starz is developing a series based on Cuban author Leonardo Padura's Havana Quartet novels. Antonio Banderas attached to star as hard-drinking, romantic Cuban Police Detective Mario Conde, who longs to be a writer but settled for a job as a detective in 1990s Cuba.
The FX series American Crime Story has cast Rio Hackford as Investigator Pat McKenna in the project that is based on the Jeffrey Toobin book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson.
André Benjamin has been cast in the second season of the ABC drama American Crime, playing an architect who has to defend his son when he becomes entangled in a scandal at an elite private school.
How to Get Away with Murder has booked X-Men's Famke Janssen for Season 2 of the series, although no details on what role she will play have been released.
In defending the second season of True Detective, HBO president of programming Michael Lombardo made it clear that the network would do a third season and it is writer/producer Nick Pizzolatto’s decision as to whether or not to continue the series.
PODCASTS/RADIO/VIDEO
Short story writer and University of Chicago professor Vu Tran spoke with NPR's Scott Simon about why he chose noir for his first novel, Dragonfish.
The latest Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine podcast features a story by Josh Pachter, "The Night of Power," part of a series set in 1980s Bahrain, recently published in the collection The Tree of Life from Wildside Press.
Suspense Magazine's Beyond The Cover podcast conducted several exclusive interviews at ThrillerFest 2015 in NYC. The first installment of those Q&As include NY Times bestselling authors Sandra Brown and David Morrell, as well as author Mark Alpert.
The most recent Meet the Thrilling Author podcast featured an interview with actor and author Bobby Nash, who writes in a variety of genres including thrillers, graphic novels, ans screenplays, and was named Best Author in the 2013 Pulp Ark Awards.
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